We Are The People

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No doubt about it, Nashville recording studios saw their share of action in the 1960s. It was during these years that Nashville’s A-team rose to ascendancy, backing every country singer imaginable—not to mention everyone from Bob Dylan to Bob Mitchum. Elvis Presley, meanwhile, had been making frequent trips since the mid-’50s to RCA’s Studio B. And even locals like Robert Knight and Bucky Wilkin got in on the action, cranking out oldies-radio staples like “Everlasting Love” and “G.T.O.” But for all the stars and all the hotshots who had already passed through Nashville by 1966, Music City had never seen the likes of We the People before. And yet this Orlando, Fla., quintet remains little more than a footnote in the rock ’n’ roll history books—celebrated largely by fanatical record collectors as one of the foremost exponents of raw, righteous garage punk. In a studio town that hadn’t fully hipped to rock ’n’ roll, We the People were the very embodiment of what their producer, Tony Moon, calls “the hard, rebellious white British sound.” But as Sundazed Records’ exhaustive new two-CD retrospective, Mirror of Our Minds, suggests, the group showed just how many musical possibilities existed in the exciting, fleeting moment between the British Invasion and the burgeoning psychedelic era. For as much as We the People might be considered the ultimate in ’60s garage rock, the group’s music was far more complex and inspired than that of the Shadows of Knight, the Music Machine, or t

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Ministry Of Sound - Chilled Acoustic CD3

We are the People

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Now That's What I Call Music! 73

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Ministry Of Sound - Chilled Acoustic

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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (Vol 3)

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Mindrocker Vol. 06

Love Generation

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Chilled Acoustic

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fizy

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Walking On A Dream

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Nuggets: First Psychedelic Era

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Chilled Acoustic CD3

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