I posted the first Canadian Blues Rock band "Crowbar" album the other day and was given many positive remarks, that I suppose I should post this rarity pronto. As I mentioned in that post, they shared the credits on "Official Music" with "King Biscuit Boy" and what a cracking album this is indeed. Natural is the word to sum up this fantstic set. Enjoy this folks. You won't regret it. I was going to post this soon, but a big shout to sluggo who recommended that I should post it sooner.
01. Highway 61 (2:56)
02. Don't Go No Further (3:48)
03. Unseen Eye (3:02)
04. I'm Just A Lonely Guy (2:36)
05. Key To The Highway (3:19)
06. Corrina (4:38)
07. Biscuit's Boogie (9:38)
08. Hoy Hoy Hoy (5:18)
09. Badly Bent (2:13)
10. Cookin' Little Baby (2:41)
11. Shout Bama Lama (2:32)
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11 comments:
Man, King Biscuit Boy! This is the good stuff. Thanks again for finding these gems.
Hey np Anon,
You like ? They are just so cool & natural ;]
Thanks and enjoy
Chuntao
Thanks for adding King Biscuit Boy..i could send a link for his 1971 album "Gooduns"..its a fantastic album..if you don't have it.
brian
Thanks. This is my hometown band. Grew up listening to these guys (still remember a concert at a local curling rink with these guys, a band named Bush - with Domenic Triano, Roy Kenner, Prakash John and Hugh Sullivan - and the headliner - Sly and the Family Stone).
Unfortunately, the untimely death of Biscuit Boy put an end to any chances of collaborations between the members of what was Crowbar and King.
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/crowbar2.html
rickmcgrath.com
Talking About John Lennon
Kelly Jay Raps
Vancouver, March 10, 1971
By Rick McGrath
[excerpt]
Here's the first of two interviews I did with Kelly Jay, the leader of Crowbar, a quintessential Ontario bar band. Here's the interview with the original introduction...
It was quite awhile ago that Kelly Jay, pianist and singer for the Canadian band called Crowbar, set a new promotion endurance record in Vancouver. Crowbar is, in my opinion, one of the best of Canada's rock groups (and I'm including The Guess Why and Steppinpoop) to spring up out of the wilds of the Ontario hinterland, and Kelly (that's his voice on Oh, What a Feelin (Whatta Rush)) is one of more reasonable people in the music scene as directed by the CRTC.
Whilst Kelly was staying in town, I trucked down to the Bayshore Inn (with its stereo muzak) to garner a few choice opinions on my magical tape machine. Kelly really raps, and that's all there is to that.
Rick: I heard you know John Lennon. How is that?
Kelly Jay: I've been waiting for someone to ask me that. Thanks very much. We met Lennon at Ronnie Hawkins' farm, right, when he came for the Peace Festival. And we were there with him and we saw the whole superstar thing. My first contact with someone like Lennon. We walked into Hawkins' farm, and he was on one of those snowmobile things. And he was driving around and I came up from behind a bush and I figured I'd really play a number on him. I figured there was really only one way to meet this cat and that's to totally just do a number all over him when you first meet him, cause it's the only way you're going to impress him, right? Not "impress" him, you know, but I figured this guy meets so many people that saying "hi, I really dug your record" isn't going to cut it.
So, it was when those laugh bags first came out, and we had six of them, so I took one and we all signed it "To John Lennon from The Hawks". So I stepped out from behind this bush -- I was wearing this long velvet cape, so I put it over my head (I still had my frisbee, a fantastic afro) -- with this bag laughing, and I said "Take this, man, and may it serve you well", and he said, "Oh, what's this?", and I walked away and he just sat there, man, just sitting on the machine, and he was literally cracking up, he just dug the thing so much...[more]
Ge,
Many thanks for the xtra information. A big help for my readers. Much obliged there.
C.
Thanks for sharing this. Martin from Canada.
Kilgore Trout says just keep doin' what you do.......friggen awesome site King Bisuit Boy w/Crowbar ...Dyn-o-myte, i grew up listening to both and listening to this once again brings back lots o memories thx. this stuff is hard to come by if you ever come across King Bisuit Boy - 'Gooduns' would really appreciate it thx in advance & i plan on visiting plenty more
Kilgore Trout says - once again many thx for the Crowbar. Another band from roughly the same area and time in Canada Mckenna Mendleson Mainline well worth the listen. they later changed to Mainline & had an album called Canada Our Home & Native Land (1971)which is extremely rare, any help would be very appreciated, later another band name change This time to Mainline Bump 'n'Grind Revue & an album called Live At The Victory Theatre (1972)also pretty hard to find either of which or both for that matter well worth the trip any help a big thx in advance
Kilgore Trout, I have done one of your wishes and have already shown your appreciation. Thank you.
As for the other on this commenbt, I will do my best to post them sooner than you think.
Speak soon G.T.
Chuntao
i can't even remember how long i've looked for this one, as well as anything else available from KBB. i even got a download from a friend a couple years ago, but a couple of the files were damaged/truncated. thanks so much for allowing me to finally enjoy this masterpiece in all its glory! your site totally rocks...
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