Sold Date: September 18, 2016
Start Date: September 11, 2016
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THE AMERICAN BLUES  
ORIGINAL KARMA LP (1968)        


American Blues were a late-60s Texas-based garage rock band, who played a psychedelic style of blues rock music influenced by the 13th Floor Elevators. They are most notable for including two future members of the band ZZ Top in their ranks, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Also in the band were Dusty’s brother Rocky Hill, plus Richard Harris on drums.

From 1966 to 1968, they played the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston circuit and headlined in three clubs all called "The Cellar", in Dallas at clubs such as "The Walrus" on Mockingbird Lane, and in Houston at "Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine" on Allen's Landing, as late as 1968.

Around 1968 the band (the two Hill brothers and Beard) decided to leave the Dallas–Fort Worth area, relocating to Houston. At this time, however, guitarist Rocky Hill wanted to focus on "straight blues", while his brother Dusty wanted the band to rock more. Rocky left the band, and the remaining two members joined the recently formed ZZ Top.

Rocky Hill continued to tour around Texas, and elsewhere, becoming one of a number of guitarists well-known within the state for their blues guitar prowess, such as Rocky Athis and Charlie Sexton. In this role, his playing in Austin was said[by whom?] to have been an influence on guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's formative years, as well. He sometimes referred to himself as "The Anti-Clapton", and one writer with the Houston Press called Rocky "perhaps the wildest and scariest – both onstage and off – of all the Texas white-boy blues guitarists."[2]

THIS IS AN ORIGNAL PRESSING of their first album on the Dallas indie KARMA Records label. It’s been to its fair share of late night parties, but is still ready to rock. Get this !  
TRACK LISTING:

If I Were A Carpenter
All I Saw Was You
She’ll Be Mine
Fugue For Lady Cheriff
It’s Gone
Keep My Heart In A Rage
Mercury Blues
Melted Like Snow
Mellow

CONDITION: RECORD IS VG+  / JACKET IS VG+

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