LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Heavyweight Embossed Gatefold Cover
• 12 Inch Vinyl pressed on serious 180g Vinyl
• 7 Inch Single with Picture Sleeve featuring Messages and Ancient Traveller
• Facsimile Postcard Insert
• Facsimile 1969 Shop Poster
• Limited Edition 400 copies

By the summer of 1971 Mighty Baby had shed their psychedelic trappings and taken a more spiritual, reflective approach. Newly signed to Mike Vernon’s Blue Horizon label, they prepared the material for their second and final album, A Jug Of Love, in a basement in Harley Road, North London, ahead of sessions in Sound Techniques that July and August.

This is the only known recording of them in rehearsal. Taped on Ian Whitemans’ Revox with a single microphone, it’s entirely instrumental (“We weren’t great singers, anyway,” he wryly states), and offers a remarkable insight into the workings of one of Britain’s best-loved underground labels.

Track Listing:

Side One

1. Jug Of Love
2. The Happiest Man In The Carnival (i)
3. The Happiest Man In The Carnival (ii)
4. Virgin Spring (i)

Side Two

1. Virgin Spring (ii)
2. Tasting The Life
3. Lazy Days

7 Inch Single

• Side A: Messages
• Side B: Ancient Traveller