Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis

Year: 1969
Country: US
Label: Sundazed
Catalog#: SC 11089
Style: Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
Audio: flac
Size: 280 mb

One of my all-time favorite albums.lovely, breezy, brazilian-like psychedelic pop beautifully arranged with acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies by a very young female duo. 40 years after, it sounds timeless, and it seems that a lot of "modern bands" stole a lot from them.

Wendy & Bonnie's only album is a nice, if not truly necessary, relic of the late 1960s. It's the sort of unconventional yet accessible project that might have had trouble finding its way into release in any other era, but managed to at least get issued, even if it was largely undiscovered until cult listeners unearthed it decades later. The sisters' harmonies have the sweet-sour major minor blend typical of many San Francisco rock artists of the time, yet with a more homespun, intimate flavor than those of many a heavily produced band. Their songs have the sort of slightly askew lyrics that, again, were prevalent in their time and place, glowing with anticipation of an era of greater love and less social constraints, and also imbued with a certain innocent naïveté. ("The Paisley Window Pane" is a particularly priceless songtitle.) There are sometimes jazzier accents to their singing and chord progressions than there were in most psychedelic or harmony pop/rock groups; "The Paisley Window Pane" sounds like it might have absorbed lessons from José Feliciano's cover of "Light My Fire." The 2001 CD reissue on Sundazed adds several bonus tracks, including a garage-psych acetate ("The Night Behind Us") from their earlier rock group Crystal Fountain, and four acoustic home demos of songs that were not on the LP.

Wendy Flower (vocals)
Bonnie Flower vocals)
Larry Carlton (guitar)
Jim Keltner (drums)
Mike Melvoin (keyboard)

1 Let Yourself Go Another Time 2:40
2 The Paisley Window Pane 3:04
3 I Realized You 3:46
4 By the Sea 4:05
5 You Keep Hanging Up on My Mind 2:59
6 It's What's Really Happening 2:19
7 Five O'clock in the Morning 2:46
8 Endless Pathway 3:41
9 Children Laughing 2:49
10 The Winter Is Cold 2:44
11 The Night Behind Us (Crystal Fountain Acetate) 3:25
12 The Ice Cream Man Song (Demo) 2:24
13 December Sun (Demo) 4:25
14 Cover Our Child (Demo) 3:49
15 Story of a Conventional Man (Demo) 5:32