Light in the Attic to release anthology on 60s garage psych band The Kitchen Cinq

Light in the Attic to release anthology on 60s garage psych band The Kitchen Cinq

Devoted to charting the fascinatingly blurry corners of rock & roll history, Light in the Attic has become a reliable source for unsung 70s folk artists (Goldberg, Ray Stinett, Bob Frank) and once-popular-though-long-forgotten psych/beat gems from the 60s (The Free Design, Vagrants, Stephen John Kalinich). Their most recent announcement, When the rainbow disappears: An anthology 1965-1968, a compilation of tracks by The Kitchen Cinq, falls in the latter category, offering a collection of 28 songs recorded by the garage psych band. Signed to Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label, the Texas quintet released an album (1968’s Everything But…) and a bunch of singles before splitting up. All of that is included in this anthology, plus a few previously unreleased session recordings and outtakes. Hear a track off the album below.

Regardless of what their pun-centric name might indicate, The Kitchen Cinq were anything but a historic curiosity, let alone a tongue-in-cheek attempt to cash in on the psych pop market. The band made a reputation for themselves since the early 1960s (recording as The Illusions and later The Y’alls) thanks to their no-frills take on beat music, later adding a psychedelic spin to the garage-rock-rooted style acts like The Beau Brummels had pioneered. Recruited by the psychedelic-cowboy par excellence Lee Hazlewood, the Texans recorded their only LP at the same time, as Gram Parsons’ International Submarine Band (their LHI labelmates) outlined country rock — even sharing their producer — collaborating with some Wrecking Crew personnel in the studio (Carol Kaye, Glenn Campbell, and Hal Blaine) and with Hazlewood himself close by for songwriting/arranging assistance. Despite the illustrious associates and West Coast success, the band failed to explode on a bigger scale and was swept away as the band members’ interests (as well as the public’s) drifted away.

When the rainbow disappears: An anthology 1965-1968 is out August 28 via Light in the Attic.

Tracklisting:

01. You’ll Be Sorry Someday
02. Solitary Man
03. Determination
04. Please Come Back To Me
05. Codine
06. Young Boy
07. Last Chance To Turn Around
08. Still In Love With You Baby
09. If You Think…
10. I Can’t Let Go
11. Need All The Help I Can Get
12. Young Boy
13. Searchin’
14. Figareux Figareux
15. Try
16. Gloria
17. Run For Your Life
18. Please Come Back
19. (Ellen’s Fancies) Ride The Wind
20. When The Rainbow Disappears
21. The Street Song
22. I Want You
23. Wasn’t It You
24. I Am You
25. Dying Daffodil Incident
26. Does Anybody Know
27. Good Lovin’ (So Hard To Find)
28. For Never We Meet

• Light in the Attic: http://lightintheattic.net

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