One Nation Underground (Pearls Before Swine album)
Occupation
- Vocals, Guitar: Tom Rapp
- Autoharp, banjo, mandolin, vibraphone: Wayne Harley
- Bass, guitar, English horn, Sarangi, celesta, cymbals Lane Lederer
- Organ, harpsichord, Clavioline: Roger Crissinger
- Drums, Percussion: Warren Smith
One Nation Underground is the first album by the American folk rock band Pearls Before Swine.
Inspired by the music of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, decided the musician Tom Rapp in 1965, to form a band themselves. In the same year he took with his high school friends Wayne Harley, Lane Lederer and Roger Crissinger in the living room Rapp's first, inspired by The Fugs demo recordings, and sent them to the New York independent label ESP-Disk, the Pearls Before Swine then under contract took.
The first album was published in 1967, worked as a studio musician, percussionist Warren Smith with it. The style of the album was an innovation: psychedelic folk elements were combined with the driving sound of a Farfisa organ and repititivem minimalism so that a garage rock song as a Playmate with a mantric - organ -heavy Morning Song or an acoustic folk song like Another Time could harmonize. In I shall not care all three elements of style were combined by was changed gradually over the course of the song from one style to the next. The arrangements were also peppered with unexpected details, such as the use of Morse tones ( Oh Dear ) Miss Morse and the use of so many different musical instruments such as harmonica, banjo, English horn, Sarangi and harpsichord.
The pictured on the cover section of the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and the lack of photos of the band underlined their status as psychedelic outsider. One Nation Underground was 100000-250000 demand times and was the most commercially successful album of the band.
The songs Morning Song and Drop Out! published in the same year as a single.