Turner, Gregg - Group
Songs For Sparrow
Compact Disc Release features 4 Bonus Tracks.
The Gregg Turner Group is an American band founded by retired math professor Gregg Turner that was hatched in 2019 in
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Turner's musical pedigree heralds back to LA's punk-rock Angry Samoans (of which he was a
co-founding member, co-songwriter, rhythm guitarist and sometime singer) in the 1980's. He also recorded a one-off
6-song 12-inch vinyl EP with Samoan partner-in-crime Mike Saunders; released as The
Mistaken (1987), this has suddenly been gaining newfound social media traction, and is more redolent of a crude 60's
heavy pop-garage sound than the lunatic punk tantrums ejaculated by the Sams.
The Samoans eventually imploded in 1991 and several years later Turner spawned a 60's caveman-stompy musical amalgam (a
la Kinks, Troggs and Velvet Underground) that he called The Blood Drained Cows (the band name was created when, upon
first relocating to New Mexico from LA in 1993, Turner spotted an article in the local newspaper that reported findings
of eviscerated plasma-drained cow corpses in the hills behind Santa Fe; "just a bunch of blood drained cows" noted an
investigating veterinarian). Turner released two cd's under the Cows umbrella (the eponymous Blood Drained Cows produced
by Jeff Dahl in 1998 and a follow up effort in 2003 entitled
13, produced by Andy Shernoff of the Dictators). Of note, both releases included electric autoharp wizard Billy Bill
Miller who gained repute for his musical sorcery backing Roky Erickson in the late 1970's as one of the Aliens. Cooling
off his Cow hoofs eventually, Turner ultimately navigated more
"neo-folk-punk-doo-woppy" (Rolling Stone, 2015) solo yearnings by way of Jonathan Richman and Del Shannon and released
two solo efforts (Plays The Hits 2013 and Chartbusters! In 2017). Sometime after this, Turner coagulated the talents of
Santa Fe musical luminaries Sarah Meadows (bass, harmony vocals), David Barsanti (drums) and lead guitarist Aaron
Anderson to create the underpinning of what now makes the rounds as The Gregg Turner Group.
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
17-02-2023
Label
Item-nr
1006100
EAN
0614254017020
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
STAKEOUT ON DOPE STREET
2
WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME?
3
IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU DEAR (THEN I DON'T WANT NO-ONE)
4
THE LAST TWENTY YEARS
5
STILL SEARCHIN' FOR MY WAY
6
MEDICATION
7
NECROPHILIAC IN LOVE
8
WHY CAN'T YOU COME?
9
MR. FREEZE
10
THE VAMPIRE DOG OF JESUS CHRIST
11
RIGHT TRACK NOW
12
I HEAR YOU CALL MY NAME (BONUS TRACK)
13
MY BABY IS GONE AWAY (BONUS TRACK)
14
REPENT ALL PURGES (BONUS TRACK)
15
BAD MOON RISING (BONUS TRACK)