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This self-titled album by The Growing Concern curiously first saw the light of day in 1969 on Bob Shads Mainstream label (Mainstream S/6108), an imprint more familiar to jazz and blues fans than devotees of psych/pop. Shad, who had worked as an A&R man for Mercury, Savoy and Emarcy in the 50s, working with the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Blue Mitchell and Curtis Fuller, had the fortune to sign the then-unknown Big Brother And The Holding Company, whose contract, along with that of the bands vocalist Janis Joplin, Shad wisely sold for a notinsignificant sum to Columbia. 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&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. All in all this is a fine album. The support of vocalists Bonnie MacDonald and Mary Garstki are an intrinsic part of the bands distinctive sound, and the songs contributed by organist Dan Passaglia, bassist John Pedley and guitarist Ralph Toms are more than equal to the offerings from more illustrious contemporaries,such as Mike Hugg (Mister Youre A Better Man Than I) or Stephen Stills (Sit Down I Think I Love You). 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 Shads indifference consigned them to.
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Type: LP
Recorded: 1969
Release Date: 2009-05-20
Label: Mainstream
Country: US
Item No: S6108
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Track List
01 Hard hard year 4:29
02 Edge of time 4:34
03 Tomorrow has been cancelled 2:51
04 A boy i once knew well 4:30
05 All i really want 2:23
06 Mister you're a better man than i 4:54
07 What kind of life 3:03
08 Other side of life 5:01
09 I know a girl 2:42
10 Sit down i think i love you 2:30
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