(1970 / 2004, USA, Gear Fab, 72.38)
01 River
02. Al capa strong
03 Nothing
04th Dragons
05th Prelude to a Dream
06th Seasons
07th Losing my plow
08th Hard workin 'woman
09th I'm just happen to be (in love with you)
10th Monday blues
11th You say
12th Trying to fly
13th Blue sky
14th Cowboy
15th Searching for the world
The music on this album was in 1970, so you should not be surprised that there is no raging power metal, but relaxed and yet often unleashed heavy rock with fiery guitars - and organ is found, such as the completely exploding final part of "River", the opening track us Evidence is. The sound of the disk is certainly no longer meet today's standards, but is alive and honest, you feel as the band were standing right next has one. Sleepy John were still at the dawn of the '60s psychedelic bands to 70s hard rock. Sweeping the senses consuming jams and solos are as much a repertoire as straightforward, aggressive driving moments with haunting melodies. Especially the often ecstatic whirling drummer is an absolute treat for the ears and only a small part of the exciting overall picture. The pieces are playful, but flow very naturally and stay ahead understandable. A few freak-outs here and there can not falter the flow of the pieces. Even if the guitar does not übelst always distorted, which gives a very dedicated way in which it is processed, the feeling of overwhelming force. From time to time, the Fuzzbox on and a seething Zerrklang sneaks in and hacks you on the abdominal wall. After two hard rockers the way, every band needs a break, we get an organ, provided with lush arrangements, reveling in melancholy ballads like "Nothing" just right. Again, there are some moments where the band goes to the drama of the piece in half the fair fields, which then make again, but the gentle swaying passages place. Or note the completely wrong instrumental Middle Passage of "Dragons", which with manic Leads totally mesmerizing effect. The Hard Rock is not here, the sole agent style, and soft, spun-swinging songs with light-footed expression are quickly woven, evoke a peaceful atmosphere of summer with her prancing beat and haunting melodies singing lead guitar. That was then, 1969/70 just been so common practice not to think one-dimensionally and to compose and to make it sound but the material with a distinctive point of a piece. This is succeeded Sleepy John. Comparing this band with today's mainstream rock music, we should always turn to face contorted with disgust the modern, uninspired plastic Mucke the bare ass, to say to say casually. Either is now roared psychotic, bored herumgenölt or whining. Sleepy John had changed passion and unbridled lust in her pieces, like the passages of the main themes into jams, giving rise to completely flown solo deposits or the listener in trance and ecstasy on display for melodies and runs. As in really floating "Seasons", in its central part to osteuropäuischer folklore and psychedelic heavy rock sounding passages are divided between which changes the band loose and without congestion. The song alone has more diverse than some passages band throughout its discography. It swells up, is very intensive and forces you to St. Vitus's dance, it flows in particular moments hover about, is in playful, into sections with twisted bridges, will be mysterious and dark, rock-earth and ends with a scream and Gitarrengefiedel after the return of the folky sounding runs from the middle part. Wow ... I must put for now. A somewhere between country and slapstick of resettled song follows. "Losing my plow." Hard Rocker leg with blinkers are now crying out as comic insert that is here, however, very refreshing. Playfully, this can be observed immediately, Sleepy John are among the high-class strip search. Again and again they bring ideas that make the material very varied and of course require that one is often busy. For pure hard rock fanatics, the disk to run the gauntlet, I can say right now. Bring bluesy deposits which look as mischievous, that it has already parodic character and not once, but it brings it so honest and authentic, that it simply decreases the band. So if you dare to approach a very complex band with equal CD, you should scribble Sleepy John with the self-titled debut on the shopping list. Plenty of personality here, even the most standardized blues, that from a lack of recognition probably can barely speak. It makes a lot of fun, the four young men to listen to the show. Similar kind, maybe a little wild, Led Zeppelin was the first album, which seemed good year and a half before. Sleepy John unfortunately never had the good fortune of a regular publication, in 2004 took pity on the U.S. label Gear Fab, rauszuhauen the two 70's recording sessions as a CD. The results speak for themselves.
The CD is packed with band history and beautiful illustrations. With almost 73 minutes, it's not too short.
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