Kind Of A Drag

by The Buckinghams

Product Description:

One of Sundazed's usual excellent reissues, this disc combines the entirety of the Buckinghams' first album with a pair of bonus tracks, adding detailed liner notes, remastered sound and rare photos for a fully satisfying package. The Buckinghams came out of Chicago in 1966 as one of the first examples of what music writer Eddie Gorodetsky has since dubbed "goatee rock": a second wave of post-British Invasion bands audibly influenced by the Beatles--whose "I Call Your Name" gets a soulful makeover--but equally by sweaty Stax/Volt-style R&B.

That's the type of music the band clearly loves, as jumping covers of "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "I'm A Man" prove, not to mention a Ray Charles-like take on the Gershwins' classic "Summertime." The originals, exemplified by the hit title track, combine the two influences into something which at the time sounded new and different.