GOING HOME WS 1874 (-70) UK

  

                                                                                      

 Another compilation I think has a lot going for it. A Warner Brothers sampler offering picks from LP:s issued 1969-70, mixing cuts from legendary acts - like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Grateful Dead, Faces and Mothers Of Invention - with today publicly less known ones - as Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, Savage Grace and Dion. No doubt then a decoy to make people buy more of those albums, still today serving as a snap shot from the music scene at the turn of the decade. It's good to get samples of the more famous acts from back then, but for me more interesting to get the tracks I didn't know before. Like The Watts 103rd heartly "Love Land", Savage Grace's power ballad "Come On Down" and Dion's introspective "Your Own Back Yard" (which also was meritoriously covered by Mott The Hoople on their 1971 Braincapers album  https://monolover.blogspot.com/2022/02/mott-hoople-braincapers-ilps-9178-71-uk.html ). As with most of these decoy albums the tracking contains some of the best from each LP, so whatever the aim was then it is a good spin today. 1970 vinyl releases also in Italy as "Let's Go To Wight" and in Germany, Greece and Downunder as "The Now Sound - 14 Hits From The Underground". Dont know of any other issues. Premiere UK, with green label on side one and yellow steamboat on side two, in a matt fold/out cover with outside picturing people going home from Woodstock and inside with artist pics and info on each album.  (SÄM*)