LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

A great blues-rock band that, despite a few brushes with fame, never quite got the attention they deserved. Perhaps their underexposure was due to the fact that the band's home base of Alaska was a bit too far off the map for rock critics and record execs of the time. Had they moved a little further south down the coast, who knows what would have happened! Their second album, as its title suggests, celebrates the band's 5 th year together (1971) and features material that spans the period (including blues classics: "Hootchie Cootchie Man", "Leavin' Trunk" and "Walkin' Blues"), and speak volumes on the band's considerable talent. It is also one of the rarest American blues-rock records (original copies are practically nonexistent).