Music

  A school friend sold me his copy of Super Session sometime late in 1970….for one dollar. I’m almost certain that this wasn’t my first encounter with Al Kooper but it became my first Kooper-related acquisition. I also have a vague memory of The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper blaring, somewhat earlier in that year, from the students’ common room amidst cigarette smoke and satanic recess activities….but let’s not loiter. My explanation is that it was a catholic boys’ high school and Vatican 2 was well and truly dusted. Enough said. Up until the end of the swinging sixties, my only awareness of Al Kooper was his association with Blood, Sweat and Tears and that he had scampered into Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited sessions some years earlier. That was about it apart from occasionally eyeing off Norman Rockwell’s fabulous cover image on the live double in Nicholson’s city store. However, Kooper had been much busier than my meagre knowledge suggested. ...