MAXFIELD PARRISH It's A Cinch... Orig SEALED US LP - Private Rural Psych Prog

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MAXFIELD PARRISH

It's A Cinch To Give Legs To Old Hard-Boiled Eggs

Original US LP released on Cur Non Records in 1972.

Maxfield Parrish was a band with a great degree of promise and inventiveness, born of the mores of the '60s counterculture and ultimately destroyed by the same energy that made them so unique. Drawing on influences as far back as Romantic poets like Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and as contemporary (to them) as the Byrds and Grateful Dead, their unique style was much like the country-rock of the era with a transcendental sheen, termed "Western Gothic".

The phrase was provided by Kaleidoscope's Chris Darrow, who acted as the band's producer, harmonizer, and sometime bassist on their only album, It's a Cinch to Give Legs to Old Hard-Boiled Eggs.

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Maxfield Parrish's sole album, It's a Cinch to Give Legs to Old Hard-Boiled Eggs, is a perfect example of the direction that many West Coast rockers were taking in the late '60s, incorporating country stylings into adventurous rock songs. In this respect, It's a Cinch... falls neatly between the Grateful Dead at their rootsiest and cosmic cowboys like the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

The high, lonesome melodies and lead singing and three- to four-part harmonies connect the band's inspirations and mentors, such as Jerry Garcia (who taught some members guitar) and the Beatles, to early-1900s mountain music that was so influential to all of the Californian country-rockers. However, the songs on It's a Cinch... are not nearly as explicitly country as NRPS, often owing as much to the adventurous mid-period music of the Byrds, and even Middle Eastern drones. This latter effect was probably most prominent due to the presence of the several members of Kaleidoscope who played on and produced the record.

Songs like "It's Alright (I Love Her)" and "Bottle of Reds Blues" are definitely Bakersfield-heavy country-pop, but the fuzz-toned riffs of rockers like "Ellie McCall" and "'Round the Morning" might have been at home on Revolver or Aoxomoxoa. Though recorded in 1969, which places Maxfield Parrish at the forefront of the country-rock revolution (even if they were not innovators), It's a Cinch... would not be released until 1972, at which point country-rock had seen its glory days, and made the band appear to be imitators more than anything else.

But this is clearly not the case -- by turns accessible ("Cross Over the World"), whimsical ("Julie Columbus"), and flat-out odd, the album showcased a band willing to take high-flying chances with its music. Barely heard upon its release, this is a fine album worth investigation, more rewarding with every listen.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

The Lighthouse Is Falling

It's Alright (I Love Her)

Ellie McCall

Cruel Deception

Bottle Of Reds Blues

Side Two

Julie Columbus

Cross Over The World

The Widow (Lennie Porrue)

Released on 'Cur Non Records' in 1972

Catalogue No. CNL 721

Disc is in Unplayed condition

Sleeve is in Sealed condition

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