The In-Keepers — “The Cobweb Threads of Autumn”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — September 23, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

961) The In-Keepers — “The Cobweb Threads of Autumn”

Here is a song appropriate for the first day of autumn, a ’69 B-side that is “a baroque sunshine pop psych wonder” (happening45, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcRoOjECQQM), a “[p]erfect hippy trippy song” (rogbrown1458, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkZ-GYiFP7s), an “[i]nteresting combo of sunshine pop, strings and a touch of psych”. (thomassmith8721, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loQUodZLxpA)

Almost nothing is known about the In-Keepers, unless someome wants to tell me! Forumuser does tell us that:

This band consisted of some of the members of “The Swingin Six”. I know two of their names: John Summerville & Steve Burnett. I believe they later went on to become a band called “The Open Road”. 

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/anyone-familiar-with-the-late-60s-band-the-in-keepers.142936/

Burnett was in the Swingin Six, a folk group that put out an album in ’67 (https://www.discogs.com/artist/4820920-The-Swingin-Six) A band called the Open Road did release a folk rock album in ’71 (https://www.discogs.com/artist/790218-Open-Road-2). But neither Burnett nor Summerville are listed as members.

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