49th Parallel - Singles 49th Parallel

All of 49th Parallel's singles and B-sides on vinyl for the first time since their initial pressings back in 1966-68 + rare alternates!

The band's first single, 'All Your Love', was recorded in 1966 as the Shades of Blond and was previously only available on a staggeringly rare EP featuring Calgary bands, released by International Master Discovery Records. The group's first two singles, 'Laborer'/'You Do Things' (1967), and 'She Says' b/w 'Citizen Freak' (1968), are prime pieces of pouting Prairie punk: four hard-edged garage punk tracks, tough, and thick with fuzz guitar and a defiant sneer.

The next single, 'Blue Bonnie Blue' b/w 'Missouri' appeared in late spring of 1968. In the spring of 1969, the beautiful 'Twilight Woman,' a lovely song that sounds like a poppier version of what bands like Tomorrow were doing in England, b/w 'Close the Barn Door,' zoomed up the charts across Canada and parts of the USA. Both 'Twilight Woman' and the hit follow-up, 'Now That I'm A Man' b/w (Come On Little Child &) Talk To Me are melodic pop/psych of the purest and finest kind.

One more post-LP single and a couple of rare tracks round out the story. Fifteen tracks all told on this, the ultimate 49th Parallel vinyl collection.