One Way

Description

One Way is the sole full-length album by the American psychedelic rock band Harvest Flight, released on Destiny in 1971. The album was recorded by Dennis Hardesty and John Marston at Living Sound in Arcadia, California; with band member Evan Williams producing. Written and arranged by the band.

The album features Evan Williams on guitar, bass, and vocals, Kerry Chester on organ and vocals, John Marston on bass, John Benas and Ed Grell on drums, as well as Fred Field on strings and JoAnn Turousky on harp.

Early classic highly sought after and cherished by collectors and rightly so, for perfectly capturing so many different moods. Side one blasts off with bristling hard rock on «Kingdom», switching to other-worldly drifting folk/psych on «Change» then on to a killer version of «One In The Spirit» with Evan Williams unleashing relentless stereo-separated fuzz guitar that races back and forth from speaker to speaker. «Truth» is another psychy hard-edged rocker that makes use of both fuzz and wah-wah. Shifts into rural electric folk-rock for «Country Tune». Also some good folky and acoustic selections («Share», «Joy Of Salvation», «Free») mixed in with the more basement rock stuff. Oddball synth sounds open the album in «Prologue», while cascading harp closes out «Epilogue». Strong organ presence from start to finish (courtesy of Kerry Chester), along with dynamic drumming and percussion, all of it accentuated by Williams’ breathy vocals. A couple sleeve variations exist – the original has individual photos of the trio on the back, the other has a group shot similar to the front cover. I do believe that’s a large crop of marijuana they’re standing in front of. See also 7″ section. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]

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LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Prologue” – 1:48
A2. “Kingdom” – 3:17
A3. “Change” – 2:34
A4. “One In The Spirit” – 5:01
A5. “Share” – 4:24

Side Two
B1. “Country Tune” – 2:40
B2. “Joy Of Salvation” – 4:35
B3. “Truth” – 4:40
B4. “Free” – 3:03
B5. “Epilogue” – 2:50

Note: Later re-issued on CD. The band also released a two-sided 7-inch single on Destiny featuring “Sinner Man”, b/w “You Can Tell The World”.

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