MIKE WILHELM Wilhelm - Original UK LP - CHARLATANS Psych Blues/Folk/Country Rock

	£		23
	$		30

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MIKE WILHELM

Wilhelm

Original UK LP released on United Artists Records in 1976. Laminated sleeve.

ZZ 1 A-1U   /   ZZ 1 B-3U

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 Wilhelm album.

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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 has a certain wry charm. At times he sounds very much like early Captain Beefheart in the blues-rock Safe As Milk phase, though not as weird. Check "Styrofoam," for instance, with its nifty blues guitar and growly vocals, yet with lyrics stranger than 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.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Junko Partner
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
Goin' To Canada
Styrofoam
Black Mountain
Me And My Uncle

Side Two

Slow Blues
Dust My Blues
Hear The People
Bad News
Phonograph Blues

Released on 'United Artists Records' in 1976

Catalogue No. UA ZZ.1

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in EX condition (bit of laminate lift)

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