MINT '67 ORIG NITTY GRITTY STONED CALIF HIPPIES PSYCH

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        RARE MINTY CLEAN 1967 ORIGINAL

                       == Ricochet == 

    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

                    ...USA - Liberty Records = LST-7516 

MINT CLEAN....ORIGINAL 1967 2nd album, and nothing like their later popular country albums, this was 1967 Southern California, playing along flipped-out bands like Kaleidoscope. 'n these cats were stoned heads with a trippy throwback direction ...don't stop now boys, and they surely didn't, "RICOCHET" strikes the same goldrush vein as their first ....

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's second album is another minor masterpiece. From the opening bars of (ex-group member) Jackson Browne's "Shadow Dream Song," and the high spirits overflow the grooves of the record. The singing and playing are just as confident as their first Lp, and some of the songs, including the bluesy "Ooh Po Pe Do Girl" and the hook-laden "I'll Search The Sky" by David Hanna, and Copeland and Noonan's (the "Buy For Me The Rain" team) "Tide Of Love," is as solid as anything coming out of California in the late 60's. Even the kazoo-dominated "Coney Island Washboard" and "Happy Fat Annie," and the nostalgic 20's styled Jackson Browne-written "It's Raining Here In Long Beach" fit well into the mix, reflecting the full range of the band's influences. As to why this record never caught on, it could be the timing--released late in 1967, in the wake of Sergeant Pepper (which had its own music hall influences, albeit of the English variety, and covered with lots of psychedelic overdubbing) and the Summer of Love, it just wasn't what college kids starting their search for the Lost Chord were looking for. Maybe a washboad or two less would've helped, and a real drug song or two wouldn't have hurt, but these guys could play a jug-band number ahead of any drug anthem anytime. Their Truly Right" is pretty space-y in its production, though, but "The Teddy Bear's Picnic"-- being slightly(?) flipped out, was probably beyond most listeners. Anyone looking for a companion to The Byrds "Notorious Byrd Bros." or a precursor to Crazy Horse's "At Crooked Lake" need look no further.

CONDITION: The cover is NICE top level M- solid crisp & totally clean with 4 sharp corners...vibrant bright original colors, one of the *best* copiers around makes for a nice upgrade or first time score...

The vinyl is all glossy on both sides, clean and clear M- TOPS...the Liberty labels are clean

 *** Includes the original printed Liberty Records inner sleeve to the pressing 

                keeper copy!

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