Hot Smoke & Sassafras/Todd’s Tune/I’ve Got To Reach You/Lonely/Gathering Of Promises/Hurry Sundown/ Elizabeth/Its Safe To Say/Road To St Stephens/Beginning
A Gathering Of Promises was sole album release from the Texan psychedelic group Bubble Puppy. They are best remembered for their US top twenty hit Hot Smoke & Sassafras. (US:174)
“The music opens up with an excellently catchy pop track with quite psychedelic influences. And it gets better, by the third track I knew that I was listening to an album that was a bit ahead of it's time. The rest continues in the psych pop/rock way to the end.”
“There's some really nice, melodic psychedelic rock here. There are quiet a few highlights. Hot Smoke rocks as hard, maybe a bit harder than anything else on offer and that riff is tasty. I’ve Got To Reach You has a great atmosphere to it with a subtle catchy melody. Other favourites are Elizabeth and Road To St. Stephens.”
“Bubble Puppy's only studio disc is a very fine psychedelic rock album with some really awesome standout cuts. A sadly forgotten band and album too. This is a pretty melodic psych release but still effective. The harmonies are so nice in here.”
"A Gathering Of Promises featured a timely mixture of conventional rock and psychedelia. Mixing occasionally incoherent lyrics with attractive guitar propelled melodies and sweet harmonies, the album isn’t without charm, particularly the hit single Hot Smoke & Sassafras, the title track and Hurry Sundown.”
“Quintessential vibey psych, dominated by a tour de force lead guitar performance that is almost a master class in various guitar styles of the late sixties. Straight from the bottle, live in the studio sound. The hit is not notably stronger than the rest which includes at least six hot tracks.”
“Bubble Puppy had a smash hit in 1969 with Hot Smoke & Sassafras, which was a rock track loaded with smokin' guitars and excellent harmonizing. The remaining songs are a combination of melodic rockers and some well crafted slower songs.”
"Hot Smoke & Sassafras is one of the best psychedelic songs of the 1960s, a classic visionary masterpiece with the precision of a Swiss watch.”
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