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Marijuana's G.H. Revisited

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This is a great little Ol' sampler! 16 tracks...68 Minutes {before, you come down!}. It's a tribute to something green & good. From the pounding of: "Sweet Leaf" by The Storm Orphans, thro' to: "Rainy Day Woman# 12 & 35" by: A Subtle Plague, this is a sweet smooth ride! "Bass Strings" is an ode To Country Joe, that works well. "Panama Red" is closer to grunge than anything else BUT, it's smokin'. Billy Bardo, does a cool rendition of a Johnny Paycheck classic {and since nobody listens to Johnny Paycheck, it's new to all of us!}. Gem's from: John Prine, {Illegal Smile),Bob Marley {Kaya) & Cab Calloway {Reefer Man} are re-done & twisted sideways by all these artists, just to mess with your head!

This is indeed fun & strange, BUT, it's a fine collection of seeds & stems.
This is for every Deadheads Christmas list!...And, don't forget the cool cover art by: Gilbert {"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"} Shelton. This is GOOD STUFF !!!
I don't need to dare you, do I?

There is a concept here, and those people who get hung up on issues involving pleasure and morality are sure to miss the full richness of this album. A few of these songs were familiar to me before I heard the versions available in this set. Putting all these songs together blew me away, and the amount of confusion revealed in the bye-bye take of "Seeds & Stems (Again)" at the end made me buy another CD, called The Best of Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen "Too Much Fun" to see if the live version there was as loose as this is. Now there is no doubt in my mind that this captures the feeling, there is no there there, better than anything.

This kind of thinking is basic to my understanding of how cohesive a culture can become. It has the kind of indecency which avoids itself by thinking: I got stoned and I missed it. This is the life on this planet that I try to remember when I realize that some people really have been missing out.