The Contents Are - Through You (Reissue) (1967/2007)

1960s garage rock band from Quad Cities area, Davenport, Iowa, USA.

Formed by high school students Dave Neumann and Craig Hute (ex-The Blazers), they added Larry Smith and Paul Staack and started playing live shows in the area, including Cedar Rapids, IA and Rock Island, Illinois. In April 1967 they recorded two Hute originals arranged by Neumann - “I Don’t Know” and “Direction of Mind” - at the Fredlo studio in Davenport. The 45 did well locally, selling as many as 1,000 copies, Once the band was out of high school and mostly attending college, they played shows as far away as Champaign, Illinois and Minneapolis. Later in 1967 or early 1968 they returned to Fredlo to cut an album of Hute's songs. The band had 100 copies pressed and gave them away. Shadoks reissued the album in 2007, adding a little color to the line drawing that was the front cover.