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Sparrow Carrera
1+ albums
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Sparrow Carrera was an enigmatic figure in southern United States psychedelic pop throughout the 1960's and into the 1970's. He was the host of a short-lived public access television show in Montgomery County, Alabama and sometimes appeared in local rodeos and destruction derbies. Primarily, though, he was known as a pop icon. His career came to a mysterious and unexpected end when he vanished from his home in 1973. He left in his stead several annotated copies of The New York Post and a mostly-full bag of salted sunflower seeds. Unfortunately, much of Sparrow's music vanished with his body. He did release one album, Half Master/Half Slave, which was recorded in Montgomery, Alabama in 1969 by Buddy Chum and released in late August of that year. The album is experimental and completely a capella and met with mixed critical success. Its messages seem to sway between the coherent and dream imagery, lending it an enjoyable but disorienting quality. Rolling Stone describes the album as "ephemeral, yet still attached to soulful crooning of the 50's." Sparrow himself called the album his, "transition from popular singer to recording artist," and his "reflection on my thoughts on love and mysticism in the 60's." With the bulk of the album recorded and written within a single day, it is a marker in the career of this remarkable artist. It should be noted that Sparrow has had considerable influence on the more recent Northern New Jersey Smallboypants collective and record label, nota