FRANKIE CARR'S ALL NATURAL BAND LP Tea Company psych
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Original 1977 low-budget private label pressing by Frankie Carr’s All Natural Band, on the Tribute label. You’d never know it by the cheesy album cover, or from the lack of (truthful) liner notes, or even from the year this rarity was pressed – but this album is actually a compilation of rare singles and possibly unreleased songs by the Naturals, who were the earlier garagier incarnation of the Tea Company (of “Come and Have Some Tea With” album fame). Now that WOULD be a mighty big draw for rabid psych and garage collectors like you and me, especially when you consider that original Naturals singles show up about as often as a thought-provoking Lindsay Lohan film. But whoever’s responsible for this album did their darndest to hide that fact, even going so far as to RE-NAME the songs! Some have suggested that this whole album was a tax scam – and that may be true, considering that the Naturals aren’t mentioned ONCE in the liner notes. At any rate, the Naturals MONSTER 1967 single “Maiden from the East” is here, retitled “I Believe” for some insane reason. It’s a KILLER song too, a superb slice of rumbling garage psychedelia that creeps in on a menacing bassline (like the Animals classic “If It’s the Last Thing We Ever Do”, for example), before exploding into a magnificent color wheel explosion of a chorus, like a manic cross between the Seeds “Better Listen, Girl” and the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Dead Kings, Many Things.” Sheer garage psych perfection, and you can already hear how close the band was to the trippy experimentation of the Tea Company. That single’s B-side, “Theme From A Natural”, is here too, once again inexplicably re-titled “Keep on Pushin’”, and it’s a nifty little Nuggets style frat rock rave-up where the band literally EXPLODES with garage soul power. Think the Premiers “I’m in Love with your Daughter” filtered through the Standells’ “ Boston, You’re My Home.” There are SIX more classic slabs of lo-fi garage psych on Side 1 as well, probably all by the same Naturals band, and probably all retitled – or in some cases, left off the label completely! The back cover lists 5 songs on Side 1 – there are eight. So unless you’re the original Naturals bassist and you’ve got a memory like a steel trap, your guess is as good as mine as to what these remaining six songs are REALLY called. The one listed as “Wait and See” is a classic teen garage punker, crude and lo-fi, dripping with sneering attitude – would’ve fit nicely on a Back From the Grave comp if someone would’ve gotten the title right. “She Leaves Me Flat” sounds like classic stormin’ Blues Magoos, locked in a closet and recorded from across the room. While the slow-burning “Love Makes the World Go Round” is their garage ballad, which breaks in the middle for a spoken word monologue that namechecks Lennon, McCartney and Dylan, and reminds me a lot of the Barbarians’ classic Nuggets favorite “One Armed Hook-Handed Drummer’s Tale”. It also seems to fade a little too early, not that I’d be shocked if the K-Tel flunkies who slapped this thing together didn’t simply run out of grooves. Now, as GREAT as the 8 primal garage punkers are on Side 1, Side 2 sounds like it was actually recorded in 1977 – possibly by the REAL Frankie Carr and the All-Natural Band, who don’t have nearly the talent as the original Naturals. Lyrics like “I love rock and roll, baby” should give you some idea of the middle-aged hipness quotient present here – bad 70’s boogie rock that somehow manages to make Foghat look like rock gods. Buy this thing for Side 1 alone – it’s worth it – a dream come true for garage and psych fans. Trust me, even the original members of the Tea Company don’t have some of these Naturals singles. But whoever put this thing together – whether it’s Frankie Carr or some deaf migrant farm worker – he did everything in his power to make sure no one ever bought it. It’s like releasing those Beatles Anthologies under the name Paul and the Lads, and then retitling all the familiar songs. “Lieutenant Chutney” anyone? Original 1977 pressing on the Tribute label. Album is still in the shrinkwrap, so cover’s in NEAR MINT shape, vinyl plays EXCELLENT.
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