Family - Family Entertainment 1969 (UK, Progressive Jazz Rock, Prog Folk)

The second album in the discography (#6 in the UK Albums Chart). Interesting cover, right? Somewhere I've seen a similar one before ... I remembered - the album Strange Days (1967) from The Doors . The first track - The Weaver's Answer - is an early progressive classic, the band's "signature". But in general, here the music is close to Fairport Convention and Traffic . Artistic folk rock. Bassist Rick Grech debuted as a vocalist, sang two numbers before leaving for Blind Faith .

Tracks: All tracks written by John "Charlie" Whitney/Roger Chapman except where noted. 01. The Weaver's Answer - 4:55
02. Observations From A Hill - 3:11
03. Hung Up Down - 3:12
04. Summer '67 (Whitney) - 3:16
05. How-Hi-The-Li ( Ric Grech) – 4:53
06. Second Generation Woman (Grech) – 3:13
07. From Past Archives – 3:20
08. Dim – 2:31
09. Processions (Whitney) – 2:48
10. Face In The Cloud (Grech) – 2:50
11. Emotions (Whitney/Chapman/Grech) – 5:08
Personnel:
- Roger Chapman - vocals, percussion
- John "Charlie" Whitney - guitar, piano, organ
- Jim King - saxophones, harmonica , piano
- Ric Grech - bass, violin, vocals
- Rob Townsend - drums, percussion + - Nicky Hopkins - piano - The Heavenly Strings - strings - Tony Cox - arranger - John Gilbert, Glyn Johns - producers