SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET +2 “Honkey Blues” LP SMASH orig ‘68 unipak PROMO NM

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Artist:  SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET + 2

Title:   “Honkey Blues”

Label:   SMASH.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is gold with black text.  Catalog number is SRS-67108. 

Year:  1968.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.        

JACKET:   “Unipak” gatefold jacket is EXCELLENT with nice bright artwork.   Inner and outer panels are clean and bright, with no signs of ring or surface wear.  Light wear on seams and spine.  Top seam has come unglued, and is starting to split at the center.  No writing, stickers, or cutout marks.  Overall a very fine jacket.  

Track Listing: 

Side 1:

• Are Inlaws Really Outlaws
• Sell a Song
• Song of Everything

Side Two:

• Can You Dig My Vibrations
• Glad for Your Sake
• Whole Lotta Peace of Mind
• You Never Get Too Big …..

Review: 

“It is hard to believe that this is the first entry in the extensive Sir Douglas Quintet discography, as it seems like the kind of experimental venture an artist might throw out after a handful of successful albums have already been released. The electic nature of bandleader Doug Sahm is undisputed, but this has got to be his album with the most experimental jazz leanings, again not something one would expect. The type of themes that Sahm would return to again and again in his songwriting are here, delivered by a grouping that lacks one of the essential sparkplugs in the Sir Douglas Quintet engine, keyboard man Augie Meyers. There is presumed to be compensation in the form of a total of five horn players, including Bay Area session whiz Mel Martin, but someone decided to record them with enough reverb to submerge a whale. A total of seven songs, none of them really extended enough to account for paucity of titles, get a loping, jamming treatment that gets the message across, although a little vaguely at times. Certainly a promising, original album well above the level of most rock-bands-with-horns experiments of this era, but not as inspiring as this band's music would soon become.”

(courtesy Eugene Chadbourne, allmusic.com).

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