Captain Beefheart And Magic Band
Safe As Milk
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 2017 2LP Reissue From Music On Vinyl. "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"." AMG - Richie Unterberger.