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Bunky and Jake (Remastered)

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Download links and information about Bunky and Jake (Remastered) by Jake, Bunky. This album was released in 2007 and it belongs to Rock, Folk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic genres. It contains 11 tracks with total duration of 27:06 minutes.

Artist: Jake, Bunky
Release date: 2007
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Tracks: 11
Duration: 27:06
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. I'll Follow You 2:02
2. It Happens Again 2:38
3. Daphne Plum 2:38
4. Country Girl 2:15
5. Hey Buckaroo 2:29
6. Taxicab 2:38
7. As You Go By 2:42
8. Big Car, Shiny Ring 1:58
9. Mongoose 1:29
10. Cheerio 2:26
11. The Candy Store 3:51

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Andrea "Bunky" Skinner and Allan "Jake" Jacobs were fixtures on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early '60s, but they also had a taste for sophisticated pop/rock (Jacobs played guitar with the Magicians of "Invitation to Cry" fame for a while), and the duo's 1968 debut album is an engagingly eclectic set of folk-leaning pop tunes buoyed by Skinner and Jacobs' harmonies and the latter's strong guitar work. Skinner and Jacobs wrote all 11 songs on Bunky & Jake, and their thematic range stretches from the acoustic calm of "I'll Follow You" and the pastoral beauty of "Country Girl" to the '50s rock & roll vibe of "The Candy Store" and "Daphne Plum," and while the arrangements seem a bit overdone on a few cuts and the mix favors Jacobs' guitar a bit more than is needed, the melodies thankfully win out most of the time. If Bunky & Jake has a flaw, its that the album never sets down in one style long enough to find a comfortable groove; Skinner and Jacobs supposedly submitted these songs looking for a deal as songwriters rather than performers, and while Skinner's voice is more than strong enough to carry the material, in a bid to show how much they could do they forgot to define their individual sound along the way. While Bunky & Jake exists in a strange netherworld somewhere between sunshine pop, Baroque rock and latter-day folk-rock, the material is rich and satisfying, though the duo would have better luck (creatively, anyway) with their next album, the 1969 cult favorite LAMF.