CD / 60s / Psych, Pop, West-Coast] When post-Undertakers group, Lomax Alliance (managed by Brian Epstein in UK/US) split in mid-1967, Jackie Lomax signed as a solo act with the nascent Apple while his three former colleagues returned to New York. After a US-only single (recorded with Lomax still involved) was issued in the name One, the trio renamed themselves Rain after their favourite Beatles B-side. With the assistance of Young Rascals engineer (and former Undertakers guitarist) Chris Huston, they cut an acetate-only album of original material that combined Beatles-indebted song construction and harmonies with an early Buffalo Springfield/Byrds-style West Coast feel. Despite playing in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco at such venues as the Whisky a Go-Go and the Fillmore, they were unable to place the LP, and split after a brief spell as The Gypsy Wizards Band. Now gaining its first-ever issue, Tomorrow Never Comes : The NYC Sessions 1967-1968 features a selection of superb original songs, three of which were reworked from the aborted Lomax Alliance LP, plus six previously unissued bonus tracks cut a few months later as The Gypsy Wizards Band. Tracks 1-10 The unissued Rain album, recorded autumn 1967-spring 1968. Tracks 11-16 From the unissued Gypsy Wizards Band album, recorded autumn 1968-spring 1969

Sapphire Skies * One Is All, And All Is One * No Deposit, No Return * Sundrops * So Unhappy * Didn't Lie * You Can't Hide Your Love * Something Is Happening * Midnight Blue * You, You, You / Bonus tracks : The Brightest Light * A Daily Thought * Spreading Love All Around * The Old Man * She * In Deadication