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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I Wish They All Could Be California Girls

Greater California
Genre: Indie / Folk / Psychedelic
From: Long Beach, California, United States

I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but sometimes you only have to look at a bands photos to know they're going to be brilliant and Greater California are one of those bands. Just check out the photo on the left, the band look like a really cool underground band from Haight-Ashbury in 1967, and they sound like it to.

Like a soundtrack to a long lost documentary on the summer of love compiled by Brian Wilson Greater California's latest, and third, album 'All the Colors' is full of jangly 12-string guitars, rich vocal harmonies, a big bag of percussion, vibraphones and marimbas, a stray trumpet, and the ever inviting sounds of the hammond organ and wurlitzer electric piano.

'All The Colors' is like an Ipod with the shuffle setting stuck on the Zombies, the Velvet Underground and The Byrds so as the world goes to hell in a handcart turn on, tune in, drop out with Greater California.


Go Try

MP3 - Greater California - Almost Sunshine

If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are published with the permission of TeamClermont so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Visit

Greater California - Myspace


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