Stoned Age Man [Import]

Joseph | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Radioactive
• ASIN: B000ASDG5S
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trick Bag

2. I Ain’T Fatten’ No More Frogs For Snakes

3. Cold Biscuits & Fish Heads

4. Stoned Age Man

5. I’M Gonna Build A Mountain

6. Mojo Gumbo

7. House Of The Rising Sun

8. Gotta Get Away

9. Come The Sun Tomorrow

Editorial Reviews

This is an obscure classic that lovers of blues rock should not hesitate to have in their collection. Originally released on the Scepter label in 1970 and recorded in Memphis at the legendary American Sound Studios. ..Classic Stoner (heavy fuzz) blues rock!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Three And A Half Stars, November 20, 2010

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D. Hartjes (America's Dairyland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stoned Age Man (Audio CD)

This came out on vinyl in 1970 with little fanfare
which is not unexpected due to its being on a small
label. This is only 29 minutes long so it loses
points for not adding bonus tracks. The vocals are
what you would call caveman rock which at times
brings it down a notch but on "I'm Gonna Build A
Mountain" (my favorite track) it adds relief and
spices up the listen. Also of note is a cover of a
track by The Animals called "The House Of The Rising
Sun." It is well done and the guitar sounds better
than the original. I am not a musician so I can't say
for certain but it DOES sound like Joseph Longeria
should be one of the better guitar players out there
at the time. There is no information given about
the recordings, who is on them and where and when and
that I have a distaste for. There is a story given
in the notes which is nice but the print is so small
you have to squint to read it which is true as well
for the whole package--the only thing large enough
is the name of the musician, the name of the album
and the name of the record company.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Out There!, January 29, 2006

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L. Kent - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stoned Age Man (Audio CD)

Some may not have the courage to listen to this "mind blowing" piece of work. Joseph can do it all. He sings like nothing you've ever heard before. His guitar playing is intergalactic. Listen to the lyrics of "I Ain't Fattenin' No More Frogs For Snakes"...do you get it now? Buy this! I shared it with college friends 30 years ago and they begged to be able to get it in 8 track!Mozart never dreamed of music like this...Joseph is in a league by himself. Thank you for finally letting the CD world hear this.

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues of Stoned Age, March 27, 2011

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Golovanov Alexey (Limassol, Cyprus) - See all my reviews
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Life of "Joseph" was very short. Brilliant guitarist from Texas Joseph Longeria (aka Joe Long) was spotten by legendary Steve Tyrell (A&R at the age of 18 for Specter Records) when playing "against" B.B.King and T.Bone Walker at very much publicized "The Battle Of Blues Guitars" in Houston, who immediately rushed backstage and signed him on the spot. Not that Longeria didn't have any offers, but he wanted to play his own music, and that's what he did.
The debut album was recorded in world famous American Sound Studios in Memphis (over 100 top hits released - from Elvis to Joe Tex), and the same year (1969) released by small label - Specter Records (Specter was a name in its own league - founded as "Tiara" in 1958 by Florence Greenberg, housewife from New Jersey, it first got its piece of action with "Shirelles").
"Joseph" (apart from the "House of the Rising Sun" and "Gotta Get Away" of Greg Allman, sounding too close to "Keep On Running" by Stevie Winwood) played his music - heavy electrified blues with menacing low-register husky singing, mixed with hard rock and psychedelia. It remainds Eric Burdon (of course), or the epic work of "Steppenwolf" - Monster, sometimes "The Doors" (their dark side), and "Juicy Lucy" (Juicy Lucy.
The release of "Joseph" LP (SPS 574) was squeezed in between two albums of Dionne Warwick - the band was more than unusual for "Scepter",no wonder that its promotion was minimal (if any). After that nothing was heard of the band.
This re-issue is a bootleg by "Radioactive", reproducing scanned artcover of the original LP (very much praised by art critics at that time, but pretty tame next to, let's say, Survival).