DANNY HOLIEN s/t 1971 CANYON STONER PSYCH LP Bill Szymczyk ONLY 500 MADE LISTEN

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DANNY HOLIEN "DANNY HOLIEN" LP

ORIGINAL 1971 LP the US TUMBLEWEED label, STEREO

COVER in EXCELLENT shape, small cutout hole, beautiful!

HAS ALBUM SIZED BOOKLET INSIDE TOO, with sheet music for all the songs plus colorful photos

VINYL plays VG+

Incredible lost West Coast canyon stoner rock masterpiece produced in lavish die-cut gatefold sleeves in a pressing of 500 at most as a probable tax writeoff by gas masters Gulf & Western, whose 1 and a half million dollar financing helped the tiny Tumbleweed label get 11 albums out in the early 70’s to hippies and stoners and fans of the James Gang in the Colorado area.  Danny Holien’s his name, and he used to be in the Shades, a classic cult NUGGETS garage punk band from Minnesota.  Post-Sixties, he decided to move West to Colorado, and enjoy the early 70’s mellow canyon scene, and got legendary producer Bill Szymczyk to record his solo album, Bill having already made a name for himself for his work with the James Gang but yet to make it REALLY big with the Eagles.  This is no acoustic singer-songwriter stuff, mind you, this is a fully-fleshed-out, radio-ready mellow stoner rock masterpiece with at least a handful of should-have-been big AOR hits, notably “Colorado,” which sounds so good many people on the Interwebs assume it’s a Stephen Stills song.  Elsewhere, Danny does a great mystical transcendental Eastern folk groove on the wispy “Satsanga,” which could’ve given Cat Stevens and Donovan a run for their money.  “The Strange One” is the Canyon rock equivalent of a big doomy sinister slab of evil Sabbath prog rock, sorta like what you’d get if you mashed up the Eagles’ “Take It To the Limit” with Bloodrock’s “D.O.A.”  And the floaty flute-led stoner rock vibe of “Red Wing” has a definite Traffic “Freedom Rider” adoration thing going on.  All this SHOULD have added up to a breakthrough hit album for Danny, but as I said before, only 500 or so of these were ever made because the lavish die-cut gatefold booklet-enclosed packaging made it an expensive undertaking even for a large energy giant.  Not to mention Bill Szymczyk found more fertile waters with some guys named Glenn, Don, Bernie and Randy.  Still, Danny Holien the album is the one that got away.  The GREAT 70’s canyon rock album that no one ever got to hear, and even now it remains unreissued. 

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