New SAN FRANCISCO BLUE Album Features 'Lost' Skip Spence Song
The new studio album from Jefferson Airplane founding member Bob Harvey features a long lost songwriting collaboration with Moby Grapes Skip Spence and is available from the bands website.

http://www.sfblue.co.uk

"Hurting for People" is the latest studio release from Bob Harvey and Brian Fowler, following on from 2000's "Idiots Vision", and features 9 new psychedelic-folk gems, alongside title track and Skip Spence co-write, "Hurting For People". This song originally appeared on the Moby Grape tribute "Forever Mo'", but now takes pride of place on the 2nd studio album from San Francisco Blue.

Bob Harvey writes:

"In August of 1965, Matthew Katz, the manager, took Jefferson Airplane to Los Angeles to audition for several labels. He got us rooms at the Palms, a secluded lodge in the Hollywood hills. Skip Spence and I had a room together. We spent that first night getting high and writing a song called "Hurting For People".

I wrote the lyrics in my journal, and have hung on to them for 39 years, but the melody was never recorded and was lost in the mists of time, so when I decided to use it for the latest Moby Grape tribute album, I got together with Brian Fowler and we put new music to the lyrics. the one part of Skip's melody that I could remember was to the line, "love is just reaching out while someone else is reaching in". It fit perfectly with the new chord structure."

This album is great!
Reviewer: Greg Cutchin
I just received this CD and fell in love with it the first time I heard it. This is the first review I've ever written, but I felt so strongly about this album, I had to write it. I just discovered these guys and I am looking forward to hearing their next one.

Fantastic Album!
Reviewer: Gregory Talbot
Great Album! Well written songs and some downright awesome mandolin. Bitter Cherry and World War 3 are classics.Amazing record.

Good Picking
Reviewer: Willie Watkins
Good Picking and alot of fun. Favorites are Bitter Cherry and Children of the Wind. Has a Grateful Dead Vibe.

Acoustic Folk Rock
Reviewer: David Roberts
Really good album from start to finish. Bob Harvey has a voice you will either love or hate kinda like Dylan or Neil Young.Standout songs are Hurting For People written with Skip Spence of Moby Grape Bitter Cherry, and Beating of your Heart. This album easily is some of the best music from the Airplane camp in the last few years with the exception of Jorma who is putting out some great records as well.

Pick this CD up while you still can!
Reviewer: FRENZY
Nice work guys!!! This is the type of music the makes you feel good from the start of the song all the way to the end! Anyone would be a fool not to pick this CD up! I'm gathering my gig money to order my copy! Thanks for the listen! -Trey www.cdbaby.com/all/4frenzy

Great album from Holy mackeral/Jefferson Airplane's Bob Harvey
Reviewer: Tim Hudson
Fantastic album from Former Jefferson Airplane bassist Bob harvey. The album is filled with killer mandolin and guitar playing by Brian Fowler. The title cut is written by Harvey,Fowler and Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane Legend Skip Spence. Standout cuts are easily Hurting For People,Children of the Wind and Bitter Cherry. Fans of Grateful Dead and Newgrass will love this disc! Great sound as well.

Review from "Record Collector Magazine", April 2005
San Francisco Blue's "Live on the Cartersville Express", recorded in Cartersville, GA, October 2004, is available via www.ssfblue.co.uk. It's a fun recording that features ex Jefferson Airplane man Bob Harvey and Superczar's Brian Fowler, plus a passing train. The recording sales are bolstered by a free sticker and autographed poster. Harvey & Fowler also contribute to the upcoming Harvey Bainbridge & Spaceseed set. "Empire of the Night".

Review from Italy
Translated magazine article from Italy

In MobyGrape@yahoogroups.com, Wayne Hawes wrote:

Speaking of the vocal harmonies of West Coast music, it is commonplace to cite, mistakenly, as initiating this musical style, "Deja Vu" of CSN&Y, ignoring completely the genius of Alexander "Skip" Spence and of his Moby Grape, to whose debut album is ascribed the merit of having forged this genre.
Fated to be forgotten due to their quite short career, Moby Grape left us a very interesting musical legacy, brought to light thanks to the tribute project "Forever Mo'" directed by Bill Morse. This third volume, even though not boasting a cast composed of the big names that often populate tributes, in its simplicity (see the excessive artistry of some tributes) unveils a level of quality that is quite high.

The renditions, being live rather than in a studio, are not simply carbon copies, but on the contrary allow themselves a wide margin of exploration. Interesting in this sense is the tentative experiments of some passages in parallel versions. In particular excels the driving chorus of "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" by Mike Fornatale (who participated also in the Moby Grape reunion tour of 2001), the excellent country version of "Funky Tunk" by the Juvenators and an explosive "Seeing" by the Italian "Hypnodance," the legendary Florentine band led by Ernesto de Pascale. A final colorful note is the presence among these interpretations of Bob Harvey, bassist of the first formation of the Jefferson Airplane with Skip Spence as drummer, author together with Brian Fowler of an excellent rendition of "Hurting for the People."

A review of the San Francisco Blue album Hurting For People
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Hurting For People is a lovely warm alternative-country' opener, the title track is co-composed by the legendary Skip Spence whose 'Oar' album remains one of the finest of its ilk. Brian Fowler's mandolin playing is brilliant throughout especially in the extended solo on 'Bitter Cherry'. Bob Harvey writes most of the songs sometimes in collaboration with others. Harvey was in an early incarnation of Jefferson Airplane while Brian Fowler produced the most enjoyable 'Folk Art' CD with his band Jones Avenue a couple of years back. In fact his song 'Third World War' is reprised here. 'Hurting for People' has a very spontaneous feel to it- what you hear is what you get and Harvey's vocal style is not to be missed! It's Harvey's harmonica that leads the way on 'Listen to the Voice', a fine song with a serious message while the 7 minute rendition of 'Walking The Dog' is a lot of fun. Check it out!

Reviewed by Phil Jackson for Zeitgeist e-zine-phil7jackson@madeasafish.com