Artist:  TRAMLINE       

Title:  “Somewhere Down the Line”

Label:  A & M ~ SP-4208.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is promotional white with black text.  

Year:   1968.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or problems.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG+.   Front panel has some ring and surface wear.  Light wear on seams, spine and at corners.  Bottom left corner has rubbing wear.  Reverse has PROMO COPY sticker at upper right and small writing by song title.  Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the nice sounding disc.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Harpoon Man National Blues Sorry Sorry Look Over Yonder Wall

Side Two:

Rock and Roll Woman Somewhere Down the Line Mazurka Statesborough Blues Killing Floor

Review:

“Tramline was a hard-rocking blues-based quartet, not too different from Free and other guitar-heavy outfits of the late '60s, and for a time even shared label affiliation with the latter band.  Formed by John McCoy (vocals, harmonica), Mick Moody (guitar), Terry Sidgwick (bass, vocals), and Terry Popple (drums).  Chris Blackwell plucked them from the club scene in 1968 and signed them to Island Records, whence they began work on their debut LP, Somewhere Down the Line (with Blackwell producing).  The band made enough worthwhile noise to get some exposure on the BBC's Top Gear, hosted by John Peel, but the album never sold in large numbers.  Island wasn't done with them, however, and in 1969 a second LP, Moves of Vegetable Centuries, was forthcoming, this time produced by the renowned Guy Stevens and emphasizing Moody's guitar in the mix.  It didn't do any better than the first album, however, although one cut off the album, a cover of Traffic's "Pearly Queen," got a lot of exposure to the underground press and in prog rock circles when it earned a place on the Island sampler album You Can All Join In.  The group had split by 1970, with McCoy and Sidgwick evidently leaving music behind while Moody passed through Juicy Lucy and Snafu before achieving huge success with Whitesnake; Popple tagged along for a time in Snafu, as well as working with Matthew Fisher and Alan Hull, and passed through the lineup of Radiator.”

(Biography by Bruce Eder, allmusic.com)

 

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