Description
Release Date: 2011
Label: Ace Records UK
Track List
Lazy Lester Rides Again (Blue Horizon LP 1987)
1 Sugar Coated Love (Take 1) 3:19
2 Travelling Days (Take 3) 3:38
3 The Same Thing Could Happen To You (Take 2) 2:32
4 Can’t Stand To See You Go (Take 1) 2:53
5 Out On The Road (Take 1) 3:28
6 Lester’s Shuffle (Take 2) 3:01
7 I Hear You Knockin’ (Take 4) 2:32
8 Irene (Take 3) 2:46
9 St. Louis Blues (Take 1) 4:06
10 Blowin’ A Rhumba (Take 2) 2:42
11 Nothin’ But The Devil (Take 1) 3:42
12 Hey Mattie (Take 4) 3:08
Bonus Tracks (All Previously Unreleased 2011)
13 Tavelling Days (Take 1) 3:36
14 Tavelling Days (Take 2) 3:35
15 The Same Thing Could Happen To You (Take 1) 2:49
16 The Same Thing Could Happen To You (Remake) (Take 4) 2:28
17 Lester’s Shuffle (Take 1) 3:05
18 I Hear You Knockin’ (Take 1) 2:33
19 Blowin’ A Rhumba (Take 3) 2:23
20 Hey Mattie (Take 1) 3:24
21 Hey Mattie (Take 3) 2:47
22 I Ain’t Glad (Take 2) 3:39
23 Rockin’ With Lester (Take 1) 4:50
Personnel
Bass – Alan Scott, Dave Bronze, Steve Ewart
Drums – Dave Eustace, John “The Big Figure” Martin, Sean Scott
Guitar – Telecaster Dave Neill, John Bruce, Julian Piper, Lazy Lester (tracks: 5)
Harmonica – Tim Elliott
Piano – Bob Hall
Vocals, Harmonica – Lazy Lester
Notes
The prime of Lazy Lester’s recording career was his stint for Excello Records in the 1950s and ’60s, and he hadn’t recorded in the studio for quite some time when the Rides Again album was cut in England over the course of four days in late May 1987. Lester is in good voice and blows the harmonica well on a set mixing remakes of Miller-era material with newer songs. While the backup band (including members of the Junkyard Angels and Blues ‘N’Trouble) were journeymen without high name recognition, they play in a suitably loose and energetic style. The 2011 expanded edition adds 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks, two of which, the easygoing “I Ain’t Glad” and the more hepped-up instrumental “Rockin’ with Lester,” did not make it onto the original Rides Again album in any form. The other nine bonus cuts are alternate takes.
