Growing Concern - The Growing Concern 1969 (@320)

 

Growing Concern - The Growing Concern 1969

This self-titled album by The Growing Concern curiously first saw the light of day in 1969 on Bob Shad's Mainstream label (Mainstream S/6108), an imprint more familiar to jazz and blues fans than devotees of psych/pop. Perhaps Shad thought he was going to repeat his commercial triumph with The Growing Concern.

However, the band was a different proposition altogether with its emphasis on beautiful vocal harmonies and fantastic guitar and organ work rather than the Joplin-dominated R'n'B of Big Brother, and consequently Shad only allowed the group into the studio on a single occasion, dropping them from the label after this, their eponymous debut. The album, which is brilliantly recorded, is of a consistently high musical quality and the band surely deserved a better fate than the obscurity that Shad's indifference consigned them to."

Tracklist:

 

1. Hard Hard Year (L. Ramsford) - 4:25 

2. Edge Of Time (Dan Passaglia) - 4:28 

3. Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled (John Pedley, Ralph Toms) - 2:44 

4. A Boy I Once Knew Well  (John Pedley, Ralph Toms) - 4:24 

5. All I Really Want (Dan Passaglia) - 2:20 

6. Mister You're A Better Man Than I (M. Hugg) - 4:50 

7. What Kind Of Life (Dan Passaglia) - 2:58 

8. Other Side Of Life (F. Neil) - 4:57 

9. I Know A Girl (Dan Passaglia) - 2:36 

10.Sit Down I Think I Love You (S. Stills) - 2:24 

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