Sam Apple Pie Sam Apple Pie 1969 UK blues rock

Sam Apple Pie Sam Apple Pie 1969 (UK) blues rock The British bluesrock boom was such a big deal at the end of the 1960s that plenty of alsoran bands got the chance to fill out the bottom of concert and festival bills, and also to record. Sam Apple Pie were among them, and their selftitled debut album didn t offer much in the style that was out of the ordinary, though it did possess basic competence. You needed more than basic competence to make a mark, however, even in a genre that could be as hidebound as British blues. Sam Apple Pie didn t have those extra special somethings, relying too much upon stock blues riffs and goodtime energy that might have been effective in a concert setting, but are pretty dull on record. If any influence from their peers seems strongest, it s early Fleetwood Mac (in both their stinging blues modes and their quieter, more reflective ones). Songs like Stranger, Sometime Girl, and Winter of My Love, with its swooping sl