Rating: **** (4 stars)
Title: Dragonfly
Company: Megaphone
Catalog: MS-1202
Year: 1970
Grade (cover/record): VG+/NM
Comments: gatefold sleeve
Available: 1
Price: $175.00
Co-produced by Marty Brooks and Tom Sepe, "Dragonfly" offered up an excellent set of fuzz guitar-propelled psych. Strong melodies and searing vocals (no credits to be found on the slim liner notes), made originals such as "Blue Monday", "Enjoy Yourself" and "I Feel It" well worth hearing. Personal favorites were the fuzz and backward guitar drenched "Crazy Woman" and the extended closing number "Miles Away". The set wasn't perfect; several numbers on the flip side found the band occasionally incorporating C&W elements into the mix, but overall the collection was nothing short than great. (The album was originally released with a gatefold sleeve.) (In 1992 the French Eva label reissued the set in CD format (catalog number B-27.)
"Dragonfly" track listing:
1.) Blue Monday (J. Duncan - B. Davis) - 3:08
2.) Enjoy Yourself (R. Russ - B. Davis) - 3:28
3.) Hootchie Kootchie Man (Willie Dixon) - 4:25
4.) I Feel It (J. Duncan - B. Ray) - 4:38
5.) Trombodo (R. Russell) - 0:24
6.) Portrait of Youth (J. Jimerfield) - 2:48
7.) Crazy Woman (J. Duncan - R. Russ) - 2:45
8.) She Don't Care (J. Jimerfield) - 2:32
9.) Time Has Slipped Away (J. Duncan) - 2:36
10.) To Be Free (J. Duncan) - 3:22
11.) Darlin' (J. Jimerfield) - 0:24
12.) Miles Away (J. Duncan) - 4:45
Largely due to the fact their self-titled album was released by the small Encino, California-based Megaphone label, some folks think there's a connection with the equally unknown The Legend (see separate entry).