Defying digitization and the dispensability of music, here’s a 14 CD boxed behemoth of everything ever recorded by Family, 1967 – 1973, with a price tag pitched at now comfortable fans who formerly grooved in greatcoats, available only online at familyonceuponatime.com.
As complicated as any of their Progressive Era peers, Family were distinguished by a soulful blues heart, and the confrontational proto-punk presence of vocalist Roger Chapman, and by the fact that being from Leicester rendered pretention impossible.
By Seventies standards Family seemed strange. Shorn of their moorings they suddenly make sense.
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