Side Trips

Side Trips
Studio album by The Kaleidoscope
Released June 1967
Recorded 1966-1967
Genre Folk, psychedelic rock, jug band, Arabic
Length 26:13
Label Epic
Producer Barry Friedman
The Kaleidoscope chronology
Side Trips
(1967)		 A Beacon from Mars
(1968)

Side Trips was Kaleidoscope's 1967 debut album. It was released in June 1967, and re-released on vinyl by Sundazed Records (2007). The album has a raw, non-limited instrumental mentality, for each member played many instruments; for example, David Lindley played guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, and Solomon Feldthouse played saz, bouzouki, dobro, vina, oud, doumbek, dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, and vocals.

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Allmusic [1]

Allmusic's retrospective review praised nearly all of the individual songs and called the album "arguably the most diverse effort of 1967", but concluded that enthusiasts and collectors would be better off getting the more comprehensive Pulsating Dreams anthology, which includes the entirety of Side Trips.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Egyptian Gardens" (Solomon Feldthouse) – 3:08
  2. "If the Night" (Chris Darrow) – 1:51
  3. "Hesitation Blues" (Charlie Poole) - 2:27
  4. "Please" (Feldthouse, Mark Freedman) – 3:18
  5. "Pulsating Dream" (Darrow, Feldthouse, David Lindley) - 2:16
  6. "Keep Your Mind Open" (Darrow) – 1:56
  7. "Oh Death" (Dock Boggs) – 3:25
  8. "Come on In" (Traditional, arranged by Lindley) – 2:07
  9. "Why Try" (Lindley) - 3:39
  10. "Minnie the Moocher" (Cab Calloway, Clarence Gaskill, Irving Mills) - 2:15

References

  1. ^ a b Side Trips at Allmusic

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