Category: THE HIGH KEYS

This post is especially focused to readers of this website with love for Seventies rock – and there’s many of you who will enjoy this; the unreleased 1970-72 album from American rockers THE HIGH KEYS. The title of this one – “A Little Too Heavy” – might be very well-put, as the record was almost too heavy to be issued at the time of its recording – finally seeing the light of day after way too many years in the vault… 50 years!
Produced by Ron and Howard Albert – the legendary Fat Albert Productions (Wishbone Ash, Procol Harum, Crosby, Still, Nash, etc) and recorded at famous Criteria Studios in Miami, this powerhouse album finally sees the light of day.
The set’s a tremendous bit of American proto hard rock driven by fuzzy guitars and organs, and at the same time the group utilizes elaborated harmonies at all the right moments. A perfect example of THE HIGH KEYS sound is the title track “A Little Too Heavy”, a commanding opener mixing organ flourishes with heavy lead guitar runs for a searing hard rocker that proudly displays their Vanilla Fudge influence.
The Fat Albert productions team really helped ensure that the whole thing came out beautifully during recording – and the whole set is hardly a half-baked set of demos or raw tapes – but instead a top-shelf record that would have been right at home in the major record racks of the time…