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Spring Fever - Woodstock, Toronto, Ontario,1970,rock, blues Very rare album from 1970 from a three piece Canadian band on the same label as Christmas. The album features some late '60's styled hippy psych rock with cool guitar work throughout and covers of tracks such as CSN's “A Long time Coming“ Morganfield's “I Just Want to Make Love To You“ Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock“ plus other similar period Canadian power trio playing Blues, Rock and a few Funky Hammond Gems. Has covers like David Crosby's A Long Time Coming, Taj Mahal's She Caught My Katie, Morganfield's I Just Want To Make Love To You and She Moves Me, a great Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, J.B. Lenoir's Mama What About Your Daughter, Buddy Guy's Watch Yourself and Bennett's Oh Baby Hold Me. What makes this impressive is the great musicianship and simple and clear production. Issued on same label as Reign Ghost and Christmas, and super rare too. One of the toughest Paragon LP's to track down... Hans Pokora has it listed in his Record Collector Dreams series of books with a 3 Star Rarity Rating! Even with its inclusion in the Pokora books it's still relatively unknown. A limited German CD reissue surfaced some years back and it has never been reissued on vinyl. This album is mainly comprised of great covers done in a very raw garage charged blues rock fashion with slight psychedelic touches... but the real standout on this album, for me personally, is the original instrumental “Spring Fever“, an incredibly tight jam action with a Slide Wah Wah Guitar combined with a heavy bottom end and hard drums. Tracks A1 Woodstock 0:00 A2 A Long Time Coming 4:00 A3 She Caught My Katie 8:52 A4 I Just Want To Make Love You 12:10 A5 Shes Looking Good 14:41 B1 Oh Baby Hold Me 17:40 B2 Watch Yourself 20:14 B3 Gimme Shelter 23:52 B4 She Moves Me 27:55 B5 Mamma, What About Your Daughter 31:27 B6 Spring Fever 34:08 Drums – Frank Meehan Organ, Bass, Harmony Vocals – Rick Law (2) Vocals, Lead Guitar – Paul James (12)
