Artist:  Brewer & Shipley

Title:  Weeds

Date:  1969

Label:  Kama Sutra Records   KSBS 2016

Produced By:  Nick Gravy (Nick Gravenites)

Album Design and Artist Management:  Good Karma Productions

Photos:  Mort Y, Gary Peterson, Shipley

Notes:  With connections to Big Brother and The Electric Flag this album has the players in more of a folk setting. Al Kooper on guitar is enough for me to grab this record out of the bins.  And there is a fine take on "Watchtower" as well. They went on to have a radio hit a few years later with "One Toke Over the Line" and then went off into the distance. The cover has that 60's California folk look and feel. Surprisingly good record.

Line Up: 

Michael Brewer: vocals, acoustic guitar, shakers and vibra-slap
Tom Shipley: vocals, acoustic guitar, twelve-string
Michael Bloomfield:
Mark Naftalin: piano and organ
Ira Kamin: organ and piano
John Kahn, Robert Huberman: bass
Bob Jones: drums
Fred Olsen: electric guitar
Orville Red Rhodes: pedal steel guitar
Richard Greene: fiddle
Applejack: harmonica
Reinol Andino: congas

Track Listing

Side 1

Lady Like You
Rise Up (Easy Rider)
Boomerang
Indian Summer
All Along the Watchtower

Side 2

People Love Each Other
Pig's Head
Oh, Sweet Lady
Too Soon Tomorrow
Witchi-tai-to