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Grootna Discography of CDs
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She even tackles a Bessie Smith number, "Young Woman Blues," and a song written by Bob Neuwirth, who provided Joplin with "Mercedes Benz" on Pearl. Columbia took a major hit in the fall of 1970 when Janis Joplin died, even though her posthumously released LP, Pearl, became a major success. The producer is Marty Balin (his actual credit reads, "seduced by"), and this marks his first work on a record since his official departure from Jefferson Airplane, the band he founded. The songs largely serve as vehicles for the instrumental work, and they usually sound like they could have been much longer. The group has a loose, eclectic style typical of San Francisco-associated psychedelic acts, with tastes of rock, blues, and country melded in a sense of improvisation heard in lengthy solos from lead guitarist Vic Smith and pianist Richard Sussman. Grootna is also, in an odd way, overshadowed by someone who isn't actually heard on the album itself. But, at least on the evidence of this debut album, Rizzo is not the next Joplin, even though she has a strong, effective voice. Joplin, of course, had emerged from the Bay Area band Big Brother & the Holding Company, and Grootna has obvious similarities to it. And, in Anna Rizzo, who sings lead on every track except "Road Fever," Grootna has its own Joplin clone. Produced by Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin who later joined the band, which was to mutate into and record as Bodacious D.F.. Acadia. 2002.
It isn't hard to hear what got Grootna, a sextet from Berkeley, CA, a management deal with entrepreneur Bill Graham and a contract with Columbia Records negotiated by company president Clive Davis. Recorded in 1971 & first time ever on CD for one of the great 'third generation' San Francisco rock bands.
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Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Grootna Songs
Popular or famous Grootna music songs: Customs, Full Time Woman, Going to Canada, I She It, I'm Funky, Road Fever, That's What You Get. More music songs Waitin' For My Ship, Young Woman's Blues, Your Grandmother Loves You.
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