SCARCE ex CHARLATANS 1968 ORIG TONGUE AND GROOVE Lynne Hughes SF PSYCH

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 1968 ORIGINAL SAN FRANCISCO ex CHARLATANS HIPPIE SOUND

           .... TONGUE and GROOVE ....                

           USA - FONTANA RECORDS - SRF 67953 "playable on mono equipment"

CLEAN 1968 ORIGINAL first pressing in thick unipac gatefold cover...one of the strong but obscure San Francisco Sound hippie bands -- ne that contained mike Ferguson, original member of the CHARLATANS and the dynamic talents of LYNN HUGHES on vocals...

TONGUE & GROOVE was an interesting blues-rock outfit that was in some respects an offshoot of the legendary Charlatans in that it included knock-out vocalist Lynn Hughes and the Charlatans original keyboard player (and one the first Haight-Ashbury scenesters) Mike Ferguson, who also did the album's cover artwork. The group was completed by competent guitarist Randy Lewis, and they recorded their eponymous LP with a host of session musicians, including Charlatans bassist Richard Olsen on some tracks. Tongue and Groove is for those who like West Coast rock with a strong roots influence, this is still mighty fine and definitely worth acollecting. The cuts where Ferguson is lead singer - "Mailman's Sack," "The Shadow Knows" (which is actually better than the version he did with the Charlatans), "Motorhead Baby," and "Fallin' Apart" (written by one-time Charlatans bandmate Dan Hicks) - are inferior what with his vocals, although the musicianship of the instrumentalists are great on all of the tracks. If nothing else, "Sack" can be enjoyed as a studio mini-jam, for example. However, the tracks with Lynn Hughes at the helm are absolutely superb and evidence that white musicians can occasionally do some wonderful things when reinterpreting the blues. "Devil" is a gender-inverted cover of Skip James' "Devil Got My Woman" and imaginatively reworks the arrangement used for her earlier version recorded with The Charlatans in 1966. "Come on in My Kitchen" features considerably different lyrics than Robert Johnson's original as well as some heavenly dobro from James Burton. "Cherry Ball" seems to be based on Mance Lipscomb's rendition of this song, and the consensus among most critics is that this is the album's best performance -- especially when one considers Hughes' sultry vocals, Lewis' ringing guitar lines, Ferguson's barrelhouse-derived keys fills, and the rhythm section's snappy time signatures. This is white blues at its best. "Sidetrack" is another revisitation of a piece previously done with the Charlatans, this time a big band interpretation of a Jimmy Rodgers tune where the backing section actually adds to the performance instead of detracting from it. "Duncan & Brady" is a nice take on the old rural tune that apparently had been a staple in Hughes' sets at the legendary Red Dog Saloon, while "Rocks for My Pillow" may have been something she had learned from Brownie McGhee during her coffeehouse singing days.

Lynn Hughes went on to do an album under her own name, Freeway Gypsy, as well as becoming a vocalist for Stoneground, although Tongue and Groove and her work with the Charlatans remain her career high points.

1. Devil
2. Come on in My Kitchen
3. Mailman's Sack
4. Cherry Ball (Shake Shake Mama)
5. The Shadow Knows
6. Sidetrack
7. Motorhead Baby
8. Duncan & Brady
9. Rocks for My Pillow (Livin' with the Blues)
10. Fallin' Apart

CONDITION: The cover: The old style unipack cover is ultimately solid, the front is more clean than the overall "EX" (excellent) as there is a small bb delete at top left....strong copy!

The vinyl: glossy over both sides, aside from some very minor insignificant soft hair scuffs, it is clean "EX" (excellent)  and plays in the excellent audio zones - pretty nice for a 44 year old relic of the San Francisco sound hippie era....

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record