Crowbar: Heavy Duty LP. UK version SPFL 283 of the 1972 album. Laminated Cover! Canadian rock and roll revivalist band. Psychedelic music a la Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers type southern rock. Check audio

Description

Heavy Duty was the second studio album for Canadian rock and roll revivalist band Crowbar. Originally released in 1972 on the heels of the gold live album, Larger Than Life (And Live’r Than You’ve Ever Been). The band’s debut album, Bad Manors and their live performances on a cross Canada tour had won legions of fans for the band and many were anxiously waiting for the bands next album. On this album, the band moved away from their high energy blues styled songs and tried their hand at psychedelic music in the style of the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers type southern rock on a couple of songs.
Although there were a couple of good time boogie blues / rock and roll songs on the album, they were too few and the whole package was too diverse for fans. It did not sell well and thus soon this UK (SPFL 283) version, became rare enough!

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJzezJYGnlReaLyFHal1fW67EglYk20AY&feature=gws_kp_album&feature=gws_kp_artist

or https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/heavy-duty/id300950992

or  www.last.fm/music/Crowbar/Heavy+Duty

or   www.7digital.com/artist/crowbar/release/heavy-duty

Track Listing:
1 Trilby
2 Listen Sister
3 (A Mutual Liberation Ballad)
4 Hey Baby
5 Dreams
6 Where Were You?
7 Deadhead Out of St. Johns
8 Beaver and the Eagle
9 Cluckies Escape
10 Snakes and Ladders
11 Lay One Down
Running time
32:25

Crowbar was a Canadian rock band based in Hamilton, Ontario, probably best known for their 1971 hit “Oh, What a Feeling”.

From 1969 to 1970, most of the members of the group had been a backup band for Ronnie Hawkins under the name “And Many Others”. However, in early 1970, he fired them, saying “You guys are so crazy that you could fuck up a crowbar in three seconds!” They recorded their first album in 1970 (Official Music) as King Biscuit Boy and Crowbar. King Biscuit Boy left the band later in 1970, but continued to appear off-and-on as a guest performer.
Crowbars rock, blues and boogie mix made it one of Canadas most popular touring bands of the early 1970s. The band toured in the United Kingdom but, otherwise, made little impact outside of Canada, perhaps the result of the strong nationalistic fervour that characterised its performances.
Crowbar disbanded in 1975, but was revived in 1977 (minus Jozef Chirowski, who had joined Alice Coopers band) for a tour of eastern Canada and again by Kelly Jay and others intermittently during the 1980s for club work in southern Ontario.