Today we have an off-the-radar offering from Salinas California garage rockers, Louie and The Lovers—a Chicano four-piece fronted by Louie Ortega. Recorded in 1970 during one 18-hour session by Sir Douglass Quintet founder and Lonestar state legend, Doug Sahm, Rise is a treasure trove of top-notch ditties – one of great musical oversights by the audiophiles of the world. Why the release wasn’t a smashing success is shrouded in mystery.Their debut long-player is filled to the brim with asylum approved tracks: “I Know You Know,” “Rise,” “Driver Go Slow,” “Royal Oakie,” but the cut the doctors and nursemaids are really taking to heart is the gripping rumble of “Sittin’ By Your River” - a swift stampede of winged fuzz and hard hitting buckshot wails: “Going to cast out my heart / going catch me a part of your soul.”
Louie and The Lovers:
Louie Ortega (singer/guitar)
Frank Paredes (guitar)
Steve Vargas (bassist)
Albert Parra (drums)
Take Up Thy Rock 'N Roll Stethoscope and Walk,
Enjoy this single cc of Louie and the Lovers
MP3: Louie and the Lovers –“Sittin’ By Your River”
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