A Purely Sui Generis Gem of an Album – “As You Heard Me” from New Jersey’s The Cucumbers | Stereo Embers Magazine

A Purely Sui Generis Gem of an Album – “As You Heard Me” from New Jersey’s The Cucumbers | Stereo Embers Magazine

Since its much debated inception – was it Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads released in 1940; Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours; Zappa and the Mothers Freak Out (1966) or was it really, as most purport, Tommy by the Who, even though the (historically way overlooked) S.F. Sorrow from The Pretty Things beat that colossus to the punch a full year earlier? – the “concept album,” definitionally challenged as it inevitably is, has over the decades acqu…