LYNX - Look At Me b/w Follow the Rain (Hare 711)
Lynx, or at least their label, came out of the oil boom town of Andrews, Texas in the late 60s, releasing 4 records on
John Rowe's Hare label. In an era where bands were moving from the single format to long players it's odd that neither Lynx nor John Rowe saw fit to giving the band a full release, especially as this was a combo that might have been well suited for that format. America was getting ready to rawk and Lynx could have probably handled their own. An album full of phased out rawkers like the a-side here might not have been such a bad thing.Though not reviewed, "Look At Me" did receive trade ad space in an April '71 issue of Billboard. And along with "Just A Friend" from their first release, "Look At Me" was issued nationally on Eric. But aside from the records, a picture sleeve, and a few John Rowe / Lynx mentions in Billboard (minor hit in Kansas with their first 45) there seems to have been little else left behind.
Make sure and drop by Martin Theophilus's Phantom Productions website. He was kind enough to grant me permission to use the photo above. He was there when the Believers and Agents were shaking 'em down in Alpine back in the mid-60s and his site is LOADED with great vintage snapshots of the Big Bend area, Odessa motorcycle races, Hell Paso, and Nuevo Mexico. Hit 'em up HERE.
2 comments:
How active was HARE? I have a Jimmy Faulks and Country Breeze (1980) on the label.
Not very... The only releases I'd ever seen were the Lynx 45s and another by The Highway, all of which were release between 70 - 73. And that's all that is listed in the John Ingman discography. Billboard lists another solo artist as having signed with the label in fall of 1971, but I've never seen that one. I would bet that there was a connection between someone in Lynx and John Rowe, though.
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