
Northeast Texas heads Southwest F.O.B. can't claim the same sort of critical attention lauded on such fellow statesmen as the 13th Floor Elevators or Red Krayola , but their one record, Smell of Incense , remains an indispensable slice of Lone Star psychedelia. Much more commercially-minded than any of the aforementioned collectives, the band nevertheless reveals an exciting instrumental virtuosity and willingness to draw FM gold out of esoteric regions. Thankfully, songwriters Dan Seals and John Colley betray little of the sickening soft-rock aspirations that would later drive them into their roles as England Dan and [...]