Photo titled "Wild Flowers" by Mark Anthony, 1857
"Oh, cool! A song from Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake! There's a lot to say about a song from that album - classic Brit-psych epic, shaped like a tobacco tin, basis for the Dukes of the Stratosphear record, etc." These were my initial thoughts when this song popped up on the Jukebox. Then I realized that "Up the Wooden Hills from Bedfordshire" isn't even on that album - it just sounds like it belongs there. It's actually on the Small Faces' previous album, their second self-titled record and first for Immediate Records in 1967. With its organ-based sound and freakbeat drumming, "Up the Wooden Hills from Bedfordshire" is one of the more psych-rock tracks on Small Faces, and the lyric about "slipping into sleep" is classic Brit-psych fodder as well. Interestingly, the song is the only one on Small Faces that was written by keyboardist Ian McLagan (Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane wrote most of the Small Faces' songs). It's cool that McLagan was keyed in on the direction the band was headed with their sound, which flowered in full on Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake the following year.
"Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" by the Small Faces
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