This 19-track collection takes its titles from SRC’s 1968 single of the same name, 45 and LP versions of which open and close the disc. In many ways “black sheep” aptly describes SRC’s standing within the rockn’n’roll heirarchy of their native Detroit.
Don’t venture this way anticipating the standard Detroit join-the-dots guitar-driven assault you might expect. Natives of Ann Arbor and contemporaries of the MC5 and The Stooges they may have been, but SRC tread a distinct path of their own, which is reflected in the contents of this collection of material drawn from the band’s three Capitol LPs: their selftitled debut from 1968, 1969’s Milestones and the following year’s Traveller’s Tale.
Sharing a fascination with British invasion acts that was common to all in Detroit’s rock’n’roll pantheon, the twist with SRC is that they didn’t settle for cranking out Yankified versions of the latest imports from the UK, instead adding their own prog-ish tendencies to the equation and the guitar-and- organ driven dramatics of the Quackenbush brothers Gary and Glenn. Nowhere is this more outlandish than when they break into a detour through Greig’s Peer Gynt suite on Morning Mood.
