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The guitarist and singer-songwriter Mike Cooper<\/strong> was a key figure in the British blues boom of the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

Born in Reading in 1942, Cooper<\/strong> began playing guitar as a teen in local skiffle groups. After seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee perform in 1961, Cooper<\/strong> caught the blues bug and began to play the harmonica and formed The Blues Committee, supporting John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alexis Korner and Long John Baldry, while Cooper<\/strong> was also performing solo. Acquiring a lap steel guitar in 1963, he studied Blind Boy Fuller’s work and in 1965, teamed with Dave Hall to support Bert Jansch, Al Stewart and others; after releasing work on the Kennet, Sydisc and Matchbox labels, Cooper<\/strong> soon began incorporating country blues aspects into his work, drawing from Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell, as well as non-blues artists such as David Bowie, John Martyn, Roy Harper and Dave Van Ronk.<\/p>\n

Then, in late 1968, Cooper<\/strong> was approached by producer Peter Eden, resulting in debut album “Oh Really!?<\/strong>” for Pye; aside from agreeable covers of Son House’s ‘Death Letter’ and Blind Boy Fuller’s ‘Bad Luck Blues,’ the rest of the disc is pure Cooper<\/strong>, with his deft picking accompanied by Derek Hall’s guitar work only on ‘Leadhearted Blues’ and ‘Electric Chair.’<\/p>\n

Comes on 45 rpm 180 gram vinyl.<\/p>\n

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The guitarist and singer-songwriter Mike Cooper<\/strong> was a key figure in the British blues boom of the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

Born in Reading in 1942, Cooper<\/strong> began playing guitar as a teen in local skiffle groups. After seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee perform in 1961, Cooper<\/strong> caught the blues bug and began to play the harmonica and formed The Blues Committee, supporting John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alexis Korner and Long John Baldry, while Cooper<\/strong> was also performing solo.<\/p>\n

In late 1968, Cooper<\/strong> was approached by producer Peter Eden, resulting in debut album “Oh Really!?<\/strong>” for Pye; aside from agreeable covers of Son House’s ‘Death Letter’ and Blind Boy Fuller’s ‘Bad Luck Blues,’ the rest of the disc is pure Cooper<\/strong>, with his deft picking accompanied by Derek Hall’s guitar work only on ‘Leadhearted Blues’ and ‘Electric Chair.’<\/p>\n

This Trading Places<\/strong> issue comes on 45 rpm 180 gram vinyl.<\/p>\n

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