Label: Repertoire Records (UK), REPUK 1079
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 48:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 365 Mb
Growers
of Mushroom is the debut studio album by English hard rock band Leaf
Hound. It was originally released in 1970 as Leaf Hound by Telefunken in
Germany only. It was re-released in 1971 in the UK by Decca as Growers
of Mushroom. It is the only album by the original line-up of the band.
Consisting of original material, the album is often cited as a
pioneering example of heavy metal, hard rock, psychedelic rock and
stoner rock.
Leaf Hound came together in 1970. They signed a contract
with management agency Lynton Maitland, who arranged an album deal with
Decca and one day of studio recording time. Growers of Mushroom was
recorded in one 11-hour session at Spot Studios in Mayfair, London.
All
but one of the tracks were composed by members of the band. Most of the
material was written by vocalist Pete French and lead guitarist Mick
Halls, who were cousins. According to French, late in the recording
session they realised that they had run out of songs and time was
limited, so he and Halls composed "With a Minute to Go" on the spot.
According to an interview with French in 2019, the impromptu composition
was "Sawdust Caesar". Another telling has it that "With a Minute to Go"
and "Sawdust Caesar" had their titles mistakenly swapped on the record,
and were left that way. The title track "Growers of Mushroom" was named
after a story from the Pan Book of Horror Stories, about a woman slowly
poisoning her husband with toadstools, although the lyrics were more
about having a hallucination. The song not composed by the band was
"Drowned My Life in Fear", written by Peter Ross.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growers_of_Mushroom)
01. Freelance Fiend (03:10)
02. Sad Road To The Sea (04:16)
03. Drowned My Life In Fear (03:00)
04. Work My Body (08:11)
05. Stray (03:48)
06. With A Minute To Go (04:18)
07. Growers Of Mushroom (02:17)
08. Stagnant Pool (03:58)
09. Sawdust Caesar (04:30)
10. It's Gonna Get Better (bonus track) (03:05)
11. Hipshaker (bonus track) (03:32)
12. Too Many Rock 'N Roll Times (special bonus track) (03:56)
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