MIKE WILHELM Wilhelm LP UA/ZigZag 1976 UK orig CHARLATANS-FLAMIN' GROOVIES RARE
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MIKE WILHELM

with DENNIS WILSON, GENE RYMER, KENNY STREIGHT, PETER MINTUN, SID PAGE, CHRIS WILSON, RICHARD OLSEN, etc.
Wilhelm was an important member of two San Francisco Bay Area groups, in two different decades.  In the 1960s, he was a guitarist and songwriter for the Charlatans, often identified as one  of the very first San Francisco psychedelic groups, although they were more appropriately  described as mixers of blues, folk, jugband, and nineteenth century saloon music.  In the late 1970s, he joined the Flamin' Groovies on guitar for a while.  There is also some solo material by Wilhelm in which he comes across as a hippie Old West  cowboy of sorts, just as he looks in those old Charlatans photos. His low scaly voice delivers  tunes that wander across the blues, vaudeville, and folk landscape  with some rock thrown in on his Michael Wilhelm album
"WILHELM"
Produced by Richard Olsen
1976      LP        UNITED ARTISTS/ZigZag  RECORDS       UA-ZZ-1   STEREO
MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
FULLY LAMINATED SINGLE SLEEVE
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LABEL: UNITED ARTISTS/ZigZag -  BROWNISH LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) UA-ZZ-1 Catalog on labels: UA ZZ.1 (UA ZZ.1A / UA ZZ.1 (UA ZZ.1B) 
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): ZZ 1 A-1U Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): ZZ 1 B-3U
On labels: rim text reads "All Rights........Manufactured In England. A Product Of Liberty-United Artists Records Ltd" Produced by Richard Olsen at Pacific High Studios, San Francisco 1971-2 Engineers: Richard Olsen & Phil Sawyer ?1976 United Artists Records Ltd. STEREO
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Peter Frame Printed in England by Robert Stace & Co Ltd For the full Charlatan's Story see ZIGZAG No.26 available from........(boxed)
tracklisting Side 1: JUNKO PARTNER - MAKE ME A PALLET ON YOUR FLOOR GOIN' TO CANADA - STYROFOAM - BLACK MOUNTAIN - ME AND MY UNCLE Side 2: SLOW BLUES (LIVE) - DUST MY BLUES HEAR THE PEOPLE - BAD NEWS - PHONOGRAPH BLUES    grading RECORD EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
This batch of solo material isn't much different from what the Charlatans played in  the late 1960s, though Wilhelm's voice, of course, is at the forefront all the time instead  of some of the time. His gruff singing lacks depth and power, but does have a certain  wry charm. The same could be said of the songs themselves; this isn't compelling stuff,  but its versatility is admirable. At times he sounds very much like early Captain Beefheart  in the blues-rock Safe As Milk phase, though not as weird or forceful. Check "Styrofoam,"  for instance, with its nifty blues guitar and growly vocals, yet with lyrics weirder than  almost anything that would get into a bar band's set. "Goin' to Canada" approaches  straightforward folk-rock, yet "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" wouldn't be too out of  place on the soundtrack of a Western, with its rollicking saloon piano.  The cover of John Phillips' dramatic folk ballad "Me and My Uncle" is the high point,  with a gripping arrangement and ingenious touches of Wild West sound effects and strings...(AllMusic)

 


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