Clark HUTCHINSON - Blues 1968

Clark HUTCHINSON - Blues 1968

Blues

Andy Clark and Mick Hutchunson recorded three fine albums of deranged psychedelic blues between 1968 and 1971. This is their first album from 1968 which showcases the duo in a more formulaic blues-rock mode that they would later use as a springboard to develop their own distinctive sound. The music sits on the juncture where post-psychedelia, Eastern-inspired raves, and low-tech blues meet, and like early Fleetwood Mac, the Groundhogs, and John Mayall, they keep a progressive sound while maintaining a blues spirit. This debut is an inspired introduction to the later classics, and while it is not as far out as their later '70s material.
By Skip Jansen, All Music Guide.
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Andy Clark- (Vocals, Keyboard),
Mick Hutchinson- Guitar),
Stephen Amazing- (Bass),
Del Coverly- (Drums)
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01. Bad Loser 3:27
02. Crow Jane 4.50
03. Guess I Have To Set You Fre 3:35
04. CH Boogie 2.34
05. Maybe In The Morning 3.16
06. Some One's Been At My Woman 6:24
07. Just Wanna 2.39
08. The Summer Seams Longer 9:49
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Clark HUTCHINSON - Retribution 1970

Clark HUTCHINSON - Retribution 1970

Blues

Clark-Hutchinson's debut album had been devoted entirely to long, tiresome psychedelic guitar instrumentals with Indian and blues-rock influences. On their second record, although some of that approach was retained, they at least branched out to some degree, adding some vocals and somewhat more deranged blues-rock tangents. And guess what? It's still indulgent psychedelic hard rock, often annoyingly so, all but one of the five tracks falling into the seven- to ten-minute range. It's some of the most lunkheaded stoner rock you'll come across, and if that seems like a churlishly unfair label, it's one they bring onto themselves with the first cut, "Free to Be Stoned."
For it's here they fly their inept freak flag high, a from-the-gutter, hysterical vocal declaring against a crude blues-rock backing, "I don't wanna be good, but I don't care if I'm bad, I don't want to feel happy, but I don't care if I feel sad...I just wanna be...STONED! STONED! STONED! STONED! For the rest of my natural life!" Just the kind of guy you want to hang out with for next half-hour, huh? The attitude-over-songwriting ethos continues to rule over most of the other tracks, including a tepid ten-minute cocktail jazz instrumental, a ten-minute standard blues-rocker featuring (like "Free to Be Stoned") some of the most disagreeably half-shouted British blues-rock vocals ever laid down, and a finale ("Death, the Lover") that comes off like a particularly bad Arthur Brown imitation in its high-pitched vocal and lyrical mania.
By Richie Unterberger. AMG.
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Andy Clark- (Vocals, Keyboard),
Mick Hutchinson- (Guitar),
Stephen Amazing- (Bass),
Del Coverly- (Drums),
Walt Monahan- (Bass, 1968),
Franco Franco- (Drums, 1968)
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A1. Free To Be Stoned 7:14
A2. After Hours 10:43
B1. In Another Way 3:38
B2. Best Suit 10:16
B3. Death, The Lover 7:15
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