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COUNTRY FUNK

Though Country Funk's short lifetime came during the first flowering of country-rock, the band's music reflected psychedelia, hard rock, 

and blue-eyed R&B as much as rootsy Nashville sounds. While often cited as part of the Boston rock scene of the late '60s, 

Country Funk first came together in Los Angeles, CA, where songwriters and longtime friends Adam Taylor (who played 

lead guitar) and Hal Paris (rhythm guitar and piano) met up with the rhythm section of Jeff Lockwood (bass) 

and Joe Pfeifer (drums) and formed a band in 1968. Early gigs proved volatile, and after a residency at the famous Sunset Strip 

nightclub Gazzari's, Lockwood and Pfeifer left the group, while Paris and Taylor opted to start something new. 

Pfeifer was recruited to join Paris and Taylor's new outfit after they met bassist Jim Lanham, who could also play pedal steel guitar, 

but shortly before the new act could play its first gig, Pfeifer got cold feet and new drummer Verne Johnson came on board. 

After a few dates In L.A., the band headed to Vermont to play a string of shows at ski lodges. 

Country Funk then hit the road for Boston, where they became regulars on the city's club scene 

Produced by Adam and Hal and the rest of the guys

1970     LP     POLYDOR RECORDS      2482 018  STANDARD

MADE IN ENGLAND   ORIGINAL PRESSING

FULLY LAMINATED SINGLE COVER

Catalog on cover: (rear) 2482 018

(spine) POLYDOR STANDARD 2482 018     

Catalog on labels: 2482-018 A / 2482-018 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 2482018 A//1   1 1   7

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 2482018 B//1   1 2   1

On labels: STEREO

Made in England

Flamingo Music

ST 33

? 1970 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 3 o'clock circa)

Words and Music by Paris & Taylor

rim text reads "All rights......prohibited"

On back cover: Notes by Robert Rouse

Recorded at the Record Plant, Hollywood, California, before the sauna was installed

Manufactured by Polydor Records Ltd., London. Printed in England

tracklisting

Side A: APART OF ME - PHOEBE (MOURNING PINK) - REALLY MY FRIEND

NOT THIS TIME - FOR ME - POOR BOY

Side B: A WAY TO SETTLE DOWN - WHEN I'M WITHOUT YOU - COMIN' IN

IF I FIND A WAY (SONG OF LOVE) - ANOTHER MISS - WANT

grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The sole album from Country Funk's original incarnation, released in 1970, has confused a certain number of latter-day listeners 

since it's not especially funky (at least not in the James Brown or George Clinton sense of the word), and while there's 

a noticeable country-rock undertow in this music, there's just as much semi-psychedelic fuzz guitar, hard rock attitude,

 and sunny folk rock vibe to be found. "Not This Time" and "A Way to Settle Down" put the band's country influences 

up front, and the tight guitar work from Adam Taylor and Hal Paris rings out clean and fresh when they embrace 

a down-home vibe (bassist Jim Lanham also adds the occasional pedal steel overdub), but Country Funk shine 

nearly as bright when they put some soul behind the blue-eyed R&B of "When I'm Without You," and the opening cut, 

which segues from upbeat acoustic guitars to heavy electric thunder at the 1:10 mark before shifting to acoustics 

back for a coda, sums up the group's eclecticism admirably well. At their best, Country Funk suggests a more 

streamlined variation on what Moby Grape was doing on their third and fourth albums, and though 

they weren't as good as that masterful band, there's enough worth hearing on this album to wish