Various Artists – LOST SOULS VOL. 1 PT. 1 [1960s Arkansas Garage Rock YELLOW VINYL]– New LP

Great comp of cuts from Arkansas in the 1960s, not groundbreaking but truly cool, full of fuzz, growls from the garage pulled into pop songs...a more amateurish version of what we'd hear with bands like the Box Tops from Memphis (where some of these cuts were recorded).  While these songs clearly fit in with the young American garage rock sounds of the mid 1960s, these also have something unique, a thread that seems to run through the cuts.  Even the recordings from late in the decade sound more like the middle of the decade, with the music of late 1960s still having an influence.  It's that combination of isolated and connection (and the combination of professionalism with the freedom of having brains and bodies young) that helps make these songs so cool...a similar situation (and yet different sounds) than what we witnessed happen in the isolation of the peninsula of Michigan during the changing times of these same years...young people a bit beyond on the times delivering tunes that end up ahead of their times. -- winch

1960s Garage and Psychedelic Rock'N'Roll from Arkansas. 14 Tracks. Includes 12×12 liner notes insert w/detailed band info!

A1 The Blue And The Gray– Don't Send Me No Flowers 1:55 (1966 cover of the The Breakers song from Memphis)

A2 Yardleys– The Light Won't Shine 3:46 (recorded at Muscle Shoals)

A3 The Problems Of Tyme– Back Of My Mind 2:33 (1968)

A4 Barefacts– Tell Me 2:19 (1968)

A5 Xciters– Upsetter 3:22 (1966 or 1967)

A6 Marion Deaton Group– Apple Of My Eye 2:15 (1966)

A7 Gene Barnett – Hey, Come On Now 2:28 (1969)

B1 Barefacts– Leaf On A Tree 2:09 (1968)

B2 The Shades – Hit It Featuring – Bob Fly 2:07 (1968)

B3 The Roustabouts – Just You And Me 2:41 (1968)

B4 The Vycounts– Can't You Tell 2:58 (1967)

B5 The Blue And The Gray– Wine, Wine, Wine 2:44 

B6 The Coachmen – You're My Girl 2:23 (circa 1965)

B7 Blues Foundation– It's Called Love 2:31 (1968)