JONESY GROWING LP on DAWN UK RARE ORIGINAL PSYCH GARAGE PROG ROCK 1973

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Here is a NEAR MINT MINUS/EXCELLENT PLUS copy of a RARE! LP from JONESY titled GROWING. It is a UK pressing on the DAWN label, catalog #DNLS.3055 in STEREO sound from 1973. The vinyl is in NEAR MINT MINUS condition, shiny and black with a couple of light marks and should have excellent playback. The cover is original GATEFOLD cardboard in EXCELLENT MINUS/VERY GOOD PLUS condition with ring, edge and corner wear. It is an EXCELLENT PLUS copy of this RARE JONESY LP for you to own. It is an opportunity to purchase this RARE LP in this EXCELLENT PLUS condition! It’s a wonderful addition for the PSYCH / GARAGE / PROG ROCK collector!! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!

Music Review from AllMusic.com by Jo-Ann Greene

Following on from their debut album No Alternative and sophomore set Keeping Up, Jonesy released Growing in 1973, their third and final album for the Dawn label. Overseen by top-notch producer Rupert Hine, it was certainly the best sounding set of the batch, and arguably their most adventurous, but that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The almost-12-minute long set closer "Jonesy" was a case in point. What should have been an exciting epic instead disintegrates into overindulgent improvisation. It starts off strong enough with the instruments circling around the organ and Mellotron, the electric guitar then storms in, and the piece pushes into R&B laced with funk and wah wah guitar. But then it fragments into a series of disjointed solos, and never really comes back together, although at times it's intriguing how the various instruments can evoke a genre with just a few notes or chords. Along the way, though, "Jonesy" loses the plot, better was the set opener "Can You Get That Together," where the band indeed get it together. Here too they tumble through genres, funk, surf, psych, jazz, R&B, and rock, but a strong melody and a coursing rhythm lace the song up tight, even when the group shift into the improvisational jazz section. "Know Who Your Friends Are" is similarly effective, as the band shifts tempos and moods, sliding from bright and light prog rock into slower, prettier passages that build and build, finally exploding into driving hard prog where the organ, guitar, and trumpet duel for supremacy. On "Hard Road" axeman John Evan Jones goes head to head with trumpeter Alan Bown, as the band exuberantly winds its way through Latin rhythms, funk, jazz, and rock.