Dig Deep: The Racket Squad – Corners Of Your Mind – Jubilee (1969)
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The Racket Squad – You Turn Me On
The Racket Squad – Suburban Life
The Racket Squad – Sweet Little Smoke
School started again this week, which means all my free time has been sucked away. But I still wanted to I wonder where I can find a pair of groovy diamond shaped glasses like the dude on the left??? throw something up here for this week’s Dig Deep and here it is. Picked up this LP at Records LA a couple of weeks ago just before my birthday. The Racket Squad released a couple of LPs in the late 1960s, with this one being the 2nd, I’m pretty sure they were originally from the Pittsburgh area. Corners Of Your Mind is a solid psych LP, most of the songs are originals, with a couple of covers, a decent take on Hendrix’s “Little Wing” and a super solid cover of “Get Out My Life Woman.” There’s a totally silly Popeye influenced reprise of “Woman” but other than that everything on here is solid, nice production on the drums, which tend to be hanging out in the left channel, as well as good sound on the organ and guitars. “You Turn Me On” and “Sweet Little Smoke” are suitably psychedelic with slower tempos and distinctly 60s lyrics like “Sweet Little Smoke please set me free, let me sail out on a marshmellow sea…” I especially dig the way the last two minutes of “Smoke” flows with the bass, tambourine and drums along with the wordless “La La La” singing. “Suburban Life” is a bit harder, with a beat that sounds a bit like “Jungle Fever” from the Chakachas and some nice fuzzy guitar.
This is also a good time to mention that Scott of Records LA is opening up a second location, Records @ the Last Bookstore, September 8th!!! Go on and franchise that Funky, baby!!!
