Rock Archeologia

Hemlock - Selftitled 1973 Deram/2004 Walhalla Records

Artist: Hemlock
Albom: Selftitled
℗ 1973 Deram Records - SML 1102
℗ & © 2004 Walhalla Records
Catalog#: WH 90346
Country: UK
Genre: Rock, Melodic Rock
Format: FLAC (img+.cue)
Bitrate: lossless
Total Time: 00:37:13

• Hemlock - группа одного альбома.

Но альбома достаточно интересного. Из 4-х музыкантов, принимавших в этом проекте участие, наибольшего внимания заслуживает гитарист, вокалист и автор почти всего материала некто Miller Anderson, засветившийся и до и после этой банды в таких командах как: Fat Mattress, Dog Soldier, The Keef Hartley Band, Savoy Brown. Здесь у него очень проникновенный вокал, да и в целом альбом удался.

• The band's best-known member was Miller Anderson who, apart from recording a solo album back in 1971, was also in The Voice, At Last The 1958 Rock'n'Roll Show,  Keef Hartley Band (all pre-Hemlock) and Dog Soldier (1975). He now lives in Shoreham-By-Sea and has been performing regularly with Spencer Davis Group as well as recently guesting on a Jon Lord solo album, "Pictured Within".

More or less a vehicle for Anderson's songwriting output (he wrote all of the album's material), Hemlock sounds by no means artificial or put-together. Rather, they were a typical British blues act, without the requisite posing. Naturally, the atmosphere is very serious and dominated by Mick Weaver's passionate organ-playing.

              • Tracklist:

             01. Just An Old Friend - 5.44 min
             02. A Lover's Not A Thief - 3.29 min
             03. Mister Horizontal - 3.24 min
             04. Ship To Nowhere - 5.52 min
             05. Monopoly - 3.22 min
             06. Broken Dreams - 3.50 min
             07. Fool's Gold - 2.41 min
             08. Garden Of Life - 3.13 min
             09. Young Man's Prayer - 5.38 min

Personnel:

Miller Anderson - guitar, vocals

Eric Dillon - drums

Peter Dines - keyboards, guitar, vocals

Jim Leverton - bass, vocals

Chris Mercer - sax

Blue Weaver - keyboards, percussion

Pete Willsher - steel guitar

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