Released September 1971 20 Granite Creek
(1971) Great Grape
(1972) Release date 1971 Label Reprise Records | Length 32:53 Artist Moby Grape Producer David Rubinson Genre Rock music | |
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Recorded 1971 at Pacific Recording Studios
and Moby Grape's House Similar Moby Grape albums, Rock music albums | ||
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20 Granite Creek is the rock band Moby Grape's fifth album. After recording their last album for Columbia Records, Truly Fine Citizen, the band went on hiatus until 1971 when they reunited with Skip Spence and Bob Mosley and recorded this reunion album for Reprise Records; their only album for the label. David Rubinson, who produced most of the band's Columbia albums, was back as producer here, as well as serving as the band's manager.. The album title refers to an address near Santa Cruz, CA but there is no record that any band member ever lived there.
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Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Richard Meltzer found the album remarkable and said that it "proves that without an audience and with all the members of the original Grape aboard ship they can outdo Truly Fine Citizen with their eyes closed." By contrast, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice graded it a "B–" and found the album drab and marred by kotos. In a retrospective review, he gave it a "B+" and said that Moby Grape was intense and hopeful for a band in decline: "You can hear the country undertone now, but you can also hear why you missed it—at their most lyrical these guys never lay back, and lyricism is something they're usually rocking too hard to bother with, though their compact forms guarantee poetic justice."
Track listing
Personnel
Charts
Album – Billboard
Songs
1Gypsy Wedding2:23
2I'm the Kind of Man That Baby You Can Trust3:33
3About Time2:51