Take Something With You

Take Something With You

It’s uncanny how well some obscure recordings age. Take Gary Farr's work, for example. Before going solo, he was a member of the '60s British R&B garage band The T-Bones. As music got a little weirder in the late ‘60s, Farr experimented first with psychedelia (with the band Blossom Toes) and then prog rock (with Mighty Baby). His 1969 solo outing Take Something with You finds him segueing through music genres. And with all the added bonus tracks, demos, and outtakes, this 2008 reissue offers a generous total of 28 songs. It starts with the folk-rocking “Don’t Know Why You Bother Child,” in which Farr croons like a hybrid of the genre’s best Tims (Buckley and Hardin). He shape-shifts from folk to blues with the following slide guitar–laden “The Vicar and the Pope,” which rocks somewhere between Peter Green–era Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan’s playful "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35." And then, as if sequenced just to display the man’s confidence and aptitude in handling any genre, the third track, “Green,” dips into trippy hippiedom with innovative arrangements and bongo-accompanied flute solos.

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