"Cruel World” was recorded in the Mississippi Hill Country, with the rhythm section of Leon Wingfield and Les Chishom, who also kicked in some vocals on this one. A slide number with deep-throated vocal delivery, about the ever present “killer on the highway,” set to a pumping, insistent riff (a nod to The Yardbirds and Mick Ronson), with a savage slide part, to have the song exist raw and pure in it’s form.

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