LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Female rock group Birtha formed in Los Angeles in 1967, a talented quartet with guitarist Michelle Pinizzotto, keyboardist Sherry Hagler, drummer Olivia Favela, and bassist Rosemary Butler, who opened for The Stones while in The Ladybirds; Pinizzotto had been in The Daisy Chain. After gigging the west coast, Gabriel Mekler signed them to ABC Dunhill in 1972 for this hard-rocking debut LP, a gritty original with plenty of balls, plus an emotive ballad from Pinizzotto, but despite extensive touring in support of its release, opening for The Kinks in Britain, the LP remained unjustly overlooked, making it now ripe for rediscovery. Gatefold.

Track Listing

• A1 Free Spirit
• A2 Fine Talking Man
• A3 Tuesday
• A4 Feeling Lonely
• A5 She Was Good To Me
• B1 Work On A Dream
• B2 Too Much Woman (For A Hen Pecked Man)
• B3 Judgement Day
• B4 Forgotten Soul