B.B. Blunder - Workers' Playtime (1971, United Artists) LP⭐

Artist: B.B. Blunder
Album: Workers' Playtime
Label: United Artists Records – UAG 29156
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 1971
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+scans)

Tracklist:
A1. Sticky Living 6:15
A2. You're So Young 6:10
A3. Lost Horizons 2:30
A4. Research 4:40
A5. Rocky Yagbag 4:27
B1. Seed 5:45
B2. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 2:30
B3. Rise 5:20
B4. Moondance 2:00
B5. New Day 4:30
11 - Go Have Yourself A Good Time [Live, BBC Session 1971]
12 - Sticky Living [Live, BBC Session 1971]
13 - Backstreet [Bonus Track]
14 - Freedom [Bonus Track]
15 - Black Crow's Nest [Bonus Track]
16 - When I Was In The Country [Bonus Track]
17 - A Hard Day's Night [Bonus Track]
18 - Come On Eyes [Bonus Track]
19 - Snippet With Tippett [Bonus Track]
20 - Square Dance [Bonus Track]
21 - Earache [Bonus Track]
22 - Robots [Bonus Track]
23 - Waltz [Bonus Track]

Personnel:
Bass - Brian Belshaw
Drums - Kevin Westlake
Guitar - Brian Godding

This project marked the final chord in the work of the British band Blossom Toes, whose three members, after two years of disparate activity, recorded an album under the name B.B. Blunder. The most talented musician, Brian Godding, abandoned the idea of ​​recording a solo album. He invited friends, as well as the trendy rock singer Julie Driscoll, to embody his ideas on six tracks of the new album. The remaining material was written by drummer Kevin Westlake and bassist Brian Belshaw. This work was quite unlike the popular underground performers of the first lineup and the experimentalists of the second wave. The album's distinguishing features are multi-layered guitars, a rich vocal palette (the pathetic composition "New Day" features a whole choir), and the introduction of brass instruments. The album's style no longer emphasized psychedelia (except for the stunning "Seed") and shifted toward jazz-rock influences ("Sticky Living!") and transparent progressive compositions ("Research"). Here you can hear funk motifs, elements of pub rock, even blues. In short, a talented and underrated album that skipped the charts and was quickly forgotten