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PRE-ORDER: Cuby & The Blizzards "Desolation" LP (180g) [Import]

PRE-ORDER: Cuby & The Blizzards "Desolation" LP (180g) [Import]

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THIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around OCTOBER 30th, 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order for those items.  

In the early 1960s, beat groups from the Dutch Randstad dominated the national charts. Yet far from the big cities, in the clubs of Drenthe, one band was already being billed as "Beatgroup Number One": Cuby + Blizzards. But frontman Harry Muskee never embraced that label. Raised on broadcasts from The Voice of America, he possessed a deeper understanding of the blues than most of his contemporaries. Muskee didn't want to sing 'songs,' as he called them, he wanted to sing the blues, raw and unfiltered, in the tradition of Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. Their debut single "Stumble & Fall" was recorded in the Bavohuis, a simple gym hall in Amsterdam, with Addy Kleingeld, known from de Vrolijke Mijnwerkers, as producer. But the debut album Desolation marked a turning point, recorded at the Phonogram Studios in Hilversum with renowned blues producer Tony Vos, it captured the band exactly as Muskee intended. The resulting album became a jewel of Dutch music history. Never before had the Netherlands heard a blues singer who poured his emotions into a recording with such conviction and authenticity. Muskee even outshone his British peers. Eric Burdon (The Animals), Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones) and Van Morrison (Them). At the Grand Gala du Disque, Muskee received an Edison Award for Desolation, handed to him by cabaret artist Wim Sonneveld, whose lukewarm speech couldn't diminish the significance of the moment. Sixty years later, the legacy of this groundbreaking album still resonates, an essential document of European blues and a defining moment in the story of Cuby + Blizzards. This 60th anniversary edition of Desolation is now available as an expanded 2LP-set including the original 1966 album plus fifteen bonus tracks. The gatefold version features songs "Things I Remember", "Stumble & Fall", "L.S.D. (Got A Million Dollars)" and includes new liner notes by Dutch Blues authority Johan Derksen. 

Track List:

- Disc 1 -
1 Things I Remember
2 Hobo Blues
3 Just for Fun
4 I'm in Love
5 Gin House Blues
6 Desolation Blues
7 Five Long Years
8 Let's Make It
- Disc 2 -
1 Stumble & Fall
2 I'm So Restless
3 L.S.D. (Got a Million Dollars(
4 Your Body, Not Your Soul
5 Back Home
6 Sweet Mary
7 You Don't Know
8 Richard Cory
9 Feeling Like a Suit-Case
10 Distant Smile
11 Don't Know Which Way to Go
12 The Sunshine of Your Shadow
13 Crying Tears
14 Nostalgic Toilet
15 116 a Queensway

street date 10/30/2026

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