Weeds/Tarkio

Product Description
Sure, 'Tarkio' has the hit 'One Toke over the Line', but don't stop there–these two albums by Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley rank high on the West Coast folk 'n' country-rock pantheon with the New Riders' and Beau Brummels' best. 'Weeds', in fact, may even be a better album than 'Tarkio', as it features production by Nick Gravenites and guitar by Mike Bloomfield–it's the Electric Flag as backing band! 'Tarkio', meanwhile, has pedal steel from Jerry Garcia and such a late-'60s California vibe that you just might get a contact high. We're reissuing these albums together with original art and new notes–a 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive!

Weeds/Tarkio,Brewer & Shipley,Collector's Choice,Folk-Pop,Folk-Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,United States of America

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Weeds/Tarkio

Average customer rating: Ahhh, the memories Great Like the old days Outstanding country-folk-rock two-fer Too long in coming!

Weeds/Tarkio Brewer & Shipley Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: One Toke Over the Line: The Best of Brewer & Shipley Seatrain Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Jonathan Edwards Wanted! Mason Proffitt ASIN: B00020P828 Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

1. Lady Like You
2. Rise Up (Easy Rider)
3. Boomerang
4. Indian Summer
5. All Along the Watchtower
6. People Love Each Other
7. Pigs Head
8. Oh, Sweet Lady
9. Too Soon Tomorrow
10. Witchi-Tai-To
11. One Toke Over the Line - Michael Brewer
12. Song from Platte River
13. Light
14. Ruby on the Morning
15. Oh Mommy
16. Don't Want to Die in Georgia
17. Can't Go Home
18. Tarko Road
19. Seems Like a Long Time
20. Fifty States of Freedom

Album Description

Sure, 'Tarkio' has the hit 'One Toke over the Line', but don't stop there-these two albums by Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley rank high on the West Coast folk 'n' country-rock pantheon with the New Riders' and Beau Brummels' best. 'Weeds', in fact, may even be a better album than 'Tarkio', as it features production by Nick Gravenites and guitar by Mike Bloomfield-it's the Electric Flag as backing band! 'Tarkio', meanwhile, has pedal steel from Jerry Garcia and such a late-'60s California vibe that you just might get a contact high. We're reissuing these albums together with original art and new notes-a 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive!

Customer Reviews:

Ahhh, the memories.......2007-07-04

I heard B & S in a coffee house in Kansas City in 1971, have almost worn out the album, and now hearing these tracks, takes me back to my college years! The so-called musicians of 2007 could learn a thing or two from true artists like these guys!

Great.......2006-05-17

Great to have this music available again...Now if only they would release "Shake Off the Demon" and "Rural Space" on CD which both had some wonderful music on them too.

Like the old days.......2006-03-18

We have been looking for a digital master of this for ages. Many of these songs, particularly on the Tarkio Road portion, not only harken back to the 70's, but seem very relevant even today. A truly wonderful compilation of a duo that should get far more credit than it does.

Outstanding country-folk-rock two-fer.......2005-03-02

Like several other one-hit wonders, Brewer & Shipley were a bona fide music act before (and after) their brief intersection with Top-40 fame. The native Oklahoman and Ohioan (respective to their billing) had been kicking around the Los Angeles folk scene for a couple of years when they recorded their 1968 debut ("Down in L.A.") for A&M. By the time they waxed this pair of albums for Kama Sutra in '69 and '70, they'd settled back in the Midwest.

Both albums were recorded in San Francisco with Nick Gravenites producing and assembling the who's-who bands. "Weeds" features Mike Bloomfield on guitar, Mark Naftalin on piano and organ, Richard Greene on fiddle, and Red Rhodes on pedal steel. "Tarkio" retains several of the players (most notably Naftalin), and adds a guest spot for Jerry Garcia on his then newly learned pedal steel. Across the two LPs' 20 tracks, Brewer & Shipley forge a perfectly balanced blend of folk harmony, country twang and rock power.

"Weeds" features a number of standout originals and covers, including the easy ballad "Lady Like You," the slumberous "Indian Summer," and a truly sublime cover of Jim Pepper's ancestral peyote chant, "Witchi-Tai-To." "Tarkio" moves its hippie vibe into the '70s, with strong echoes of the Nixon Years' creeping paranoia. In addition to the rousing hit "One Toke Over the Line," and poetic, philosophical folk songs like "The Light" and "Ruby on the Morning," the album is filled with personal travelogues that match external miles with internal turbulence. "Song From Platte River" and "Tarkio Road" essay the repressed experience of the counterculture, and "Don't Want to Die in Georgia" voices the anxiety of many freaks' travel in the South.

Both albums are vastly under-known 5-star folk-rock classics.

Too long in coming!.......2004-11-11

At long last I can cease my search for my Holy Grail of record albums: Weeds. As a borderline hippie girl and member of a Christian commune in the early 70's, all of us blue-jean babies high-kicked to "Witchi-Tai-To" at midnight communions (Jesus People knew how to rock out!). That song still inspires me with its plaintive pre-amble, "Oh my God, must it be so hard . . . I'm doin' all that I can" seguing into a liquid bongo beat that builds and builds, then crescendos with the mantra, "what a spirit round my head, makes me feel glad that I'm not dead." Until now, all Brewer & Shipley re-issues had the lengthy song chopped in two or faded out prematurely. For anyone who misses an era long-gone, get this album and crank it up loud -- it's guaranteed to "shake off your demons," (another great Brewer & Shipley song . . . Thanks for this long-overdue re-issue!

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