Ashkan - In From The Cold (Japan Remastered) (1969/2004)
Artist: Ashkan
Title: In From The Cold
Year Of Release: 1969/2004
Label: Decca
Genre: Heavy Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 51:55
Total Size: 147/343 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: In From The Cold
Year Of Release: 1969/2004
Label: Decca
Genre: Heavy Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 51:55
Total Size: 147/343 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Going Home (Steve Bailey, Bob Weston) - 6:35
2. Take These Chains (Bob Weston) - 4:47
3. Stop (Wait and Listen) (Steve Bailey, Bob Weston) - 5:53
4. Backlash Blues (Nina Simone, Langston Hughes) - 7:48
5. Practically Never Happens (Steve Bailey, Bob Weston, Ron Bending, Terry Sims) - 6:00
6. One of Us Two (Steve Bailey, Bob Weston, Ron Bending, Terry Sims) - 5:46
7. Slightly Country (Bob Weston) - 2:57
8. Darkness (Steve Bailey, Bob Weston) - 12:10
Line-up::
Steve Bailey - Vocals
Ron Bending - Bass, Vocals
Terry Sims - Percussion, Drums
Bob Weston - Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin
Ashkan are most known for having been led by guitarist Bob Weston, who was in Fleetwood Mac for a while in the early '70s; he'd also replaced Paul Kossoff in Black Cat Bones when Kossoff left to form Free. Unsurprisingly, given those connections, Ashkan's sole album is in the British blues-rock vein, with most of the songs written or co-written by Weston. The songwriting, however, is some distance behind the competent playing. Too, gravelly lead singer Steve Bailey, while bearing trace similarities to Joe Cocker, Robert Plant, and Spooky Tooth's Mike Harrison, isn't nearly as distinctive as any of those vocalists. The songs putter along in an unremarkable heavy blues-rock style, and though there are shades of folk in "Stop (Wait and Listen)" and (appropriately enough) country in "Slightly Country," the compositions are pretty sketchy. That's also true of the 12-minute closer, "Darkness," which has the feel of striving for an ominous epic without justifying its length. The 2010 reissue on Grapefruit adds historical liner notes.