If you like the sound of some Evil, you will be pleased to know that there are two other tracks on the LP Blog for you to feast your ears upon! I do like me some Evil!!
Only active for a mere two years, Florida’s garage-punk four-piece, the Evil were a psych band with an edge. Looking for a title that tied in with their love for all things dark and scary, the band named themselves after the Willie Dixon track Evil – but the group had also toyed with the idea of Edgar Allan Poe and Raven as possible titles!
Known for their hard-driving, sometimes thrashing 60’s punk fusions, their music combined elements of blues, rockabilly and UK psych influences. Artists such as The Yardbirds, The Who, The Pretty Things and The Small Faces played a major role in shaping their shadowy sound and in 1967 they were signed to Capitol Records.
Whatcha Gonna Do About It? (b/w Always Runnin’ Around) was the band’s first and only single, reaching number eighty on Billboard. Shortly after this 45 was issued, the band broke up after three of the four members received draft notices and so ended their all-too brief stint as recording artists.
In the last decade the band has become particularly noted for several previously unreleased songs recorded in 1966, which have since been unearthed and released on various independent labels from acetates that had gone missing! In an article I’ve found, which details the band’s history extensively, the reason these lost tracks were finally found was all thanks to a Norwegian top 60s collector called Tage Weie. He was cool and determined enough to get in touch with the bandleader John Doyle and managed to convince Doyle to finally release the two songs. These were issued in 2012 when Florida Archive Recordings put these tracks out for the first time!!!
Tracks such as From a Curbstone, Short Life and today’s beauty, I’m Movin’ On (b/wI Know I’ll Die ) , are now regarded as a garage classics!! Dark in all the right ways, raw in all every aspect and untamed garage rock goodness is what today’s song brings. This band didn’t release a bad song and its an immense pity they didn’t get to record more!! Enjoy!
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