The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, one track from their first album Fleetwood Mac, two tracks fro…
The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, one track from their first album Fleetwood Mac, two tracks from their second album Mr. Wonderful, and two tracks by the blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.
The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The phrase refers to the albatross killed in the poem ("The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen"). Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross".
The Pious Bird of Good Omen was not released in the US. The closest US equivalent is the English Rose compilation album, released in December 1968 and sharing four songs with Pious Bird.
Tracklist:
Need Your Love So Bad 00:01
Coming Home 06:13
Rambling Pony 08:55
The Big Boat 11:38
I Believe My Time Ain't Long 14:18
The Sun Is Shining 17:17
Albatross 20:31
Black Magic Woman 23:45
Just The Blues 26:36
Jigsaw Puzzle Blues 32:16
Looking For Somebody 33:54
Stop Messin' Round 36:47
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Jeremy Spencer – vocals, slide guitar, piano
Danny Kirwan – vocals, electric guitar (on side 2, tracks 1 and 4)
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – drums
Additional musicians
Eddie Boyd – vocals, piano (on side 1, track 4 and side 2, track 3)
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