Frijid Pink (1970) Music for the People - LOST 70s GEMS

Crying Shame is a rip off of Cream's Tale of Brave Ulysses, though this version is far superior with more sonic quality and volume than Cream's poorly recorded catalogue. Tell Me Why is another example of the 'raining down' of heavy guitar distortion, a bluesier version of the Stooges, the appeal of Gary Thompson's amateur, fuzz drenched blues playing married with the distant, Native American drum beat of Frijid Pink's long serving, founding member and talisman of the group Rick Stevers is excellent to me. But still if you include Music for the People, the 1971 single that featured Dawn of Tony Orlando and Dawn on backing vocals, it's still the best song on the album. The trembling, watery acoustic finger picking to the steady build up of volume and power in Kelly Green Aka Tony Beaudry's vocals before the coursing gospel vocals of Dawn, cooing in the big stacked chorus to the final trailing wah wah blues solo of Gary Thompson erupting in a cathartic sweep of notes. Exquisite. The rolling rhythm of Green's vocals as his croaky vocals state 'Music is the only thing existing in my life' he manages to engage and carry a lot of emotional heft and soulful conviction with his fairly limited rasp.