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The now highly sought after Sweet Pain sessions (1969) featured the precursor line-up to the 
Bluesblasters and Mainsqueeze, representing a truly fundamental collaboration of musical protagonists.
Members of Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers assembled to record 
some impromptu blues sessions, released on Mercury. The Melody Maker summarised Sweet Pain as 
simply a, “Hot and heavy blues set from British musicians Dick Heckstall-Smith, John O’Leary, 
Keith Tillman and Annette Brox.”. An air of competence pervaded the LP and reviews received, but the 
consensus was undoubtedly that these aficionado blues musicians at this stage lacked a degree of 
commercial appeal, utilising rather raw and ‘primitive’ rhythms. Like an experienced vintage the line-up 
continued under further guises, evolving to The Famous Bluesblasters, whom provided Dick with a 
semi-professional unit playing as he recalls mainly at weekends, thus caught in the rather lack lustre 
cultural climate of the time towards cutting edge blues.

Tracks
01. The Steamer (Brox) 2.27
02. Changin´ Your Mind (O´Leary, Tilman, Cowell, Reis) 2.25
03. Rubbin´ And Scrapin´ (O´Leary, Tilman, Cowell, Brox) 5.40
04. Sick And Tired (Brox) 2:50
05. The Rooster Crows At Midnight (Brox) 2.28
06. Troubles Trouble (Brox) 3.52
07. Don´T Break Down (O´Leary, Tilman, Cowell, Reis) 5.17
08. It´S A Woman´S Way (Brox) 2.52
09. General Smit (O´Leary, Tilman, Cowell, Brox) 6.44
10. Trouble In Mind (Jones) 5.27
11. Song Of The Medusa (Joka) 1.40

Sweet Pain
Annette Brox - Vocals
Stuart Cowell - Guitar
Sam Crozier - Perc, Vocals, Keyboards, Trumpet
Junior Dunn - Drums
Alan Greed - Vocals
Dick Heckstall-Smith - Sax
John O'leary - Harmonica
Keith Tillman - Bass