VARIOUS ARTISTS - GETTIN' READY, THE EEL PIE ISLAND STORY 1962-1969 VARIOUS ARTISTS
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From rock ’n’ roll and raw R&B to soul, psychedelia and progressive rock, the Eel Pie Island hotel venue heard British music evolving in real time.
A tiny island on the Thames became a proving ground for emerging groups, American blues legends and future stars.
Across 80 tracks, this set traces how British rock and pop absorbed, transformed and moved beyond its American influences.
At the beginning of the 1960s, British rock ’n’ roll was already giving way to something tougher. Tony Holland & The Packabeats, Mike Berry with The Outlaws, Cliff Bennett and Screaming Lord Sutch still belonged to the Joe Meek era, but by 1963 the Yardbirds, Cyril Davies, Downliners Sect, Long John Baldry and John Mayall were bringing Chicago blues and R&B into the clubs.
As the decade progressed, that sound widened. Graham Bond and Brian Auger introduced jazz and the Hammond organ, while Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, Herbie Goins, The Mike Cotton Sound and The Alan Bown Set reflected the growing influence of American soul.
Cream’s ‘Cat’s Squirrel’ then showed blues turning heavier, as freakbeat and psychedelia began to dissolve the old boundaries.
By 1967 and 1968, the musical landscape had changed again. The Foundations brought soul into mainstream British pop; Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack and Ten Years After pushed blues towards heavier rock; Fairport Convention pointed towards folk rock; and Blossom Toes, Arthur Brown, July and Jade Hexagram entered the psychedelic underground, while The Nice and Colosseum carried jazz, classical ideas and blues into the emerging progressive era.
Eel Pie Island did not create every one of these changes, but it became one of the places where they could be heard as they happened. These eighty tracks form a history of a remarkable venue and a compact history of British rock and pop discovering what it could become.
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