Wednesday

beau brummels

...sufferin' from th'fact they arrived early on th'scene as some yanquee answer to th'fabs they never shook off bein' some kinda teenybop combo...when it came to gettin' with th'new music that was happ'nin in 66/67 they weren't taken seriously by th'underground 'n their original fans had moved on to other concerns...this disk was hyped as a concept, no doubt gettin' that idea from pepper, its a cool orchestrated folky psych biscuit that needs a few spins 'n works a real boffo treat on th' ol' headphones...

...beau brummels, frisco hippy folkies record deep inside enemy territory, nashville, home o' reactionary forces, beer drinkin' squares who weren't known for bein'receptive to new ideas, especially ideas concernin'freedom, musical'n otherwise...this fits in snuggly with other left o' centre folk grooves with outward lookin' artiness like th'stone ponies/hearts'n flowers'n to a lesser degree hep cats like van dyke parks, certainly not th'sorta biscuit that would necessarily get th'green light down nashville way but there in '68 th'brummels plied their mystical hippy magic to come up with this otherworldly vibe that certainly aint got too much to do with country rock that this often gets called, country influences're there but not in any heavy cowboy/good ol'boy sense, this is a tripped out art splurge, weavin' patterns in eternity...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tho' some prefer Bradley's, for me Triangle is the Brums masterwork ... a day in the life treatment... Also the s/t reunion album from 1975 is worth checking out - munce