The New Dawn ‎– There's A New Dawn

Sort of a NW garage version of the Byrds, Love or the Moody Blues...to be fair, Moody Blues at their very best...if you like both Simon & Garfunkel and Iron Butterfly this might be your bag...the fuzz guitar and sound FX helping make it appealing to fans of psychedelic...rain-soaked sadness so much a part of the Pacific Northwest, sad-faced without getting too depressing...jangly for a few cuts coming somewhere between "Solitary Man" and "Season of the Witch" and other songs at the edge of my mind...but mostly drenched in organ, thick as a rain-soaked blanket over the shoulder of a wandering soul who looks homeward but knows he can never go there, looks at the pretty girl but knows he'll never know her, looks at the hill on the house but knows he could never live there, traipsing out of the 1960s without a place to go, hoping someday a label like Jackpot will take notice and reissue his songs of melancholy...some may see this as why Sabbath and the Stooges had to happen....while fans of psychedelic will likely find this essential listening.

There is a very convincing repro of the original that is mentioned neither in any internet source nor in the Acid Archives. It was obviously done to be sold to unsuspecting buyers as an original. I do not own it but I held it in my hands some time ago. By close inspection, it can be identified by a cut (not cut-out!) or scratch on the front that was copied from the original cover. Beware!!!