St. Steven, Over the Hills/The Bastich, rare psych,
$
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Description
St. Steven, 1969 release on Probe CPLP 4506. Cover is VG+. Vinyl is NM. This is from my personal collection. Excellent copy of a rare psych/progressive classic. I will take great care in shipping this to the winning bidder.
SAINT STEVEN Saint Steven, the brainchild of original Ultimate Spinach member Steven Cataldo, the album is split into 2 parts: 'Over The Hills' & 'The Bastich', and is a fine example of the psychedelic 'Boss Town' sound of 1969, emerging from Boston as a serious contender to the San Francisco Sound which was then dominant, and was conceived and recorded against the backdrop of social and political unrest of America in the late 1960’s.
1969 and psychedelia was in full swing. 19-year-old "St. Steven" Cataldo fresh off the bus from Massachusetts was snapped up by ABC's psychedelic label Probe (home to Soft Machine) within a week of his arrival in NYC. With the help of session musicians - the mixture of love songs and psychedelic protest songs that St. Steven had carefully pieced together on his acoustic guitar back in Cape Cod became the great American psychedelic masterwork that you find here.
Selections:
Over The Hills
1. Animal Hall
2. Gladacadova
3. Poor Small
4. Ay-Aye-Poe Day
5. Grey Skies
The Bastich
6. Bastich I
7. Voyage To Cleveland
8. Sun In The Flame
9. Bright Lights
10. Louisiana Home
11. Bastich II
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