Downliners Sect - The Country Sect flac album

Complete your Downliners Sect collection. Back in the mists of time, aeons ago, I was working in a second hand record shop when this old dude came in with a box of records. He told me the bossman offered him £50 for them.

The second Downliners Sect album has always confused the uninitiated because of its title. The group's primitive nature comes through loud and clear on the loud Bo Diddley-based backbeat on "I Got Mine" and most of the rest here, which not only makes a lot of it work really well but generally turns this album into yet another brilliant outing for the band, if not quite the same as the first album.

This album has an average beat per minute of 105 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 105/105 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist The Country Sect. BPM Profile The Country Sect. Album starts at BPM, ends at BPM (+0), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Downliners Sect. At the insistence of their producer, Mike Collier, the band plays some country music such as "Ballad of the Hounds" and "Wolverton Mountain," but also branches into folkier sounds on "Hard Travellin'" (done in country style, but known best in the early '60s as a folk standard) and even brushes up against protest music on "Little Play Soldiers," but the big surprise.

Album · 1964 · 18 Songs. Leader of the Sect (Bonus Track). 17. Midnight Hour (Bonus Track). 18. Now She's Dead (Bonus Track).

The Downliners Sect are an English R&B and blues-based rock band, formed in the 1960s beat boom era. Stylistically, they were similar to blues-based bands, such as The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones, playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect. Critic Richie Unterberger wrote: "The Sect didn't as much interpret the sound of Chess Records as attack it, with a finesse that made the Pretty Things seem positively suave in comparison.

Country Sect is so special, so different, it’s the kind of record that is misunderstood more often than most. Give it some time though and you’ll hear why musicians like Billy Childish rave about the Downliners Sect and this superb album. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here.