Groundhogs - Black Diamond/Crosscut Saw

Artist:

Groundhogs

UPC:

5017261201317

Description:

Personnel: Tony McPhee Band (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Rick Adams, Ric Adams (guitar); Mick Cook (drums, percussion).
Liner Note Author: John Tobler.
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 Liberty/UA that the group released in 1976, Crosscut Saw (begun in 1975 as a McPhee solo project) and Black Diamond, neither of which is particularly distinctive aside from Crosscut`s acoustic-based "Mean Mistreater" and "Pastoral Future," which features some lovely guitar playing by McPhee. It`s nice to have both of these albums on one disc, though, which should delight fans of the band. ~ Steve Leggett

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Crosscut Saw
2. Promiscuity
3. Boogie Withus
4. Fulfilment
5. Live a Little Lady
6. Three Way Split
7. Mean Mistreater
8. Eleventh Hour
9. Body Talk
10. Fantasy Partner
11. Live Right
12. Country Blues
13. Your Love Keeps Me Alive
14. Friendzy
15. Pastoral Future
16. Black Diamond

Album Information

Release Date:

02/01/1992

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Hard Rock

Label:

Beat Goes On

Producer:

Tony McPhee Band

Catalog Number:

BGOCD 131

Original Release Year:

1997

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

78 : 35

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