Bobby Whitlock - "Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham"

From the 1972 album Raw Velvet.

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• Whitlock
• Hello
• L.A.
• Bye
• Birmingham
• Raw
• Velvet

[austinbeall10txag]

WTF? This ain't a Blue Cheer original? lol

[greatstuff09]

@austinbeall10txag

It was written by Delaney Bramlett, who was a friend and band-mate of Bobby Whitlock (Whitlock played on all six Delaney & Bonnie and Friends albums, and toured with them). I don't know if a Delaney Bramlett original actually exists...

The Blue Cheer version was three years before this one though!

Also, apparently Bramlett co-wrote this one with Mac Davis, but I don't know anything about him so can't really comment on that!

[MrBrainart]

I had this Lp when it came out.It was quite a rare find at the time. The whole Album rocks.Is there a CD out there? I wonder. Bobby Whitlock has done some great work and should be more noted for it.

[blackandtanful]

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[spanky5656]

@srsmedia1 check out Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi, and Roy Rogers. Good slides in there

[berylman]

Ya wow this was a blue cheer cover? I like this one more actually. Got a quart of soul to it.l

[nosleep62]

exactly as i figured a cut from a bobby whitlock solo lp would sound; thanks for sharing-i'm feelin' good, yes i am, chile! :)

[jayfreer08]

Bobby Whitlock - guitar, keyboards, vocals

Eric Clapton - guitar (uncredited Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham)

Carl Radle - bass

Rick Vito - guitar

Jim Gordon - drums

George Harrison - guitar

Jim Price - trumpet

Bobby Keys - saxophone

[srsmedia1]

hard to believe the slide guitar has virtually vanished from rock music since the early 1970s mojoeman

[pifflepuff]

This was also recorded by Lee Montgomery for World Pacific Records. Got good secondary market airplay, but no support. Probably the best recording of the song....... I have one of the only records in existence of this cut.

[frederickus]

Mac Davis wrote "In the Ghetto" and many others you have probably heard.

[austinbeall10txag]

@greatstuff09 thanks for the background. I was more or less being facetious though, as Blue Cheer's best known songs are covers.

At any rate, I like this version as well. It has a real edge to it.