Grinderswitch
Atlantis Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Late December 1977

Record company promo cassette

Lineage: Cass. > Audacity > Wav > Flac (L8, allign on SBs)

1. Redwing
2. You And Me
3. Watermelon Time In Georgia
4. That Special Woman
5. Kiss The Blues Goodbye
6. You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
7. Taste Of Love

Total time 54:08

Dru Lombar - lead guitar & lead vocals
Chris Anderson - lead guitar & vocals
Stephen Miller - keyboards & vocals
Joe Dan Petty - bass & vocals
Rick Burnett - drums

Draftervoi's original notes:
Okay, gang, I figure the rarity of this might make it of interest. This is a cassette I purchased off Ebay from the estate of someone or other who'd been an executive at Rolling Stones Records (the band Grinderswitch was not a Rolling Stones Records artist). Anyway...I tossed it in the pile of things I was going to eventually get to, because Southern Rock wasn't something I listened to at that time...anyway, I finally got around to it as the wife is up in Seattle for the grandson's 4th birthday, and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it is.

This Grinderswitch was a southern rock band, working in a similar style to the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band. Grinderswitch didn't break out of regional success, unfortunately. I had never listened to them until I ran across this promo cassette, and they're quite enjoyable. Solid playing, stinging slide guitar work, and good bluesy vocals. They also cover an Albert King song, which shows excellent taste.

They put out six albums from 1974-1981, track 'em down...this is good stuff for anyone who likes the southern rock style.

British DJ John Peel used Grinderswitch's "Pickin' The Blues" as a theme song.

There is another band named "Grinder Switch and Garland Jeffries," which issued an album in 1970. The two bands are not related.

Flac files of wavs. This is digitized directly from the promo cassette tape.
I've included scans of both sides of the cassette and the typed cassette label.

If anyone can provide more information about this cassette, the venue, etc., please leave a comment!

Many thanks to draftervoi for all his efforts and providing this file set through his Voodoo Wagon blog.

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