Top Drawer

When scanning collector magazines, you'll often come across listings for albums by obscure psychedelic bands such as Top Drawer commanding high prices merely because they're very rare. And in most cases, just because they're very rare doesn't mean you have to pay those prices, or even feel like you're missing much. Top Drawer -- a young Kentucky band whose bluesy guitar riffing, ambitious lyrics, and reliance upon hard rock clichés screamed 1969-1970 -- made one of those rare records. Which didn't stop it from getting reissued in the 1980s. ~ Richie Unterberger