1 	Thursday Night 	
2 	Night Train 	
3 	Evil Woman 	
4 	Wee Wee Baby 	
5 	Too Blind To See 	
6 	Birks' Works 	
7 	Time Passed Me By

Bass Guitar – Herman Deinum
Drums – Hans la Faille
Guitar – Eelco Gelling
Piano, Organ – Helmig van der Vegt
Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Rudi van Dijk
Tenor Saxophone, Flute, French Horn – Bas Munninksma
Vocals – Hans la Faille (tracks: A4)
Vocals, Harmonica – Harry "Cuby" Muskee

A typical Cuby + Blizzards album: full of the Blues rock they were famous for but with a few twists this time around .The album opens with the epic pop ballad "Thursday Night". Muskee's vocals on this track are strongly reminiscent of that one guy from Three Dog Night, what's his name, the one who sings first on "Celebrate". Anyway, I can't understand why that one wasn't an international hit. Also included in this LP among the blues rock originals is an excellent cover of Dizzie Gillespie's jazz instrumental, "Bird's Works". These guys were really versatile. ---yoyomama1, rateyourmusic.com

The Dutch Blues-Rock scene in the late 1960s / early 1970s was definitely the strongest on the Continent and second only to the British scene at the time. The band Cuby And The Blizzards was the undeniable king of the scene. Led by vocalist / harmonica player Harry Muskee, a.k.a. Cuby, the band changed its lineup many times over the years, but always featured exceptional players, especially lead guitarists. This is their 9th album and features great brass arrangements. An absolute must to all Blues-Rock fans and a great document of European music history! ---Jazzis, rateyourmusic.com

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A1 	Another Day, Another Road	1:49
A2 	The Big Bell	3:49
A3 	Somebody Will Know Someday	6:54
A4 	So Many Roads	3:41
B1 	King Of The World	4:48
B2 	Baby, Please Don't Go (Back To New Orleans)	1:37
B3 	No Shoes	4:33
B4 	Another Land	4:36

Harry Muskee – vocals, harmonica
Eelco Gelling – guitars
Herman Brood – piano
Willy Middel – bass
Hans Waterman – drums

Look at them. Farmer boys gone astray. Sheep grazing in the background, emerging from a mouldy old shed. An angel holding a banner: “Greetings from Grollo.” Village boys from the Dutch province of Drenthe. Menacing, moody, doffed up in spray-on paisley. Every head in Holland circa 1967 knew that Cuby + Blizzards were keepers of the blues flame up North. Scandalous hair, living with loose birds in a commune and roaming the country leaving a trail of empty whisky bottles. Eelco Gelling was the Dutch Jimi Hendrix, only whiter. Less flamboyant, maybe. But smoking whenever he got hold of a pick and his Les Paul. Harry “Cuby” Muskee was the grumpy old man, even at 21. He had to be, he was a BLOOOOZE singer. Harry knew, he had been there. Pianist Herman Brood was the wild card, a timid juvenile delinquent who could not yet hold a candle to his later superstar self. But daring all the way, even in his choice of stimulants. “Medicine,” he called the little blue pills that he first got from servicemen in Germany. Helped to keep him awake during five hour barroom sessions playing everything Little Richard ever recorded. Herman, too, had paid his dues.

High time we elaborated on the “peat, gin and suspicion” theme mentioned in the Hunebed section of The Megalitic European by His Copeness. People from Drenthe kept themselves alive through the ages by hacking peat from the soggy ground of their Hunebed country, leaving it out to dry and selling it for fuel. Gin, or Dutch “jenever” kept them happy through the hard times. And hard times they were. Them were suspicious people, the Drenths. Didn’t trust no one. “When God created the Drenthe farmer,” goes an old saying, “the Drenthe farmer said to God: Get off of my land!” Cuby + Blizzards fitted neatly in that sad and lonely profile. They were drunk, often. They trusted no one. And when they made music, they were delving deep. They were smoking.

Graffity turned up along the one highway leading up North. “Cuby + Blizzards” was all it said, painted in crude letters on a concrete viaduct. The mighty Philips label let them record. Singles first, very unsimilar to the tidy pop music of The Golden Earrings and The Motions from way out west in The Hague. Cuby's “Back home” made it to the top 40 in 1966. The “Desolation” album breathed the dark depths of the inside of a Hunebed at night. (If you don’t know what I’m on about at this time, check The Megalithic European). But nothing could prepare the emerging Dutch rock world for the raw onslaught of “Groeten Uit Grollo”, the album that put Dutch psychedelica on the map. Opening track “Another day, another road” was accessible enough, Cuby’s first top 20 hit. But then came “The Big Bell”, an Eddy Boyd chestnut turned upside down with way out guitar rumblings and a voice from deep within that mouldy old shed. “Somebody will know someday” followed as a reminder that the Drenthe sky is always crying, except on those rare occasions when the peat is left out to dry. “So many roads,” mused Harry Muskee on the amount of traveling he would have to do, before all of The Netherlands would be converted to the Cuby aesthetic of way out blues with the smell of jenever on its breath.

Side two brings us John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams covers, telling baby not to go back to New Orleans and if you do, don’t expect Cuby to buy you new shoes. Then it’s the grand finale of “Another land” where Eelco Gelling shits and pisses all over Clapton, Beck and Pagey. Cuby + Blizzards were never made for world domination. They were suspicious of the business types who always seemed to have wads of cash when all they could spare for the band was their nightly crate of whisky. That kept them happy, but not in the long run when Robbie van Leeuwen made his fortune with Shocking Blue, Golden Earring fucked off to The States to make it with “Radar love” and Dutch rock & roll became synonimous with “Stars on 45” and Pussycat’s “Mississippi”. Harry Muskee kept plowing on, even today when he’s still singing every night and presenting radio shows that benefit from his profound knowledge of and love for the blues. But “Groeten Uit Grollo” was never just a blues record. It breathed the spirit of the Hunebed, the ancient tombs that could never have been built by human hands. It has the ghosts of ancient Drenthe inside its grooves. ---Hunebatman, headheritage.co.uk

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01. L.S.D. (Got A Million Dollars)
02. Richard Cory
03. Feeling Like A Suitcase
04. Because OIf Illness
05. Woman
06. On The Road
07. Stepping In My Shoes
08. You Don't Know
09. Session
10. That's All Right
11. Your Body, Not Your Soul

Dick Beekman - Drums
Herman Brood - Keyboards, Vocals
Herman Deinum - Bass
Eelco Gelling - Guitar
Henk Hilbrandie - Piano
Hans Kinds – Guitar
Hans Lafaille - Drums
Willy Middel - Bass
Harry Muskee - Harmonica, Producer, Vocals
Helmig VanDer Vegt - Keyboards
Jaap VanEyck - Bass
Hans Waterman - Drums

Although unknown to the English-speaking market, Cuby & the Blizzards have been one of Holland's top blues bands since the mid-'60s. Some of their early singles had a beat/punk orientation, particularly "Stumble & Fall" and "Your Body Not Your Soul," both of which would be reissued on various Dutch beat compilations a few decades later. They quickly settled into a straighter blues groove, however. Their claims to fame in the larger rock/pop world are that they briefly backed Van Morrison in the gap between his departure from Them and the beginning of his solo career, although details of the association remain murky; also, at one point lead guitarist Eelco Gelling was asked to join John Mayall's Bluebreakers, although he declined. --- Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com

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1 	Nothin' But Trouble 	3:01
2 	No Place Like Home 	3:11
3 	Understanding 	2:27
4 	Tweny-Four Hours Of Fear 	3:29
5 	The Hammond Sings The Blues 	2:41
6 	The Big Boat 	3:46
7 	Mr. Highway Man 	3:48
8 	I'm In Your Corner 	3:46
9 	Swinging Boogie 	2:52
10 	Early Grave 	3:20
11 	Little Red Rooster 	4:28

Eelco Gelling – guitar
Willy Middel – bass
Hans Waterman – drums
Eddie Boyd – piano, vocals

When Eddie Boyd appeared inThe Haguewith the Blues Festival in 1965, at the first big blues concert ever to be heard in Holland, members of a group from Assen, Drenthe, Cuby and the Blizzards, were watching him. This group had started around Christmas the year before and consisted of: leader, singer and harmonica-player Harry Muskee, then 23 years old, formerly journalist at a local paper; 18-yearold guitarist Eelco Gelling, photographer at the name paper; 19-yearold basuguitarist Willy Middel and two others, who since then have disappeared. Harry Muskee, 'Cuby', had been bass-player and singer in Dixielandband (appropriately called something like 'The Old-Fashioned Group' and through this he had come in touch with the at that time yet to be discovered blues. When he formed his own group, which played in a cellar in Assen, he played a lot of Rhythm and Blues, just like the British groups who started the new trend of group-playing in pop music had done; like them he found in the blues (especially the Pontwar, 'Chicago' blues) an agressive individualism and emotional expressiveness which fitted in well with his own musical ideas. Cuby and the Blizzards turned into fuIl-pros after name time, stuck to the repertoire of their own choice as much as possible, developed a local reputation in the North and begon to make records the first in October 1965, the month when Eddie Boyd visited our country.

At the moment they have acquired a large following as the mast popular blues-influenced group of the Netherlands; their mast successful achievement on record until now hou been their first album, 'Desolation' recorded in November 1966.

Since 1966 Cuby lives the country-life of his neighbours at the farm in Grollo. After three days of rehearsing there (Eddie Boyd slept in the cupboard-bed; they had to stop at 7 p.m. because the little children of the village have to go to sleep then), they made their way to Hilversum, where Boyd, Gelling, Middel and 18-yearold Hans Waterman on drums recorded the present album the 9th of March. As Boyd was handling the vocals, Cuby had to content himself with a cao chingrole; he played this role with enthousiasm, because in those three days an atmosphere of mutual friendship and a lot of fun had been built up (Eddie Boyd's favourite saying is 'mellow, man, mellow' and he possesses a great capacity to enjoy himuelf). --- A.J. Heerma Van Voss, home.wxs.nl

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01 - Things I Remember 01:55
02 - Hobo Blues 06:19
03 - Just For Fun 02:52            play
04 - I'm In Love 06:20
05 - Gin House Blues 07:35
06 - Desolation Blues 03:02        play
07 - Five Long Years 04:18
08 - Let's Make It 02:17

Musicians:
* Harry Muskee (vocals)
* Eelco Gelling (gitaar)
* Herman Deinum (bas)
* Helmig van der Vegt (piano)
* Hans Lafaille (drums)

Cuby & The Blizzards record their first album Desolation. The title comes from the book `Desolation Angels' by Jack Kerouac, one of the leaders of the beat generation, who is very influential on the artistic Dutch youth as well. It is the first Dutch blues album and draws the attention of Willem de Ridder, editor-in-chief of Hitweek.

Harry's farm in Grolloo becomes a place of pilgrimage. Ton Sybrands, Simon Vinkenoog, Boudewijn de Groot, Johnny the Selfkicker, John Mayall, Eddie Boyd, and Alexis Korner all sleep at Harry's farm. A `road to fame' in Grolloo reminds us of the many, often eccentric, visitors.

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01 - Kid Blue 05:54
02 - Goin' To The City 03:39                     play
03 - E.S.P. 04:02
04 - Perfect Song 03:41
05 - Maybe We Need 04:40
06 - Lonely Pain 04:18
07 - Never Get Out Off These Blues Alive 04:55
08 - (There Ain't No Real) Perfection 02:08     play

Harry Muskee - Vocals, Harp
Lou Leeuw  - Bass, Vocals Drums, 
Mels Bol - Percussion
Eelco Gelling , Frank Nuijens - Guitar, Vocals
Maggie McNeal - Vocals 
Margriet Eshuis - Vocals, Organ

Although unknown to the English-speaking market, Cuby & the Blizzards have been one of Holland's top blues bands since the mid-'60s. Some of their early singles had a beat/punk orientation, particularly "Stumble & Fall" and "Your Body Not Your Soul," both of which would be reissued on various Dutch beat compilations a few decades later. They quickly settled into a straighter blues groove, however. Their claims to fame in the larger rock/pop world are that they briefly backed Van Morrison in the gap between his departure from Them and the beginning of his solo career, although details of the association remain murky; also, at one point lead guitarist Eelco Gelling was asked to join John Mayall's Bluebreakers, although he declined. ---Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com

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01 - Appleknockers 02:30            play
02 - Unknown Boy 06:45
03 - Help Me 05:34
04 - Go Down Sunshine 07:05
05 - Disappointed Blues 03:23
06 - Midnight Mover 02:39          play
07 - Black Snake 04:20
08 - Checkin' up on my baby 03:13
09 - 116 A Queensway 04:09
10 - Because Of Illness 01:59
11 - Wee Wee Baby 03:38


* Harry Muskee, vocals
* Eelco Gelling, guitar
* Herman Deinum, bass guitar
* Hans Lafaille, drums
* Helmig van der Vegt, piano

Cuby + Blizzards (also known as Cuby & the Blizzards) are a Dutch blues group that started in 1964. Right from the start they were a big hit in the Netherlands. This band is completely different from another Dutch band in the same time period, Peter & the Blizzards.

In 1967 they toured with Van Morrison (in lieu of his band Them), played with Eddie Boyd, scored a hit with "Window of my Eyes" and received an Edison award. (This song was played over the ending credits for the 2010 film The American). That year, John Mayall stayed at their farm and the next year they regularly played with the 'king of British blues' Alexis Korner.

The line-up of the band changed regularly, but founders Harry Muskee (vocals) and Eelco Gelling (guitar) remained at the core of the band, despite regular unsuccessful attempts to form other bands. Herman Brood was the pianist shortly in 1967 (which kick-started his career) and again in 1976.

The spelling of the name varies, with 'Cuby' also written as 'QB' and the ampersand (&) also written as 'and' or '+' and the 'and sometimes left out. The spelling 'Cuby + Blizzards' was used on the first albums.

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01 - Another Day, Another Road
02 - Just For Fun
03 - Too Blind To See
04 - Distant Smile
05 - Appleknockers Flophouse
06 - For Real                         play
07 - Somebody Will Know Someday
08 - No News Is Good News
09 - Brother Booze
10 - Five Long Years
11 - Travelling With The Blues        play
12 - The Zoo
13 - Hobo Blues

Herman Deinum - bass
Hans La Faille - drums
Erwin Java - guitar
John Lagrand - harmonica
Helmig van der Vegt – piano, organ
Harry Muskee – vocals
Guests: 
Martien Stientstra - saxophone
Arend Huisman - trombone
Peter van Soest - trumpet

Cuby & the Blizzards was the most important bluesgroup of the Netherlands in the sixties. They were popular throughout Europe. Cuby worked with John Mayal, Alexis Corner and Eddy Boyd, to name only a few. Cuby had a big following and made several records. Early '70's the band broke up. Cuby went his own way as blues&funksinger Harry Muskee. In the '90's Cuby & the Blizzards reunited. The famous & excellent guitarplayer Eelco Gelling however stayed at home and was replaced by Erwin Java. The cd 'Travelling with the blues' is a live-record wich contains songs from the early cuby-days as well as newer songs Muskee recorded in the 70's & 80's. The six piece band is here in fine shape and is being accompanied by a good horn-section. The ongoing mission of Cuby to bring the blues to the Dutch audience is well succeeded with this record. Inbetween was a new studio-cd 'Dancing Bear', a compilation 'Blues Traveller' & a brand new cd 'Hotel Grolloo' released. ---Amazon.com

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CD1:
01 - Intro-Faker 01:39
02 - Checkin' Upon My Baby 02:42
03 - Five Long Years 05:21
04 - Help Me 06:16
05 - Hobo Blues 09:15                    play
06 - Another Day, Another Road 03:02
07 - Somebody Will Know Someday 05:54
08 - Appleknockers Flophouse 04:22

CD2:
01 - Go Down Sunshine 03:18
02 - Simple Man 05:03
03 - For Real 03:48
04 - Too Blind To See 09:15
05 - Just For Fun 03:32
06 - Sugar Mama 03:27
07 - Nighttrain 03:42
08 - The Sky Is Crying 05:03             play
09 - No News, Good News 04:20
10 - Window Of My Eyes 04:25
11 - Dust My Broom 08:53

Harry Muskee (vocals)
Herman Deinum (bass)
Erwin Java (guitar)
Hans La Faille (drums)
Helmig van der Vegt (piano, keyboards)

Cuby + Blizzards (also known as Cuby & the Blizzards) are a Dutch blues group that started in 1964. Right from the start they were a big hit in the Netherlands. This band is completely different from another Dutch band in the same time period, Peter & the Blizzards.

In 1967 they toured with Van Morrison (in lieu of his band Them), played with Eddie Boyd, scored a hit with "Window of my Eyes" and received an Edison award. (This song was played over the ending credits for the 2010 film The American). That year, John Mayall stayed at their farm and the next year they regularly played with the 'king of British blues' Alexis Korner.

The line-up of the band changed regularly, but founders Harry Muskee (vocals) and Eelco Gelling (guitar) remained at the core of the band, despite regular unsuccessful attempts to form other bands. Herman Brood was the pianist shortly in 1967 (which kick-started his career) and again in 1976. Famous former bandmembers of Cuby & The Blizzards are: Jaap Van Eik (Bass Guitar), Willy Middel (Bass Guitar), Dick Beekman (Drums), Hans Waterman (Drums), Eelco Gelling (Guitar), John Lagrand (Harmonica), Herman Brood (Piano).

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