Name: We’re An American Band: A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEGBOX130

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With 48 Page Booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929193000

Total Cap

CDx3

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Grapefruit

<p>Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.</p>

Meticulously curated box sets featuring exceptional audio quality, stunning visuals, and exclusive bonus content. Explore genres, eras, and artists to find the perfect addition to your collection.

Box Sets

Four-hour 3CD set charting the birth and early development of American hard rock. Hit singles, key album tracks, and huge rarities from a genre that became a dominant force in US music.

In the late 60s, the parallel emergence of psychedelia and the blues-based power trio format saw pop evolve into rock. In America, bands became harder, heavier, rawer, and louder to a back drop of the Vietnam War, street drugs, and increasingly powerful amps. Commercially successful acts like Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer, and Iron Butterfly spearheaded a new wave of bands whose sound would later be codified as heavy metal. Over three CDs and four hours of music, ‘We’re An American Band’ charts hard rock’s evolution during the late 60s and early 70s, culminating in Grand Funk’s game-changing, chart-topping late 1973 single of the same name. In addition to the aforementioned bands, we feature the likes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges, ZZTop, MC5, and Love, hard rock dilettantes (Todd Rundgren, Kim Fowley, even Muddy Waters), and such pioneers as Kurt Cobain-endorsed satanic rockers Coven and early metal heads Sir Lord Baltimore. We include tracks from some of the most valuable vinyl LPs on the planet (Bolder Damn, Brigade), ultra-rare local singles (The Mass Confusion Rock Band, Wildwood), and vital music that went unreleased at the time (B. F. Trike, Cold Sun, etc). Housed in a clamshell box with an accompanying 48-page booklet, ‘We’re An American Band is a fascinating window on American rock’s epic journey from the bowels of the late 60s underground counterculture to mainstream mid-70s acceptance.

2 IRON BUTTERFLY THEME – Iron Butterfly

4 THE OSTRICH (album version) – Steppenwolf

5 REMLAP’S CAVE PART II – The Savage Resurrection

6 MAN WHO PAINTS THE PICTURES – Fever Tree

7 WHY SHOULD I CARE – The Sound Barrier

8 PRIDE OF MAN – Quicksilver Messenger Service

13 THE WAR RAGES ON – Mass Confusion Rock Band

15 LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER – Muddy Waters

17 HOT SMOKE AND SASAFRASS–The Bubble Puppy

19 MISTERGENIE MAN – Society’s Children

10 DONOVAN’S MONKEY – Stalk-Forrest Group

20 DEATH OF A VIRGIN–Damnation Of Adam Blessing

4 HELIUM HEAD (I GOT A LOVE) – Sir Lord Baltimore

18 LOVE JUMPED THROUGH MY WINDOW – Arthur Lee