The Wild Thymes - Reflections - CD

This deluxe CD contains 7 Bonus Tracks, it's the complete Wild Thymes package, a 24 page booklet with extended liner notes by Alec Palao.   Includes 4 songs by The Present Daze.  The vinyl is getting rave reviews everywhere and now you can hear this great music on your CD player at home or on the road. (Do they still put those in cars?) Digital mastering from the original Audio Recorder tapes. 

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Mind bending music from 1966 and 1967 featuring members of Goose Creek Symphony, Last Friday’s Fire and Superfine Dandelion

Liner notes: Grammy-nominated music historian Alec Palao

Recommended if you like - 66-67 Beatles, Byrds, Electric Prunes, Moby Grape

From the mind of Ritchie Hart (Charlie Gearheart), in late 1967, just as musical tastes were expanding on every hipster’s stereo on their milk crate shelf, we found The Wild Thymes and the music you now hold.  Incubated in late night hours of spec time at Audio Recorders of Arizona, with engineer Tim Ramsey, and everyone bonded in a "Let's try this" frame of mind.  With creative inspiration from Mike Condello and Bill Spooner (Warren S. Richardson), who would both have their own albums months later, using  the same interchangeable group of free thinking studio musicians.  This was a short lived “studio creation band,” that rarely played together in clubs, creating these amazing "pop-psyche fuzz garage rock" songs, written for the most part by Hart and guitarist Bob Knisley. 

In 1966 Hart was fronting the faux Brit band Volume IV, then The Present Daze, who morphed into The Wild Thymes.  By the next year he was writing new songs for the first Goose Creek album, in a completely different direction for sure, and The Wild Thymes tapes were left to gather cosmic dust on a shelf at Audio Recorders.  Why this project was not released at the time is a mystery now, considering the high-quality music these lads laid down.  The music is stunning to hear after all these years.

Ramco Records is honored to make this historic album (and story) available to everyone after all this time, in splendid-all analog, high fidelity MonoPhonic sound.

Track Listing

1 - I Can't Believe This Is Happening

2 - Bummer Loan Co. Inc. with Chop Suey & Meat Balls & 2 Cent Tax

3 - Organ Grinder

4 - If I Needed Someone

5 - Can I

6 - Where Will I Go

7 - Reflections

8 - Hard Times Are A Comin'

9 - Tax Man

10 - Love

11 - All Changes Remain The Same

12 - I Lived Once Yesterday

+ 7 Bonus Tracks