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ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 05/14/1991

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BLUES MAGOOS 'MERCURY SINGLES 1966-1968' LP death great guitarist Tom “Pig Champion”Hailing from NYC, The Blues Magoos took the folk blues soundtrack of their mid sixties Greenwich Village contemporaries and forged it into a tough, garage psych hybrid that attracted fans as quickly as it angered folk club owners, incensed by the bands volume and unhinged stage show! Signed by Mercury Records in 1966, their inaugural single for the label, a reading of John D. Loudermilks Tobacco Road, was a churning 4 1 2 minute(!) plunge into crazed