Hidden Stash

Licensed from Curtom Records & Paul Coleman. Thanks Alilith Anderson, Brendan Reilly, Ian Wright & Craig Smith. Dedicated to: Helina Stromdahl. Notes on back: "the complete third album (...) Many of these previously-unreleased tracks were thought to be permanently lost, as the master tapes were stolen in the mid-1970s. Miraculously three reels were recently recovered from a Chicago warehouse and we have reunited the songs from them with the remainder of the earlier, shelved sessions that the band recorded for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label." Liner notes inside: "Coleman would eventually drag the band's contract home to Chicago once more, to Curtis Mayfiled's own Curtom imprint, for a couple of single releases around 1977 - but with another (perhaps fatal) renaming of the band to r-Stash (...) The previously unheard mid-1970s recordings here, lifted from two disparate sessions, are ostensibly a third and perfectly-realised Rasputin Stash album. Track 1 is a cover version of Al Green's "Love and happiness" but it isn't credited in the notes.