TOUCH - Street Suite (1968 blues psych) CD

AllMusic Review by Stanton Swihart

Coming directly from playing live with some of the finest hard rock bands of the era, Touch entered the studio to record their only album in 1968, released the following year in a limited pressing of 100 LPs.

This Gear Fab reissue collects that entire album with the original lineup's two non-LP 45s, three songs recorded by the altered post-LP lineup, and a couple cuts by the Essence, the latter day band of Touch leader Ray Schulte.

As such, it is the complete collection of the band's intense, sometimes left-leaning psychedelia grounded in blues.

TRACKLIST

1     –Touch (15)     Stormy Monday Blues     6:29
2     –Touch (15)     Round Trip     3:16
3     –Touch (15)     Day To Day Man     3:14
4     –Touch (15)     Light My Fire     5:38
5     –Touch (15)     Lady Of The Universe     6:09
6     –Touch (15)     The Magic Inside You     4:05
7     –Touch (15)     Rainbow     3:19
8     –Touch (15)     Happy Face     0:45
9     –Touch (15)     Beginnings     0:49
10     –Touch (15)     Get A Gun     4:10
11     –Touch (15)     Catfish     8:25
12     –Touch (15)     Got To Keep Travelin' On     3:02
13     –Touch (15)     Let's Keep The Children On The Streets     5:33
14     –Touch (15)     Motor City's Burning     4:51
15     –Touch (15)     Gettin' Off     6:38
16     –Ray Schulte     Melt Away     3:33
17     –Ray Schulte     Everything To You     3:03