My initial reaction when I received this in the mail and got a good look at the cover art was ?who is this mustachioed, blue blocker wearing m f-er?? so of course this was the first thing I listened to out of the package, and I sooooo made the right choice. This album is just as amazing (or even more so depending on your personal tastes) as the cover art and rather clever triple (?) entendre of the title would imply. Get this, it is the feel good hit of the summer and I cannot stop listening to it.

This is a reissue of the incredibly obscure 1977 album which has been highly coveted by weirdo psych record collectors for years and is finally available to the masses in one great little package. How to describe the sound of this record is a bit of a challenge but here is my best attempt. If Norman Greenbaum, Harry Nilsson, and the Mad Professor got together in Nashville for a wild weekend and recorded a dubbed-out-psych-country-pop album in 1977 (a la Pussycats) it might sound a bit like this. And that is just the album itself. For me the real magic happens once you hit the bonus tracks which are mostly rehearsal and live recordings. The sound of the tape decay and grittiness of the recording quality is perfect for this music, and I am of course a sucker for extreme uses of reverb and delay which is all over the vocals on this album. This music is a little cheesy in spots (like the banjo solo on ?Back Roads of my Mind?) but in that perfect way that you would expect on an album as bizarre as this.

The liner notes, included in the rather thick booklet that comes with this disc, which chronicle the story of the album, and of Jade Stone himself (a truly fascinating read), are lengthy and very well written. This is a great reissue which contains a lot of ?best songs I?ve never heard? kind of material. This one is going to be on repeat in my player for a long long time. Definitely get this if you are into things like Ariel Pink, Psychedelic Horse Shit, Skynard or any of the other Artists mentioned in this review, you will not be disappointed. 9/10 -- Kevin Richards (18 June, 2008)