20 Granite Creek

20 Granite Creek
Studio album by Moby Grape
Released	September 1971
Recorded	1971 at Pacific Recording Studios and Moby Grape's House
Genre	Folk Rock, Country Rock
Length	32:53
Label	Reprise
Producer	David Rubinson, Moby Grape Productions
Moby Grape chronology
Truly Fine Citizen (1969) 20 Granite Creek (1971) Great Grape (1972)

20 Granite Creek is the rock band Moby Grape's fifth album. After recording their last album for Columbia Records, Truly Fine Citizen, the band went on hiatus until 1971 when they reunited with Skip Spence and Bob Mosley and recorded this reunion album for Reprise Records; their only album for the label. David Rubinson, who produced most of the band's Columbia albums, was back as producer here, as well as serving as the band's manager.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Richard Meltzer found the album remarkable and said that it "proves that without an audience and with all the members of the original Grape aboard ship they can outdo Truly Fine Citizen with their eyes closed."^[2] By contrast, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice graded it a "B–" and found the album drab and marred by kotos.^[3] In a retrospective review, he gave it a "B+" and said that Moby Grape was intense and hopeful for a band in decline: "You can hear the country undertone now, but you can also hear why you missed it—at their most lyrical these guys never lay back, and lyricism is something they're usually rocking too hard to bother with, though their compact forms guarantee poetic justice."^[4]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Gypsy Wedding" (Mosley) – 2:30
2. "I'm the Kind of Man That Baby You Can Trust" (Miller) – 2:38
3. "About Time" (Stevenson) – 2:52
4. "Goin' Down to Texas" (Lewis) – 2:00
5. "Road to the Sun" (Mosley) – 2:48
6. "Apocalypse" (Lewis) – 2:11

Side two

7. "Chinese Song" (Spence) – 5:42
8. "Roundhouse Blues" (Miller) – 2:45
9. "Ode to the Man at the End of the Bar" (Mosley) – 3:43
10. "Wild Oats Moan" (Miller, Stevenson) – 3:12
11. "Horse Out in the Rain" (Lewis) – 2:20

Personnel

• Peter Lewis - rhythm guitar, vocals
• Jerry Miller - lead guitar, vocals
• Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
• Skip Spence - rhythm guitar, vocals
• Don Stevenson - drums, vocals

Additional personnel

• Jeffrey Cohen - bass
• Andy Narell - steel drums
• David Rubinson - electric piano, congas
• Gordon Stevens - electric viola, dobro, mandolin

Charts

Album – Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1971	Pop Albums	177

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Rolling Stone review
3. Christgau, Robert (December 12, 1971). "Consumer Guide (21)". The Village Voice (New York). Retrieved December 25, 2013.
4. Christgau, Robert (October 13, 1981). Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. p. 263. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved December 25, 2013.

External links

• 20 Granite Creek at Discogs (list of releases)