(Rock) Jackie Lomax - 1969-1971 (2 albums), MP3 (tracks), 256-320 kbps

Jackie Lomax – Is This What You Want? (1969)

01-Speak To Me (Jackie Lomax)
02-Is This What You Want? (Jackie Lomax)
03-How Can You Say Goodbye (Jakie Lomax)
04-Sunset (Jackie Lomax)
05-Sour Milk Sea (George Harrison)
06-Fall Inside Your Eyes (Jackie Lomax)
07-Little Yellow Pills (Jackie Lomax)
08-Take My Word (Jackie Lomax)
09-The Eagle Laughs At You (Jackie Lomax)
10-Baby You’re A Lover (Jackie Lomax)
11-You’ve Got Me Thinking (Jackie Lomax)
12-I Just Don’t Know (Jackie Lomax)

Singles & Unreleased Tracks(1969/1970):

13-New Day (Jackie Lomax) (Single)
14-Won’t You Come Back (Jackie Lomax) (Unreleased)
15-Going Back To Liverpool (Jackie Lomax) (Unreleased)
16-Thumbin’ A Ride (Leiber/Stoller) (Single)
17-How The Web Was Woven (Westlake/Most) (Single)

Album “Is This What You Want?”:

Produced by George Harrison
Engineered by Barry Sheffield & Pete Bown at Trident Studios, London,
Ken Scott & Geoff Emerick at EMI Studios,
London and Armin Steiner at Sound Recorders Studios, Los Angeles
Cover design by Jackie Lomax
Photographs by Richard Imrie

Jackie Lomax: vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion
George Harrison: lead & rhythm guitars
Eric Clapton: lead guitar
Tony Newman: guitar
Tin Renwick: guitar
Paul McCartney: bass
Klaus Voormann: bass
Billy Kinsley: bass
Joe Osborn: bass
Spike Heatley: stand-up bass
Leon Russell: keyboards, guitar, bass, percussion
Billy Preston: keyboards
Larry Knechtel: keyboards
Nicky Hopkins: piano
Chris Hatfield: piano
Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr): drums
Bishop O’ Brien: drums
Hal Blaine: drums
Pete Clark: drums
Alan Branscombe: tenor sax
John Barham: horn & string arrangements
Paul Beaver, Mal Evans, Bernie Krause, Alan Pariser: special FX

“Other tracks”:

Track 13 (1969): Produced by Jackie Lomax & Mal Evans
Tracks 14 (1968 Unreleased), 17 (1970): Produced by George Harrison
Tracks 15 (1969 Unreleased), 16 (1969): Produced by Paul McCartney

P-1969 Apple Records
P-1991 EMI Records Limited

ДЖЕКИ ЛОМАКС (Lomax Jackie) (р. 10 мая 1944, Уоллси, Великобритания), английский певец, гитарист.
Автор песен из Ливерпуля, Джеки Ломакс начинал во времена мерсибита. Джеки Ломакс подростком интересовался пластинками черных американских блюзменов, которые привозил из США отец его одноклассника. В шестнадцать лет Джеки начал петь в эфемерной ливерпульской группе DEE AND THE DYNAMITES, а годом позже организовал свою первую настоящую команду THE UNDERTAKERS. Группа пять раз концертировала в Гамбурге (причем, пару раз одновременно с THE BEATLES), записала полдюжины синглов для Pye, совершила турне по Канаде и распалась в начале 1967. Ломакс ушел еще раньше: осенью 1964 он расстался с бывшими партнерами и собрал оказавшийся непрочным квартет THE MERSEY LADS. Следующая группа, THE LOST SOULS, тоже не отличалась долговечностью.Весной 1967 Джеки разыскал менеджер THE BEATLES Брайан Эпстайн, который предложил ему контракт со своей фирмой NEMS Enterprises, но Ломакс отказался от роли соло-артиста. Он собрал новую группу THE LOMAX ALLIANCE в составе: сам Джеки (гитара и вокал), Том Кассетта (Tom Caccetta) (бас) и экс-барабанщик THE UNDERTAKERS Багс Пембертон (Bugs Pemberton) начали работать летом 1967. Они репетировали материал самого Ломакса и записывались с оркестром, но смерть Эпстайна в августе того же года сделала дальнейшее существование группы проблематичным. Пембертон уступил место на пару месяцев известному сессионному барабанщику Тони Ньюмену (Tony Newman), игравшему ранее в SOUNDS INC и JEFF BECK GROUP, а позднее с Дэвидом Бауи, в T. REX, BOXER и у Дэвида Кавердэйла. В 1968 Джеки также записал проходной сингл Genuine Imitation Life для CBS Records.В 1968 было объявлено о создании Apple Records. Джеки Ломакс был первым, кто получил контракт с новой компанией. Джеки сделал на Apple альбом Is This What You Want?, в создании которого принимали участие Эрик Клэптон, Ларри Нехтель, Ники Хопкинс, Клаус Формен, Ринго Старр и Пол Маккартни (гитара в титульной песне), а также три сингла, первый из которых, Sour Milk Sea, сочинил и спродюсировал Джордж Харрисон. Он же играл на гитаре, а Пол и Ринго ассистировали ему на бас-гитаре и барабанах. На втором сингле New Day/Thumblin A Ride играли Пол и Джордж и Билли Престон. Харрисон спродюсировал и третий сингл Джеки How The Web Was Woven (1969). Альбом открыл Джеки Ломакса как автора, был довольно популярен и разошелся не менее, чем пятидесятитысячным тиражом (точной цифры не знает никто, поскольку, как известно, с учетом и контролем в битловской музыкальной империи дела всегда обстояли неважно).Финансовый крах Apple вновь перечеркнул надежды Ломакса. Осенью 1969 он вошел в группу HEAVY JELLY, у которой было много хороших идей, но не было хорошего состава. Играл с группой Денни Лэйна THE BALLS (под Рождество 1969 и в июле 1970), а осенью 1970 уехал в США и поселился в Вудстоке, штат Нью-Йорк, где подписал новый контракт с Warner Brothers. Сделав для этой компании два достаточно удачных альбома Home Is In My Head в 1971 и Three в 1972 (на котором ему аккомпанировали THE BAND в полном составе, а за пультом сидел их продюсер Джон Саймон), но так и не заработав денег, Джеки вернулся домой.В 1974 Ломакс присоединился к еще одной странной группе BADGER, которую годом раньше собрал экс-клавишник THE YES Тони Кэй и участвовал в записи их второго альбома, продюсером которого стал Аллен Туссен, однако, диск был освистан прессой, а их лондонский дебют — неудовлетворенной публикой, поэтому BADGER бесславно распались в начале следующего года.Последний этап активной деятельности Джеки связан с компанией Columbia, для которой он в 1975 и 1977 записал альбомы Livin' For Lovin' и Did You Ever Have That Feeling?. Второй из них стал откровенно провалом, и компания решила не возобновлять контракт. В середине 70-х годов Джеки Ломакс перебрался на жительство в Калифорнию.

History 1962 - 1970

In early 1962, Jackie Lomax left Dee and the Dynamites to join Merseybeat band The Undertakers. They followed the same route as The Beatles through local venues before setting out for Hamburg, Germany and finally securing a record deal. From that point onwards, they were dogged by ill-luck and lack of success. They signed with Pye Records and released four singles which only managed to place one week on the British charts between them. In 1965 they moved to America to try their luck there.
After two years in America with The Undertakers and a couple of other groups, Jackie Lomax's latest band, The Lomax Alliance, were taken back to Britain in 1967 by Brian Epstein to showcase them at the Saville Theatre in London. He arranged for a single and an album to be recorded and they signed to CBS. Epstein's untimely death ruined the plans for the band. During that period CBS released two Lomax Alliance singles and one solo Jackie Lomax single. More than enough tracks for an album were recorded but it was never released.

After Brian Epstein's death, the Beatles' new record label Apple took over responsibility for Jackie's recording career, with George Harrison becoming heavily involved on the production side. Despite having 75% of the Beatles on the record as well as Eric Clapton and Nicky Hopkins, success remained elusive. The shambles which was Apple, after the break-up of the Beatles, made matters even worse. During that period Apple released three singles--including the song "Sour Milk Sea", written by George Harrison--and the Is This What You Want? LP. By 1970, the break-up of the Beatles had badly affected Apple Records and Allen Klein was called in. Apple artists found themselves under contract to a label who had no interest in them.

History 1970 - 1977

After leaving Apple, Jackie Lomax joined a band called Heavy Jelly featuring bassist Alex Dmochowski, guitarist John Moorshead and Carlo Little (drums), who released a single on Head Records ("Chewn In"/"Time Out", Head HDS4001, 1969). During that period a Heavy Jelly LP, made up entirely of Jackie Lomax songs, was recorded but issued for promotional purposes only. It was never commercially released.
In 1971 Jackie Lomax returned to America to live and work in Woodstock, New York. He signed to Warner Bros. Records and reunited with members of the Lomax Alliance and The Undertakers. They returned to the recording studio but his efforts continued to fall on deaf ears. During this Warner period two Jackie Lomax albums were: Home Is In My Head and Three.
Disappointed with his lack of success in America, Jackie Lomax returned to Britain at the end of 1973, where he joined Badger, a progressive rock band originally formed by ex-Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye. He proceeded to turn them into the type of R&B/soul band he had used on his solo albums. The band became a vehicle for Jackie's songs and singing but was short-lived. During the period in which Jackie Lomax was a member of Badger, they released only one LP, White Lady, on Epic Records, which was produced by Allen Toussaint.
Jackie Lomax crossed the Atlantic again to resume his solo career and Capitol Records signed him in 1975. He continued playing the R&B/soul which he had perfected during his recording career but which the public stubbornly refused to embrace. Unfortunately he has been without a recording contract since he left them in 1977. During his time at Capitol, he recorded two albums, Livin' for Lovin' and Did You Ever Have That Feeling?, the second of which was released only in the USA.
Living in America 1978-2000
The 1980s were a very quiet time in the musical career of Jackie Lomax. The mid 1980's saw Jackie playing guitar and singing background vocals on demos for various artists produced by longtime friend Patrick Landreville. During this time Jackie briefly played with the short lived "Tea Bags" a group based in Los Angeles composed at various times of Brit musicians Ian Wallace, Kim Gardner, Mick Taylor, Brian Auger, Terry Reid, Peter Banks, Graham Bell', David Mansfield and others. The 1990s saw an increase in activity for Jackie. He spent periods playing with other British artists on the west coast of America and toured as the bass-player with some of the acts that were big when he first chose to play music - The Drifters, The Diamonds, The Coasters. In California, and Ventura County in particular, Jackie played live with a succession of line-ups, including Tom Petty drummer Randall Marsh, Jim Calire, Patrick Landreville, Mitch Kashmar and many other well respected musicians, as he returned to playing guitar, with a heavier emphasis on the blues side of R&B.
In 1990 he was seen in very good company on a compilation album which featured unique singers covering a wide range of songs, and he appeared on albums for other artists, both as a singer and as a guitarist. Recordings, however, were few and far between.
2001 Onwards
In 2001 Jackie Lomax completed the recording of his first solo album since 1977, The Ballad of Liverpool Slim. 2002 saw him continuing to play on the West Coast of America. In autumn of 2003, he made a triumphant return to The Cavern in Liverpool where it all began more than 40 years earlier.