Thursday, February 16, 2012

BUBBA FOWLER - And Then Came Bubba





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

9 comments:

jeffen said...

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.

G O D said...

okay,buddy!thanks

jeffen said...

Thank G O D!

G O D said...

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

Anonymous said...

So so so glad you let MRML post this, because I both found this great LP AND found this new blog!

G O D said...

Thanks ,for the kind words and for enjoying my blog as well! Hope you find more treasures here!

G O D said...

Jeffen ,I had 11 dl's before you posted ,I'll keep you in the loop

G O D said...

up to 99 dl's as of 10:30 tonite! whoo-hoo!!

Anonymous said...

Ed, repost man. Been looking for this forever. Thanks. Joel in Joliet 😈