Marc Bolan & T.Rex Rare Outtake "Jailhouse Road Gin Blues" 1975

Like many of Marc's unreleased songs this performance has been issued under different titles. It's a great ad-libbed blues song recorded in the studio in 1975. Marc's guitar disappears half way through but it still sounds great. Marc Bolan loved the blues. We'll never know the great tunes he could have produced but this is a nice snapshot of Bolan's Blues.

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[itsawhiteriot]

Hi - this was titled 'Blues Jam' (Dreamy Lady Session) as it appeared on the Master Tape during the recording of that session - August 1975. It appeared on Thunderwing Productions Limited 'shadowhead' CD releasd by Techiku in Japan, 2001.

[andytrex]

@itsawhiteriot You're absolutely right. I have that album and along with "Bump'n'grind" it's one of the very best posthumous releases. However, before buying "Shadowhead" I already owned the track on a Japanese album called "Stroll On". On this album it was listed as "Jailhouse Road Gin Blues". Not the first - and probably not the last - Marc Bolan unreleased track to be given a different title. It started way back in the 1980's with John and Shan Bramley and continued ever since. Boogie On!!

[grosper]

Great!

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

This is so cool. I've never heard this before.

[tmslab]

great music, great vid with it, thank you

[HISATdotCOM]

Rock On

KALMIYH

[Thejohnrodgers]

This is a super Bolan blues track,in Plateau Skull mode,I Love all the route66 imagery,it capturesa sense of life on the road in America for Bolan,And i love the opening to the track! Although im sure It's been done before.mmm doh..........Rock On