LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

An obscure Country-Psych Rock relic from Kansas. In 1968 four of the five original members of The Wizards From Kansas formed a band called ‘New West’, and began playing in the Lawrence, Kansas area, at clubs and parties. Californian guitarist Robert Manson Crain joined the group soon thereafter, expanding to a quintet. Reaching on the same esoteric drift as Clear Light or Emitt Rhodes, the band unleashed an even excellent cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie ‘Cod’ine’, more in the vein of Quicksilver M.S.

Track listing:

• High Flying Bird 5:02
• Hey Mister 2:34
• 912 ½ Mass 4:56
• Cod'ine 5:54
• Freedom Speech 3:38
• Flyaway Days 4:02
• Misty Mountainside 3:43
• Country Dawn 2:20
• She Rides With Witches 4:06