Various Artists

We’re An American Band

A Journey Through The USA

Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973 (2023)

FLAC LOSSLESS 16Bit-44kHz



Label: Grapefruit Records – CRSEGBOX130

Format: 3 x CD, Compilation Box Set

Country: UK

Released: Jun 2023

Genre: Rock

Style: Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock







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Rock & roll went through a massive transition in its first decade-and-a-half, much more so than in the time that has since passed. It's fair to peg the public acceptance of rock & roll with the success of Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" in 1955, and ten years later, rock gained a greater level of sophistication and literacy, with the dawn of the psychedelic age in sight, and after that, all bets were off. Once psychedelia became the order of the day, rock bands sought new ways to and add a trippier edge to their music, and it didn't take long for someone to come up with a simple, brilliantly effective trick – turn up your amps to ten, stretch out your tunes, beef up the low end, and start hitting everything hard. By 1968, bands like Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, and Vanilla Fudge had pioneered the grubby majesty of hard rock (in turn leading to its demonic sibling, heavy metal), and parents across America were suddenly very sorry they thought the Rolling Stones were as obnoxious as things could get. As hard rock codified itself over the next several years, hundreds of bands were building big, powerful music out of an increasingly diverse range of ingredients, and the British Cherry Red label has fashioned an entertaining and well-curated study of the first era of American hard rock with the 2023 box set We're an American Band: A Journey Through the USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973. A careful spin of this three-disc, 62-track behemoth makes clear the main precursors to hard rock were the expanded vistas of psychedelia (the semi-poetic lyric style common to early psych informs a large portion of the tracks here) and the moody sneer of citified blues (one of the set's more remarkable tracks is Muddy Waters' amusing cover of the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together" from his 1968 psych/metal hybrid Electric Mud), as well as the delinquent shrug of the noisier strains of garage rock. There are plenty of familiar names on board (the MC5, the Stooges, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Blue Öyster Cult), some stars in waiting (Fuse would evolve into Cheap Trick; Nazz, with a young Todd Rundgren; and Dust, with Marc Bell on drums before he turned into Marky Ramone), some worthy cult favorites (Sir Lord Baltimore, who sound even more proto-metal than Blue Cheer, and Texas psych outliers the Bubble Puppy and Cold Sun), and plenty of utter unknowns whose brief moments of sonic thunder are celebrated at last (solid, previously unreleased tracks from Sudden Death, the Sound Barrier, Gold, and B.F. Trike). There's plenty of good, greasy fun to be had in We're an American Band, and if you're the sort who turns up the car stereo when "Born to Be Wild" comes on, you'll revel in this; it's high time this era got a Nuggets of its own, and this is it.





CD1 - Born To Be Wild



01 - Vanilla Fudge - Ticket To Ride

02 - Iron Butterfly - Iron Butterfly Theme

03 - Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

04 - Steppenwolf - The Ostrich

05 - The Savage Resurrection - Remlaps Cave Part II

06 - Fever Tree - Man Who Paints The Pictures

07 - The Sound Barrier - Why Should I Care

08 - Quicksilver Messenger Service - Pride Of Man

09 - Easy Chair - My Own Life

10 - Blues Magoos - Chicken Wire Lady

11 - The Human Beinz - April 15th

12 - Wildwood - Plastic People

13 - Mass Confusion Rock Band - The War Rages On

14 - SRC - Black Sheep

15 - Muddy Waters - Lets Spend The Night Together

16 - Dragonfly - Crazy Woman

17 - Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke And Sasafrass

18 - Omnibus - Good Morning Day

19 - Societys Children - Mister Genie Man

20 - Darius - Blow My Mind

21 - Kim Fowley - Nightrider



CD2 - Kick Out The Jams



01 - MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

02 - Stack - Time Seller

03 - Nazz - Under The Ice

04 - Alice Cooper - Fields Of Regret

05 - Stone Garden - Oceans Inside Me

06 - The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

07 - Spirit - Dark-Eyed Woman

08 - The Litter - Journeys

09 - Love - Robert Montgomery

10 - The Stalk-Forrest Group - Donovans Monkey

11 - Coven - Wicked Woman

12 - Morgen - Welcome To The Void

13 - Conception - Babylon

14 - Frijjd Pink - House Of The Rising Sun

15 - Fuse - Sad Day

16 - Mountain - Mississippi Queen

17 - Gold - No Parking (Live)

18 - Christopher - Dark Road

19 - The Brigade - Self-Made God

20 - Damnation Of Adam Blessing - Death Of A Virgin



CD3 - We're Coming To Your Town



01 - ZZ Top - Neighbor Neighbor

02 - Cold Sun - Twisted Flower

03 - Wildfire - Stars In The Sky

04 - Sir Lord Baltimore - Helium Head (I Got A Love)

05 - BF Trike - Time And Changes

06 - Demian - Face The Crowd

07 - Head Over Heels - Road Runner

08 - Boomerang - Montreal Jail

09 - Cactus - Evil

10 - Bolder Damn - BRTCD

11 - Estes Brothers - Never Coming Down

12 - Blue Oyster Cult - Transmaniacon MC

13 - Earthen Vessel - You Can

14 - Bang - The Queen

15 - Sudden Death - My Time Is Over

16 - The Flow - It Swallowed The Sun

17 - Dust - Suicide

18 - Arthur Lee - Love Jumped Through My Window

19 - Todd Rundgren - Is It My Name

20 - Stray Dog - You Know

21 - Grand Funk - Were An American Band





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