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(Untitled)

(Columbia/Legacy)
Release Date: 09/16/1970 12:00

Originally a half-live, half-studio double LP (now expanded to a double CD), it’s larded with the excesses of its era—midway through a 16-minute, countrified “Eight Miles High,” new member Skip Battin demonstrates why the two scariest words in music are bass solo. But McGuinn had been collaborating with theater director Jacques Levy on Gene Tryp, a never-produced musical version of Henrik Ibsen’s 1867 play Peer Gynt, and the four songs from it included here are his best in years. Cover highlight: Leadbelly’s coke-head anthem “Take a Whiff on Me.”

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