Easter Everywhere

by 13th Floor Elevators

Description by OLDIES.com:

13th Floor Elevators recorded for International Artists, a tiny Texas label which recorded some of the most interesting artists ever to make it to a recording studio. Led by the mad genius Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators were the quintessential underground band of the late '60s, their psychedelic rock is as potent today as it was when first recorded. This disc will send you on a trip.

Product Description:

13th Floor Elevators: Roky Erickson, Stacy Sutherland, Tommy Hall, Dan Galindo, Danny Thomas.

Texas psyche-rock legends the 13th Floor Elevators released their second studio album, EASTER EVERYWHERE, in 1967. Continuing in the tradition established by their debut, EASTER EVERYWHERE is built on garage-band R&B and swirling acid-rock, with lead singer Roky Erickson's haunting wail and Tommy Hall's percolating electric jug lines front and center. While rave-ups like "Earthquake," "She Lives (In A Time of Her Own)," and "Nobody to Love" find the Elevators at their beguiling best, the album's centerpiece is a sprawling, pastoral, and achingly restrained take on Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" (here titled simply "Baby Blue" ) in which Erickson snakes his away around the lyrics showing off the sweetly damaged croon that made him an underground icon. While they'll never get the acclaim garnered by the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane, the Elevators made truly psychedelic music, fueled as much by chemicals and the spirit of the times as the beautifully strange journeys Roky Erickson took through his troubled mind. EASTER EVERYWHERE is an excellent place to join Roky's trip.