Fever Tree - Fever Tree (1968 Uni Records) LP

Artist: Fever Tree
Album: Fever Tree
Label: UNI Records – 73024
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Audio codec: FLAC | lossless

Tracklist:
A1. Imitation Situation 1 (Toccata And Fugue) 2:32
A2. Where Do You Go? 2:25
A3. San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native) 3:58
A4. Ninety-Nine And A Half 2:45
A5. Man Who Paints The Pictures 2:32
A6. Filigree & Shadow 3:51
B1. The Sun Also Rises 2:41
B2. Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 3:27
B3. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing 3:00
B4. Unlock My Door 3:45
B5. Come With Me (Rainsong) 3:45

Personnel:
Bass – E. E. Wolfe III
Guitar – Michael
Percussion – John Tuttle
Piano, Organ, Harp, Flute, Recorder [Bass], Clavinet, Harpsichord, Cello – Rob Landes
Vocals – Dennis Keller

A minor, if reasonably interesting, late-'60s psychedelic group, Houston's Fever Tree is most famous for their single "San Francisco Girls," with its dramatic melody, utopian lyrics, and searing fuzz guitar. Most of their best material, ironically, was written by their over-30 husband-wife production team, Scott and Vivian Holtzman, who had previously written material for Tex Ritter and the Mary Poppins soundtrack. These odd bedfellows produced some fairly distinctive material with more classical/Baroque influences and orchestral string arrangements than were usually found in psychedelic groups. Their pretty, wistful ballads (enhanced on their first album by arranger David Angel, who had also worked on Love's classic Forever Changes) endure better than their dirge-like fuzz grinders, which epitomize some of the more generic aspects of heavy psychedelia. Releasing four albums (the third of which, Creation, included guest guitar by future ZZ Top axeman Billy Gibbons), their records grew weaker and more meandering with time, and the group disbanded in 1970