LEWIS AND CLARKE EXPEDITION s/t V Rare Orig US 1967 Pop Psych LP on Colgems
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Lewis And Clarke Expedition
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Very Rare original US LP released on Colgems Records in 1967. 1st US pressing.
The Lewis & Clarke Expedition's sole, obscure LP is remembered mostly for its strong connections to the Monkees (particularly Mike Nesmith), and for including Michael Martin Murphey (going by name of Travis Lewis here) in their lineup before he'd started his solo career. Actually, however, it's not too similar musically either to the Monkees or to the cowboy music for which Murphey would become most known. Instead, it's a very mixed bag of 1967 pop/rock, some of it fairly good, but more often dated and jumbled in conception and execution. There's really not a whole lot of folk-rock or country-rock here, and though "Destination Unknown" sounds a little like a Buffalo Springfield outtake, if you want something that sounds like a cross between the Springfield and the Monkees, you'd be much better off with the Penny Arkade (another band with strong Nesmith connections). Often the group plumb for a happy, good-time pop/rock sound, but their material in that vein isn't so strong; the production is cluttered with too many gimmicky period flourishes, most disagreeably when vaudevillian touches are used, and the attempts at wry, humorous social observation (especially in "Chain Around the Flowers") are almost painfully strained. Other more impressive, ambitious tracks almost sound like a completely different band, with "House of My Sorrow" opting for earnest psychedelic raga-rock, and the seven-minute suite "Memorial to the American" attempting, nobly but not wholly successfully, to lament the struggle of the Native American. In yet entirely different bags, the party tune "I Feel Good (I Feel Bad)" sounds like a Tremeloes hit that never was. The gorgeous folk-psych rocker "Blue Revelation," with its enchanting reverbed guitar and harmonies, is easily the album's highlight, and had even some of the rest of the LP lived up to that cut's promise, it would make for a much more interesting and consistent listen.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Windy Day
Freedom Bird
Spirit Of Argyle High
This Town Ain’t The Same
Everybody Loves A Fire
House Of My Sorrow
I Feel Good (I Feel Bad)
Side Two
1. (I Call Them) Lies
Destination Unknown
Chain Around The Flowers
Blue Revelations
Memorial To The American Indian: I. Legend Of The Creation II. Send Me Rain III. Red Cloud’s Farewell To His Tribe IV. (The Lament) The Cherokee Reservation Indian
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Released on Colgems Records in 1967
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Catalogue Number COS-105
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Record is in Ex + condition (couple of light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition (some browning on the back)
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