MASON PROFFIT Come And Gone - Original US Double LP - Country Rock Folk Psych

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MASON PROFFIT

Come And Gone

Original US Double LP released on Warner Bros Records in 1974. Gatefold Sleeve.

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Mason Proffit is widely considered by obscure rock aficionados to be one of the best bands who never made it to the big time. Although they are mostly overlooked today, along with the Byrds, Michael Nesmith, and others, they helped to invent country-rock.

The band was formed in 1969 by members of the recently disbanded Sounds Unlimited, a tough Chicago garage band with a well-developed melodic sense. John and Terry Talbot were the main movers behind Sounds Unlimited and in Mason Proffit they took the vocal harmonies they had developed in Sounds Unlimited and went in a folk and country direction. They were among the first to combine the energy and instrumentation of rock with the subject matter and twang of country. Perhaps the reason they were not hailed as visionaries at the time is that their first three records came out on small labels and didn't sell many copies. This double LP combines two of those albums: "Wanted" and "Moving Toward Happiness".

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After Mason Proffit signed to Warner Bros. Records, the label reissued the band's first two albums, Wanted! Mason Proffit and Movin' Toward Happiness, as a double-LP set under the title Come & Gone.

"Hear the voice of change," commanded the Talbot brothers at the opening, and the song, "Voice of Change," was both a political statement calling out to President Nixon's "silent majority" and a statement of purpose from the band. Like their peers on the West Coast, the Midwestern Talbots attempted to merge the musical and social concerns of the folk-rock movement with elements of traditional country. But they were a bit more Western-styled than the Flying Burrito Brothers and less of a good-time outfit than Poco.

The music took off from folk and country sources into progressive rock, the pedal steel guitar and fiddle augmented here and there by strings, while the brothers' tenor harmonies gave the group a distinctive vocal sound. Mason Proffit wanted to change musical tastes and political beliefs at the same time. They lamented the plight of Native Americans in "Flying Arrow," and while they could pick a mean hoedown on "Old Joe Clark," their version somehow managed to express antiwar sentiments. They recognized the connection between the cowboy myth and the independent spirit of truck drivers, and they mixed it all in with a sort of primitive Christianity.

Tracks Are :-

Record One

A: Voice Of Change / A Rectangle Picture / You Finally Found Your Love / Sweet Lady Love / Stewball

B: Two Hangmen / Buffalo / Walk On Down The Road / It's All Right / Till The Sun's Gone / Johnny's Tune

Record Two

C: Michael Dodge / Hard Luck Woman / Children / Hokey Joe Pony / Flying Arrow / Old Joe Clark

D: Good Friend Of Mary's / He Loves Them / Melinda / Let Me Know Where You're Going / Everybody Was Wrong

Released on 'Warner Bros Records' in 1974

Catalogue No. 2LS 2746

Discs are in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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