Songs

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The Rotary Connection emerged in late-'60s Chicago as an ensemble that ran counter to expectations on just about every level. An integrated band (unusual for the time) dreamed up by Marshall Chess of legendary blues label Chess Record, their sound arrived as a countercultural collision of psychedelia, blue, classical, world music (decades before the term became fashionable), and electronic experimentation. Their landmark 1967 debut album was a totally tripped-out affair full of radical left turn. By the time of their fourth LP, 1969's <i>Songs</i>, they had refined their sound to something more accessible but still thrillingly eclectic. While Rotary Connection had by this point left behind the overtly spaced-out, avant-garde flourishes of the debut, the band (masterminded by arranger/producer/keyboardist Charles Stepney) was still drastically reinventing other artists' material in their pan-genre format. In fact, <i>Songs</i> was their first and only album to consist entirely of cover. .

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