Various Artists - Down & Wired 5

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: PT061LP
Barcode: 5050580764934
Release Date: 15 Oct 2021
Genre: Blue Eyed Soul

01: Lydia Pinkham Hit The Road Jack (feat. The Denver Hot Flashes)
02: Changes You'd Be My Woman
03: The Changing Times Meadow
04: Abe Malká & The Basic Bronx Shakin' Up The Nation
05: Reb Plain Joy
06: Dallas Rumpelstiltskin
07: The Nassauvians Misunderstood
08: The Continentals Rufus Rastas
09: The Ladds I Found The Girl
10: Oratorium It's Love (edit)
11: Caesar & His Romans Black Lantern
12: The Bobbies Put Me Down (Part 2)

!!! A DOSE OF PSYCHEDELIC FUNK & BLUE-EYED SOUL !!!

It's been a minute since Perfect Toy Records last hooked you up with a wild ride down that ol' psych-soul highway but the blacktop beckons once more with the sourcing of material for Down & Wired Vol. 5 by veteran follower of the 'way of the dusty crate' - Chan The Man!

This one begins, aptly enough, with an irresistible cover of Hit The Road Jack, by turns languorous and fiery from Bay Area-based Lydia Pinkham & The Denver Hot Flashes. Of course, working up a head of speed, is intoxicating and the next three cuts, from Changes, The Changing Times and Abe, Malka & The Basic Bronx, deliver increasingly scorching psych-funk laced with wah-wah guitar. Things get heavier again as Side A draws to a close with a brace of rock-oriented cuts – an uptempo blues groove from Reb and a psych-rock nugget from Dallas.

The second half of the LP, like the first, also opens with a cover – this time with The Nassauvians' heavy take on Baby Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood followed by a dirty slab of 60s garage rock from The Continentals. After that, things take a mellower turn with The Ladds' lowrider love song, I Found A Girl, (the first ballad to be featured in the series!) before getting back to the psych-rock on a short edit of the original 9-minute long It's Love from German Christian rock band Oratorium. Wrapping things up for Vol.5 are Caesar & His Romans' garage classic Black Lantern and The Bobbies' funked up cover of Jerry Lee Lewis's, She Put Me Down.

In short, it's another triumphant set of dope obscurities (once againaccompanied by detailed liner notes and never-before-seen photos of the artists) and a tribute to the dusty-fingered digging skills of Chan The Man.

Stone Monkey/ monkeyboxing.com – June 2021

KEY SELLING POINTS:
- all tracks appear on a full length album for the very first time
- incl. detailed liner notes and unseen photographs
- incl. previously unreleased material
- incl. full album download code

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