Starting his musical career as part of a duo (with Chuck Woolery!) as "The Avant-Garde" with the singles "Yellow Beads" (re-done on this LP) ,and "Naturally Stoned" (a top-40 hit!) in 1967. Elkin "Bubba" Fowler, also played guitar for Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen ,both of whom he resembles ,musically ,lyrically ,and vocally on this 1970 album. "The Pounding Status Quo" ,is a Dylan rip ,and one of the best tracks here. Other standouts include ,"Listen Big City" ,"Next Year This Time" , and "The Messenger Of Life". The re-make of his former group's ,"Yellow Beads" ,is a hippy story ,and much of the material is either dated or has much to do with what's happening in the world right now! I remember snatching this up while thrifting ,and taking it over to Joel's house for a spin on his turntable. We just fell about in laughter ,looking at Bubba's front cover pic ,and hearing him totally aping Dylan's whole schtick! What a blast!CLICK HERE: https://archive.org/download/BubbaFowler-AndThenCameBubba/BubbaFowler-AndThenCameBubba.zip
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A fine find, sir.
I don't often pinch post material but I'd like to put this album (with my own rambling write-up) over at Music Ruined My Life. A link back to you wold be posted, of course.
If you'd rather i not, please let me know.
okay,buddy!thanks
Thank G O D!
I only ask that you please use my existing download link ,as I have the only posted version of this on the web ,and I'd like to keep track of the dl's! thanks again ,G O D
So so so glad you let MRML post this, because I both found this great LP AND found this new blog!
Thanks ,for the kind words and for enjoying my blog as well! Hope you find more treasures here!
Jeffen ,I had 11 dl's before you posted ,I'll keep you in the loop
up to 99 dl's as of 10:30 tonite! whoo-hoo!!
Ed, repost man. Been looking for this forever. Thanks. Joel in Joliet 😈
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