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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: The Move, “When Alice Comes Back to the Farm,” live on Beat Club, 1971

ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 19, 2017

The English band "The Move" enjoyed some success in Britain and Europe in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its front men, Roy Wood and (from 1970) Jeff Lynne subsequently went on to great fame and fortune with the Electric Light Orchestra later in the 1970s.  Although The Move began as more of a pop band, with occasional psychedelic flourishes (vide "Flowers in the Rain"), by their third album in 1970, from which this tune comes, the British blues explosion began to dominate their style and sound:

 

 

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