It’s All About – SPOOKY TOOTH***

Society’s Child/Love Really Changed Me/Here I Lived So Well/Too Much Of Nothing/Sunshine Help Me/Its All About A Roundabout/Tobacco Road/It Hurts You So/Forget It I Got It/Bubbles

It’s All About was the debut album from the British rock group Spooky Tooth fronted by the American Gary Wright. Their music was notable for the use of twin keyboards of piano and organ.

“Here on their debut the band seem to be heavily influenced by hippie psychedelia with a sense of bounce and wackiness. Just listen to the unhinged lyricism and vocals on It's All About A Roundabout or the quirky Tobacco Road. Stuff like Too Much Of Nothing and Forget It I Got It are straight up hard rockers, and the band can get pretty bluesy, on numbers like Sunshine Help Me. Bubbles is just plain silly, highlighting the aforementioned hippie influence.”

“I was taken aback and disappointed when I heard it: instead of the mind blowing hard psych rock I was expecting, I found a collection of diverse songs in more mainstream/classic rock styles.”

“Spooky Tooth is born. The beginning of the world’s greatest dual keyboards/dual vocalists band is right here. They always had the ability to get heavy without getting harsh, and that's shown off to excellent effect here.”

“First album by superb British rock band Spooky Tooth, which comprised four British musicians and American vocalist/organist Gary Wright, who lived in UK at the time. Together they possessed an incredible amount of talent, which turned then instantly into one of the best rock acts in Britain at the end of the 1960s. Their material, mostly written by Wright, was a mixture of rock, blues and proto-prog with psychedelic influences, performed with a dense heavy sound dominated by Wright's organ.”

“Not a real mindblower but a good album none the less. Roundabout is the standout track for me, a real gem. Bubbles and their cut of Society's Child are the other memorable tracks on the album.”

“The singing and playing are great and history tells us they generated a lot of excitement in the clubs amongst fellow musicians. But the songwriting isn't there yet. There is some excellent guitar work throughout but it is a lot more poppy than Spooky's later albums and not totally cohesive.”