Electric Flag - A Long Time Coming (1968) and similar items

Catalog Number: CS-9597 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is partly readable with wear and a missing section. Heavy shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners, bottom right corner split. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Killing Floor Groovin' Is Easy Over-Lovin' You She Should Have Just Wine Texas Sittin' In Circles You Don't Realize Another Country Easy Rider About The Record: A Long Time Coming, by Electric Flag, blends blues, rock, soul, and psychedelia, led by guitarist Mike Bloomfieldfresh from his work on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisiteddrummer Buddy Miles, and a horn section featuring Marcus Doubleday. Recorded from July 1967 to January 1968, it was one of the earliest pop recordings to integrate sound and voice samples with music, reflecting the band's influential performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Historically significant for bridging blues revival and horn-driven soul-rock, it captured the era's experimental vibe but was marred by internal conflicts, including Bloomfield's blues purism clashing with Miles' soulful arrangements, leading to the band's breakup by mid-1968 due to Bloomfield's exhaustion and heroin struggles. The album features a dynamic cover of Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor, the adapted Wine (from Sticks McGhee's Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee), the psychedelic She Should Have Just, and the anti-draft Another Country segued into Easy Rider. The hit single Groovin' Is Easy, released in 1967, was the band's poppiest track, while Over-Lovin' You, also a single, saw limited chart success.