The Beginning

Sounding like the middle ground between Bobby Bland and Otis Redding, ZZ Hill had only just begun to make an impression on the charts after a few singles for Kent and United Artists when his contract was sold and he found himself recording for Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams, a prospect he didn’t especially appreciate. Under duress, in a mere three days, Hill cut the vocal tracks for an LP and a handful of singles, and that album, “The Brand New ZZ Hill”, proved to be one of the most ambitious projects of his career. A song cycle about Hill’s romantic dilemmas with two different women, the album features dialogue interludes along with ten great soul tracks.

This is a rare edition with a sticker on the front renaming the album “The Beginning ZZ Hill”. Used copy but plays and looks fine!