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Heimatliche Klaenge vol.139
Posted: 16 Dec 2012 03:01 AM PST
http://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2012/12/heimatliche-klaenge-vol139.html
Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Labels Native Sounds - German
Record-Labels
vol.139 NON-EFFECTIVES Gotteslob mit 200 Watt(Quadriga Ton Studio
Union Qu 562)
01 - Schwarzer Himmel02 - Dead And Street03 - Soviel Menschen seh ich
gehn04 - Diesen Punkt hab ich erreicht
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Hickory Wind - Hickory Wind (1969)
Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:59 AM PST
http://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2012/12/hickory-wind-hickory-wind-1969.html
The Indiana band Hickory Wind made just one self-titled album in 1969,
pressed in a run of 100 copies. The record's a strange, amateurish, yet
intermittently tuneful blend of teen pop, garage rock, psychedelia, and
country-rock, sung in a fashion that makes it uncertain whether the record
was a low-key joke or a naïvely earnest effort to do the best they could.
The band later changed its name to B.F. Trike and recorded an unreleased
album for RCA in Nashville in the early '70s, though it was eventually
issued on a small collector label in the late '80s. This Hickory Wind, by
the way, is not the same as the folk group named Hickory Wind that recorded
for Flying Fish in the late '70s.
Just 100 copies of this album were pressed originally making it extremely
rare.Like many a late-'60s album pressed in extremely minute quantities,
Hickory Wind's self-titled record is a mighty odd bird. It's not so much
that any one song is weird. It's more the cumulative effect of the record,
in which the band not only don't seem to be seriously pursuing one
direction in particular, but don't seem to be particularly serious about
pursuing anything. The nonchalant, naive, slightly off-key way they trundle
through this mixture of garage rock, country-rock, and melodramatic teen
pop almost gives the impression of B-grade session players recruited to
record an exploitation album. It's not nearly as bad as that comment might
indicate; actually, there's a fair amount of charm that bleeds through,
almost in spite of itself. Their vocals and harmonies are engagingly
tremulous, the production refreshingly lo-fi. And there are some rather
good songs here, particularly the country-rockish "The Loner," which sounds
almost like a youthfully naive attempt to emulate early Neil Young (and
it's entirely unrelated to the Young tune of the same name); "Country Boy,"
which comes as close as any song here to being a normal solid late-'60s
country/psychedelic rocker; the waltz-like organ swirls of "Father Come
with Me"; and "Judy" and "I Don't Believe," which are yearning teen garage
pop. This is broken up, though, by the is-this-a-joke-or-what "Mr. Man," a
melodramatic recitation that sounds as if the band were trying to make fun
of solemn religious devotional records. It's hardly great, but it's worth
hearing if you enjoy quirky collisions of garage rock and late-'60s
psychedelia.
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Heimatliche Klaenge vol.139
Posted: 16 Dec 2012 03:01 AM PST
http://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2012/12/heimatliche-klaenge-vol139.html
Heimatliche Klaenge - Deutsche Schallplatten-Labels Native Sounds - German
Record-Labels
vol.139 NON-EFFECTIVES Gotteslob mit 200 Watt(Quadriga Ton Studio
Union Qu 562)
01 - Schwarzer Himmel02 - Dead And Street03 - Soviel Menschen seh ich
gehn04 - Diesen Punkt hab ich erreicht
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Hickory Wind - Hickory Wind (1969)
Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:59 AM PST
http://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2012/12/hickory-wind-hickory-wind-1969.html
The Indiana band Hickory Wind made just one self-titled album in 1969,
pressed in a run of 100 copies. The record's a strange, amateurish, yet
intermittently tuneful blend of teen pop, garage rock, psychedelia, and
country-rock, sung in a fashion that makes it uncertain whether the record
was a low-key joke or a naïvely earnest effort to do the best they could.
The band later changed its name to B.F. Trike and recorded an unreleased
album for RCA in Nashville in the early '70s, though it was eventually
issued on a small collector label in the late '80s. This Hickory Wind, by
the way, is not the same as the folk group named Hickory Wind that recorded
for Flying Fish in the late '70s.
Just 100 copies of this album were pressed originally making it extremely
rare.Like many a late-'60s album pressed in extremely minute quantities,
Hickory Wind's self-titled record is a mighty odd bird. It's not so much
that any one song is weird. It's more the cumulative effect of the record,
in which the band not only don't seem to be seriously pursuing one
direction in particular, but don't seem to be particularly serious about
pursuing anything. The nonchalant, naive, slightly off-key way they trundle
through this mixture of garage rock, country-rock, and melodramatic teen
pop almost gives the impression of B-grade session players recruited to
record an exploitation album. It's not nearly as bad as that comment might
indicate; actually, there's a fair amount of charm that bleeds through,
almost in spite of itself. Their vocals and harmonies are engagingly
tremulous, the production refreshingly lo-fi. And there are some rather
good songs here, particularly the country-rockish "The Loner," which sounds
almost like a youthfully naive attempt to emulate early Neil Young (and
it's entirely unrelated to the Young tune of the same name); "Country Boy,"
which comes as close as any song here to being a normal solid late-'60s
country/psychedelic rocker; the waltz-like organ swirls of "Father Come
with Me"; and "Judy" and "I Don't Believe," which are yearning teen garage
pop. This is broken up, though, by the is-this-a-joke-or-what "Mr. Man," a
melodramatic recitation that sounds as if the band were trying to make fun
of solemn religious devotional records. It's hardly great, but it's worth
hearing if you enjoy quirky collisions of garage rock and late-'60s
psychedelia.