The Electric Flag
The Electric Flag was an American blues rock soul group, led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, keyboardist Barry Goldberg and drummer Buddy Miles, and featuring other musicians such as vocalist Nick Gravenites and bassist Harvey Brooks. Bloomfield formed the Electric Flag in 1967, following his stint with the Butterfield Blues Band. The band reached its peak with the 1968 release, A Long Time Comin', a fusion of rock, jazz, and R&B styles that charted well in the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Their initial recording was a soundtrack for The Trip, a movie about an LSD experience by Peter Fonda, written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman.
History
With his great appreciation for blues, soul and R&B, Mike Bloomfield wanted to create a group of his own that would feature what he called "American music." He was inspired not only by the big band blues of B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, and Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), but also by the contemporary soul sounds of Otis Redding, Steve Cropper, Booker T & the MGs, and other Stax recording artists. He also drew inspiration from traditional country, gospel, and blues forms. Initially called the American Music Band, Bloomfield organized the band that would become known as The Electric Flag in the spring of 1967, not long after he produced a session with Chicago blues harmonica player James Cotton that featured a horn section. Bloomfield decided that his new band would also have horns and would play an amalgam of those American musics he loved.
The Electric
The Electric may refer to:
Podcasts:
The Electric Flag
ALBUMS
- An American Music Band released: 1992
- A Long Time Comin' released: 1968
- The Band Kept Playing released:
- Old Glory: The Best of Electric Flag released:
Old Glory: The Best of Electric Flag
- Killing Floor
- Groovin' Is Easy
- She Should Have Just
- Goin' Down Slow
- Texas
- Sittin' in Circles (alternate version)
- You Don't Realize
- Movie Music / Improvisation
- Another Country
- Easy Rider
- Soul Searchin'
- See to Your Neighbor (demo version)
- With Time There Is Change
- Nothing to Do
- Hey Little Girl
- Drinkin' Wine (live)
- The Night Time Is the Right Time (live)
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A Long Time Comin'
by: Electric FlagWomen I just want to tell you
That the look on my face is not the way I feel inside
And if you knew all the things I do for you
Go through for you, it make you surprise
Sometimes a man's hope is gone
But he's got to carry on
But you just don't realize
All the money I make that you burn
So hard to earn, it don't come from the skies
And if you knew all the things I think about
Girl I don't have to shout, you can see it right there in my eyes
When I need a place to hide you're not by my side
For you, you just don't realize, no
There is only one way for a man that you throughly love
There is only one way for her to be, but wait a minute
Care about it, care about him, oh yeah yeah
Now can't you see?
Now woman I just want to tell you one more time
That that look on my face is not the way that I feel inside
And if you knew all the things I go through for you
Do for you, it make you surprise
Sometimes a man's hope is gone
But he's got to carry on for you
But you, you don't baby
Baby you just don't know, no no no baby no
You don't, you don't, you don't understand
You don't, no no baby, you just, you just don't, don't understand
You just don't, don't understand, you just don't, don't understand