M- 1971 MIKE WILHELM ex- CHARLATANS SF SOUND PSYCH

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ex-CHARLATANS 1971 WEST COAST HIPPIE ROCK              

ala Charlatans sixties grooves               

                        Mike Wilhelm

\                                                              Fr - Fan Club 003

Pretty Rare one...San Francisco sixties sounds by key member of the CHARLATANS...this 1971 recording never really turned up much...in nice fragile textured cover, the original first pressing from 25+ years ago (scarce collectible).

Mike Wilhelm was an important member of two San Francisco Bay Area groups, in two different decades. In the 1960s, he was a guitarist and songwriter for the Charlatans, often identified as one of the very first San Francisco psychedelic groups and mixers of blues, folk, jugband, and nineteenth century saloon music. In the late 1970s, he joined the Flamin' Groovies on guitar for a while. Soon after disbanding the Charlatans in 1971, Wilhelm recorded this very scarce & obscure album - issued only in France on the small "Fan Club" label... Wilhelm comes across as the hippie that he was and in the great tradition of The Dead's Workingmans Dead, the hippie rural edged Old West cowboy head-grooves of sorts, sounding just as he looks in those old Charlatans photos (and this cover). His low scaled voice delivers tunes that wander across the blues, vaudeville, and folk landscape with some hippie rock vibes thrown in all over the place ...this is a rural spellbound blues album. Listening to it, you discover an aristocratic red-neck, one of the saltiest guitar ever heard, a shootist. For the rest of it, the song remains the same. Always the same old story of honky tonks and Gents Roms graffitis. Wilhelm sings like an open fly and the guitar sounds like a three days hangover. Put a pinafore on before you play it. The intro of "Styrofoam" is gonna spit greasy stains on your tie. It's not genuine rural music, it's not genuine blues. It's not country blues either. It's just another bottle smashed on your face, a corny crack & a splash of muddy poetry that sang lullabies to one another. Picture this !

The album not seen much, been a long time since we came across one here in the vast vinyl haunts traversed ....

Junko Partner > Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor > Goin' to Canada > Styrofoam > Black Mountain > Me and My Uncle > Slow Blues > Dust My Blues > Hear the People > Bad News > Phonograph Blues.                              

CONDITION: The fragile European cover is bicely textured and very clean and sharp, M-

The vinyl is all glossy clean, M-

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record