GROETEN UIT GROLLOO / SOUL
(1967)

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Another day, another road (Brood/Muskee) The big bell (Eddy Boyd) Somebody will know someday (Gelling/Muskee) So many roads (Harry Muskee) King of the world (John Lee Hooker) Baby please don't go (Big Joe Williams) No shoes (John Lee Hooker) Another land (Gelling/Muskee)

"Greetings from Grolloo"
(a sphere-impression)

Greetings from Grolloo !

It is nice and quiet here and the evening sun shines merrilly.

I am writing a postcard, while I am lovely sitting on a tree stump.
In front of me there is a country road , flanked by some bony farms.
A lonely farmer walks trudging to the horizon.
On the land a ploughing figure.
The sultry wind carries soundrags along my ear.
I take the spy-glass and peer to the field.
Cuby is singing. The birds hold their breath and the sun is sinking
meditating on the other regions, that Cuby's songs tell about.
Herman is sitting gruffly and silently in front of his farm, staring at the peaceful scene.
He smokes his knotty pipe and is feeling united with his land.
Hans drops the pitch fork and Willy stalks the chickens in the chicken-house, so that the silence is tangible.
Cuby's singing becomes more clearly audible. It seems as the wind unperceived has turned for sending the melancholic sounds in the direction of the farm.
Eelco stands up, spits a powerful jet of tobacco juice on the farmyard and gets the guitar out of the house.
A strange beautiful music revives.
Cuby lets the work on the field be, a long working day is over. He is singing.
Somewhere in the evening sky, laden with smell, Eelco's guitar and Cuby's voice meet.
The Blizzards too take out their instruments.
According Cuby comes near the house, the music becomes louder and clearer.
Girls stop , housewives leave the laundering in the tub.
The host opens the door ajar and the sexton forget to ring the bell.
It's lovely here.

Willem de Ridder

The slipcover of the album "Groeten uit Grolloo" and the impression above on the backside of the cover shows the own style of the music of C+B in the sixties.
The music, which is grafted on the "Black Blues", is created by a band, that denies its origins from Drenthe.

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In Germany LP "Greetings from Grolloo" appeared by name "Soul", a real collectors item. (coverimg. Roel Goudkamp)