The Gants – I Wonder (Remastered) (2000)
Artist: The Gants
Title: I Wonder
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: RPM Records
Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Beat
Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:10:20
Total Size: 181/448 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: I Wonder
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: RPM Records
Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Beat
Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:10:20
Total Size: 181/448 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. I Wonder
02. Just A Good Show
03. I Don't Want To See Her Again
04. I Want Your Lovin'
05. Drifter's Sunrise
06. Little Boy Sad
07. Six Days In May
08. Somebody Please
09. (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings
10. Greener Days
11. My Baby Don't Care
12. Never Go Right
13. Please Tell Me Why
14. Hungry
15. Bad Boy
16. Summertime Blues
17. You Better Run
18. Spoonful Of Sugar
19. One Track Mind
20. Try Too Hard
21. Good Lovin'
22. Rain
23. Crackin' Up
24. Dance Last Night
25. Dr. Feelgood
26. I'm A Snake
27. Oh Yeah
28. Kicks
29. Out of Sight
30. Road Runner
One of the relatively few garage bands from the Deep South to make a national impression in the mid-'60s, the Gants hit the Top 50 in 1965 with their cover of "Roadrunner." Liberty Records then preceded to bleed the band dry by issuing three cover-heavy albums and five more singles in the next year and a half. They deserved better, because lead singer and guitarist Sid Herring was a performer and songwriter of some talent. Too Beatlesque to be considered a garage band in the usual mold, their original material approximated elements of the Fab Four's sound circa 1965 with a blend of mid-tempo acoustic and electric guitars, close harmonies, and a slight country feel. Herring himself sounded like Lennon, and he wasn't above reworking melodic phrases from "In My Life" and "From Me to You." The strong material tended to be dwarfed by their rushed, cover-heavy albums, and the group never had another hit after "Roadrunner." ~ Richie Unterberger