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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelRepertoire
UPC4009910503522
eBay Product ID (ePID)28050175898
Product Key Features
Release Year1964
FormatCD
GenreOldies
Run Time62 Mins 1 Seconds
StyleBritish Invasion
ArtistThe Downliners Sect
Release TitleThe Sect [Bonus Tracks]
Additional Product Features
DistributionMSI Music Distribution
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs1
Additional informationA rerelease of the 1964 debut album by British rock & roll outfit, The Downliners Sect. German release features 10 bonus songs. This is the group's rawest and most R&B-oriented album, firmly rooted in the same influences as the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things and including punk covers of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, et al., along with a few originals in the same vein. For those who don't get enough rough-and-ready British-style R&B and rock & roll from the debut albums by the Stones or Pretty Things, or find the playing by either band a little too tame and mannered, The Sect should be their next stop. Nobody on the British isles, other than maybe Brian Jones in his private moments on the guitar and harp, was more charmingly primitive than the Downliners Sect were on this album, which trades so freely in Bo Diddley riffs and the latter's signature beat that latecomers could be forgiven for thinking that this band had a hand in inventing them. ~ Richie Unterberger & Bruce Eder