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''. These included tracks recorded by

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. There was also a single live performance of "Oh Well" with the rest of the collection filled out with various alternative takes of familiar Green, Spencer and Kirwan songs, including an alternative take of Peter Green's "

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". "The Vaudeville Years" was reissued in 2008 as a double CD set with a single DVD, but without the extensive sleeve notes.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Intro/Lazy Poker Blues" ( Peter Green, Clifford Adams) – 3:48 #"My Baby's Sweeter" ( Willie Dixon) – 3:53 #"Love that Burns" (Green, Adams) – 4:15 #" Talk to Me Baby" (

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) – 3:37 #"Everyday I Have the Blues #1" ( John Chatman) – 4:13 #"Jeremy's Contribution to Doo-Wop" (

) – 3:34 #"Everyday I Have the Blues #2" (Chatman) – 4:23 #"Death Bells" (

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) – 5:05 #"(Watch Out for Yourself) Mr Jones" (Spencer) – 3:35 #"Man of Action" (Spencer) – 5:21 #"Do You Give a Damn for Me" (Green) – 3:45 ~ early version of "Showbiz Blues" #" Man of the World" (Green) – 3:28 #"Like It This Way" (

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) – 3:17 #"Blues in B Flat Minor" (Green) – 4:16 ~ instrumental version of "Before The Beginning" #"Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (Spencer) – 2:58 ~ full-length version #"Although the Sun Is Shining" (Kirwan) – 2:24 #"Showbiz Blues" (Green) – 6:51

Disc two

#"Underway" (Green) – 16:15 ~ full-length version #"The Madge Sessions #1" (

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) – 17:21 #"The Madge Sessions #2" (McVie, Fleetwood) – 2:42 #"(That's What) I Want You to Know" (Spencer) – 3:54 #" Oh Well" (Green) – 2:47 #"Love It Seems" (Kirwan) – 2:39 #"Mighty Cold" (

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) – 2:28 #"Fast Talking Woman Blues" (Green) – 4:02 ~ also known as "Drifting" #"Tell Me from the Start" (Kirwan) – 2:02 #"October Jam #1" (Kirwan, Green, McVie) – 5:01 #"October Jam #2" (Kirwan, Green, McVie, Fleetwood) – 1:57 #"

" (Green) – 4:43 #"World in Harmony" (Kirwan, Green) – 3:28 #"Farewell" (Kirwan) – 2:18 ~ early demo of "Earl Gray"

Credits

* Peter Green –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

– guitar, vocals *

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

–

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, drums

References

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