Stoned Age Man is the first, and only, album by the band Joseph. Not much is known about this band or album. The Joseph in the band is Joseph Longeria, a blues singer/guitarist who was playing the Texas blues-bar circuit in the late 60s. He was discovered by producer/A&R man Steve Tyrell. Longeria was signed to Scepter Records, and went to work. Longeria had song titles, but no actual songs. Him, the rest of his band and the producers wrote music and lyrics to go with all the titles, and recorded the album in a mere 48 hours. Joseph never had a hit, and never released anything after this. This album is very rare, and is unknown among common society. Not that much stands out about Joseph himself – his voice rammed between Dr. John, Joe Cocker, and Captain Beefheart, which pushes Stoned Age Man into enough of notoriety to justify its cult tag. His band of weird religious hippies showed they can piss as high as better known contemporaries. The songs sort of suck, but the playing is really good – the fuzzy guitar lines inparticular. From Sundazed web page: Rooted in the steamy backroads of Texas and deep-fried at a Memphis recording studio, Joseph’s Stoned Age Man was served up like a sizzling hot rattlesnake appetizer slathered in fuzz-blooz grease in 1969. Legend has it that the titles of eight of the album’s nine songs came before they were written on the spot, which speaks volumes for the talents of Joseph (aka, Joseph Longeria) – who A&R man Steve Tyrell signed to Scepter Records after witnessing the Lone Star State bluesman gig with B.B. King and T-Bone Burnett. Brandishing his guitar like a Cro-Magnon’s club, Joseph mixes his fuzzy licks with meat-grinder vocals as he loudly ruminates of fattened snakes, fish heads, mountains, cavemen and gumbo in the maddest peyote hallucination Alley Oop never had. Long revered among collectors, this fine slab o’ rock gets its first-ever reissue from the original masters, pressed at RTI onto 180 grams of cold hard vinyl that’ll rip your turntable from its hinges. Track listing: 1. Trick Bag 2. I Aint Flattenin No More Frogs For Snakes 3. Cold Biscuits and Fish Heads 4. Stoned Age Man 5. Im Gonna Build a Mountain 6. Mojo Gumbo 7. The House of the Rising Sun 8. Gotta Get Away 9. Come the Sun Tomorrow
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:00:25 +0000
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