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Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird Of Good Omen

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Record Details

Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Title: The Pious Bird Of Good Omen
Format: 12"
Label: Music On Vinyl
Cat No: MOVLP537
Released: 15 Aug 1969
Country:
Genres: Blues RockClassic Rock
Numbered: #229
Status Have
Added To List 23rd August 2020
Disc 1 | 12"
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A Matrix:
1. "Need Your Love So Bad" Little Willie John, Mertis John Jr.[5] 3:50 2. "Comin' Home" Elmore James 2:38 3. "Rambling Pony" Peter Green 2:40 4. "The Big Boat" (with Eddie Boyd) Eddie Boyd 2:35 5. "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" James 2:55 6. "The Sun Is Shining" James 3:10  
B Matrix:
1. "Albatross" Green 3:10 2. "Black Magic Woman" Green 2:46 3. "Just the Blues" (with Eddie Boyd) Boyd 5:35 4. "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" Danny Kirwan 1:33 5. "Looking for Somebody" Green 2:50 6. "Stop Messin' Round" Clifford Adams, Green 2:18  

Additional Information

Comments The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, two other tracks from their previous two albums, and two tracks by the blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These two tracks came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.
The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The phrase refers to the albatross killed in the poem ("The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen"). Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross".
The US-only compilation English Rose was a similar package, sharing five songs with this album, and was released earlier in 1969.
In 2002, the tracks from this album were repackaged by Sony BMG and released as a new collection very closely resembling the Greatest Hits album (1971), but with the addition of "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns".

Manufactured and distributed by Music On Vinyl/BV for Sony Music Entertainment.
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