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Features Disc of the day
The Beau Brummels
Bradley’s Barn
(Warner Bros, 1968)
Ahead-of-the-curve country-rock conjures acid Appalachia.
This week is 1968 Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will be from that year.
Was there anything Ron Elliott and Sal Valentino couldn’t do? As the core creative members of The Beau Brummels they signed to San Francisco’s Autumn Records in 1964 and, with producer Sly Stewart (later Sly Stone), swiftly conjured up the lonely harmonies and meanLennon lyrics of their debut, Laugh, Laugh, the first US single to actively respond to the British invasion. In the process of cutting their debut album they accidentally invented folk-rock before The Byrds. Then, after making one of the defining concept albums of 1967 – the baroque country-psych wonder Triangle – the group headed off to Owen Bradley’s Nashville studio (the “Bradley’s barn” of the title) to craft an album that “got” country-rock quicker and better than most. With Ron Elliott’s delicate arrangements – all glockenspiels, banjos and piano strings – Sal Valentino’s wryly-smiling, slightly-sinister vocals and lyrics that blend childhood memory with adult loneliness (Deep Water, I’m A Sleeper) the overall feel is of some hallucinatory fairy tale, located within the wyrd meeting-ground between backwoods Appalachia and acid-changed young America. Sadly, in answer to that opening question, the one thing Elliott and Valentino couldn’t do was make money and stay together. Excluding a reunion album in 1975, Bradley’s Barn was their final statement.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 06/03/2008
Further Listening
The Beau Brummels – Triangle (Warner Bros., 1967)
The Band – Music From Big Pink (Capitol, 1968)
The Everly Brothers – Roots (Warner Bros., 1968)
What’s YOUR favourite 1968 album? Enlighten us below...
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Great record. It's fresh and amazing country-rock in the same level of Dillard & Clark, Michael Nesmith.....
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