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Appaloosa

AppaloosaAudio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Audio CD (December 6, 2005)
  • Original Release Date: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Collector's Choice
  • ASIN: B000BR6D5I
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,803 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 
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Editorial Reviews

We’ve had quite a few requests over the years for this Cambridge, Mass. acoustic band who, as legend has it, were signed by Al Kooper when he went out to his reception area and found the group performing for the Columbia office secretaries! In fact, Kooper was so taken by them (principally guitarist/songwriter John Compton and violinist Robin Batteau, who later turned up in the band Pierce Arrow) that this album featured appearances by members of Blood, Sweat & Tears and by Kooper himself! We’re reissuing this lost 1969 classic with original artwork and new notes featuring quotes from John Compton himself...a Collectors’ Choice Music exclusive!

 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and Intelligent, September 2, 2006
This review is from: Appaloosa (Audio CD)
Appaloosa has a sound that is hard to put in a box, maybe folk rock baroque. The lead singer, John Compton, has an easy intimacy, which Robin Bateau's faithful cello complements through many of the ballads. Each song is a sweet private journey.
This was a favorite of mine when it was first recorded 35 years ago. I looked for a copy for 25 years before I tracked down John Compton on the internet. So glad this album has finally be released on CD!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lost in the Grooves no more, February 15, 2006
This review is from: Appaloosa (Audio CD)
Of all the albums celebrated in the Lost in the Grooves anthology, this is the one that drove our central thesis-your favorite album is in this book, and you've never even heard of it!-home to me. MVP essayist Brian Doherty picked this exquisite 1969 LP, and wrote so eloquently on its sophisticated charms that I knew I had to hear it. Happily, Edwin Letcher had bought it new, and sure enough, I fell in love. It's neat to replace my poppy CDR with this official reissue (though the mix sounds a little sweeter and I suspect there were some uncredited shenanigans at the mixing board). John Parker Compton might just have been the most effortlessly upper crust songwriter of the sixties. His band sounds like the Left Banke filtered through the Social Register and smeared on a blini. These charming, arch, irresistible melodies, baroque, loping and very clever, will blow the mind of anyone who digs the Kinks and Zombies, and who longs for something that good that they've never heard. This is it, lost in the grooves and found anew. (review originally appeared in Scram Magazine #22)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good and a half, November 19, 2010
This review is from: Appaloosa (Audio CD)
Al Kooper produced Appaloosa when an A&R big wig at Columbia in the late 1960s. This is well written folk with a cello.

This is a good album, but if buying to get Kooper's usually big jazz sound, pause. There is one piece with a saprano sax, and another with the bold brass R&B that was Kopper's signature for the era.

But most songs here are quiet and subtle. Appaloosa takes time to grow on you. But it will if you enjoy what I described. This is not essential, but if you like Kooper and the experimentation that stamped rock during this era, this is an impressive pick.
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