01 - Free Will Fantasy 04:23
02 - Got A Mind 06:57
03 - Dead End Street 08:03
04 - Cold Wind Blues 04:52
05 - Whole Lot Of Lovin 03:36
06 - Going Down Slow 04:47
07 - Govinda 07:04
08 - Wind Is Singing 04:13
09 - Cold Wind Blues (Version 2) 04:03
10 - Whole Lot Of Lovin" (Version 2) 03:49

Bill Colwell - Guitar
Chuck Purro - Drums
Jack Shroer  - Saxophone
Moose Sorrento - Vocals
Collin Tilton - Wind
Michael Winfield - Bass

One of the forgotten classics of the late-'60s American blues scene, the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band once opened for Led Zeppelin, and that would appear to be their greatest claim to fame -- until you play the group's debut album, a hulking slab of blistered fusion that packs some of the most intriguing arrangements of the age. It features some of the most surreal imagery as well: "Paper bags hold degenerate dreams, fill my world with unnatural scenes," bellows the aptly named Moose Sorrento during the opening "Free Will Fantasy." And so the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band get on with proving what a lot of people had been saying all year long -- that the best jazz-rock-blues band of 1968 was only getting better. The finest moments are those when the band really stretches out -- seven minutes apiece for the 12-bar "Got a Mind" and the showcase "Govinda," and eight for "Dead End Street," a slowly percolating rhythm that is only gently layered by the rest of the band. The briefer cuts burn fiercely, though, while the Akarma reissue in 2001 appends a bonus track that is actually one of the finest things in sight, the frantic semi-psychedelic experimentation of "Wind Is Singing." --- Dave Thompson, allmusic.com

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01. Cursin Blues 
02. Have A Taste 
03. Help Me 
04. How Blue Can You Get 
05. Eyesight To The Blind 
06. Sombrero Sam 
07. Don't Start Me Talkin 
08. Stop Breakin Down 
09. Brother Where Are You (Bonus Track) 
10. Willow Weep For Me (Bonus Track) 
11. Drum It (Bonus Track)

Moose Sorrento - vocals
Bill Colwell - guitar
Michael Winfield - bass
Chuck Purro - drums
Jack Shroer - soprano, alto, tenor saxophone
Colin Tilton - tenor saxophone, flute

As a blues band, Colwell-Winfield is a fine representation of the musicl works of BB. King, Muddy Waters, Skip James et.al. both in presentation and style, but that is not enough. The problem involved with being a good blues band is one of identity. Too many good blues bands exist today, not enough groups have something else. For this reason (their ability to combine horns with a basic heavy blues background) Colwell-Winfield should be heard. Easily the most impressive number of the night was their overwhelming handling of "Dead End Street" a sometimes slow, sometimes rapid creative structure of sounds. Starting like another of their saxophone based jazz-influenced numbers the song proceeded to catch everyone up in its magnitude. In much the same manner that the Cream has been known to play, i.e. a desire by each individual to outdo the next, the song soared through guitar solos, sax solos, electric piano phrasings, electric bass, horns, and drum breaks in continuing excellence. And amazingly enough they accomplished it all while remaining together as a unified whole, to the delight of the audience, which finished the twenty minute outburst on its feet applauding and cheering, the group seemed unable or, more likely unwilling to quit. This group should make it very big, very soon. If you can't hear them live (by far the best way) get their 'Cold Wind' album. It is a better than average studio production of an often times inspiring group…why couldn't this have been the 'Boston Sound'? --- Randy Hawthorne, punkblowfish.com

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