We'Re An American Band: Journey Through The Usa We'Re An American Band: Journey Through The Usa CD

Three CD set charting the birth and early development of American hard rock. In the late 60s, the parallel emergence of psychedelia and the blues-based power trio format saw pop evolve into rock. In America, bands became harder, heavier, rawer and louder to a backdrop of the Vietnam War, street drugs and increasingly powerful amps. Commercially successful acts like Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly spearheaded a new wave of bands whose sound would later be codified as heavy metal. Over three CDs and four hours of music, 'We're An American Band' charts hard rock's evolution during the late 60s and early 70s, culminating in Grand Funk's game-changing, chart-topping late 1973 single of the same name. In addition to the aforementioned bands, we feature the likes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges, ZZ Top, MC5 and Love, hard rock dilettantes (Todd Rundgren, Kim Fowley, even Muddy Waters) and such pioneers as Kurt Cobain-endorsed satanic rockers Coven and early metalheads Sir Lord Baltimore. We include tracks from some of the most valuable vinyl LPs on the planet (Bolder Damn, Brigade), ultra-rare local singles (The Mass Confusion Rock Band, Wildwood) and vital music that went unreleased at the time (B. F. Trike, Cold Sun, etc). With accompanying 48-page booklet, 'We're An American Band' is a fascinating window on American rock's epic journey from the bowels of the late 60s underground counterculture to mainstream mid-70s acceptance.

1. Ticket to Ride - Vanilla Fudge 2. Iron Butterfly Theme - Iron Butterfly 3. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer 4. The Ostrich (Album Version) - Steppenwolf 5. Remlap's Cave Part II - the Savage Resurrection 6. Man Who Paints the 7. Pictures - Fever Tree 8. Why Should I Care - the Sound Barrier 9. Pride of Man - Quicksilver Messenger Service 10. My Own Life - Easy Chair 11. Chicken Wire Lady - Blues Magoos 12. April 15th - the Human Beinz 13. Plastic People -Wildwood 14. The War Rages on - Mass 15. Confusion Rock Band 16. Black Sheep - SRC 17. Let's Spend the Night 18. Together - Muddy Waters 19. Crazy Woman - Dragonfly 20. Hot Smoke and Sasafrass - the Bubble Puppy 21. Good Morning Day - Omnibus 22. Mister Genie Man - Society's Children 23. Blow My Mind - Darius 24. Nightrider - Kim Fowley 25. Kick Out the Jams - MC5 26. Time Seller - Stack 27. Under the Ice - Nazz 28. Fields of Regret - Alice Cooper 29. Oceans Inside Me - Stone Garden 30. I Wanna Be Your Dog - the Stooges 31. Dark-Eyed Woman - Spirit 32. Journeys - the Litter 33. Robert Montgomery - Love 34. Donovan's Monkey - Stalk-Forrest Group 35. Wicked Woman - Coven 36. Welcome to the Void - Morgen 37. Babylon - Conception 38. House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink 39. Sad Day - Fuse 40. Mississippi Queen - Mountain 41. No Parking (Live) - Gold 42. Dark Road - Christopher 43. Self-Made Gold - Brigade 44. Death of a Virgin - Damnation of Adam Blessing 45. Neighbor, Neighbor - ZZ Top 46. Twisted Flower - Cold Sun 47. Stars in the Sky - Wildfire 48. Helium Head (I Got a Love) - Sir Lord Baltimore 49. Time and Changes - B. F. Trike 50. Face the Crowd - Demian 51. Road Runner - Head Over Heels 52. Montreal Jail - Boomerang 53. Evil - Cactus 54. B.R.T.C.D. - Bolder Damn 55. Never Coming Down - Estes Brothers 56. Transmaniacon MC - Blue ?yster Cult 57. You Can - Earthen Vessel 58. The Queen - Bang 59. My Time Is Over - Sudden Death 60. It Swallowed the Sun - the Flow 61. Suicide - Dust 62. Love Jumped Through My Window - Arthur Lee 63. Is It My Name - Todd Rundgren 64. You Know - Stray Dog 65. We're An American Band - Grand Funk