1967's Big Brother and the Holding Company surprised me with its inclusion of Moondog's "All is Loneliness". I still can't figure out how a West Coast group knew the round before Moondog 2's 1971 release—perhaps they learned it through their affiliation with the jazz label Mainstream? The group's debut is diverse and uneven—songs like "Light is Faster than Sound" are incredibly heavy and abstract, while others are folky and friendly. The performances are great, but the recording seems to have inappropriately softened the group's sound, in part by panning the drums hard left. The cover design is appropriately of its era, if somewhat undistinguished, and my Columbia reissue is mastered competently.
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