The Grasshoppers - Let It Be That Way

 

First-ever Grasshoppers LP!

Featuring their Twin City toppin' 45 paired with a lucky 13 more glorious nuggets!

Cut from the Kay Bank Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio!

Pressed on "Caelifera" green vinyl and stuffed with some great Jim Allen liner notes!

1960's Minny-beat nuggs of bouncy bliss! Along with their Twin City topping cover of "Sugar & Spice," their Kay Bank studio master tapes featured The Grasshoppers' stellar takes on Beau Brummels, Hollies, Pickett, & Yardbirds tunes, yet the best cuts are the swarm of Grasshoppers originals!

"Nobody wanted to do it, and they all looked at me. I said, ‘Hey guys, I just came to this country from Holland. And you want me to write songs?'" That's Grasshoppers guitarist Ben Hamar's backstory for the Minnesota band's original repertoire.

In the mid-to-late ‘60s, The Grasshoppers were kings of the Twin Cities music scene. They had it all — sweat-stained rock ‘n' roll bona fides, radio-ready pop songcraft, and harmonies tighter than a monk's entertainment budget. They took their act all over the Midwest, from Iowa to Wisconsin to North Dakota, sometimes generating a Beatlemania-like female frenzy along the way.

But for all their regional renown, The Grasshoppers only released one single during their five-year run, and not a note of their original material. More than five decades after their breakup, Let It Be That Way rights that wrong, containing not only their lone 45 but 13 unheard tracks, including those original tunes Hamar churned out after pulling the short straw.

 

 

Sugar And Spice

Still In Love With You Baby

Riding In My Car

With This Kiss

Words Of Love

Paper Cup Beggar

The Muffin Man

Our Love

Mustang Sally

Look Through Any WIndow

Watch People

Let It Be That Way

Mister You're a Better Man

Lonely Me

Very Last Day

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