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Artist:	YOUNGBLOODS, THE
Title:	Beautiful! Live in San Francisco, 1971
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SC 11148CD

"By the time the Youngbloods, always crowd faves at the west coast ballrooms, performed live for San Francisco's free-form radio pioneer KSAN in 1971, they'd honed their set to a fine gloss. Featuring the smooth as apple-butter voice of Jesse Colin Young and the guitar/keyboard wizardry of Banana, backed by the rock-solid bass-and-drum tandem of Michael Kane and Joe Bauer, the Youngbloods positively sparkle here. We're elated to present a lengthy, previously unissued 13-song set that's equal parts rocking R&B, dreamy jazzers and honky tonk flag-wavers, with just a little bit of psychedelic weirdness -- topped off, of course, by a knockout version of their generational anthem, 'Get Together.' The Youngbloods: at the top of their game, making it all look so easy -- and so damn beautiful."

Artist:	YOUNGBLOODS, THE
Title:	Elephant Mountain
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 6256CD

"Elephant Mountain, the magnetic third album by the Youngbloods, is commonly looked upon as the pinnacle of the legendary Bay Area combo's abundant eight-year career. From its spine-chilling opening track -- the strains of a somber Appalachian fiddle permeating 'Darkness, Darkness' -- the listener is inexorably sucked into psychedelic quicksand by the haunting vocals of Jesse Colin Young, whose plaintive cry to 'hide the constant yearning for things that cannot be' proves mournfully irresistible. In addition to Young's songwriting masterpiece, the 1969 album also spotlights a sharp, country-rocking vocal duet ('Smug') by Young and recently-departed singer Jerry Corbitt, as well as the jazzy interplay between electric keyboard whiz Banana and the locked-in groove of drummer Joe Bauer during magical instrumental 'On Sir Francis Drake.' More songwriting gems loom like sacred totems on this landmark longplayer, including Young's signature ballads 'Sunlight,' 'Quicksand' and 'Ride The Wind.' It's the Youngbloods at the top of their game, indelibly writing their names in the ledger of consummate San Francisco rock 'n' roll."

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