Country Joe And The Fish, Electric Music For The Mind And Body, Vanguard- VRS-92

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Tracklist

A1     Flying High     2:37

A2     Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine     4:18

A3     Death Sound     4:21

A4     Porpoise Mouth     2:47

A5     Section 43     7:23

B1     Super Bird     2:01

B2     Sad And Lonely Times     2:21

B3     Love     2:20

B4     Bass Strings     4:58

B5     The Masked Marauder     3:07

B6     Grace     7:03

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Copyright (c) – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Published By – Joyful Wisdom

Published By – Tradition Music Co.

Recorded At – Sierra Sound Laboratories

Engineered At – Vanguard Studios

Credits

Bass, Harmonica – Bruce Barthol

Design – Jules Halfant

Drums – Chicken Hirsch

Guitar, Organ – David Cohen

Photography By [Back Cover] – Michael K. Wiese

Photography By [Front Cover] – John Bagley (2)

Producer – Samuel Charters

Recorded By – Robert Di Souza

Vocals, Guitar – Barry Melton

Vocals, Guitar, Bells, Tambourine – Joe McDonald*

Written-By – Melton* (tracks: B3), Barthol* (tracks: B3), Country Joe McDonald, Cohen* (tracks: B3), Hirsch (tracks: B3), Gunning* (tracks: B3

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Electric Music for the Mind and Body is Country Joe and the Fish's debut album. Released in May 1967 on the Vanguard label, it was one of the first psychedelic albums to come out of San Francisco.

Tracks from the LP, especially "Section 43", "Grace", and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" were played on progressive FM rock stations like KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco, often back-to-back. A version of the song "Love" was performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

"Grace" is a tribute to Jefferson Airplane's lead singer, Grace Slick.[1]

The album was recorded during the first week of February 1967 at Sierra Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, California, by Robert DeSouza, with production by Samuel Charters. It was released on May 11, 1967, on the Vanguard label. Due to deterioration of the original master tapes, the album was remixed in 1982 and this remix was used for the original CD release in 1990; in 2013 a new two-disc deluxe version appeared which included both the original mono and stereo mixes. The liner notes to the 2013 version state that an outtake from the sessions, "Thought Dream", was later included on the band's follow-up, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die.

Reception

Bruce Eder in a retrospective review for AllMusic felt that the album is "one of the most important and enduring documents of the psychedelic era". The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores

Source     Rating

AllMusic     4.5/5 stars[2]