ORIGINAL 1970 highly-sought FIRST PRINTING
on HIGHLY SOUGHT SWIRL VERTIGO Label ...
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LEGENDARY WORLD CLASS
fan-fave rated MONSTER and projected won t go cheaply
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The 1970 first Lp Progressive classic yet more psychedelic the mighty GRAVY TRAIN, remains a highly respected British underground band who made at least 3 sought after albums....
None Better than their very first and very best
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GRAVY TRAIN from Lancashire England were formed in 1970 by guitarist/vocalist Norman Barrett. They managed to get a contract with the famous Vertigo label. And their first outing aptly named Gravy Train hit the streets in early 1970
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GRAVY TRAIN released their first album on the highly sought Vertigo label and remains a high-end collectible from the dawning of 1970. Highly talented, they created two other sought albums Ballad Of A Peaceful Man and Staircase To The Day ... yet, none better than this their first
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Gravy Train were not a full-blown straight-progressive band, having bent psychedelic edges all over the place...One of those early UK progressive greats including fuzz guitar instead of keyboards. But also contains elements you might expect on a psychedelic/progressive rock rated monster -even having a long piece dedicated to Pink Floyd s Syd Barrett - featuring delicious whirling flute and precision interplay between all members.
The vocalist has one of those voices ala Van der Graaf Generator, Gnidrolog or Audience... Highlights include, The New One , Dedication To Syd , Enterprise , and Think Of Life really all the rest
With a blues-rock basis hard rocking sound ...
one might rate GRAVY TRAIN to other great British early-prog classics such as Beggar s Opera and Warhorse and earliest JETHRO TULL gone off the charts combining acid-laced interludes ...
Gravy Train s 1st LP direction was filled with complex structures and arrangements ...plenty of creative compositional ideas. Seems their big influence being an expanded underground-sound version of Jethro Tull meeting vague influences of Traffic,
Highlights feature a slightly harder edge meshed within the role of J. D. Hughes sensational flowing flute winds injections.
Quite impressive throughout, far better than the pedestrian UK underground blues-psych from the late 60 s ...
While the blues thing still bears an obvious presence check out Coast Road and the sung parts of The New One , the band shows they created impressive progressive arrangements such as The New One , Dedication to Syd , Enterprise and the robust 16 minute long closer.
Dedication to Syd provides a certain aura of psychedelic fun amidst the exhibition of rocking power and prog-fashioned complexity.
Enterprise is arguably the gem of the album, alternating carefully composed passages and aggressive jamming in a solid manner: Hughes manages perfectly well to keep his flute interventions from getting drowned by the storming guitar in the middle section.
The long closing track can be described as a recapitulation of all three musical sources Gravy Train was all about, with complex layers meshing blues-rock, psychedelic hard rock and progressive moves.
Odd time signatures and crafty tempo shifts are firmly sustained by drummer Barry Davenport, who uses his jazz-friendly sensibilities to great effect. Being as it is the most recurrent wind instrument in the group s sound, Hughes does not limit himself to it, but he also plays some damn good winds alto and tenor : every time appearing, the sax turns out to be complementary to Norman Barrett s guitar riffs and leads, especially on the bluesier side of Gravy Train s music. Track 5, titled Think of Life , is the most lively and least demanding piece in the repertoire, something more focused in typical early 70s hard rock with a psychedelic touch.
A:
The New One 5:16
Dedication to Syd 7:27
Coast Road 6:52
Enterprise 6:25
B:
Think of Life 5:12
Earl of Pocket Nook 16:15
