CALIFORNIA POPPY PICKERS HONKY TONK WOMEN RARE 1969 LP

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THE CALIFORNIA POPPY PICKERS

"HONKY TONK WOMEN"  1969 US ALSHIRE STEREO S-5167!

SUB-TITLED "BLUE-EYED SOUL" THIS IS SUPERB PSYCH & SOUL WITH FUZZ GUITAR & SUPERB PERFORMANCES, EVEN AN EARLY PROGRESSIVE ROCK TRACK, "SABRE DANCE". 

The California Poppy Pickers were one of several relatively anonymous studio projects assembled by Alshire label head Al Sherman to record budget-priced copycat LPs of '60's pop hits. Virtually all of the groups in question -- Fats and the Chessmen, Los Norte Americanos, and the Bakersfield Five, among them -- were helmed by producer and songwriter Gary Paxton, best-known for composing the novelty smash "The Monster Mash." In 1965, Paxton founded his own Hollywood recording studio, assembling a session crew that variously included guitarist Clarence White, bassist Jerry Scheff, and guitarist/fiddler Gib Guilbeau -- he also discovered brothers Rex and Vern Gosdin, releasing their country hit "Hangin' On" on his Bakersfield International label. By the late 1960s, Paxton was regularly licensing material to Alshire, and at Sherman's request, he put together the California Poppy Pickers to capitalize on the growing country-rock trend. Comprised of singers/multi-instrumentalists Ken Johnson and Dennis Payne, along with pedal steel guitarist Leo LeBlanc, the group released three 1969 LPs -- Sounds of '69, Hair/Aquarius, and Today's Chart Busters -- comprised primarily of covers and thinly-veiled rewrites. For reasons unknown, the fourth and final California Poppy Pickers album, "Honky Tonk Women", was recorded without Paxton's involvement, and featured an entirely different lineup -- singer/guitarist Mike Messer, singer/bassist Don Larson, guitarist Randy Wilcox, and drummer Tom Slipp were, in reality, a Christian rock band called The Wilson McKinley, and they used the proceeds from their lone Alshire date to fund a self-released 1970 date titled Jesus People's Army.

CONDITION DETAILS:

• COVER HAS LIGHT SHELF WEAR AND SOME LIGHT MOISTURE STAINS ALONG THE SPINE AND LOWER SPINE CORNER OF THE COVER WHICH IS SLIGHTLY WARPED, MINOR
• CLEAN LABELS
• NO WRITING, NO STICKERS ON LABELS OR COVER
• PTHERE IS ONE TINY LITTLE SUPERFICIAL MARK ON SIDE 2 OTHERWISE PLAYING SURFACES ARE BRILLIANT
• ORIGINAL ALSHIRE INNER SLEEVE

TRACKS:

• HONKY TONK WOMEN
• GET TOGETHER
• BRICK WALLS
• BORN ON THE BAYOU
• BROTHER'S ADVICE
• \PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART
• I SHALL BE RELEASED
• CHAINS OF LOVE
• PROUD MARY
• SABRE DANCE

VG+ COVER, SOLID VG++ TO NEAR MINT LP!

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