![]() ![]() ![]() Mandel’s first album, Cristo Redentor (1968), was well-received on the then-growing underground radio scene in California, and he followed it with two more albums for Philips: Righteous in 1969 and Games Guitars Play in 1970. Mandel’s solo career began in the late ’60s, after his based manager got him signed to a deal with Philips, a label distributed by Mercury Records. He later took on the moniker “The King of Sustain,” for the long, ringing tones he was able to coax from his instrument. He got his nickname, “The Snake,” from master blues harp player Charlie Musselwhite, who admired the way Mandel’s left hand would effortlessly snake up and down the guitar neck. ![]() Mandel learned from and performed with such greats as Guy, Albert King, Muddy Waters, and Otis Rush. Whole new vistas in guitar appreciation opened up for him once he had the chance to hear musicians like Buddy Guy in the small blues clubs of Chicago’s West and South sides. He began playing guitar while in his early teens and found his inspiration in the sound of the Ventures. Mandel was born in Detroit on Maand raised in Chicago. Pure Food & Drug Act, featuring the legendary Harvel Mandel on guitar, recorded live at Alice’s Revisited in Chicago in September of 1972.įor the uninitiated, there’s an excellent bio by Richard Skelly on Harvey’s website that lays it all out and gives you some idea of what the fuss has always been about (here’s a taste): Pure Food & Drug Act – Live At Alice’s Revisited – September 1972 – band soundboardĭiving into what might be unfamiliar territory to some, but a sound for sore ears to a lot of us others. Harvey Mandel of Pure Food & Dug Act – One of the unsung giants of Blues Guitar (Photo: Mendelson Archives). |a Drugs |x Law and legislation |z United States. |a Food law and legislation |z United States. |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |a xiii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations |c 25 cm |a Pure food : |b securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 / |c James Harvey Young. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. The author focuses on how the public became increasingly fearful of hazards in adulterated foods and narcotic nostrums and how Congress finally achieved the compromises necessary to pass the Food and Drugs Act and the meat inspection law of 1906. He explains controversy within the pure food coalition, showing how farming and business groups sought competitive commercial advantage, while consumer advocates wished to promote commercial integrity and advance public health. In the vivid style familiar to readers of his earlier works, The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young sets the pure food movement in the context of changing technology and medical theory and describes pioneering laws to control imported drugs and domestic oleomargarine. James Harvey Young reveals the complex and pluralistic nature not only of that crusade but also of the broader Progressive movement of which it was a significant strand. "Pure food" became the rallying cry among a divergent group of campaigners who lobbied Congress for a law regulating foods and drugs. ![]()
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