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While we're on the subject of library records, here's another little gem that took me completely by surprise.  In the database there are artists with releases all over the place and hard to search out due to the fact they are combined in VA albums.  I should've found this one before, but thanks to my friends who bring these out to the light, again.  Hawkshaw has been mentioned here many times before most recently in connection with occasional coconspirators Mansfield and Bennett.  As well the early year 1973 surprises in that highly progressive, funky or fusion elements usually appeared in these after the midpoint of the decade in general. The portion written by Alan Parker (all of the second side plus one track on the first) is also markedly inferior, kind of what you might, a priori, expect, consisting of pretty generic electric guitar riffs.  However the 5 Hawkshaw tracks are phenomenal through and through, just listen to that opening: