Label: BGO Records (UK), BGOCD783
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. (March 7, 1945 - August 3, 2006)
Time: 51:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 360 Mb
Vindicator is the first solo album by Arthur Lee, formerly of the rock band Love, released in 1972. The backing musicians are credited as Band-Aid. A cover of the track "Everybody's Gotta Live" was recorded by American rapper and singer Mac Miller, and released on his posthumous album Circles in 2020.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindicator_(album))
Love's 1967 masterpiece Forever Changes
was an album so beautiful and timeless that it tends to dwarf
everything else in the group's repertoire, and its gentle balance of
grace and dread has made a lot of people forget just how hard Love could
rock when Arthur Lee and his bandmates were of a mind. While Love's
debut album pushed folk-rock into an overdrive that resembled punk,
Lee's first solo set, 1972's Vindicator, was a muscular set of
guitar-fueled hard rock laced with blues, showing the clear influence of
Lee's late friend Jimi Hendrix. With Charles Karp's
powerful guitar leads dominating the arrangements and Lee's vocals
strutting with maximum rock star swagger on tunes like "Love Jumped
Through My Window" and "Sad Song," Vindicator boogies with a cocky
confidence that belies the fact Lee's career was in need of a clear
direction at the time, and while there are no signs of the delicacy of
Forever Changes, three decades on this sounds like mid-'70s guitar rock
at its best. Lee was able to bring a soulful edge to songs like
"Everybody's Gotta Live" and "He Knows a Lot of Good Women," and he
connects with a sly blues shuffle on "He Said She Said," but it's when
Lee and Karp crank up their guitars and the rhythm section of Don
Poncher and David Hull turn up the heat that Vindicator really takes
off, inviting the spirit with the kiss-the-sky spirit of "You Want
Change for Our Re-Run" and laying out some thick Marshall-stack crunch
on "Every Time I Look Up I'm Down." And anyone wanting a dose of Lee's
well-documented eccentricity won't be at all disappointed with the brief
spoken word fragment "You Can Save Up to 50% But You're Still a Long
Ways from Home" and the anti-fast food tirade "Hamburger Breath
Stinkfinger," both of which confirm Lee didn't turn away his muse when
he cut these sessions. While Arthur Lee could create music of simple and
fragile beauty, that doesn't change the fact he was a rocker at heart,
and he rarely rocked harder or with more passion than he did on
Vindicator.
(allmusic.com/album/vindicator-mw0000751489)
01. Sad Song (02:20)
02. You Can Save Up To 50% But You're Still A Long Ways From Home (00:17)
03. Love Jumped Through My Window (02:57)
04. Find Somebody (03:47)
05. He Said She Said (02:18)
06. Every Time I Look Up I'm Down Or White Dog (I Don't Know What That Means!) (03:57)
07. Everybody's Gotta Live (03:31)
08. You Want Change For Your Re-run (04:17)
09. He Knows A Lot Of Good Women (Or Scotty's Song) (03:14)
10. Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger (02:44)
11. Ol' Morgue Mouth (00:53)
12. Busted Feet (04:54)
13. Everybody's Gotta Live (bonus) (03:33)
14. He Knows A Lot Of Good Women (bonus) (03:15)
15. Pencil In Hand (bonus) (02:19)
16. E-Z Rider (bonus) (02:59)
17. Looking Glass Looking At Me (bonus) (04:18)
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