Uit 1970.
Woe betide the psychedelic groover who picked up the third album by
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! A mere three hits in a long three years had completely exhausted the bandmembers' patience with the whimsy of yore, and their ears had long since turned in other directions. It was the age, after all, of Canned Heat's relentless boogie and Black Sabbath's blistered blues, and when
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's first new single of 1970, the lazy throb of "
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," proved that the record-buying public wasn't averse to a bit more down-home rocking, their future course was set.
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allies one of the most evocative titles in rock album history to one of the most familiar sights in a rock band's iconography, the cheap roadside café — crusty ketchup, leafy tea, an overflowing ashtray, and
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herself, cigarette clenched between unsmiling lips and a face that has seen it all and didn't like any of it.
Compared to the albums that would follow,
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is revealed as little more than a tentative blueprint for
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's new direction. At the time, however, it was a spellbinding shock, perhaps the last one that
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ever delivered. You should remember that when you play it!
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