Peter Green - Man Of The World: The Anthology 1968-1983 (2004)

This double-disc overview collection of British super guitarist Peter Green is unique only for the limit of its focus and its seeming willy-nilly sequenced expression of it. If you're a fan, there isn't anything here you don't already have. By concentrating on a 20-year period – and for most of that Green was lost in his own mind – listeners get a solid selection of Green's creative genius with Fleetwood Mac, his spotty early solo records when his disintegration begins, and his tentative but still brilliant first return to music-making as well as a pair of sideman gigs with Bob Brunning's Sunflower Blues Band tossed in for good measure. There are only two live cuts in the batch, Boston Tea Party-era versions of "Black Magic Woman" and a cover of Duster Bennett's "Jumping at Shadows," and a wildly interspersed series of solo album cuts, Mac singles, and LP grooves like the juxtaposition of Green's "Lost My Love" with FM's "Fast Talking Woman Blues." In all, the only new thing here is the packaging and the inventive if problematic assemblage.

by Thom Jurek

Tracklist:

A1 Fleetwood Mac – Man Of The World
A2 Fleetwood Mac – Long Grey Mare
A3 Fleetwood Mac – Fast Talking Woman Blues
A4 Fleetwood Mac – Jumping At Shadows (Live)
A5 Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman (Live)
A6 Fleetwood Mac– Showbiz Blues
B1 Brunning Sunflower Blues Band – Uranus
B2 Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well
B3 Fleetwood Mac – If You Let Me Love You (Live)
B4 Fleetwood Mac – Lazy Poker Blues
B5 Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
C1 Peter Green – A Fool No More
C2 Peter Green – Tribal Dance
C3 Peter Green – Apostle
C4 Peter Green – Cryin' Won't Bring You Back
C5 Peter Green – Watcha Gonna Do
D1 Peter Green – Lost My Love
D2 Peter Green – Shining Star
D3 Peter Green – Big Boy Now
D4 Peter Green – Same Old Blues
D5 Peter Green – Bandit
D6 Peter Green – What Am I Doing Here?