Here’s an interesting album of folk blues with a tinge of country all played superbly by Frank Kinsel and various other famed musicians including Bill Wolfe (6 string guitar) Kevin Kelley (drums) Red Rhodes (steel guitar) and Wolfgang Melz (bass guitar).
My taster for the album is the loner vibration blues of ”Gamer.” This long player rarely turns up and not a great deal of information about it has ever surfaced. An obscure release on Epic.
The Monocled Alchemist
”There I was in the middle of the grey on beige fifties and my older brother was diggin’ Etta James singing ’Roll With Me Henry’ (Dance With Me Henry was the successful mass media cop out).
music as an expression
There was some kind of a beginning for me in music as an expression, feeling, or movement at that time. It was the only way out – or in. It was either tan shoes and a clean smile or a beer and a ’50 Merc.
Rhythm and Blues groups were a way of life and every party had a basement group composed of four or five guys who could carry on the most.
Detroit, I remember you. Expressways turned to freeways and time went by. Michigan, you looked very pretty when it snowed or when the sun set on your lakes. I sang songs for a while there: some were about you and some were about me, then I moved west.
California and San Francisco were like a new energy force that I hadn’t felt before, so I stayed and wrote and sang and experienced and experienced some more and came up with ideas to record. So I moved to the south into a somewhat populated city (plug for my new album) named Los Angeles.
This is a rather short summary of where I have been for awhile. If it seems incomplete, fill it in with your own life. Have a good day.”
by Frank Kinsel
Tracks
1. You Know Why (Part 1) - 0:13
2. Gamer - 3:00
3. Revelations 100 - 3:14
4. Have A Good Day - 2:08
5. Like A Child - 2:43
6. "1964" - 2:05
7. Sparrow - 3:38
8. Overpopulated City - 5:19
9. Good Life Folk Bossa #1 - 2:38
10.You Know Why (Part 2) - 2:07
11.White Port And Lemon Juice (Donald Woods, Randolph Bryant, Willie Graham) - 1:23
12.Sunni - 3:57
13.Long Tall Sally's Sister - 2:03
14.Hey Who's Been Talking To You - 3:22
15.Anger Epilogue - 0:43
All compositions by Frank Kinsel except track #11
Musicians
*Frank Kinsel - 12, 6 String Guitars, Vocals
*Jimmy Smith - 12, 6 String Guitars
*Grant Johnson - Piano
*Bill Wolfe - 6 String Guitar
*Wolfgang Melz - Bass
*Kevin Kelley - Drums
*Paul Humphrey - Drums
*Anne Goodman - Cello
*Red Rhodes - Steel Guitar
*Nick Ceroli - Drums
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