P.H. PHACTOR - SUZY

P.H. PHACTOR - SUZY ALBUM Merryjuana (1980) A group who mixed up elements of jug band,folk-rock,blues and psychedelia,PH Phactor was based at various points in both Portland,OR and San their lifetime they recorded just one single,“Minglewood Blues“/“Barefoot John,“ released in 1967 on the Piccadilly A-side,an update of a blues song from the 1920s,was one of the best of the relatively few jug band/blues/folk-rock combinations to be released in the 1960s, while the B-side was raw, bluesy entire album of material recorded by the band,Merryjuana was released in 1980 on LP (now very hard to find) showed more range than the single had,with excursions into good-time jug band music,Country Joe and the Fish-like psychedelia and the evidence of this rare LP,PH Phactor were a band that,like the Lovin’ Spoonful,Country Joe & the Fish,the Charlatans and Kaleidoscope,linked jug band folk to psychedelic rock in their versatile Phactor,alas