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The Growing Concern
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The Growing Concern (1969)
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Hard Hard Year
4:29 |
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Edge Of Time
4:33 |
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Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled
2:50 |
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A Boy I Once Knew Well
4:29 |
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All I Really Want
2:23 |
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Mister You're A Better Man Than I
4:54 |
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What Kind Of Life
3:02 |
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Other Side Of Life
5:00 |
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I Know A Girl
2:41 |
10. |
Sit Down I Think I Love You
2:24 |
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Growing Concern - Selftitled (1969)
Personnel:
PETE GUERINO gtr, vcls A
MARY GARSTKI vcls A
BONNIE MacDONALD vcls A
DAN PASSAGLIA keyb'ds, vcls A
JOHN PEDLEY bs A
RALPH TOMS gtr A
RALPH WILLIAMS drms A
ALBUM:
1(A) THE GROWING CONCERN (Mainstream S/6108) 1968
NB: (1) was repressed in 1989 and is also available on CD (Golden Classics Rebirth GRC 003) 1996.
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1 Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled/A Boy I Once Knew Well (Mainstream 685) 1968
The above psychedelic rock album is one of the better Mainstream issues. Side one opens with Hard Hard Year, full of pleasant vocal harmonies and melodic guitar work. Edge Of Time is an uptempo number with great guitar work. Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled and A Boy I Once Knew Well both feature harmonised vocals and some great guitar. Side two relies more on covers. There's some great guitar playing in their version of Mister You're A Better Man Than I and in Other Side Of Life and they've an individual interpretation of Steve Still's Sit Down I Think I Love You.
An EP accompanying "Le Rock Psychedelique Vol.1" book also features What Kind Of Life.
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"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&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."
Growing Concern / Growing Concern
Track Title
1. Hard Hard Year
2. Edge Of Time
3. Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled
4. A Boy I Once Knew Well
5. All I Really Want
6. Mister You're A Better Man Than I
7. What Kind Of Life
8. Other Side Of Life
9. I Know A Girl
10. Sit Down I Think I Love You
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