Loosen Up Naturally

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Track Listings

1. 1982-A

2. The Thing To Do

3. Misery Isn't Free

4. Rooftop

5. Everywhere

6. Don't Fight It, Do It!

7. Get High

8. Black And Blue Rainbow

9. Hello Sunlight

10. Things Are Gettin' Better

11. Freedom

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Holy grail psyche recordings from Neon Pearl featuring Pete Dunton of Flies & Please Fame. Includes two bonus tracks, 'Dream' & 'Nothing To Say'. Acme Lion.

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Loosen Up Naturally

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one of the most creative rock records around
This album changed my life
The best music from the best funk-rock band EVER!
"Got to be free"
This is a 10-Star Album, one of the greatest of all-time!!!

Loosen Up Naturally
The Sons of Champlin
Manufacturer: Acadia Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000D8HUV
Release Date: 2003-10-13

Tracks:

1982-A
Thing to Do
Misery Isn't Free
Rooftop
Everywhere
Don't Fight It, Do It!
Get High
Black and Blue Rainbow
Hello Sunlight
Things Are Getting Better
Freedom

Album Details

A Soulful Rock Band featuring a Horn Section to Reinforce the Keyboard Power of Bill Chapman. This Album was their Debut LP Set for Capitol.

Customer Reviews:

one of the most creative rock records around.......2007-03-21

Clearly these guys were way ahead of their time. Their use of the saxophones in the arrangements of the tunes is very clever. The whole album has a real joyous, upbeat feel to it. I had the album as a teenager and have recently purchased the cd, recalling how much I enjoyed the music. I have become a fervent jazz fan since and don't listen to much rock, but I find this album irresistable. I like the way the lyrics fit the songs, and though I don't relate much to the "get high" philosophy in one of the songs, most of them are about self realization and have a good positive message. There is a real gold mine here of tunes that current bands (even jazz bands like mine) could pick up on because the songs really have weathered well and I find they are as highly relevant today as when the album first came out. For example, check out Misery Isn't Free, Things are Getting Better, Everywhere, Black and Blue Rainbow, and or course Freedom.

The main thing I like about the album is Bill Champlin's composition and arrangements. He is a fine songwriter and one of the best vocalists I have ever heard. He combines many genres with some blues, jazz, rock, r&b and soul.

I'd say the Sons of Champlin, together with the Beatles and a maybe a few others were the most creative bands of their time. And they are still together! Check out some of the new stuff! The horn arrangements are out of this world! Which makes you wonder ... Why on earth did so few people catch on??

This album changed my life.......2006-09-13

Nothing can describe the feeling of walking into the Winterland Arena in 1969 (a little late) and hearing the sound of those horns reverberating off the wall as I approached the main hall. The song was "Love of a Woman" and it caught my heart in a way that has only been musically rivaled by the original Mahavishnu Orchestra. They completely stole the show from the two bands they opened for: The Grateful Dead followed by The Jefferson Airplane. (just think about that for a minute and you'll be asking yourself the same question I asked in 1969 - who the hell are these guys?).

Then, I watched as these "hippies" played song after song which sustained the vibe for the entire set. Incredibly, after every song, they would all change instruments (or it seemed that way). It remains a strong vivid image in my memory.

Regarding "Loosen Up Naturally" it has two powerful elements going for it. 1) an unequaled vibe of "this music makes me feel good" - I don't know why or how, and I don't care - it's fantastic. And 2) the Bill Champlin lyrics are deeper, stronger, more understandable and more meaningful than any composer I've ever heard. He knew his heart and poured his feelings into his lyrics. His now famous voice is nothing short of spectacular.

Having seen this band in all it's incarnations, Loosen up Naturally is a testement to what good San Francisco Hippie Horn bands with a huge dose of soul were supposed to sound like. They were true originals and this album holds up much better than most albums over 35 years old.

If you're new to the Hippie band sound, or think that the music was not any good because the musicians were too high, (which was quite common in those days), this album will change your view and you'll be a fan for life.

Bill Champlin is a national treasure and this album should be enshrined as a masterpiece.

Listen to it, find your smile, and help the world be a better place.

Rick Calic
Jazz Rock World

The best music from the best funk-rock band EVER!.......2006-01-23

I think these guys were the second big horn-based rock band to come out of the post-Beatles era. They came just after Al Kooper's B,S&T and before Chicago Transit Authority and Tower of Power. Having recently re-discovered it, I think this is the best and most interesting album from anyone of this ilk that I've heard and the powerful lyrics and music have held up extremely well over the decades. Sixty-plus minutes of music and every second is a joy to listen to. Even the 14+ minute "Freedom" finale, unlike the self-indulgent jams many bands did at the time, seems way too short.

My friend and I nearly wore this double LP out in the first year he bought it in 1969 (I think) but I hadn't listened to it in decades. Recently, while digitizing some of my LP's, I recalled how much I like it, so I cued it up. I was amazed - I liked it as much as I ever did. The band came out of the SF hippie scene so the lyrics deal with things that are typical of that time and place, but aren't dated like so much other music of the time. Both the music and lyrics are optimistic, upbeat and even thought-provoking, but both are very well-grounded and as a result, both are as relevant and enjoyable now as they were in 1968 when it was released.

"Got to be free".......2005-03-16

When the double album first appeared, the local college radio station started playing the 14 minute plus "Freedom" often but I only had to hear it once to love it. The entire album turned out to be amazing and its a sound you won't find anywhere else. The great horn work continued with the 2nd album "The Sons", but even without the horns, the Sons were outstanding and one of a kind, as on the later releases "Follow Your Heart" and "Circle Filled With Love". There's a life-affirming beauty in these songs that got stronger release by release, but it's already present in great power in this first album. Here's the pure spirit of the hippie late '60's and early '70's as found in few other ways nowadays.

If you like horns, this album is the rival of "Chicago Transit Authority". And if there's a hippie somewhere inside of you, these are your lyrics. In recent years, an increasing number of releases by the "Sons" have been re-issued, along with some recent live material from the re-formed band, so if you start with "Loosen Up Naturally", you can then follow the path of the Sons from the late 60's on.

This is a 10-Star Album, one of the greatest of all-time!!!.......2005-02-17

As many times as I've seen the Sons over the years, and as amazing musicians as they are, it's the lyrics that are the most important to me. These songs are blessings and prayers that STILL run through every particle of my being. Plus, you have one of the greatest dudes/guitarists sending the most beautiful, shredding guitar licks you've ever heard--Terry Haggerty. It's some of the most amazing, joyous music ever. ENJOY!!!

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Loosen Up Naturally
The Sons of Champlin
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AA7FI0
Release Date: 2005-10-10

Tracks:

1982-A
Thing to Do
Misery Isn't Free
Rooftop
Everywhere
Don't Fight It, Do It!
Get High
Black and Blue Rainbow
Hello Sunlight
Things Are Getting Better
Freedom

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the 1969 album comes packaged in a paper sleeve. The Sons' debut, Loosen Up Naturally, features the tracks 'Get High' and 'Freedom', both legendary tracks. ''Everyone was trying to get hits on what was the beginning of FM radio, and we were putting out 14-minute songs'', Champlin recalled. ''We had some good opportunities; we just kind of snubbed them, 'cause we were young and dumb, mostly. Music, not business''. 11 total tracks. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Aural Odessy - Its the journey not just the destination
"All of us are radical;now is not the time for a sabatical!"
Cream of the crop
The best of the best
Looking for another Champlin album...

Loosen Up Naturally
Sons Of Champlin
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000084FN
Release Date: 2002-08-30

Tracks:

1982-A
Thing to Do
Misery Isn't Free
Rooftop
Everywhere
Don't Fight It, Do It!
Get High
Black and Blue Rainbow
Hello Sunlight
Things Are Getting Better
Freedom

Album Description

Holy grail psyche recordings from Neon Pearl featuring Pete Dunton of Flies & Please Fame. Includes two bonus tracks, 'Dream' & 'Nothing To Say'. Acme Lion.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Second Album from One of the Last of the Sixties Psychedelic Bands from San Francisco that Never Hitched to the Superstardom Train, but Collectors and Archivists of the Times have Come to Recognize their Recordings as a Significant Part of the Peace and Love Scene. Keyboardist and Founder Bill Champlin Would Later Go on to Join Chicago in 1981.

Customer Reviews:

Aural Odessy - Its the journey not just the destination.......2005-09-28

In 1969 when I first heard this album, my musical highway map was drawn by Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, Hendrix, Joplin...I love them all still...but When I heard the the Sons of Champlin's "Loosen Up Naturally" album, I slammed on my breaks, skidded off the highway, left my old beater by the side of the road and hopped on this crazy bus...what a cool ride.
PS.
Am I hearing things or did Sublime conjour a sly rip-off with their "what I got"? Listen to this Sublime song and take a listen to this album.

"All of us are radical;now is not the time for a sabatical!".......2003-06-01

I first heard the Sons of Champlin on a reel to reel tape a friend had in 1969. The soulfulness and the energy grabbed me
right away. They played U.C. Davis shortly after, were thirty minutes late and then blew the topbilled band off the stage. In
concert they are a rush and this album reflects the spirt and
talent that is only amplified in person. 1982-A and Freedom are
the highlights, but the whole album is infectious; I highly recommend the new "Live" album and seeing the band in person if
you ever get the chance.

Cream of the crop.......2003-03-27

This album/group was the cream of the crop from the late 60's and early 70's. It is a mix of acid rock, great jazz, excellant vocals. The words speak clearly of the inner light and the answer to lifes mysteries: Love. When the band broke up, Bill Champlin joined the group Chicago. This album gets angular at times, ie real jazzy, but they always bring you back to great rock and vocals.
I searched for 15 yrs to find this on vinyl, and what luck to find it on CD (imported from England)
Go to the Grateful Dead web site, they state that the Sons of Champlin were by far the most talented group from the San Francisco era.

The best of the best.......2003-01-19

This album has all the raw energy of a live garage band with the chops of a great progressive British rock band. Throw in some Detroit/Muscle Shoals Soul, and mix in the classic horn band mistique - voila! You have the Sons of Champlin. Timeless rock and roll. By the way, I have the original vinyl and am buying the CD.

Looking for another Champlin album..........2002-07-17

I had this record years ago, and loved it, but I also had one called "Circle of Love" that was terrific. Would love to find a copy of it...does anyone know where I could find it?

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Loosen Up Naturally
Sons of Champlin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000254856
Release Date: 2003-10-07

Album Description

2003 reissue of the San Francisco based psychedelic folkies' 1969 album for Capitol. 11 tracks. Acadia.

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Loosen Up Naturally
Sons of Champlin
Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DEM8P
Release Date: 2002-08-30

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