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Country Funk - Country Funk (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Apart of Me 3:36
  2. Phoebe (Mourning Pink) 2:11
  3. Really My Friend 4:05
  4. Not This Time 2:03
  5. For Me 3:00
  6. Poor Boy 4:46
  7. A Way to Settle Down 2:24
  8. When I´m Without You 4:54
  9. Comin' In 3:07
  10. If I Find A Find (Song of Love) 3:05
  11. Another Miss 2:53
  12. Want 4:41

Notes


Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band’s. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully-crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of US West Coast rock – it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album.

Swirling, harmony enriched psychedelic country rock from Country Funk -- an odd record that's kind of a more psychedelia tinged sibling to to sounds of west coast groups of the Gram Parsons, Byrds and CSN & Y era! There's nothing particularly funky about the sound -- Country Psyche might have been a more literal moniker -- with excellent group harmonies, buzzing guitar fuzz, changing melodic lines and more than enough rural rock elements to keep it in a terrestrial groove! Rumor has it Beck sampled something on this little gem for the Odelay album