MINTY RARE '68 ORIG ALEXANDERS TIMELESS BLUES FOR SALE Calif Hippie Psych
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! MINTY CLEAN - FINAL COLLECTION COPY!
1968 Electric Blues Psych Collectible!
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ALEXANDERS TIMELESS BLUES BAND
FOR SALE
\ USA - UNI RECORDS - 73021
AMAZINGLY CLEAN (M-) ....SCARCE 1968 ORIGINAL...the second and last album by this California blues psych band. Their 1967 first album on the private "SMACK" label is a highly sought & expensive collectible ...A year later ALEXANDERS TIMELESS BLUES BAND were signed to the major label UNI Records...
This is a very intriguing release from Alexander's (San Diego-California) Timeless Bloozband. Seriously, this has got to be one of the best record sleeves of all time ala San Francisco hippie era poster art. Great colors and a wonderful image of the sad-eyed lady in the wicker chair with the band's name spelled out in psychedelic letters-- "timeless", indeed!
Well, the music here does start off in fine fashion with a hard blues titled "Love So Strong", which apparently was the single though it never charted. This winning number segues nicely into the album's real highlight, the jazzy "Horn Song", which musically is very much in line with what bands like The Electric Flag were doing at the time. (We'll call it psychedelic jazz blues, for lack of a better term.) The lyrics on this one are delivered at a rapid pace and contain a well-worded, anti-authoritarian message very much in line with the prevailing cynical mindset of your average 1968 street urchin. A fantastic song that would make great fodder for any forward-thinking late-60's compilationist.
Instrumentally, their line-up consisted of a vocalist who also plays the blues harp and flute, lead guitar (very Mike Bloomfield-esque), electric piano, bass and drums. As mentioned previously, tight musicianship is the order of the day, and the album sounds as if it was recorded live in the studio.
For a good summation of what the Bloozband were about, one could use the song "Swanannoa Tunnel" which takes the traditional blues form and re-works it into something quite new (for its time) via haunting wordless backing vocals and rapid-fire drumming. There's even a bit of harp/ guitar duetting going on at the end here. Songwise, "Swanannoa" definitely seems like it may have been the band's on-stage highlight. Sadly, this promising track is immediately followed by a number called "Rosie" which, contains some interesting percussion overdubs and a flute solo, reeks badly of the overbearing faux-soulfulness that was happening in rock music around 1968-69. Nice recovery is the ballad "Front Man"; apparently the tale of a groupie soliciting an autograph from an illiterate rock star. And so it goes... Despite their moniker, the Bloozband were really better at this sort of psych/ jazz rock sound then they were at the straight blues stuff.
Much of the album's second side it bears mention that the playing here is quite fine. The drummer in particular impresses, and another cool link remains the vocalist, who while adequate on the mellower stuff highlights as a classic blues howler -- "Rosie", "Darlin'" and "Help Me".
Alexander's Timeless Bloozband were definitely a second-tier act in the face of such heavy competition as The Doors, Yardbirds or The Electric Flag (to name three bands similar in mood and approach). Yet nevertheless they were still a crack band who contributed one stone cold classic to the pantheon in "Horn Song". Recommended For Sale to fans of the sixties' blues rock and psych.
Love So Strong
Horn Song
Plastic Is Organic
Swannoa Tunnel
Rosie
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Front Man
Tight Rope Walker
Life
Darlin'
Help Me
Firefly
CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- solid & thick colorful cardboard cover, the seams are extremely strong, 100% flat & square with 4 sharp corners. Additionally the colors are bright, no bends, no seam splits, no writing, no delete marks...top copy
The vinyl: visual rating: M- smooth and clear visually and plays with minty clean audio ...) Both "UNI" labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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