Once you open the LP and remove the Japansese style obi strip,
you have a beautifully recreated replica of our first album from 1970.
Dead Man is a 13th Floor Elevator descent headlong into southern-fried bloody Sabbath.
Released on the Hookah imprint in 1970, the LP’s gaping cranium cover, sludged-up blues,
and bone-bleached riffs outsold Let It Be, if only locally, being far “too psychedelic”
and skull-crushing for Houston’s International Artists label to touch.
A Texas-bound band except in tracking Dead Man inside the furnace of Phoenix,
Josefus strode loud and longhaired amid the oil fields, peddling their own brand of black gold.
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1. Crazy Man (4:00) |
1. Situation (1:55) |
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