The Leaves - ... Are Happening: The Best Of - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R

The Leaves' sophomore album weaves blues, folk and garage together through kaleidoscopic shards of psychedelia to bring listeners All The Good That's Happening.Fired by youthful exuberance and a well-rounded repertoire of musical fashions, The Leaves, by all rights, should have turned into major stars. Despite the fact the band's second and final album, InchAll The Good That's Happening,Inch parented no winning singles and isn't quite as potent as the first disc, the platter remains terribly underappreciated. Tracks such as the moody stupor of InchOn The PlaneInch and the ping-pong pulsations of InchLemmon Princess,Inch which carries a chaotic circus-like air, are decorated in psychedelic decals, while InchTwilight SanctuaryInch features some hard-driving harmonica blowing chained tight against giddy blues rock jamming. The band's blues influences additionally prevail on honest recyclings of Jimmy Reed's raspy-throated InchLet's Get TogetherInch and Buffy Sainte-Marie's candidly cryptic InchCodine,Inch along with InchFlashback (The Rhythm Thing),Inch a retooling of John Lee Hooker's InchCrawling King SnakeInch that morphs into an intense boogie woogie instrumental. A copy of Manfred Mann's InchThe One In The MiddleInch weighs in as another blues based item, and InchTo Try For The SunInch is a stark and haunting folk ballad. Snapping guitars, compounded by strong and solid harmonies give the album a strutting garage rock edge, where smatterings of offbeat arrangements and curious effects zone in on the freakier side of The Leaves. To call the album trailblazing would be stretching the truth, but there are enough amusing and exciting ideas to keep listeners awake and interested. Personnel issues, paired with lack of promotion prevented InchAll The Good That's HappeningInch to be heard, resulting in the end of a band that died on the vine (pun intended) way too soon.

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R