Al's Big Deal – Unclaimed Freight
Al's Big Deal – Unclaimed Freight is a compilation album by American musician Al Kooper. It was released as a double-LP in 1975. Background. After seven years in the music industry, Columbia Records released a retrospective compilation of Kooper's music from 1968-1975. The two-disc set includes five songs from the first Blood, Sweat and Tears album, "Child Is Father to the Man"; two from "Super Session" with Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills; a cut from Bob Dylan's "New Morning" album which Kooper produced and played piano; two cuts from  The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper; a long jam with guitarist Shuggie Otis from "Kooper Session" and six titles from four of his first six solo albums. It does not include any cuts from his 1966 album with The Blues Project. The album was released in the midst of Kooper's involvement with Lynyrd Skynyrd, during which time he did no solo recording. This album was Kooper's last Columbia release until "Championship Wrestling" in 1982. Notes. The 1989 single-CD version of the album omitted the Blood, Sweat and Tears tracks "My Days Are Numbered", "Without  Her", "So Much Love/Underture" and the solo track "I Got a Woman", and added a remixed version of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" from his 1982 album "Championship Wrestling". It also contained a completely different track order from the original LP.