Up From Below 06/22/1990 A4 If It Ain't Ruff

A4        If It Ain't Ruff

with whom she had collaborated on her previous two full-lengths

Ken Hitchcock (woodwinds)

Me/and/Dad [Indie LP #2] is a Records & LPs from Billy Strings

Carrington not only reinterprets that album

Up From Below 06/22/1990 A4 If It Ain't Ruff"40 Day Dream," the Motown infused, OutKast inspired, heavily orchestrated "Beatlesque" soul jam that opens Up from Below, serves as a pretty good litmus test for what follows. Listeners who are put off by the robe wearing Polyphonic Spree's cultish glazed eye self help anthems or cringe when they hear the Mamas & the Papas' "Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon" would be advised to get off the magic bus early, as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros