Boa Constrictor and Natural Vine Promotional album vsd 6511 vangaurd apostolic

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Rare promotional copy - first and only album they did. vg+/near mint vinyl  excellent sleeve as well.

Boa Constrictor and Natural Vine - ST (1968)

Well my new computer has yet to arrive but I didn't want another week to go by without a post--and really folks this one was too good to hold onto. Boa Constrictor and Natural Vine were a psych-folk duo who recorded this, their sole record, for Vanguard Apostolic. Given the current vogue for acid-folk I'm suprised this one is not better known. It has all the elements one looks for in that genre and few others as well. There are some really deranged, acid-drenched compositions like Devil & the Ace of Spades (with its backward tape loops, mornful sax, and downer guitar strumming) as well as dissonant, freaky, rocking, blues numbers like Time is Money. Their music, while it owes something to other folk-experimentalists from the late 60s is also inspired by classic, country blues and at times they come off as a sort of hippie ancestor of garage-blues-rock duos like the Bassholes or Black Keys.
The artist who did the cover, Phoebe Stone, went on to some success as a children's book author & illustrator. Unfortunately I don't know what happened to George & Ben, who recorded this masterpiece. Speaking of the cover, you might notice an ebay logo in the bottom corner. I actually grabbed this illustration off the Rate Your Music site and they stole it from ebay. Just to set the record straight. Tracklist Side A 1. Little David 2. Pig Quick-Finger 3. Devil & the Ace of Spades 4. Son of Kong 5. Down Child Side B 6. Time is Money 7. Alligator Man 8. Sundown Stick 9. Don't Try To Hide from the Lightning 10. Build Your Wall The record is ripped from vinyl and encoded at variable bitrate-extreme settings. Because most of the tracks run together it was sometimes difficult to clearly seperate 2 tracks & in a couple of cases I left them combined rather than compromising the integrity of the sound. There was also some soft crackle and surface noise on the record that I wasn't able to clean up (it's actually much easier to deal with sharp clicks and pops) and so it remains in places. ****Credit to "Play it again Max".

On Apr-17-12 at 16:47:59 PDT, seller added the following information:

Note: Picture appearing in the description area is NOT the actual album I am selling- this pic appeared with the article. The picture in the auction listing WITH THE PROMOTIONAL STICKER IS THE ONE I HAVE.