"Black Magic Woman" b/w "The Sun Is Shining" by Fleetwood Mac (CBS 3138)

Never understood why this single wasn't a hit and a few years later Santana's inferior cover was. I tried and tried for hours to copy the riff that ended each verse, but I didn't manage. It wasn't until a few years ago I found out that Peter Green used Dropped-D tuning: the low E string of his guitar was tuned down a full step, making the low note of the riff a D............. Green later admitted this song was heavily influenced by Otis Rush. He had of course played several Rush songs in The Bluesbreakers. The starting lick of the solo sounds like the solo of "All your love".
Flipside was one of Jeremy Spencer's better Elmore James covers. But apart from the tempo it was the same old song.
Rating: ****