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Moby Grape - Truly Fine Citizen (Reissue, Remastered) (1969/2007)

Moby Grape - Truly Fine Citizen (Reissue, Remastered) (1969/2007)

BAND/ARTIST: Moby Grape

Moby Grape - Truly Fine Citizen (Reissue, Remastered) (1969/2007)


Tracklist:

01. Changes, Circles Spinning
02. Looper
03. Truly Fine Citizen
04. Beautiful Is Beautiful
05. Love Song
06. Right Before My Eyes
07. Open Up Your Heart
08. Now I Know High
09. Treat Me Bad
10. Toungue-Tied

Extra Tracks: Live & Studio Recordings, 1967 - 1968
11. Love Song, Part Two
12. Rounder (Live - Recorded 1968)
13. Miller's Blues (Live - Recorded 1968)
14. Changes (Live - Recorded 1968)
15. Skip's Song (Demo of ''Seeing'' - Recorded Nov 6, 1967)
16. Looper (Demo - Recorded Nov 6, 1967)
17. Soul Stew (Instrumental - Recorded May 28, 1968)
18. Cockatoo Blues (Demo - Recorded Apr 30, 1968)

1969's Truly Fine Citizen was the last gasp for the original incarnation of Moby Grape. The departures of guitarist Skip Spence and bassist Bob Mosley had reduced the once-mighty band to a trio, and sessionman Bob Moore had to be brought in to fill out the lineup. Columbia Records decided Moby Grape needed a break from producer and studio collaborator David Rubinson, and they were sent to Nashville to record with Bob Johnston, best known for his work with Bob Dylan. Johnston reportedly began the sessions by announcing the album had to be recorded in a mere three days, and if the musicians didn't like it they were free to leave. And Moby Grape were in the midst of an ugly legal dispute with their manager that resulted in most of the songs on the album being credited to Tom Dell'ara, their road manager. Given all this, it's a pleasant surprise that Truly Fine Citizen isn't a disaster -- it's a loose but amiable set of sunny psychedelic pop-rock with a decided country influence. Guitarists Peter Lewis and Jerry Miller had already shown their country leanings on Moby Grape '69, and here it comes to the forefront with some solid Nashville-style picking, and their harmonies with drummer Don Stevenson remain one of the highlights of the group's sound. There are a few good songs on board, including "Looper" (which had been in the Grape's repertoire since their earliest days), the sunny "Changes, Circles Spinning" and the title cut, a tribute to a mystic healer the band had met on the road. But Truly Fine Citizen was basically a rush job recorded to finish out Moby Grape's contract with Columbia, and too much of the time that's just what it sounds like, despite the obvious talent of the musicians, and the jazzy "Love Song, Pt. Two" and "Now I Know High," which at 6:14 meanders twice as long as the album's second longest tune, are clear filler on an album that's barely over a half-hour long. Moby Grape were still capable of making a good album when they cut Truly Fine Citizen, but they scarcely had the opportunity to demonstrate that.


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  • whiskers
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