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Guilty!
Jimmy Witherspoon - Eric Burdon
(LP) Year? USA - Artisan 12" metal acetate
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01. I’ve Been Drifting / Once Upon A Time      

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02. Steam Roller    
03. The Laws Must Change     Jimmy Witherspoon - Obituary
04. Have Mercy Judge   
05. Goin’ Down Slow   
06. Soledad   
07. Home Dream   
08. Wicked Wicked Man  
09. Headin’ For Home  
10. The Time Has Come   
    

The United Artist LP releases of this album contained an extra track compared to the MGM release ("Wicked Man"). The image shown above is from the MGM LP. The Artisan LP has no title and only credits to "Burdon-Witherspoon" - it is a rare double sided 12" metal acetate.

Burdon and Witherspoon played 7 consecutive Mondays at The Whisky before recording this album. Track 10 on the "F#¢k Me ... I Thought He Was Dead" CD features Burdon and Witherpoon on one of those Mondays.

In his book "Good Times", Dionisio Castello notes that (a) "Goin' Down Slow" and "Home Dreams" were performed by Eric Burdon & WAR while the other tracks were recorded by Burdon and Witherspoon, (b) the provisional title for the album was "The Time Has Come" with the cover featuring a phot of Barry Jenkins (ex The Animals and Eric Burdon & The Animals drummer) strapped to the electric chair and (c) despite Burdon indicating in 1971 interviews that it was a live album from the May 1971 gig at San Quentin Prison with Witherspoon and Muhammad Ali, the only track on the album from that gig is "Going Down Slow" by Eric Burdon & WAR. The Burdon and Witherspoon tracks were actually recorded at the MGM studios in Hollywood on 31-Jul-71. The other Eric Burdon & WAR track "Home Dream" was recorded at the Phillips Studio in Los Angeles on 08-Aug-69. 

The "Guilty!" album was re-released as "Black & White Blues" in LP format in 1976 (LA Records GG 58001) and in later in CD format in 1999 (ARG Records/BMG).

      

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