Witchcraft Coven Destroys Minds & Reaps souls. EXCELLENT CONDITION RARE

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You are bidding on Humble Pie Smokin' record album!

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Album profile

This was Humble Pie's first album after the departure of Peter Frampton, which put singer and co-founder Steve Marriott at its artistic centre. Smokin' is the band's best-selling album.

It includes dramatically slowed down versions of Eddie Cochran's "C'mon Everybody", Junior Walker's "Road Runner", and the wah-wah laden slow blues "The Fixer". "You're So Good for Me", which begins as a delicate acoustic number, ultimately mutates into a full-bore gospel music rave-up, an element that would later influence bands like The Black Crowes.

Alexis Korner guests on the track "Old Time Feelin'", Marriott's vocals take a back seat as the main vocals are provided by Greg Ridley and Korner who also plays a Martin Tipple, mandolin-type guitar. Its sound is reminiscent of the song "Alabama '69" on their first album.

Stephen Stills guests on "Road Runner 'G' Jam" (the title is a nod to the band's habit of developing songs out of jam sessions), playing Hammond organ, and his backing vocals were over-dubbed on "Hot 'n' Nasty" a slow-burning and then dynamic R&B song, after he strolled in after recording his own sessions next door.

Marriott insisted on producing the album himself for the challenge of creating a compact R&B sound with a high-tech 24-track mixing board. Marriott collapsed with exhaustion in February. New Musical Express (NME) reported at the time: "Following intense recording sessions with Humble Pie, Steve Marriott collapsed with nervous exhaustion and doctors told him to rest".

With this album the group were seen as leaders of the boogie movement in the early 1970s.

Track listing

Side One

    "Hot 'n' Nasty" (Humble Pie/Marriott) – 3:20
    "The Fixer" (Clem Clempson/Steve Marriott/Jerry Shirley/Greg Ridley) – 5:02
    "You're So Good for Me" (Marriott/Ridley) – 3:49
    "C'mon Everybody" (Capehart/Cochran) – 5:12
    "Old Time Feelin'" (Traditional) – 3:59

Side Two

    "30 Days in the Hole" (Marriott) – 3:57
    "(I'm A) Road Runner" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) B) "Road Runner's 'G' Jam" (Clem Clempson/Steve Marriott/Jerry Shirley/Greg Ridley) – 3:41
    "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant/Raymond Leveen) – 8:53
    "Sweet Peace and Time" (Marriott/Ridley/Shirley) – 5:49

Personnel

    Steve Marriott - vocals, guitar, harp, keyboards
    Clem Clempson - guitar, keyboards, vocals
    Greg Ridley - bass, vocals
    Jerry Shirley - drums, keyboards

    Alexis Korner - vocals, mandolin-type Martin Tipple guitar "Old Time Feeling"
    Stephen Stills - organ, backing vocals on "Hot 'n' Nasty"
    Doris Troy - backing vocals "You're So Good for Me"
    Madeline Bell - backing vocals "You're So Good for Me"
    Album Cover art designed by Kosh

    Engineers : Alan O'Duffy, Keith Harwood
    Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, February 1972.
    Produced by The Pie


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This auction is for the Witchcraft Coven Album! I messed up and placed album information about a different record I am also selling here. Below is information about this particular record :)

Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969) is the first album by the psychedelic rock band Coven. It was unusual in that it dealt with overtly occult and satanic themes, and was removed from the market soon after its release due to controversy. [2] However, it remains a classic of its genre, and in some ways set groundbreaking trends for later rock bands. In this album appeared for the first time things which today are ubiquitous in occult and heavy metal rock music, such as the sign of the horns, inverted crosses, and the phrase Hail Satan. This album also shows a subtle influence on the first album, appearing only a few months later, of the much more successful group Black Sabbath (the album also called Black Sabbath), with one of the members being, not Oz Osborne (as in Coven), but Ozzy Osbourne.[3]

One of the songwriters, James Vincent, used the name "Jim Donlinger" on the album. He actually was not a member of the band, but was asked by Bill Traut, Coven's producer, to write, arrange and co-produce the album together with Traut. Vincent describes the event in negative terms, as a "bizarre album project":

    "Bill brought me a large box full of books about witchcraft and related subjects. He told me to read them and start writing some songs ... Sometime before the sun came up, I had completely written all the material requested of me for the entire album ... Coven also contributed one or two songs to the project."[4]

Track listing
No.     Title     Writer(s)     Length
1.     "Black Sabbath"       Donlinger     3:32
2.     "White Witch Of Rose Hall"       Donlinger     3:08
3.     "Coven In Charing Cross"       Donlinger     4:04
4.     "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"       Dawson, Ross, Wilkerson, Osborne     4:41
5.     "Pact With Lucifer"       Donlinger, Wilkerson     3:32
6.     "Choke, Thirst, Die"       Donlinger     3:32
7.     "Wicked Woman"       Dawson, Ross, Wilkerson, Osborne     3:01
8.     "Dignitaries Of Hell"       Donlinger     4:09
9.     "Portrait"       Dawson, Ross, Osborne     2:37
10.     "Satanic Mass"       Traut     13:19
Total length:
    45:55
[edit] Personnel

    Jinx Dawson: Vocals
    Jim Donlinger: Guitars, Vocals
    Jim Nyeholt, John Hobbs: Keyboards, Organ, Piano
    Alan Estes, Oz Osbourne: Bass
    Steve Ross: Drums, Percussion

[edit] Production

    Produced By Bill Traut
    Engineered By Mal Davis