Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (Pye Intl. 1967) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than the efforts that followed in the late '60s – which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba." Richie Unterberger AMG

Track listing:

A1. Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do
A2. Zig Zag Wanderer
A3. Call On Me
A4. Dropout Boogie
A5. I’m Glad
A6. Electricity

B1. Yellow Brick Road
B2. Abba Zaba
B3. Plastic Factory
B4. Where There’s Woman
B5. Grown So Ugly
B6. Autumn’s Child

Personnel:

Don Van Vliet - vocals, harmonica, bass marimba, arrangements
Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar, bass, background vocals
Jerry Handley – bass, background vocals
John French – drums, background vocals
Ry Cooder – guitar, slide guitar, bass, arrangements of "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" and "Grown So Ugly"
With: Samuel Hoffman - theremin on "Electricity" and "Autumn's Child"
Milt Holland – log drum, tambourine
Taj Mahal – tambourine
Produced by Bob Krasnow & Richard Perry