4 Town Criers

Band members               Related acts

- Skip Brooks -- keyboards, rhythm guitar

- Benny Joe Devine -- percussion

- Ron Stephenson -- bass

- Ed Wing -- lead guitar

 

 

 

- none known

 

 

 

 

Genre: rock

Rating: 3 stars ***

Title:  4 Town Criers

Company: 

Catalog: Nashville, Kentucky

Year: 1971

Country/State: Louisville, Kentucky

Grade (cover/record): VG / VG

Comments: signed by all four members on back cover

Available: 1

GEMM catalog ID: 5367

Price: $100.00

 

This one's a complete mystery to me - I couldn't find anything about the band in hardcopy references I own, nor through web searches ...   Must be some kind of material out there ...  As a result about the only things bibliographical things I can tell you come off of the LP:

 

- Band members were keyboardist Skip Brooks, percussionist Benny Joe Devine, bassist Ron Stephenson, and lead guitarist Ed Wing.

- The album was recorded at Louisville's Sambo Sound Studios (nice name there guys), though I think they were actually from Nashville.

- The LP was engineered by former Chessmen drummer Wayne Veach - no production credits.

 

Yeah, I'll readily admit there's not a lot of detail there.

 

So what's 1971's "4 Town Criers Sound Like"?  Musically the collection offered up an interesting mixture of original material (penned by keyboaridt Brooks and rock covers.  The inclusion of two King Crimson covers ('Talk To the Wind' and 'Peace/Theme') seemed to display a penchant for English progressive rock.

 

"4 Town Criers" track listing:
(side 1)

1.) Somethin' Comin' On   (Chris Stainton - Joe Coker) / Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?   (Robert Lamm) - 

2.) Lady Madonna   (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) - 

3.) J. Edgar Swoop   (M. Williams) - 

4.) Talk To the Wind   (Ian MacDonald - Pete Sinfield) - 

5.) He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother   (B. Scott - B. Russell) - 

 

(side 2)
1.) Hey Brother   (Skip Brooks) - 

2.)) Corry   (Skip Brooks) - 

3.) Poems   (M. Williams) - 

4.) Bye andBye   (Skip Brooks) - 

5.) Peace/Theme   (Pete Sinfield - Robert Fripp - Brian Eno) - 

 

 

 

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WILL TRY TO DESCRIBE THIS UNUSUAL OBSCURE LP.  PSYCHADELIC GRASS ROOTS FEEL TO IT. FLOWER POWER MOVEMENT WITH A TOUCH OF PSYCH. HAND CLAPPING HILLBILLY COMEDIC VOCALS WITH A CATCHY BEAT.  DEFINITELY HAS A BEATLES SOUND.MELLOW PSYCHADELIC SOUND.  RECORDED AT SAMBO SOUND STUDIOS LOUISVILLE KENTUCY 1971.   LEAD GUITAR : ED WING,       BASS: RON STEPHENSON,              KEYBOARDS RHYTHM GUITAR : SKIP BROOKS,            PERCUSSION: BENNY JOE DEVINE.     ALL FOUR MEMBERS HAVE AUTOGRAPHED THE REVERSE OF THIS LP. THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC PRESSING AND THE SIGNATURES ARE AUTHENTIC AND GENUINE.