Family Entertainment

by Family

Family Entertainment cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1969
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: Spain
  • Community rating: 4.02/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Charlie Whitney, Jim King, Rob Townsend, Rick Grech, The Heavenly Strings, Roger Chapman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Propelled by Roger Chapman's incredibly unique, heavily vibrato-laced vocals, Family's sophomore record is a wonderfully eccentric milestone of early progressive rock. 'Family Entertainment' is fiercely eclectic and deeply quirky, weaving remarkably melodic, highly technical psychedelic folk-rock with beautifully introspective, wonderfully warm art-rock sophistication.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, technical, melodic, eccentric, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. The Weaver's Answer
  2. Observations From A Hill
  3. Hung Up Down
  4. Summer '67
  5. How-Hi-The-Li
  6. Second Generation Woman
  7. From Past Archives
  8. Dim
  9. Processions
  10. Face In The Cloud
  11. Emotions

Credits

  • Family - primary artist
  • Tony Cox - arranged by [additional arrangements]
  • Rick Grech - bass guitar, violin, vocals, written-by
  • Alan Aldridge - design [album design]
  • Ink Studios - design [album design]
  • Rob Townsend - drums, percussion
  • Glyn Johns - engineer, producer [produced by]
  • Charlie Whitney - guitar, piano, organ, written-by
  • Tony Bridge - lacquer cut by
  • Roger Phillips - photography by [photos by]
  • John Gilbert - producer [produced by]
  • The Heavenly Strings - strings
  • Jim King - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, harmonica, piano
  • Roger Chapman - vocals, percussion, written-by

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