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The Illinois Speed Press came out of Chicago in the second half of the '60s, generating a sound that was built on double-lead-guitar pyrotechnics and (mostly) R&B-style vocals, courtesy of guitarist/singer Kal David. But their other lead guitarist/singer, Paul Cotton, had more of a country bent to his playing, singing, and songwriting, and together with their band they generated some intense (and sometimes intensely lyrical) sides. Their two-guitar attack and R&B base gives the band a psychedelic edge, akin to what the Buckinghams might've sounded like trying to impersonate the Cream of Disraeli Gears or the studio sides of Wheels of Fire. Gatefold reissue of the group's self-titled debut album from Columbia Records 1969.
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