VINYL FORMAT. 180 gram vinyl housed in a gate-fold sleeve. One of the finer moments of British blues, the Groundhogs, lead by British guitar hero Tony McPhee, worshipped in the church of American blues and R&B. Devotees of John Lee Hooker, but they proved their chops in the mid sixties when Hooker selected them to back him on his British tours. However, while the Groundhogs payed a derivative sound, they were a solid band in their own right, with an especially electrifying live presence, as proven in their...   [ read more ]

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Originally released in April 1995, fresh off the success of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the band recorded a deliberately chaotic and eclectic album that sounded nothing like its predecessor. With influences from the Groundhogs to the Frogs, Captain Beefheart to the more obscure mid-'80s central California hardcore bands, Wowee Zowee confused critics and alienated fans. Yet it became a fan favorite over time. The songs have a darkness that now seems appropriate and with Bryce Goggin at the mixing desk, the ...   [ read more ]

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The Groundhogs were an at-times better than average 1960s British blues band led by Tony "T.S." McPhee, whose Jack Bruce-like vocals and raggedly aggressive guitar style made the group sound at times like a looser version of Cream. By the mid-'70s the Groundhogs sounded more like Cream thrown into a blender with Ten Years After, and their hard rock sound, for all of McPhee's guitar brilliance, had taken on an alarmingly generic feel. This set combines the two albums for {@Libe...   [ read more ]

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