Description
The Wheat Lies Low is the sophomore album by the American singer and songwriter Larry Groce, released on Daybreak Records in 1971, manufactured and distributed by RCA Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Walt Wilder and Richard Larson at Dragon Studios in Los Angeles, California; early 1971, with the Wilder Bros. and Big Time Productions producing. Featuring Larry Groce on guitar and vocals and Berke McKelvey on electric bass.
Larry Groce is from Dallas, Texas, and he’s been singing and playing since his grandfather taught him chords to a hymn. It’s a long piece from Dallas to New York City but he has traveled it and knows the road well – wherever he happens to be along the way people are hearing from him, whether it’s those ‘down-home, feel-good’ country funnies, the powerful «Look Up From Your Troubles» or the haunting «The Wheat Lies Low».
As a man and musician, as singer and songwriter there is no imitation in, or limitation to, his performance – he is unique!
Here then is an album that completely personities Larry Groce as we know him, for he has combined in his music the roots of Dallas with the wisdom of the ages, the simplicity and the humor of the country and the honesty of the land. The way he has taught us that the greatest means of communication in the world today is not just a product of electronics – it is love, and when the poet heard America singing he must have heard Larry Groce.
– The Producers [Note printed on the back of the LP sleeve]
[Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “A Woman Indeed” – 2:31
A2. “Sad Bird” – 2:58
A3. “I Love” – 3:05
A4. “Whistling Afternoon” – 2:25
A5. “Girl From The North Country” – 3:20
A6. “The Wheat Lies Low” – 3:41
Side Two
B1. “Compton” – 4:07
B2. “Look Up From Your Troubles” – 4:58
B3. “Little Bird” – 4:44
B4. “Grey Pigeon” – 2:28
B5. “God And The Body” – 1:56
B6. “Wildflower Eyes” – 3:08
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