THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
938) Lynne Hughes — “It Didn’t Even Bring Me Down”
A barnstorming, horn-infused take on this cool Sir Douglas Quintet Mendocino (see #383) number, from Lynne Hughes’ 70 solo album Freeway Gypsy.
Richie Unterberger tells us:
Tongue and Groove were something of an offshoot of the legendary but little-recorded, early San Francisco hippie group the Charlatans.
Lynne Hughes was the lead singer of . . . Tongue and Groove, mining the field between folk, blues, and rock, in somewhat the same manner as fellow Bay Area female singers Tracy Nelson and Janis Joplin . . . . Hughes had a more old-timey ragtime tilt to her vocals than any of those other singers did, and was the most prominent presence on Tongue and Groove’s fair, self-titled late-’60s album. Prior to that, she had been something of an auxiliary member of the Charlatans, doing some singing and even recording with them without being an official group member. Hughes had entered music as a folk musician in Seattle in the early ’60s before going to the Bay Area. . . . She would play guitar and sing lead on a few songs with the[ Charlatans] . . . . [and] played and sang on some demos they did for Kama Sutra in early 1966 . . . .
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynne-hughes-mn0001199603, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tongue-and-groove-mn0001624369
Record Fiend adds that:
After growing up in the Pacific Northwest and being part of Seattle’s folk scene in the early 1960s, Hughes relocated to the Bay Area and became friends with Chandler Laughlin and the characters who would eventually establish the legendary Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. This, in turn, led to her becoming an occasional member of the Charlatans with whom she often performed . . . . She acknowledged that the time spent with them broadened her knowledge of blues artists like Robert Johnson, which considerably expanded her repertory. Formed toward the end of the 1960s, Tongue and Groove was an interesting blues-rock outfit that was in some respects an offshoot of the Charlatans in that it included Hughes and that band’s original piano player (and one the first Haight-Ashbury scenesters) Mike Ferguson, who also did the album’s cover artwork. . . . [T]he tracks [on their LP] with Hughes at the helm are absolutely superb . . . . Hughes went on to do an album under her own name, Freeway Gypsy, as well as becoming a vocalist for Stoneground . . . .
https://psychedelicized.com/playlist/t/tongue-and-groove/
Here is the Sir Douglas Quintet:
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I only know a few of the obvious tunes from Sir Douglas, so this is new and I really like the Hughes cover.
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