Year/Genre/City: 1968, Blues, London, UK
Matrix #: Z12 52 006
Condition: VG+, sounds great; looks good; light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. Scene Ecology: Documents the 1966–68 UK club circuit (Marquee/Flamingo) where art-school bands learned blues as a working language.

2. Media Narrative: U.S. compilations like this helped market “British Blues” as a movement, setting up the purist-vs-fame debate that followed the stars.

3. Studio Lore: Immediate Records—run by Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham—licensed and repackaged material quickly to ride the blues boom.

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