Album 1. Track 7. Backwater Blues

Those Who Are About To Dive with Dr. Glund · Mar 3, 2026 · 45m

THIS EPISODE:“Backwater Blues” — Track 7 from Colosseum’s 1969 debut Those Who Are About to Die Salute You.Chaz and Dr. Glund return to the altar of Volume and place upon it a seven-and-a-half-minute slab of unapologetic British blues. “Backwater Blues” is not here to charm you with pop efficiency or tidy radio edits. It settles in. It stretches out. It reminds the listener that in 1968 London, the blues was not an affectation, it was oxygen. Yeah bay bee.This is identified, without hesitation, as perhaps the bluesiest track on the record — the sort of cut that, on a “traditional” album…