Bethlehem Asylum - Commit Yourself To Bethlehem Asylum (CD)

Release Date: 09/23/22

Southern rock fused with early jazz influenced prog rock Their only 2 releases on a single CD and not available since the original releases in 1970-71

Bethlehem Asylum's only two albums, combined into this CD, provide an insight into the future of fusion and prog rock artists that will follow. The first album ('Commit Yourself') offers a more jazzy instrumentation and superb work on piano, sax and flute. The eponymous second album has more harmonizing but the psychedelic sounds of the late 60s are on full display, with rock and jazz fused and then veering into more spacey prog rock

They originated from the St. Pete/Tampa area in Florida although they toured extensively all around the South, had a good live reputation as a live act and were often double-billed with The Allman Brothers.