I seem to remember The Bakerton Group playing shows all incognito around the Frederick and Baltimore area when they started out, but all you needed to hear was a few seconds of their swinging, psychedelic hard funk and you knew that it was the guys from Clutch, ditching the vocals and digging deeper into some really trippy, exploratory 70's style hard rock. The band started out with everyone from Clutch except for singer Neil Fallon, but even he has joined the band now, and will be appearing on their upcoming album El Rojo, officially making the Bakerton Group an alter ego of Clutch. But back when they recorded this self titled debut, it was Tim Sult, Dan Maines, and Jean-Paul Gaster jamming hard on eight lengthy improvisational workouts that combined heavy Southern riffing, loads of trippy Hammond organ, heavy Zeppelin-esque guitar parts, meandering jazziness, and lots of the 70's funk influence that has creeped into Clutch's music since the mid-90's. Really, the Bakerton Group sound like just like Clutch if you took out Neil's roaring vocals and the more metallic parts and just let the guys jam forever. Fans of heavy 70's rock and hard guitar-heavy psych will dig this, and even folks into instrumental heavy rock bands like Mystic Krewe Of Clearlight and Stinking Lizaveta should check Bakerton Group out - especially Mystic Krewe, who tread a similiar era of Hammond-soaked rock as these guys, though Bakerton Group are far less heavy than those guys. Comes packaged in a full color glossy digipack with cool abstract artwork.