Country Rock "Cure For Ivermectin" - Claim

Papa Nebo's sole album, from '71, is every bit as strange and gothic as the cover suggests. This is Americana before the term existed, creaks from the attic, sawdust hoedowns from the backwoods and the boondocks, a soundtrack for rakefights and hayrides.

Stranger still that the album was helmed [what? - Ed.] by seminal [give us a break - Ed.] rock n' roll producer Alan Lorber in the remote hillbilly township of New York. But Lorber was undiscriminating - he produced Ultimate Spinach's wildest psychedelic excess and Connie Francis.

When Papa Nebo split, bassist Sandy Allen and guitarist Michael Packer went on to form Free Beer. Funny name, right? Proto-clickbait. Put that on the poster, get people flocking to gigs. My problem with Humorous Band Names is they tend to devalue the act. The name and the yee-euch cover - that bloody puke's meant to be beer foam, right? - of their eponymous [you - outside! -Ed.] album put me off for years, even at cut-out prices. My loss. This is rich red wine, rather than free beer. Songs like old jeans, fine harmonies, playing sweet as that first sip. Bernard Purdie, Eric Weissberg ... and mouthwatering guitar from Mystery Musician Ronnie Renninger.

Their sophomore [kill me now - Ed.] album makes it three in a row ignored by the dull boys at allmusic, as well as the record buying public. Not by us on th' Isle O' Foam©, though, because we's got good taste out th' ass! Highway Robbery may be a long way from Papa Nebo, more Norman Rockwell than Andrew Wyeth, but still ... swell [at least you didn't say iconic - Ed.].

Trailer Star turned this creepiness up on an internet!