A bootleg recording of Bob joining Johnny for an episode of the latter's TV series. I'm not familiar with (or that interested in) the full details of where each recording comes from; some of it sounds like the stuff recorded for the show, some sounds like soundcheck material or even just playing with each other behind the scenes.
This album possibly sounds more exciting as a concept than it is to listen to - the album features little of either mans great musical personalities (though in little asides you do get a feeling of what they were like as people and how they got on) and, being a bootleg, there has been no editing of the concept. Instead it is an overlong collection of some fairly humdrum country standards that only really gets going with some of Johnny's more rockabilly classics. Bob sounds amazingly nasal on this recording with little of the classic proto-punk vocal rasp that I love from his electric period.
It's an interesting historical document but as an album it's too sprawling to be a great listen from start to end.
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