''Gutbucket (An Underworld Eruption)'' is a 1969

sampler album A sampler or promotional compilation is a type of compilation album generally offered at a reduced price to showcase an artist or a selection of artists signed to a particular record label. The format became popular in the late 1960s as record labe ...

released to promote artists on the

Liberty Records Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Alvin Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous rev ...

label. It was followed later in 1969 by Son of Gutbucket. Both albums were reissued on a single EMI CD in 1994, with an informative booklet, but with 6 the original 31 tracks (from the combined albums) missing.

Track listing

Side 1

# "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" -

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band The Magic Band was the backing band of American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Captain Beefheart between 1967 and 1982. The band was formed by guitarist Alex St. Clair with Beefheart as the lead singer; eventually, they morphed into ...

- from the LP '' Strictly Personal'' # "The Wall" -

Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Hapshash and the Coloured Coat was an influential British graphic design and avant-garde musical partnership in the late 1960s, consisting of Michael English and Nigel Waymouth. It produced popular psychedelic posters, and two albums of under ...

- from the LP ''The Western Flier'' # "You’re Gonna Miss Me" -

Lightnin' Hopkins Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked him No. 71 on its li ...

- from the LP ''Earth Blues'' # "I’m Tore Down" -

Alexis Korner Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984), known professionally as Alexis Korner, was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues". A major i ...

- from the LP ''A New Generation of Blues'' # "Still a Fool" -

Groundhogs The groundhog (''Marmota monax''), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Easte ...

- from the LP '' Scratching the Surface'' # "Dismal Swamp" -

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (sometimes abbreviated NGDB), also known as the Dirt Band, is an American band founded in Long Beach, California, in 1966. Since 2018, the band has consisted of Jeff Hanna and his son Jaime Hanna, both guitarists and voc ...

- from the LP ''Pure Dirt'' # "Wine, Women & Whisky" -

Papa Lightfoot Alexander "Papa" Lightfoot (March 2, 1924 – November 28, 1971), also known as Papa George Lightfoot, was an American blues singer and harmonica player. Biography Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Lightfoot recorded several sessions in his late t ...

- from the LP ''Rural Blues Vol 2''

Side two

# "Pony Blues" -

Canned Heat Canned Heat is an American blues rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and ...

- from the LP ''

Living the Blues ''Living the Blues'' is the third album by American blues rock band Canned Heat, a double album released in late 1968. It was one of the first double albums to place well on album charts. It features Canned Heat's signature song, " Going Up the ...

'' # "Down in Texas" -

The Hour Glass Hour Glass was an American soul band based in Los Angeles, California in 1967 and 1968. Among their members were two future members of the Allman Brothers Band (Duane Allman and his brother Gregg) and three future studio musicians at the FAME ...

- from the LP ''

'' # "No More Doggin’" -

Tony McPhee Anthony Charles McPhee (23 March 1944 – 6 June 2023) was an English guitarist and singer. He was the founder of the British blues and rock band the Groundhogs. Career McPhee was given the name "T.S." — standing for "Tough Shit" — whe ...

- from the LP ''Me And The Devil'' # "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites" -

The Bonzo Dog Band The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as the Bonzo Dog Band or the Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelia with surreal humour and avant-garde a ...

- from the LP '' The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse'' # "Mamma Don’t Like Me Runnin Around" -

Big Joe Williams Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Pl ...

- from the LP ''Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick'' # "Rollin’ And Tumblin’" - Jo-Anne Kelly - from the LP ''Me And The Devil'' # "Call My Woman" -

Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer. He has worked with John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Journey, Jefferson Starship, Nils Lofgren, Eric Burdon, Shuggie Otis, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Mick Ronso ...

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