Rich here to sing the praises of The Blue Things, a band from Hays, Kansas, who were wildly popular throughout the Plains States between Canada and Mexico during the Sixties. Unfortunately, their regional success never transcended the Heartland -- not unlike many successful regional bands of the time, whose base of operations was hundreds of miles away from the big media centers, and whose records weren't promoted on the most influential stations whose radio signals reached across thousands of miles.
Still, The Blue Things caught the attention of RCA Records in Nashville, and in 1966 the band released an album full of excellent Bob Dylan-and-John Lennon-inspired folk-rock songs. It should have been a big hit, but was not to be.
