Monday, June 12, 2023

Spirit - Rougher Road - Non-Album Tracks (1968-1970)

I recently posted an album of stray tracks by the band Spirit. Here's a second one. This concludes their peak years from 1967 to 1970. I have one more sort of stray tracks album from 1971 that I plan on posting later. But my interest in the band drops a lot after that time period, and I'm not aware of lots of stray tracks from later in any case.

This album deals with the time period of three studio albums: "The Family that Plays Together" (1968), "Clear" (1969), and "Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" (1970). The vast majority of the songs here are bonus tracks released on later versions of those three albums. The song "1984" was released as an A-side in 1969 and later included as a bonus track for the "Clear" album. It's one of the band's best songs. Its B-side was "Sweet Stella Baby." 

There's only one song here  that has not been released as a bonus track, or in fact officially released at all, and that's "Jealous." I don't know why that one's been overlooked, since it's a good original. This version comes from a 1969 concert bootleg. It has good enough sound quality to fit in with the others.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Fog [Instrumental] (Spirit)
02 So Little to Say (Spirit)
03 Mellow Fellow [Instrumental] (Spirit)
04 Now or Anywhere (Spirit)
05 Space Chile [Instrumental] (Spirit)
06 1984 (Spirit)
07 Sweet Stella Baby (Spirit)
08 Jealous (Spirit)
09 Fuller Brush Man (Spirit)
10 Coral [Instrumental] (Spirit)
11 Walking on My Feet (Spirit)
12 Rougher Road (Spirit)
13 Red Light Roll On (Spirit)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328525/Spirt_1968-1970_RoughrRd_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a promotional photo session, but I don't know the details.

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