2.Milk Cow's Calf Blues
3.Messin With The Kid
4.Divin Duck
5.You Don't Love Me Baby
6.Hippie Queen
7.Knock On Wood
8.Walk Tall
Personnel
Larry McCullough, guitar
Allen Gay, guitar
Harold Grieg ,bass
Lynn Anderson,drums
Recorded in 1968 Virginia,but only released in the last few years, this is a heavy blues psych fuzz rocker.
"Heres a new high quality,long lost,unreleased heavy blues psych LP,recorded in late 1968 in Baltimore,all previously unreleased material! Very limited edition,dont miss it! Label liner notes: "November 23rd,1968...The Bosom Blues Band-four fellows aged 18 to 22,entered Recordings Incorporated, a 4-track studio in Baltimore. Producer Martin Gary brought the guys up from Richmond, where hed found their live performances to be more exciting than any Rock band in town during the Sixties. The session was engineered by George Massenburg. These demos were laid down in one night, at a pace that would have drained the blood from most any white boy blues band.Some of this material is live, with no overdubs."Leavin Trunk", for example,is a raw, barely harnessed opener.The Bosom Blues Band usually called themselves The Bosom Blues.Under their skin they had heart and soul in spades.This demo session was booked to document their agility with various R&B styles, old and new. But things went further.The addition of saxophone on three (or four) of these cuts was not an attempt to add a gut bucket element to the proceedings.This sax man blows with a thermo-static arpeggio jazz approach thats more out than in. Avant-garde (the term really resonated at the time) alto makes their brand of rocking blues oscillate all the more. These often unconventional,always energized, personality plus performances got them face to face with the late Sam Charters, and an offer to join the roster of the iconic Vanguard Records.For reasons lost in time they turned it down, disbanding before 1969 was half way ended."In 1967 the Bosom Blues Band of Richmond,VA entered a local studio and recorded an album's worth of material.This psych-blues band, arising from the ashes of the popular Soothsayers, turned in an amazing selection of tunes,influenced by traditional blues,British rock,psychedelia and more.The following year the band auditioned for Vanguard Records, but the deal came to naught. And by 1969 the Bosom Blues band were no more, with their sole LP unheard until Arcania International included their song "Hippie Queen" on "Aliens, Psychos & Wild Things,Vol.3." Now the entire ouvre of this remarkable group is available once again.Richmond, VA, psych-blues outfit the Bosom Blues Band were led by singer/guitarist Larry McCullough,a local folkie who in 1966 was coaxed into joining the Soothsayers,a local combo influenced by the British beat boom and featuring guitarists Allen Gay and Duck Baker, bassist Harold Grieg, and drummer Dickie Parrish.As McCullough introduced his new bandmates to the original American R&B records that inspired their heroes, the Soothsayers honed an earthy yet epic sound inspired by both traditional blues and contemporary rock & roll-78 rpm collector Lynn Anderson soon replaced Parrish on drums, and after briefly moving to organ,Baker left the group altogether,later enjoying acclaim for his solo acoustic records.Following his departure,the Soothsayers renamed themselves the Bosom Blues Band, and in 1967 cut an LP's worth of material at the local Recordings Incorporated studio. The following year, they auditioned for Vanguard Records' Sam Charters, who offered a limited deal that the group rejected.The Bosom Blues Band dissolved soon after, with McCullough later resurfacing in Zion Crossroads. In 2003 the Bosoms' "Hippie Queen" finally saw release via the third volume in the excellent Aliens,Psychos & Wild Things series.
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