Grootna - Grootna (1971)

Berkeley-based sextet. Airplane’s Marty Balin produced this, an only album of psyche and soul. Grootna blossomed from a shared housing situation between guitarist Slim Chance, bassist Vic Smith, and Vic’s then-girlfriend: singer Anna Rizzo. Smith and Rizzo hailed from the Masked Marauders, a comedy folk act that issued a 1969 eponymous album on self-press Deity. Greg Dewey originated in acid rockers Mad River, which released two albums on Capitol in 1968/69. In the interim, he did sessions with Don McLean and ex-Youngblood Jerry Corbitt. It didn’t chart.

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