Saturday, July 21, 2007

Villagers [1970?] Such A Night

Unusual mix of stuff here mostly backed by minimal guitar/bass/drums band. Highlights are spooky garagy girl vocal version of "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane song, freaky girl vocal version of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", a couple of possibly original odd songs "Good Guys" with girl singing folk style while guy makes mouth noises and "Petals Of Life". LP ends with a weird preacher rant type track titled "Heavy" where the guy says things like "The devil is a slice of baloney, Beelzebub is a chocolate drop..." and goes on to mix religion and food to freaky effect. Also an accapella '40s medley, "The Wedding Song", "Coal Tattoo", "The River's Too Wide". Cool monochrome blue cover design with pic of them soaking feet in tub on back. [PM]

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