More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album | ||||
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Compilation album by Various Artists | ||||
Released | July 6, 1999 | |||
Recorded | 1999 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Birdman | |||
Producer | Bill Bentley | |||
Various Artists chronology | ||||
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More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album is a 1999 tribute album completed shortly before and released shortly after the death of Moby Grape founding member Skip Spence. The album contains cover versions by various artists of Spence's music from his Oar album, released in 1969, presented in the same order as on the original album. The album also contains a hidden bonus track of Spence's last known recording, "Land of the Sun", which was originally commissioned for the X-Files soundtrack, Songs in the Key of X , but not used.[ citation needed ]
The album was planned and produced by Bill Bentley, a music industry executive then associated with Warner Bros. Records, who had previously produced Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Warner Bros. Records/Sire, 1990). [1]
More Oar has been described as a "heartfelt, eclectic homage" that "pays tribute to one of psychedelia's brightest lights, Skip Spence." [2] In relation to the inclusion of Spence's "Land of the Sun" as a hidden bonus track, critic Raoul Hernandez commented:
Critic Rob Brunner views the more successful covers as being those by artists with a particular appreciation of Spence's spirit. [3]
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