Cuby + Blizzards - Blues Traveller (2000)

Cuby & the Blizzards are a Dutch blues group that started in 1964. Right from the start they were a big hit in the Netherlands. This band is completely different from another Dutch band in the same time period, Peter & the Blizzards.
In 1967 they toured with Van Morrison (in lieu of his band Them), played with Eddie Boyd, scored a hit with Window of my Eyes and received an Edison award. That year, John Mayall stayed at their farm and the next year they regularly played with the 'king of British blues' Alexis Korner.
The line-up of the band changed regularly, but founders Harry Muskee (vocals) and Eelco Gelling (guitar) remained at the core of the band, despite regular unsuccessful attempts to form other bands. Herman Brood was the pianist shortly in 1967 (which kick-started his career) and again in 1976.
The spelling of the name varies, with 'Cuby' also written as 'QB' and the ampersand (&) also written as 'and' or '+' and the 'and sometimes left out. The spelling 'Cuby + Blizzards' was used on the first albums. ~Wikipie

About the Band:
Although unknown to the English-speaking market, Cuby & the Blizzards have been one of Holland’’s top blues bands since the mid-’’60s. Some of their early singles had a beat/punk orientation, particularly “Stumble & Fall” and “Your Body Not Your Soul,” both of which would be reissued on various Dutch beat compilations a few decades later. They quickly settled into a straighter blues groove, however. Their claims to fame in the larger rock/pop world are that they briefly backed Van Morrison in the gap between his departure from Them and the beginning of his solo career, although details of the association remain murky; also, at one point lead guitarist Eelco Gelling was asked to join John Mayall’’s Bluebreakers, although he declined.

CD 1 – JUST FOR FUN
01. Stumble and fall
02. L.S.D.(Got a million dollars)
03. Back home (A man)
04. You don’t know
05. Just for fun
06. Gin house blues
07. Desolation blues
08. Let’s make it
09. Somebody will know someday
10. So many roads
11. Another day, another road
12. Crying tears
13. Feeling like a suit-case
14. Don’t know which way to go
15. Distant smile
16. Nostalgic toilet
17. Window of my eyes
18. The sky is crying

CD 2 – SIMPLE MAN
01. King of the world
02. No shoes
03. Big blue-eyed girl
04. Goin’ home
05. Appleknockers flophouse
06. Help me
07. Go down sunshine
08. Thursday night
09. Evil woman
10. Wee wee baby
11. Too blind to see
12. Simple man
13. Back street
14. Pawn broker
15. I’m drinking my whisky
16. Sometimes

CD3 – I’VE ALWAYS BEEN LONELY
01. Happyville
02. Perfect song
03. (There ain’t no real) Perfection
04. Bad news
05. Geronimo weeps
06. Instinct
07. I’ve always been lonely
08. The Zoo
09. Broken wings
10. One more
11. Bluesman
12. Dancing bear
13. Faceless voices
14. Liquor blues
15. Last minute flight

CD 4 - TRAVELLING WITH THE BLUES - Live
01. Sugar mama
02. Sweet little angel
03. Rock me, baby
04. I’m in love
05. Checkin’ up on my baby
06. Goin’ down
07. Shaky grounds
08. Brother booze
09. Five long years
10. Hobo blues

Personnel:
Erwin Raymond Java - guitar
Hans Lafaille - drums
Harry Muskee - vocals
Helmig van der Vegt - piano
Herman Deinum - bass guitar