''Oh! Pleasant Hope'' is the sixth album by American rock group

Blue Cheer Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style. The ...

, and their final album until 1984's ''

The Beast Is Back ''The Beast Is Back'' is the seventh album by a newly reformed Blue Cheer, 13 years after their previous album, '' Oh! Pleasant Hope'' (1971). It contains re-recorded versions of some of the band's most popular songs from their late-1960s heyda ...

''. It features less

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and

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and includes more

folk rock Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music re ...

elements. This is an unusual Blue Cheer album in that

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and

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, although on the previous album ''

The Original Human Being ''The Original Human Being'' is Blue Cheer's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back rock and roll with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and d ...

'' the song "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" also featured extensive use of the aforementioned instruments.

Track listing

#"Hiway Man" (Gary R. Grelecki, Norman Mayell, Gary Yoder) – 4:22 #"Believer" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 3:41 #"Money Troubles" (Dr. Richard Peddicord) – 4:02 #"Traveling Man" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 3:10 #"Oh! Pleasant Hope" (Dr. Richard Peddicord) – 2:39 #"I'm the Light" (Kent Housman, Norman Mayell) – 5:39 #"Ecological Blues" (Norman Mayell) – 2:26 #"Lester the Arrester" ( Ralph Burns Kellogg) – 3:02 #"Heart Full of Soul" (

Dickie Peterson Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)Dickie Peterson Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)Norman Mayell – drums, guitar, sitar, vocals * Gary Yoder – acoustic and electric guitars,

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

, vocals * Ralph Burns Kellogg –

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, bass with: *Bob Gurland - Mouth Trumpet *Kent Housman - Dobro, Backing Vocals *Cynthia Jobse - Harp * Jim Keylor - Bass * Douglas Killmer - Bass *Jack May - Guitar * Dehner Patten - Guitar *Dr. Richard Peddicord - Guitar, Vocals *Ronald Stallings - Saxophone

References

{{Authority control 1971 albums Blue Cheer albums Philips Records albums