Stephen John Kalinich – A World Of Peace Must Come (Light In The Attic)
Legend has it that Brian Wilson took to his bed sometime in 1967 having junked his Smile album and given in to drugs. He certainly left that album unfinished but the rest is myth: he’d relinquished control of the Beach Boys but still cut music until truly retreating from the world in the early 70s. This curio comes from 1969, the product of a collaboration between Brian and poet, Kalinich. It’s strictly for the heads: sparse, Smiley Smile style (non) production occasionally couches winsome, folky, spoken word passages. Still, an excellent snap shot of an L.A. bereft of innocence at the end of the sixties. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >