Spirit - Archive: An Introduction... CD


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Archive: An Introduction... album for sale by Spirit was released Oct 31, 2008 on the Acadia label. Since singer/songwriter/guitarist Randy California's accidental death in 1997, his estate has issued a series of albums drawn from his extensive archive of unreleased recordings by the band he led, Spirit. Archive: An Introduction... buy CD music This 20-track CD is a compilation that presents some highlights from those albums. Producer/compiler Mick Skidmore has been responsible for the assembly of the albums, and here he constructs a representative sampling that includes socially conscious rock songs like "Son of America" and "Shock Values"; folk-blues numbers played on acoustic bottleneck guitar such as "Wagon of Wood," and a cover of "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)"; live recordings; some psychedelic experiments; and catchy pop/rock tunes like "My Friend" and "Zandu." California was an adept rock guitarist, a good singer, and a versatile songwriter whose relationship with the record business had its ups and downs (he details some of the problems in "Shock Values"), such that his recorded legacy is only partly accounted for on the albums Spirit made for Ode/Epic and Mercury Records in the '60s and '70s. Archive: An Introduction... CD music contains a single disc with 21 songs. ...See Full Description

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Trk	Song	Time	Price	Buy MP3
1	Son of Amercias
2	Cages See All 3
3	Suntronics See All 2
4	His Love See All 3
5	Wagon Of Wood See All 2
6	When You're Smilin'
7	French Apartment See All 2
8	Charlie James
9	Miss This Train See All 5
10	Solider
11	Jam Free See All 2
12	Shock Values See All 2
13	Oil Slick
14	Million Years Suite
15	My Friend See All 3
16	You Know See All 2
17	Neptune Caper See All 2
18	Victim of Society See All 6	3:03	$1.29	(Available)
19	Zandu See All 5
20	Reeling the Night
21	Nature's Way See All 34 Instr. Edit	3:34	$0.99	(Available)