Quicksilver Messenger Service
Castles In the Sand

Castles In the Sand

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First Authorised Release Of A One-Off Informal Studio Jam Session By The Classic Later Line-Up Of One Of San Francisco’s Quintessential Bands.

One of the first studio sessions by Quicksilver’s then new line-up of Dino Valente (vocals), John Cipollina (guitar), David Freiberg (bass & vocals), Greg Elmore (drums), with the British session pianist Nicky Hopkins.

Mainly acoustic, it took place in Corte Madera, California in late 1969/early 1970.

The sound and mixes are excellent. The songs are often spontaneous, spare and unfinished in places and were likely intended as references for later development by the group.

As such they offer a fascinating work-in-progress glimpse of this highly-talented group of musicians re-inventing themselves and developing new material under studio conditions.

Most of the songs, a couple of them running for nearly nine minutes each, were never to appear on album, although they featured in the group’s concerts.

As well as working on new songs such as ‘Subway’ and the rarely-performed ‘The Fool’, the band run through several country, gospel and blues standards that they were familiar with, such as ‘I Know You Rider’, ‘Walk In Jerusalem’, Hank Williams’ ‘May You Never Be Alone’ and Cindy Walker’s ‘Warm Red Wine’.

The booklet’s sleeves notes cover the group’s circumstances at the time of the recordings and the featured songs.

TRACKLISTING

  1. Señor Blues
  2. Subway
  3. I Know You Rider #1
  4. I Know You Rider #2
  5. Walk In Jerusalem
  6. Castles In the Sand
  7. May You Never Be Alone
  8. Warm Red Wine
  9. Look Over Yonder Wall/State Farm
  1. Wake Up, Dead Man (Part 1)
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