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“In 1966, famed lead guitarist Rod Prince (later of Bubble Puppy) re-wrote the 13th Floor Elevators’ song ‘Tried To Hide’ as ‘All Night Long’ and released it with the Bad Seeds as their third single. They were the number one band at the time in Corpus Christi. Although ‘All Night Long’ would beat ...

In February of 1969, Johnny Winter signed with Columbia Records for a record sum of $500,000 and gained worldwide fame seemingly overnight (even though his recording career started in 1959). An ensuing rush to cash in on Winter’s fame resulted in countless hodge-podge compilations of his pre-Columbia recordings with inferior sounding dubs and ...

Piano Slim—Willard Burton of Houston, Texas—played with legendary musicians such as TBone Walker, Johnny Winter, Johnny Copeland, and Bobby “Blue” Bland; even so, he is often confused with another Piano Slim, Robert T. Smith. While Willard Burtons’ recording career lasted nearly thirty years, this compilation concentrates on his solo outings from 1959 to 1962, ...

“Briefly, the regular ictus of a reverberating guitar and a low industrial hum float in, giving way to an insistent propulsive two-chord drive. Huge buzz saw bass churns its way through this heavy-progressive tune, all stern Fripp-ian chord changes and driving insistency, amidst the primal guitar sludge. Seompi then deliver the line that ...

Since their arrival on the music scene in 1965, the mystique of The JuJus and their lead singer, Ray Hummel, has continued to grow — helped along by the inclusion of ‘You Treat Me Bad’ on the first volume of Pebbles in 1979. That song, their first single, rose to the number two ...

A heavy, oft-sampled slab of Bay Area history, and a psych funk masterpiece that cannot be denied.Aura formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the bandrecorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo. The original title of thealbum was meant to ...

“We’re not evil, but we do evil things. Anything to blow society’s mind. When we play, we take people’s brains out and then put them back in. A dry-cleaning job,’ said the Fallen Angels lead singer and songwriter, Jack Bryan, in an interview with the short-lived Dapper Magazine in 1968. Since that time ...

In 1965, the Outcasts entered Texas Sound Studios to cut their debut single, the self-released ballad “Nothing Comes Easy” — the record is perhaps most notable because it was written and produced by Mike Post, the future composer of hit TV themes including Hill Street Blues, Magnum P.I., and The A-Team. Post, then ...

“There were vigorous garage band scenes all over the U.S. in the mid-’60s as young musicians, inspired by the British Invasion sounds of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, and the Kinks, picked up electric guitars and had at it, usually resulting in music that was more about attitude and ...

In 1966, Dallas was a Mecca for great bands and two of the best, The Exotics and The Esquires, are included on this album. The Exotics began as a rock and roll band in 1959, but by 1966 were recording psych-pop and folk-rock gems. They released three singles, one of them, ‘Come With ...

Another terrific Cicadelic label garage rock collection — truly excellent. The label says: “From 1965 to 1967, McAllen was the happening scene for some of the wildest music to emanate from Texas in the 60’s. The label that played host to these bands was Jimmy Nichol’s Pharaoh Records and this album contains the ...

“The Mad Hatters Meet The Fallen Angels” (CICD 986); UPC: 619981331128:In the course of one year (1965), the Mad Hatters released three stunningly great singles: ‘I Need Love,’ ‘Go Find a Love’ and ‘I’ll Come Running’ — all with Dylan-esque/PF Sloan-ish sounding folk-rock songs as the B-sides. Mad Hatter live shows were ...

If the 13th Floor Elevators were the epitome of what a Texas psychedelic band was, then the groups on this album were not far behind in trying to emulate that state of existence. Here then are twenty-two tracks compiling the changes that occurred from late 1966 to 1968, when the Texas bands went ...

SUNSET LOVE + INNER SANCTUM “Psychedelic Moods, Part Two”Had Sunset Love released their album in the 60’s, there is no doubt it would have been an instant classic. In the fall of 1968, thirteen original songs and two covers were recorded by Sunset Love for a potential album, but nothing was ever ...

ThunderBünny is the creation (and possibly alter ego?) of two‐time Grammy Award–winning Michael Saint‐Leon. The music is classic blues rock with a psychedelic edge. Michael’s songs run the gamut from bad love gone worse (“Driving to Tecopa”), to a prescription for dealing with the contemporary malaise (“Sleeping Pill”), to an epic journey across ...