Aesops Fables

Bay area-based ensemble led by Dawn McCarthy, mixing folk, indie-rock, cabaret, and avant-garde influences. Collection includes: Early Song (1999); Mother Twilight (2001); Family Album (2004); The Transit Rider (2006) and Light of a Vaster Dark (2010).

"Aesop's Fables only released this one album on Chess Record's Cadet Concept imprint and as such it's one of only a couple of real rock records on Cadet Concept (the other I know about is the 1st Status Quo album). The music is inconsistent and varied in style. A lot of it falls into the horn rock genre popular at the time (e.g., Blood Sweat & Tears, Rare Earth), but there are some other tracks that go into blue-eyed soul and psychedelic territory and are more to my liking. The band is excellent especially when one or all hit a groove like the organ freak out on "In the Morning" and pretty sublime, psychedelic jamming on "And When It's Over." - AMG The record is Mint. The jacket is Fair. The LP sounds Excellent+. Listen to this LP and be transported back in time to Long Island in 1969.