Whalefeathers - Declare (1970) (USA, Heavy Prog, Hard Blues Rock) Full lp

One of Cincinnati’s biggest bands of the late 60s and early 70s, as they recorded two LPs and some singles for the Nashville based Nasco label. The band’s sound was psychedelic bluesy hard rock. Tracks: 01. Declare - Prelude (Michael Jones) - 00:00 02. Lost Dimension (Ed Blacmon) - 04:03 03. Know Thyself (Michael Jones) - 10:50 04. Imagine (Michael Jones) -13:49 05. Omaha (Alex Spence) - 16:55 06. Please Me For A While (Ed Blacmon, Michael Jones) - 22:43 07. Invention Sequence (Ed Blacmon) - 28:03 08. Love Can’t Be Wrong (Michael Jones) - 31:44 Personnel: - Michael Jones - guitar, vocals - Ed Blackmon - piano, harpsichord, organ, vocals - Roger Sauer - bass, vocals - Stephe Bacon - drums, percussion, vocals Whalefeathers (feathered whale) is a two-album band from Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist/vocalist Michael Jones and keyboardist Ed Blackmon. Where there is a guitarist and a keyboard player, it means there is either progressive or keyboard psychedelic... On the first album Declare, the authors of which were Jones and Blackmon (separately and together), there is both. Heavy psychedelic progressive. Uriah Heep Argent, just emerging in England. Like these Americans, no one in the world played at that time. A clear advance in the development of the musical community and the music public at that time... It is also worth noting the song Omaha (by Skip Spence from Moby Grape), which Rolling Stone magazine included in the list of 100 greatest guitar songs of all time in 2008. The album went unnoticed... When recording the second album that followed almost immediately, their producer Stan Hertzman (Stanley B. Hertzman) demanded that they refocus on available material. Jones did not write a single song for the album, and Blackmon wrote one. If their authors are silent, then the band plays covers. The covers are really great. In the style that everyone understood and played back then - heavy blues-rock