Siren (13) – Siren
Siren (13) - Siren
Label:    Bonfire Records (5) – BONF002
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 gr.
Country:    Europe
Released:    2021
Genre:    Rock, Blues
Style:    Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues

SIREN was the debut album by Kevin Coyne with Siren, the band he founded with former Bonzo Dog Band bassist Dave Clague and pianist/guitarist Nick Cudworth.

The album was originally issued on John Peel’s Dandelion label in 1969.

An artist who would later inspire John Lydon, Sting, Ben Watt and Will Oldham and would collaborate with Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Dagmar Krause, Brendan Croker, Gary Lucas and The Mekons’ Jon Langford, Kevin Coyne deserves a royal place between the likes of Syd Barrett, Peter Hammill and Daevid Allen. Standing on the verge of british blues, folk and rawk’n’roll Siren could have been easily labeled as the british answer to Canned Heat, but there’s even more. ‘And I Wonder’ is clearly an anticipation of what would happen next, with the solo career of Coyne, more focused on acid folk songwriting. Remastered and fully licensed.

“Most of the album is good time rock-on-out-music a la the Flamin’ Groovies… one of those (albums) you keep coming back to when the night gets cold and the wine is almost out. I play it a lot, and that’s the nicest thing I can say about an album.” Ed Ward – Rolling Stone

“Siren just came as a breath of fresh air really, in the same way that like a generation later The Ramones did. When you just thought ‘Thank God for that!’ You hadn’t realised how bored you’d become…” John Peel

Siren is essentially Kevin Coyne, Dave Clague and Nick Cudworth, augmented from time to time by a drummer and lead guitar.

The first two singles was released under Clague in 1969 on Dandelion. In the same year they released their first lp. The second followed in 1971. 

A1        Ze-Ze-Ze-Ze    3:01
A2        Get Right Church    3:17
A3        Rock Me Baby    3:26
A4        Wake Up My Children!    3:34
A5        Wasting My Time    2:18
A6        Sixteen Women    3:45
A7        First Time I Saw Your Face    2:50
B1        Gardener Man    3:30
B2        And I Wonder    2:28
B3        The War Is Over    4:38
B4        Asylum    3:42
B5        Bertha Lee    3:10
B6        I Wonder Where    5:00

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