WEIRD HERALD – Just Yesterday (1967-69) | Lost West Coast Psychedelic Folk-Rock [Full Album]

Описание: Weird Herald – Just Yesterday

Long-lost late ’60s West Coast psychedelic folk-rock featuring stunning guitar work, vocal harmonies and deep connections to Moby Grape, Hot Tuna and the early San Francisco scene.

Recorded between 1968 and 1969 but shelved for decades, “Just Yesterday” finally uncovers the lost album by one of the great forgotten bands of the South Bay psychedelic underground.

Tracklist:
0:00 Where I'm Bound (Intro)
1:30 Saratoga James
4:28 Canyon Women
8:46 Reapin' Seasons
12:59 In The Country
15:29 Burgundy And Yellow
21:48 Just Yesterday
25:12 Untitled
33:05 Help Me Find My Way
35:38 David Of Bijou
43:06 Where I'm Bound (Outro)
45:32 Where I’m Bound (Alternate Longer Version) bonus track
48:43 In The Country (Instrumental) bonus track
51:02 Reservation To Cry (bonus track)
54:35 Move Along (bonus track)
57:28 Blinded (Demo) bonus track
59:22 Burgundy And Yellow (Demo) bonus track
01:03:40 Inisfree (bonus track)
01:07:37 Somebody On Your Bond (bonus track)
01:12:01 Carefree Now (Take 1) bonus track
01:14:05 Frodo's Foot (Take 1) bonus track
01:17:13 Where I'm Bound (Outro) Reversed-Edit (bonus track)

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Formed in San Jose in 1967 around the songwriting and guitar talents of Billy Dean Andrus and Paul Ziegler, Weird Herald emerged from the same South Bay coffee house scene that connected musicians like Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, Skip Spence, Janis Joplin and David Crosby.

The band mixed haunting folk-rock, rich harmonies and fingerpicked acoustic guitars with flashes of electrified West Coast psychedelia reminiscent of early Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane. Their only release at the time was a rare 1968 45 featuring “Saratoga James” and “Just Yesterday”, now considered cult classics of the era.

These newly restored recordings reveal the full scope of the band’s sound — from intimate folk ballads and melancholic acid-folk to powerful psychedelic rock driven by Billy Dean’s remarkable lead guitar work. Skip Spence reportedly called Billy “the best guitarist in the world.”

Management problems and a failed Fillmore audition prevented the album from ever being released, and the tapes were believed lost for decades. Shortly after the band dissolved, Billy Dean Andrus tragically died in 1970 at just twenty-four years old. His memory would later inspire Hot Tuna’s “Ode For Billy Dean” and the Doobie Brothers song “Chicago.”

Painstakingly restored from surviving reel tapes preserved by the Andrus family, “Just Yesterday” finally documents one of the great missing pieces of late ’60s California psychedelia.

Officially reissued by Guerssen Records.

For fans of:
Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Hot Tuna, Byrds, Maitreya Kali, West Coast folk-psych

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