Actually, 50 Years Ago
Just released from found reel to reel tapes of the band's only album, the backstory is a familiar one of missing the moment through a combination of factors, most significantly the death of guitarist Billy Dean Andrus. That was 1968, and for this California psychedelic/folk group, all the wonderful sounds of that time (and area) are in the collection of songs, including demos. There is the occasional heavy journey, and echoes of Jefferson Airplane, but mostly it is the soft harmonies and winsome lyrics of west coast melody that permeates. A fine mix of psychedelia and the harmonious is in Burgandy and Yellow, its haunting intro breaking like a wave onto the song's Tim Buckley-esque vocal, another wave then breaking climatically into that JA soundscape. Loving it.
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