San Francisco's Beau Brummels were amoung the first of the the American counter-invasion bands of 1965.Songs like "Laugh Laugh" and "Just A Little" were big hits and revealed an unusual mastery of harmonics and songcraft that many of "ragged but right" garage bands of the counter-invasion lacked.
The Brummels, like the Byrds in L.A., were firmly imbeded in the folk rock explosion which placed an empasis on chiming guitars, minor chord progressions and haunting vocal atmospherics.
It was the shimering songcraft of Ron Elliot and the Sal Valentino's expressive vocals that distinguished the Brummels for any number of Beatle wannabe bands in America in 1965.
By 1968 the Brummels were pared down from a quintet to the duo of Elliot and Valentino. In 1967, as a trio, they had recorded "Triangle" which earned the respect of the undergound rock critics but never gained a large audience.
It was arguably one of the best releases of 1967, but the long shadow cast by a new wave of psychedelic bands doomed "Triangle" to the lower reaches of sales charts. "Bradley's Barn", recorded one year later was the Brummel's swansong and has become a page that was torn from the book of rock history.
Elliot and Valentino went to Nashville to record the album in the famed studio named for Owen Bradley, the legendary country music producer.
The excellent Nashville hired studio guns are so good they sound as if they have been members of the Brummels for years.
Elliot's maturity as a songwritter shines on cuts like "Cherokee Girl", "Turn Around" and "Deep Water". There is not a single throwaway track on the entire album.
Valentino's bittersweet vocals are well suited to the Brummel's new countrified context and the rough-hewn expressivness of his vocals rivals that of his peer Gene Clark of the Byrds. This album is truly a lost classic (by Gavin B.).
Cherokee Girl:
Track List:
01.Turn Around (3:04)
02.An Added Attraction (Come And See Me) (3:03)
03.Deep Water (2:33)
04.Long Walking Down To Misery (3:16)
05.Little Bird (2:42)
06.Cherokee Girl (3:36)
07.I'm A Sleeper (3:20)
08.The Loneliest Man In Town (1:54)
09.Love Can Fall A Long Way Down (4:16)
10.Jessica (2:22)
11.Bless You California (2:16)
The Beau Brummels:
*Sal Valentino: Vocals
*Ron Elliott: Guitar, Vocals
*Jerry Reed: Guitar
*Norbert Putnam: Bass
*Kenny Buttrey: Drums
*David Briggs: Keyboards
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