RARE Vinyl "Country Funk" Band's Self Titled Debut Album, 1969, Psych, 1st Press
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RARE Vinyl "Country Funk" Band's Self Titled Debut Album, 1969, West Coast Psych, 1st Pressing
Though Country Funk's short lifetime came during the first flowering of country-rock, the band's music reflected psychedelia, hard rock, and R&B as much as Nashville sounds. While believed by some to be part of the Boston rock scene of the late 1960s, Country Funk first came together in Los Angeles, CA.
Songwriters and longtime friends Adam Taylor ( 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 a 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.
Country Funk opened for the Velvet Underground at the Boston Tea Party, though for a spell Johnson headed back to California and Pfeifer was persuaded to replace him. In 1969, the group landed a record deal with Polydor, and with Johnson back behind the drums, Country Funk headed to the Record Plant in Hollywood where they cut their self-titled debut album. True to the group's shifting lineup, Pfeifer played drums on four of the album's 12 songs.
Despite a strong reception, the album's sales were poor, and it proved to be the group's only record until 2011. Country Funk returned and released one album titled "Zuma."
This record is from my private collection which centers on the greats to the obscure, and even not so great of the 1950s up to the early 1970s, or what I call the musical renaissance era. Many of the records I will be offering are RARE, but that doesn't necessarily mean incredibly valuable.
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