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H&W Recordings: Our Times – The Gold Star Tapes (1973-75) CD


LP Album and CD

Our LP album is the original, then the Anopheles Records 008, 2004, CD added six previously non-released songs to the original LP Album.

  • “Slow Down”
  • “Love Comes Through My Door”
  • “King Of The Mountain”
  • “If I Never Show”
  • “See The Children Die”
  • “Do I Love You?”
  • “Your Freedom’s In Question”
  • “I Am Cain”
  • “Roll On, Tumbleweed”
  • “Beat Of The Drum” (previously unreleased)
  • “Rhythm Of The Wind” (previously unreleased)
  • “You’re All That I See” (previously unreleased)
  • “Mary Jane” (previously unreleased)
  • “See The Children Die” (previously unreleased)
  • “Beat Of The Drum” (Instrumental Version) (previously unreleased)

Vocalists on the CD:

  • JoAnne Avery Neish
  • Janice Gundy
  • Brian Gundy
  • Dave Rupel
  • Ernie Bringas
  • Ted Larson.

Instrumentals performed by The Wrecking Crew:

  • Hal Blaine – drummer
  • Ben Benay – lead guitarist,
  • Al Casey – acoustic guitarist
  • Ray Pohlman – electric bass
  • Jay Dee Maness – pedal steel guitar
  • George Poole – flute
  • Don Ralke – piano on track 8
  • JoAnne Avery Neish – all other keyboards, plus tambourine

Original Songs

  • Ernie Bringas – Producer
  • Stan Ross – Engineer, Gold Star Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA.

Conversion from tapes (masters and 16 track) to digital

  • Ernie Bringas – Producer
  • Karl Ikola – CD Producer, Anopheles Records
  • David Duke – Engineer, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA.

Songs Available on Bandcamp

Please check out our bandcamp page to see more about the album, and purchase songs on-line at: https://homesteadwolfe.bandcamp.com/


CD Available at Anopheles

Anopheles 008 CD – available at AnophelesRecords.com
$15 ppd in the US

Karl Ikola / Anopheles Records / genre: folk-rock-country-psych-pop / Countries that have a H&W CD in their borders: S. Korea, Japan, Greece, Sweden, Cyprus, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Portugal, Canada.   – Karl


Videos and Songs

Rhythm Of The Wind

Enjoy this beautiful song set to pictures.

Rhythm Of The Wind lyrics by Ernie Bringas, and music by JoAnne Avery Neish and Brian Gundy. Lead vocal by JoAnne Avery Neish.


Beat of the Drum – A Video of the 16 Tracks In Action

See the mixer board while hearing the sound tracks of this song.

Video produced and mixed by group member Ted Larson

This mostly instrumental version is done by the Wrecking Crew with some additional lead guitar added by group member Ted Larson to emphasize the lead melody


See The Children Die

A video of artifacts at Custer’s Last Stand Memorial set to the music of Homestead & Wolfe’s song about Wounded Knee:

See The Children Die is about Wounded Knee.
These images are taken at Little Bighorn.

Song Samples

Rhythm Of The Wind

Music by JoAnne Avery Neish and Brian Gundy
Lyrics by Ernie Bringas
Lead vocal by JoAnne Avery Neish

Rhythm Of The Wind

Slow Down

Music: Sheryl Johnson
Lyrics: Ernie Bringas & Sheryl Johnson
Lead vocal by Janice Gundy

Slow Down

Beat of the Drum

Music by Brian Gundy
Lyrics by Ernie Bringas
Lead vocal by Brian Gundy

Beat of the Drum

Your Freedom’s In Question

Music by Ted Larson and JoAnne Avery Neish
Lyrics by Ted Larson and Ernie Bringas
Lead vocal by Janice Gundy

Your Freedom’s In Question (a ’70’s protest song applicable for 2025)

King of the Mountain

Music & Lyrics: Ernie Bringas, Brian Gundy and JoAnne Avery Neish

King of the Mountain

Hear & purchase songs at HomesteadWolfe.Bandcamp.com


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