BOB AZZAM & THE GREAT EXPECTATION - Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation - Remastered IVY Hints of Chicano

Hints of Chicano

the guest vocalists were all chosen out of friends

originally released in August 1985 - this version adds a second LP with live performance tracks recorded in Tokyo in 1999

May 30th at 5:30 PM

Though the subject matter may be bleak—how could it not be

BOB AZZAM & THE GREAT EXPECTATION - Bob Azzam & The Great Expectation - Remastered IVY Hints of ChicanoThis 1969 oddity goes for big bucks if you can find it for a couple of obvious reasons. First, the drum break on the cover of Alvin Toussaints classic Rain Rain (Go Away) has become legend among crate diggers and samplers. The other is that the version of The Rolling Stones The Last Time is astonishingly psychedelic, a delirium of fuzz guitar, electric sitar, rumbling piano, and throbbing bass punctuated by soaring, Left Banke esque vocal choruses.