David Peel is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band. His raw, acoustic street rock with lyrics about marijuana and bad cops appealed mostly to hippies.
In 1968, Peel was contracted by Elektra Records when he was first discovered and recorded two envelope pushers for the label. His album Have a Marijuana peaked at 186 on the Billboard Charts.
Peel was rediscovered by J...
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