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But missed 2.....
Front right guy looks more like a hippied-up Peter Tork than a Fogerty, but...I dunno
Guy in the middle back was my boyfriend in SF, 1970, but I’m damned if I can remember his name
I might be kidding and I might not, but since you apparently don’t f*#+kn KNOW, who’s to say?
Roots And Branches (Anthem ANS-5901) RARE US 1st Pressing MINT-
RARE original US first pressing of The Dillards` album "Roots And Branches" on Anthem Records, a subsidiary of United Artists (May 1972).
"Although Roots and Branches may have been more rock influenced with drums, electric bass, keyboards, and electric guitar — the Dillards dropped the orchestral arrangements so prevalent on Wheatstraw Suite and Copperfields— it still contained the acoustic, bluegrass elements that made them so beloved when they made their national debut on The Andy Griffith Show as reticent Appalachian hillbillies the Darling Family. Bluegrass purists have plenty to savor on songs like “Big Bayou,” Dillard’s compositions “Redbone Hound” and “Billy Jack,” and especially an a capella rendering of the folk staple “Man of Constant Sorrow.”
The on-again, off-again sessions for Roots and Branches lasted well over a year at Podolor’s American Recording Company in Studio City, California. Given these factors, it might have seemed utterly impossible for the Dillards to deliver their best-selling album, but indeed they did. Distributed in May 1972, Roots and Branches caught folks off-guard by crossing over into the Billboard pop album chart, remaining there for an impressive 18 weeks but advancing no further than No. 79.
Opening for Elton John on his fourth American tour no doubt further engendered Roots and Branches to a record-buying college demographic. John had originally caught the boys performing at the legendary Troubadour club two years earlier during his debut California visit. It’s likely Roots and Branches would have charted even higher if Anthem hadn’t been controversially dissolved." - Jeremy Roberts for medium.com
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