Back From The Grave, Volume Three

After picking up my first Back From The Grave, which happened to be Volume Four, I was lucky enough to find two more. Volume Three was next, and it’s no less insane and great than Volume Four. Seventeen tracks of tear-it-up garage rock from unknown bands of the mid-sixties, another ghoul-inspired cover by Mort Todd, and more wild liner notes. For example, for Fugitives’ “You Can’t Blame That On Me” –

Back From the Grave Volume Three Front Cover
Back From the Grave Volume Three Front Cover

The second wildest Fenton [label] record (nothin’ but the best, folks) and the best song by any of the 5,783* groups called the Fugitives.
*(From the Official U.S. Government census entitled ‘1960s Garage Bands Calling Themselves “The Fugitives.”

Back From the Grave Volume Three Back Cover
Back From the Grave Volume Three Back Cover

Want a sample? How about Little Willie and the Adolescents doing “Get Out Of My Life,” an anti-Beatles song if ever there was one:

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