rep>>> Various Artists - Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (1966-68 us, great texas psychedelic brands)

By the time 1966 ended, many of the groups in Texas that started out playing British Invasion and folk-rock music, were now immersing themselves in the newly emerging psychedelic music. The five groups that comprise this album reflect the changes that occurred during this period and four of them even changed their names to sound more psychedelic.  The Nomads became Smoke, Carrols Mood became The Sights And Sounds, The New Imperials became The Front Page News, and The Boys became The Remaining Few.

Represented by twelve tracks on this album, The Nomads/Smoke, started out playing folk-rock music, but by 1967 went psychedelic-as witnessed by their “freak-out” version of “My Little Red Book” replete with backwards tapes. “Carrols Mood” went from singing ballads to surreal songs such as “Mystical Bells”. 

The Front Page News went from the soul of “Baby Let Me Bang Your Box” to the fuzz drenched “Thoughts and Afterthoughts”.  If the 13th Floor Elevators were the epitome of what a Texas psychedelic band was, then the groups on this album were not far behind in trying to emulate that state of existence. Here then are twenty-two tracks compiling the changes that occurred from late 1966 to 1968, when the Texas bands went metaphorically speaking from “Kool-Aid” to “Electric Kool-Aid Acid”.  

Cicadelic

Tracks - Artists
1. What You're Doing to Me (Previously Unreleased Mix) - Carrols Mood - 3:47
2. Out She Goes (Previously Unreleased Mix) - Carrols Mood - 2:30
3. I'll Be There (Single Master) - The Nomads - 2:39
4. I Walk Alone (Single Master) - The Nomads - 2:26
5. Thoughts (Previously Unreleased Mix) - The Front Page News - 3:09
6. My Little Red Book (Unreleased Master) - The Nomads - 1:58
7. Situations - The Nomads - 2:45
8. Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (Single Master) - The Nomads - 3:22
9. The New Generation (Previously Unreleased Mix) - The Rebellers - 2:45
10.Mainstream (Single Master) - The Smoke - 2:35
11.Church House Blues (Single Master) - The Smoke - 3:28
12.Painted Air - The Remaining Few - 3:37
13.In the Morning - The Remaining Few - 2:40
14.Mystical Bells (Unreleased Master) - The Sights And Sounds - 3:28
15.You Keep Me Hangin' On (Unreleased Master) - The Sights And Sounds - 2:49
16.I Walk Alone (Previously Unreleased Mix) - Carrols Mood - 3:02
17.Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (Take 1) - The Nomads - 2:33
18.Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (Take 2) - The Nomads - 2:50
19.Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (Take 3) - The Nomads - 3:26
20.Three O'Clock Merrian Webster Time (Take 4) - The Nomads - 3:23
21.My Little Red Book (Previously Unreleased Alternate Mix) - The Nomads - 1:56
22.Out She Goes (Alternate Version) - The Sights And Sounds - 2:29

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rep>>> The Stroke Band - Green And Yellow (1978 us, exciting art punk power rock, 2014 edition)

Green And Yellow is the collected recordings of legendary lost 1970s Deep South freaksters, THE STROKE BAND. Seen and heard, until now, by only a few South Georgia pot heads, rednecks, sheriffs, strippers, and intoxicated U.S. Marines. Fronted by Bruce Joyner – a swamp rat synthesis of Buddy Holly, Bryan Ferry and Jerry Lee Lewis – The Stroke Band were an art-punk aberration to anything else happening in South Georgia in 1978 – 79. This Anthology Recordings re-release of the Green and Yellow album is the first in any form since the private press LP came out in 1978. The Green And Yellow digital and CD releases include the original Green And Yellow album; plus the band’s only live performance at Joe’s Cellar – a notorious strip club in Albany, Georgia; and a set of demos and psychotic improvs from their Cork House headquarters in Valdosta.

Singer and band leader Bruce Joyner, who signed to Sire Records with The Unknowns in 1981 and has released several acclaimed solo albums since 1983; Don Fleming, guitarist for the Stroke Band, who went on to front his own bands Velvet Monkeys and Gumball, and produced albums for Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Hole, Screaming Trees, Andrew W.K.; Mark Neill, guitarist for The Stroke Band and The Unknowns, who is a renowned recording producer and engineer, in 2011 he won a Grammy for his production of the Black Keys Brothers album; and Green And Yellow album producer Robert Lester Folsom, whose own album Music and Dreams from 1976.

Mexican-Summer

Tracks

1. Don't Get Angry (Bruce Joyner) - 2:51

2. Green And Yellow (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Sikes, Rusty Jones) - 2:42

3. Fiction/Non-Fiction (Don Fleming) - 2:54

4. Spaced (Bruce Joyner) - 2:49

5. Gun Fighting Man (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Sikes, Rusty Jones) - 3:40

6. Rat Race (Bruce Joyner, Rusty Jones) - 2:53

7. Janie's Linving In A Cell (Don Fleming) - 2:29

8. Son Of Sam (Bruce Joyner, Rusty Jones) - 2:32

9. Latin Melodies (Bruce Joyner) - 2:47

10.The Waves Rush In (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Sikes, Rusty Jones) - 5:32

11.Jesus In A Trenchcoat - 5:39

12.Don't Get Angry (Bruce Joyner) - 2:44

13.Green And Yellow (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Sikes, Rusty Jones) - 2:42

14.Damn! Bam! (Don Fleming) - 2:05

15.Rock Star (Brian Crawford, Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 3:59

16.Spaced (Bruce Joyner) - 2:52

17.At The Hop (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 1:10

18.White Trash Girls (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 2:19

19.Screamin' In The Middle Of A Dark Room (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 4:35

20.The Songsters (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 3:14

21.Rhodesian Love Song (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 5:42

22.The Law Is Watching You (Bruce Joyner, Don Fleming, Max Sikes) - 5:32

Personnel
*Bruce Joyner - Vocals, Synthesizers, Percussion
*Don Fleming - Guitar, Bass, Synthesizers, Percussion
*Rusty Jones - Guitar, Bass
*Robert Folsom - Acoustic Guitar, Moog, Percussion
*Max Sikes - Drums
*Alva Dickerson - Guitar
*Danny Heitzhausen - Bass
*Jerry Williams - Moog

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