Various - Safe In My Garden - American Pop In The Shadows 1967-1972Peace and love in late 60s America did not come without parallel feelings of fear and confusion about the social situation specifically about Vietnam. Safe In My Garden is the latest Ace compilation in an acclaimed series compiled by Bob Stanley its a companion piece to the much praised State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 1973) The music on Safe In My Garden is harmony laden, beautifully produced soft rock. Sunshine pop, even a

Field Music and Everything Everything

was a Motown session drummer and backed James Brown at the Apollo

“We were trying to make upbeat dance music

‰ÛÏRecording on my own liberated me to sing more like I actually sing

All of these tracks are embedded in the indie psyche and for good reason

singing short stories as varied as crushing on a DMV clerk ("Yolanda Hayes")

000 fathoms-deep

drug-crazed garage punks the Fat Whites are a “celebration of everything that is wrong in life”

Sincere is joyously effervescent

thinking he must have found someone else

this was a radical departure

The contagious