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The 13th Floor Elevators were seen as oddball one-hit wonders in most of the United States during their glory days from 1966 to 1968, but they were heroes (at least for a while) in their native Texas, and plenty of psychedelic acolytes from the Lone Star state cited them as a major influence. It would be hard to name a band that borrowed more from the Elevators, or did it to better effect, than Austin's the Golden Dawn, whose debut album, POWER PLANT, sounds like a folkier companion piece to EASTER EVERYWHERE. Lead vocalist George Kinney was friends with Roky Erickson and they briefly played together in a teenage garage band, and while Kinney lacks Erickson's feral intensity, his voice bears an uncanny resemblance to the quietly passionate tone Erickson was reaching for on songs like "Splash 1" and "Dust". As a songwriter, Kinney couldn't quite match the acid-fueled philosophizing of Tommy Hall, but his lyrics are thoughtful and insightful, reaching for something deeper than the "listen to the sound of purple" clich s that dogged many psych band of the era. Sadly, the Golden Dawn broke up before they could record another LP, but POWER PLANT shows them to be one of the best bands to emerge from the Texas psychedelic underground during its brief renaissance in 1967.|