Desolation - Cuby & The Blizzards - Music - Music On Vinyl - 0881061359425 - October 23, 2026
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Cuby & The Blizzards
Desolation Expanded, Black Vinyl edition

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In the early 1960s, beat groups from the Dutch Randstad dominated the national charts. Yet far from the big cities, in the clubs of Drenthe, one band was already being billed as “Beatgroup Number One”: Cuby + Blizzards. But frontman Harry Muskee never embraced that label. Raised on broadcasts from The Voice of America, he possessed a deeper understanding of the blues than most of his contemporaries. Muskee didn’t want to sing ‘songs,’ as he called them, he wanted to sing the blues, raw and unfiltered, in the tradition of Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters.

Their debut single “Stumble & Fall” was recorded in the Bavohuis, a simple gym hall in Amsterdam, with Addy Kleingeld as producer. But the debut album Desolation marked a turning point, recorded at the Phonogram Studios in Hilversum with renowned blues producer Tony Vos, it captured the band exactly as Muskee intended.

The resulting album became a jewel of Dutch music history. Never before had the Netherlands heard a blues singer who poured his emotions into a recording with such conviction and authenticity. Muskee even outshone his British peers. Eric Burdon (The Animals), Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones) and Van Morrison (Them).

At the 1968 Grand Gala du Disque (the Dutch equivalent of the Grammys), Muskee received an Edison Award for Desolation, handed to him by cabaret artist Wim Sonneveld, whose lukewarm speech couldn’t diminish the significance of the moment.

Sixty years later, the legacy of this groundbreaking album still resonates, an essential document of European blues and a defining moment in the story of Cuby + Blizzards.

This 60th anniversary edition of Desolation is now available as an expanded 2LP-set including the original 1966 album plus fifteen bonus tracks. The gatefold version features songs “Things I Remember”, “Stumble & Fall”, “L.S.D. (Got A Million Dollars)”, includes new liner notes by Dutch Blues authority Johan Derksen.

Media Music     VINYL     LP   (Vinyl)
Number of records 2
To be released October 23, 2026
EAN/UPC 0881061359425
Label Music On Vinyl MOVLPB4173
Genre Rock
Dimensions 320 × 325 × 7 mm   ·   450 g

Track list

  1. 1.   LP  

    1. Things I Remember
    2. Hobo Blues
    3. Just for Fun
    4. I'm in Love
    5. Gin House Blues
    6. Desolation Blues
    7. Five Long Years
    8. Let's Make It

  2. 2.   LP  

    1. Stumble & Fall
    2. I'm So Restless
    3. L.s.d. (Got a Million Dollars (
    4. Your Body, Not Your Soul
    5. Back Home
    6. Sweet Mary
    7. You Don't Know
    8. Richard Cory
    9. Feeling Like a Suit-case
    10. Distant Smile
    11. Don't Know Which Way to Go
    12. The Sunshine of Your Shadow
    13. Crying Tears
    14. Nostalgic Toilet
    15. 116 a Queensway

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