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ARTIST
GROWING CONCERN, THE
TITLE
The Growing Concern
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
PHOENIX RECORDS
CATALOG #
ASH 3020LP
ASH 3020LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/9/2009
On 180 gram vinyl. This self-titled album by
The Growing Concern
curiously first saw the light of day in 1969 on
Bob Shad
's Mainstream label, an imprint more familiar to jazz and blues fans than devotees of psych/pop. Shad, who had worked as an A&R man for Mercury, Savoy and Emarcy in the '50s, working with the likes of
Sarah Vaughan
,
Blue Mitchell
and
Curtis Fuller
, had the fortune to sign the then-unknown
Big Brother And The Holding Company
, whose contract, along with that of the band's vocalist
Janis Joplin
, Shad wisely sold for a not-insignificant sum to Columbia. 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. Consequently, Shad only allowed the group into the studio on a single occasion, dropping them from the label after this, their eponymous debut. All in all, this is a fine album. The support of vocalists
Bonnie MacDonald
and
Mary Garstki
are an intrinsic part of the band's distinctive sound, and the songs contributed by organist
Dan Passaglia
, bassist
John Pedley
and guitarist
Ralph Toms
are more than equal to the offerings from more illustrious contemporaries such as
Mike Hugg
("Mister You're A Better Man Than I") or
Stephen Stills
("Sit Down I Think I Love You"). 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.
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