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 The United States of America (album)
Their eponymous album was recorded in December 1967, produced by David Rubinson for Columbia Records, and released in 1968. It was rereleased on CD by Sundazed Records in 2004 with various alternate takes, demos, and outtakes.

Their sound blended a range of musical genres, including avant-garde, psychedelic, and art rock. One of the more notable points of the band was that it had no guitar player, which for its time was quite radical, as the electric guitar occupied a central position in rock music of the time. Instead, they used strings, keyboards and electronics, including primitive synthesizers, and various audio processors, including the ring modulator.


Track List
 1. The American Metaphysical Circus (Joseph Byrd) 4:56
 2. Hard Coming Love (Byrd, Dorothy Moskowitz) 4:41
 3. Cloud Song (Byrd, Moskowitz) 3:18
 4. The Garden of Earthly Delights (Byrd, Moskowitz) 2:39
 5. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar (Byrd, Moskowitz) 3:51
 6. Where Is Yesterday (Gordon Marron, Ed Bogas, Moskowitz) 3:08
 7. Coming Down (Byrd, Moskowitz) 2:37
 8. Love Song for the Dead Che (Byrd) 3:25
 9. Stranded in Time (Marron, Bogas) 1:49
 10. The American Way of Love 
 Metaphor for an Older Man (Byrd)
 California Good time Music (Byrd)
 Love Is All (Byrd, Moskowitz, Rand Forbes, Craig Woodson, Marron)" 6:38
 11.Osamu's Birthday (Byrd) 2:59
 12.No Love to Give (Moskowitz) 2:36
 13.I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar (Byrd, Moskowitz) 3:45
 14.You Can Never Come Down (Byrd) 2:32
 15.Perry Pier (Moskowitz) 2:37
 16.Tailor Man (Moskowitz) 3:06
 17.Do You Follow Me (Kenneth Edwards) 2:34
 18.The American Metaphysical Circus (Byrd) 4:01
 19.Mouse (The Garden of Earthly Delights) (Byrd, Moskowitz) 2:39
 20.Heresy (Coming Down) (Byrd, Moskowitz) 2:32

 The Band
 Joseph Byrd – Eectric Harpsichord, Organ, Calliope, Piano
 Dorothy Moskowitz – Lead Vocals
 Gordon Marron – Electric Violin, Ring Modulator
 Rand Forbes – Electric Bass
 Craig Woodson – Electric Drums, Percussion

 Guest Musicians
 Ed Bogas – Occasional Organ, Piano, Valliope


The record was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “underground music” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and/or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground (who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA), Frank Zappa (whom Byrd considered a niche-marketer "subsumed in a self-referential loop"[1]), Love's Forever Changes, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane.

Whether intended or not, the record took the form of a coherent "song cycle", a radical commentary on contemporary American society. The words ranged from satires on decadence ("The American Metaphysical Circus", "..Wooden Wife..", (this title being a parody of the old music hall song, "I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You" by Tom Mellor and Charles Collins) to lyrical expressions of longing (the pastoral "Cloud Song", the political "Love Song For The Dead Che"). Musically, the songs ranged from pseudo-classical elegance ("Stranded In Time", "Where Is Yesterday") to aggressive discordance and hard rock ("The Garden of Earthly Delights", "Hard Coming Love"), with heavy electronic distortion and collages of "found" music such as brass bands, Byrd being heavily influenced by Charles Ives. The final suite "The American Way of Love" integrates most of these elements, with a dreamlike ending containing a collage of earlier tracks.




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