Rock Archeologia

The Avant-Garde - New Directions (1968 CEO Records)

Artist: The Avant-Garde
Album: New Directions
Label: CEO Records
Catalog#: XSBV 128585
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1968
Country: US
Genre: Folk, Psich
Duration: 00:26:26

• Psychedelic pop duo the Avant-Garde teamed vocalists Chuck Woolery and Elkin "Bubba" Fowler, who were backed by session musicians on each of their three singles for the Columbia label. The duo debuted in late 1967 with "Yellow Beads," capturing a sweeping acoustic sound that crested with the follow-up, "Naturally Stoned," a minor classic of orchestral pop that reached number 40 on the Billboard pop charts in mid-1968. The more overtly psychedelic touches that distinguished the Avant-Garde's first two efforts were scrapped for their third and final single, "Fly With Me" -- when the disc barely dented the charts, the group dissolved. Fowler then went folky and in 1970 Columbia issued his lone solo LP, And Then Came Bubba -- he later played guitar on Bob Dylan's Self-Portrait, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate, and a handful of other sessions. Woolery, meanwhile, went on to much greater fame as a television game show host, helming Wheel of Fortune in its original daytime run as well as the long-running Love Connection, Scrabble, and Greed. He also founded MotoLures, a company that manufactured his signature line of fishing lures. In 2003, Woolery -- now host of the Game Show Network program Lingo -- was also the subject of the channel's first-ever reality series; dubbed Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned, the show also featured the Avant-Garde's biggest hit as its title theme. - Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny 

 • Side One:
A1. If I Knew - 02:06
A2. For Bobbie - 02:58
A3. Where I'm Bound - 02:27
A4. Cruel War - 02:45
A5. Good Times Comin' Through - 03:02
      (written by Chuck Woolery)
 • Side Two:
B1. Pack Up Your Sorrows - 02:21
B2. Revelation's Revolutions - 02:31
      (written by Bubba Fowler)
B3. He's Everything To Me - 02:14
B4. In Times Like These - 02:15
B5. Well, Well, Well - 03:42

      Recorded at Bradley's Barn
      Engineer by Chrlie Tailent

Personel:
Charles Herbert "Chuck" Woolery
Elkin "Bubba" Fowler

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