GROUNDHOGS – Blues Obituary (Repress) – LP – Gold Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Gold Vinyl. Only 500 copies in this pressing. (2025 Fire Records Repress).

The second studio album from The Groundhogs, now slimmed to the classic three piece line up of Tony TS McPhee on guitar, Pete Cruikshank on bass and Ken Pestelnik on drums. The beginning of their domination as the hardest working band on the circuit, a testament to their creativity as they re-tooled the blues into a neo-psyche groove. Breaking from their traditional influences, the first stepping stone for the power trio who would blossom with Thank Christ For the Bomb, Split and Who Will Save The World?. Inspired by a Yardbirds freak out, hearing authentic Indian drumming and the magic that existed between this legendary trio, Blues Obituary is a juggernaut of riffs. According to Tony in Zig Zags John Toblers sleeve notes to the 1987 re-issue of Blues Obituary it was the BBCs John Peel producer John Walters that forced the bands hand. He decided he hated the blues, McPhee told Tobler, We figured it was time to get away from it. A deep excursion into musical depths further down than Canned Heat ever dared go. The re-issue also includes a mono-friendly single cut of BDD plus its original B-side Gasoline, an aching solo Tony TS McPhee track.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. B.D.D.
2. Daze Of The Weak
3. Times
4. Mistreated

Side B
1. Express Man
2. Natchez Burning
3. Light Was The Day
4. B.D.D. (Mono)
5. Gasoline