Label: Repertoire Records (UK), REPUK 1079
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 48:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 365 Mb
Growers of Mushroom is the debut studio album by English hard rock band Leaf Hound. It was originally released in 1970 as Leaf Hound by Telefunken in Germany only. It was re-released in 1971 in the UK by Decca as Growers of Mushroom. It is the only album by the original line-up of the band. Consisting of original material, the album is often cited as a pioneering example of heavy metal, hard rock, psychedelic rock and stoner rock.
Leaf Hound came together in 1970. They signed a contract with management agency Lynton Maitland, who arranged an album deal with Decca and one day of studio recording time. Growers of Mushroom was recorded in one 11-hour session at Spot Studios in Mayfair, London.
All but one of the tracks were composed by members of the band. Most of the material was written by vocalist Pete French and lead guitarist Mick Halls, who were cousins. According to French, late in the recording session they realised that they had run out of songs and time was limited, so he and Halls composed "With a Minute to Go" on the spot. According to an interview with French in 2019, the impromptu composition was "Sawdust Caesar". Another telling has it that "With a Minute to Go" and "Sawdust Caesar" had their titles mistakenly swapped on the record, and were left that way. The title track "Growers of Mushroom" was named after a story from the Pan Book of Horror Stories, about a woman slowly poisoning her husband with toadstools, although the lyrics were more about having a hallucination. The song not composed by the band was "Drowned My Life in Fear", written by Peter Ross.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growers_of_Mushroom)
01. Freelance Fiend (03:10)
02. Sad Road To The Sea (04:16)
03. Drowned My Life In Fear (03:00)
04. Work My Body (08:11)
05. Stray (03:48)
06. With A Minute To Go (04:18)
07. Growers Of Mushroom (02:17)
08. Stagnant Pool (03:58)
09. Sawdust Caesar (04:30)
10. It's Gonna Get Better (bonus track) (03:05)
11. Hipshaker (bonus track) (03:32)
12. Too Many Rock 'N Roll Times (special bonus track) (03:56)
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