Feeling that he needed a singer to compete commercially,
Mandel decided to abandon his instrumental format, taking on multi-instrumentalist
Russell DaShiell as lead vocalist for a good share of the tracks. Alas,
DaShiell was a mediocre singer who typified some of the lesser White blues-rock stylings of the period, and the material (with a higher percentage of blues and soul covers) was not up to the level of Mandel's first two efforts, although
Harvey's playing remained accomplished and imaginative (as is evident on the original instrumental "Ridin' High" and the cover of
Horace Silver's "Senor Blues").