2017 - October 13 - I Ain't Superstitious

Friday the 13th. Long held to be a day of bad luck... It's a good thing we have Willie Dixon to set the record straight... Granted, it was recorded by Howling Wolf in 1961, and artists as far apart as Santana and Megadeth have also had their take on it. But... Then there is Jeff Beck - from the album Truth from 1968 featuring Rod Stewart on vocals... Yeah, now we're talking... I Ain't Superstitious.

December 21 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Charles Mingus' Goodbye Pork Pie Hat was written about Lester Young, and I was looking for Jeff Beck and his Live At Ronnie Scott's from 2008. He won the 2009 Grammy for best rock instrumental for his interpretation of A Day In The Life by The Beatles.

And now that we are firmly in rock territory again, we'll stay with the Brits for a little while. We are going back in time to a band that spawned three of rock's greatest guitarists - but only two of them at a time. Jeff Beck was one of them - but who did he replace? On their second American album, Jeff Beck plays lead guitar on side A, while the other guitarist plays lead on side B. The song I am looking for was the first single of this band after Jeff Beck joined them, and it was written by Graham Gouldman, a teenager who a few years later went on to form 10CC. So, to sum up: What band, what song, what American album was it on, when was this album released, and who did Jeff Beck replace?