BOSTON SOUND® 1968 REVISITED VOL 2

Boston Sound 1968 Revisited, Vol. 2 Artist: Various Artists Released: 2007 Genre: Rock Format: CD (Full Length) Label: Iris Music Group UPC: 829410708562

In this second volume of “Boston Sound 1968”, we’re reintroduced to 1968, the year that changed a generation with some songs by young, local musicians of Boston. In 1968, Boston, a smaller society reflecting the greater national picture, was the conservative establishment that it had been 10 years earlier when it opposed the rock-music community. In contrast the vast progressive student population living there thrived on local pop music along with the radical confrontation of the war. Vietnam then was the catalyst, the counterculture its voice of opposition. The outcry was the same on all campuses and in parks across the nation, the hippie-turfs from Central Park in New York City, Lincoln Park in Chicago, Haight Street in San Francisco, and the Boston Common at the top of Beacon Hill. Civil dissent, mind-altering drugs, anti-establishment flower people fostered the nucleus which became the central core of this explosive time. It was the year of Nixon, the year that Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated. The country was in flame, shouting in discordant opposition, screaming in Boston, “the Red Socks are winning” — alternating with chants of “Kill the Hippies”, while our boys lay dead in a foreign jungle war. Love and blues buckled against the cold winds of New England winters, while turbulence boiled over at the Chicago Democratic National Convention. Mystic soldiers prophesized the world needed saving from itself. Then the decade came to an end, the future old/new generation in a Fragmentary March of Green gave way to suburbia, status-symbols, relationships, religion and success, the beginning of the new materialism, the ending of anti-establishment ideals – all history embossed in stone. Stephen Martin, who wrote the most poignant of the Orpheus songs for the group’s four albums, quietly, simply summed up, reminding us that with it all, generation-to-generation, the world still spins like a big green pearl, even upside down, still growing like a big oak tree with its roots in the sky, as well as in the ground.

1. Plastic Raincoats / Hung Up Minds - Ultimate Spinach 2. Just Got Back - Orpheus 3. Theme For The Masses - Ford Theater 4. World Has Just Begun - Ultimate Spinach III 5. Flowers In My Mind - Rockin' Ramrods 6. Little Sister - Orpheus 7. Everybody Knows - Willie Alexande & Bagatelle 8. Camillia Is Changing - Chamaeleon Church 9. Prophecies / Morning Blue - Steve Cataldo & Front Page Review 10. Cold Wind Blues - Colwell-Winfield Blues Band 11. Fragmentary March Of Green - Ultimate Spinach/ Behold & See 12. Big Green Pearl - Stephen Martin