[2025-02-21] The Leaves "All The Good That's Happening" remaster (Sundazed)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:10 pm

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM1RVZJ7/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DM1RVZJ7/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DM1RVZJ7/?tag=imwan-21

Description
The Leaves' sophomore album weaves blues, folk and garage together through kaleidoscopic shards of psychedelia to bring listeners All The Good That's Happening.

Fired by youthful exuberance and a well-rounded repertoire of musical fashions, The Leaves, by all rights, should have turned into major stars. Despite the fact the band's second and final album, "All The Good That's Happening," parented no winning singles and isn't quite as potent as the first disc, the platter remains terribly under-appreciated. Tracks such as the moody stupor of "On The Plane" and the ping-pong pulsations of "Lemmon Princess," which carries a chaotic circus-like air, are decorated in psychedelic decals, while "Twilight Sanctuary" features some hard-driving harmonica blowing chained tight against giddy blues rock jamming.

The band's blues influences additionally prevail on honest recyclings of Jimmy Reed's raspy-throated "Let's Get Together" and Buffy Sainte-Marie’s candidly cryptic "Codine," along with "Flashback (The Rhythm Thing)," a retooling of John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake" that morphs into an intense boogie woogie instrumental. A copy of Manfred Mann's "The One In The Middle" weighs in as another blues based item, and "To Try For The Sun" is a stark and haunting folk ballad.

Snapping guitars, compounded by strong and solid harmonies give the album a strutting garage rock edge, where smatterings of offbeat arrangements and curious effects zone in on the freakier side of The Leaves. To call the album trailblazing would be stretching the truth, but there are enough amusing and exciting ideas to keep listeners awake and interested. Personnel issues, paired with lack of promotion prevented "All The Good That's Happening" to be heard, resulting in the end of a band that died on the vine (pun intended) way too soon.

Tracklist
1. Twilight Sanctuary
2. One In The Middle
3. On The Plane
4. Officer Shayne
5. Let's Get Together
6. Introduction To A Cartoon Show
7. With None Shoes
8. To Try For The Sun
9. Codine
10. Flashback (The Rhythm Thing)
11. The Quieting Of Oliver Tweak (The Stone Freak)
12. Lemmon Princess

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Linda · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:17 pm

"The Quieting Of Oliver Tweak (The Stone Freak)"

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jan 10, 2025 12:33 pm

The release date has been pushed back to February 14th.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

i'll be in for this one.

the leaves still have the best 'hey joe' ever....well, maybe spirit.....

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:01 pm

Delayed again, now scheduled for February 21st.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

oh boy........

banzaibid · 05 Aug 2007

Renny wrote:

oh boy........

Don't worry ... they'll ship it with The Blues Magoos!! :wink:

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

banzaibid wrote:

Renny wrote:

oh boy........

Don't worry ... they'll ship it with The Blues Magoos!! :wink:

[2025-02-21] The Leaves "All The Good That's Happening" remaster (Sundazed)

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