Amazing live doc of this legendary group who tore the roof offa the original Brattleboro Free Folk fest with moves that had more in common with The New Tweedy Brothers and Cheater Slicks than Doc Snock and The Memphis Jug Band. Line-up features Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand of The Man, Trees Chants & Hollers, Aeth'r Myth'd, The Other Method, Soil Sing Through Me et al), Valerie Webb and Daniel Presnell (Hildegard, Feed and Seed Records) along with drummer Marcus DeMaio. This beautiful LP, in classic mysterious private-press style packaging was apparently the whole reason Wooden Wand started his vinyl-only Mad Monk imprint and it's an absolute beauty, moving from the kinda gasoline garage you'd expect from committed backwoods psychedelic revivalists through roaring drone rock, swampy ballroom blues and the kinda amphetamine gnosis pedalled by pill-snuffing bikers at small communes across USA 1969. Evidence of Astral Blessings brief 'reign' are almost non-existent and this is the monster to fill the gap. Fantastic and "obscenely limited".
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PAST TIP OF THE TONGUES
