The third album from this band from USA.
The band was a trio with a lineup of percussion, drums, bass, sitar, guitars and vocals.
The band had help from a dozen of guests who added pipe organ, cello, French horn and backing vocals.
The album title says everything about the band and those of us, far too few, who really liked this band when we discovered them around 1990'ish.
The previous album Gretchen Goes To Nebraska was the album that hooked me onto this band before my interest in death metal and later prog rock/fusion made me put this band on a backburner. I mostly forgot about them, in other words.
The album title and cover is superb. The band also branched out into a more hippie flower power sound and theme on this album. This in addition of still being a groovy hard rock band with a lot of influences from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Rush.
Their music is really quirky and eclectic. ...Which explain why this band never became the giants everyone thought they would be. Most of this album is too clever, too intelligent and too eclectic for the mass market, for the records buying public.
Those of us who really like this kind of music is being treated to one hour of clever harmonies, clever songs and lots of interesting details.
It is also a pretty hard album although it has some flower power hippie influences. That in a strange way.
This is also a great album and the band now has my full attention again. They should never have lost my attention in the first place. Well, life is full of mistakes...
4 points
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