Name: Blues Obituary
Brand: Groundhogs

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-FIRE-506X

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Blue Colored LP.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

809236150615

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

CD-FIRE-506

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Extended format: No

809236150622

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Groundhogs

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Fire Records

50th Anniversary Edition of The Groundhogs' album <i>Blues Obituary</i>. Available here on Blue Colored LP and Standard CD.

The second studio album from The Groundhogs, now slimmed to the classic three piece line up of Tony TS McPhee on guitar, Pete Cruikshank on bass and Ken Pestelnik on drums. The beginning of their domination as the hardest working band on the circuit, a testament to their creativity as they re-tooled the blues into a neo-psyche groove. Breaking from their traditional influences, the first stepping stone for the power trio who would blossom with "Thank Christ For the Bomb," <br>

"Split" and "Who Will Save The World?." Inspired by a Yardbirds' freak out, hearing authentic Indian drumming and the magic that existed between this legendary trio, "Blues Obituary" is a juggernaut of riffs. According to Tony in Zig Zag's John Tobler's sleevenotes to the 1987 re-issue of "Blues Obituary" it was the BBC's John Peel producer John Walters that forced the band's hand. "He decided he hated the blues," McPhee told Tobler, "We figured it was time to get away from it." "A deep excursion into musical depths further down than Canned Heat ever dared go." The re-issue also includes a mono-friendly single cut of "BDD" plus its original B-side "Gasoline," an aching solo Tony TS McPhee track.

Blues Obituary

Music US