COVEN Blood On The Snow Original UK LP - Prog Psych Hard Rock Jinx Dawson

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COVEN

Blood On The Snow

Original UK LP released on Buddah / Pye Records in 1974. Gatefold sleeve.

BDLH 5011A-1ΔG   /   BDLH 5011 B-1ΔG

Who producer Shel Talmy crafts the smoothest sound yet for Coven, and this is the style that really could have brought the band over the top, but it's too much too late. "This Song's for All You Children" shimmers with fabulous production and an exquisite Jinx Dawson vocal. Sidney A. Seidenberg, manager of B.B. King, was representing the group at this time, with vocalist Dawson and guitarist Christopher Neilsen having a better handle on the songwriting, a big step forward from 1972's self-titled Coven release on MGM. Heck, they even sound like Spanky & Our Gang on the sublime "Lady O," and that is a quantum leap from the witchcraft and magic eventual Lovecraft member Jim Donlinger brought to their first release in 1969 with his laboured songwriting.

Indeed, Donlinger left for a band with an even more mystical name, that of fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft, while under Talmy's guiding hand strings and orchestration bring the group to a space that suits it very well. The album cover looks like it came out of Creepy or Eerie magazines and there are the obligatory Halloween costume photographs in the gatefold, but songs like "Blue Blue Ships" and "I Need a Hundred of You" don't sound like the comic book episodes from the band's past. "Blue Blue Ships" is actually a haunting song sung as if Dawson had already passed over. It has ten times the composing skills that Neilsen and Dawson displayed on the previous album's "Shooting Star," the material maturing along with Coven's musicianship. "I Need a Hundred of You" is fun, singer Dawson and guitarist Neilsen collaborating on a song that in future days would be thought of as a song about cloning.

It's a shame Buddah dropped the ball on Coven. The version of Alan O'Day's "Easy Evil," covered by Lulu, Genya Ravan, Dusty Springfield, and so many others, really fits. Alan Estes guests on conga drums, helping give this up-tempo version a uniquely fun perspective. Dawson sounds like she's having a blast, interpreting O'Day's nugget with more drive than the group's take on Leiber & Stoller's "Jailhouse Rock" from the previous self-titled outing.

Blood on the Snow is an album that, if not a financial success, proves that Coven had more talent than the band was ever given credit for, the title track being the one where the group really cuts loose and goes back to its roots with some blazing hard rock. Though it doesn't contain Coven's hit single, this is the band's key recording.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Don't Call Me
This Song's For All You Children
Lady-O
Blue, Blue Ships

Side Two

 I Need A Hundred Of You
Hide Your Daughters
Lost Without A Trace
Easy Evil
Blood On The Snow

Released on 'Buddah / Pye Records' in 1974

Catalogue No. BDLH 5011

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX condition (light storage wear)

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