M- RARE 1975 UK HALFBREED GRITTY HARD GUITAR ROCKERS

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RARE 1975 UK ORIGINAL                                   

HARDROCK MIX IN EYE-POPPING GIMMIX COVER!                       

                     Halfbreed

\                                                      UK -  United Artists - UAG 29877

VERY Rare and sought mid 1975 British first pressing in cool gimmix record player (with pop-up record) die-cut cover... An obscure British rock collectible, and little seen, one that gets rarer by the minute...here's what's in store...

Categorising the music of HALFBREED is not simple. Describing just as hard rock, woudn't be entirely correct. It’s more like a powerful rock band with who draws heavy inspiration from rhythm & blues of the classic kind. The band’s greatest strength is the colossal voice of lead singer Mick Whittaker. His voice sounds like mix between Roger Chapman (of "Family"), James Brown and Joe Cocker !! If you can imagine such a mix. He’s got the strength, the lung power and quite unique phrasing. Bloody marvellous if you ask the ones who've heard.
A fast, jagged rhythms song, “Getting Better For Me”, opens this album and is full of raspy guitar-riffs and solid keyboard work together with a rock solid bass and frantic drumming, playing behind the powerful vocals. “Change Your Mind” is more of a mellower kind where Mick takes it down a bit in his vocal style and shares some vocals with another member of the band. Probably it’s guitarist Tom Farrier which helps him out here. A short harmonica solo appears as well, nothing fancy, but spices it up a bit. A guitar through a wah-wah pedal over a beautiful organ starts up “You Really Know What You Want”, a tough soul –stomper with more strong backing vocals and great solo work on the guitar from Tom. The bass playing of Frankie Gibbon is mighty and deep on the bluesy “Rainwalker”, with it’s simple but effective organ riff from Jimmy Lowery taking the melodic drive. Just wonderful ! “America” is uptempo and rocks good, with more splendid organ work. “Billy Dean” opens the B-side, and what a scorcher it is ! One of the best tracks on the album ! Mighty organ chords and tough, hard drumming from Geoff Hutchinson, which does a superb job throughout the whole album with his innovative and solid work on drums and percussion. Another killer follows in “Buttermilk”, bluesy and rolling, with straight piano leading the melody and with good slide guitar and harmonica as well.  “Miss Anne” is the same obscure tune that appeared on Johnny Winter’s “Second Winter” in ’69. Halfbreed’s version is recorded a bit strange. At first, the volume is very low, and they sound like they are playing in the room close by, before they come in with full power and ends tough as hell. A pity they didn’t do the whole track that way ! “Gamblin’ Man” is also bluesy with it’s deep simple, but effective bass line and where Mick shares the lead vocals with another member of the band. Ending this rather unknown masterpiece, “So Long”. A mighty powerful track with two strong lead voices and some solid organ playing...

CONDITION: The weird (never saw one like this before) pop-up gimmix cover is clean M- top copy with no problems...tight and solid on all parts...

The vinyl is all glossy clear, M- ...plays outstanding!

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record