Alexander's Timeless Bloozband - For Sale 1968 (USA, Psychedelic / Blues Rock)
The second and last LP group from California. Both the album was produced by Tony Cary. The first track of the album, Hard Blues "Love So Strong", was released as a single in 1967, but did not hit the charts. All songs on the album wrote Charles Lamont. In 1969, he released his solo album "A Legend In His Own Time" ...
From the psychedelic cover to the offbeat band moniker to the zany instrumentation -- flute, baroque horns -- just holding, never mind listening to, the album has the power to transport you to a hippie crash pad circa 1969. The songs themselves do their best to evoke the sounds of the day: "Love So Strong" is vintage Byrds, "Horn Song" takes its cue from Love, and the blues romp of "Help Me" is all Eric Burdon sass and swagger.
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". Therefore, I recommended For Sale to fans of the sixties' blues rock and psych.
Tracks:
01. Love So Strong - 2:19
02. Horn Song - 3:34
03. Plastic Is Organic - 2:38
04. Swannanoa Tunnel - 3:55
05. Rosie - 2:44
06. Front Man - 2:59
07. Tight Rope Walker - 3:22
08. Life - 3:30
09. Darlin '- 2:38
10. Help Me - 4:38
11. Firefly - 2:21
Personnel:
Charles Lamont - keyboards, bass, guitar, French horn, harmonica, vocals
Carl Lockhart - keyboards, bass, alto saxophone, vocals
Larry Marks - harmonica, trombone, vocals
Dennis Geaney - guitar, bass
Spencer Conway - drums
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