***Paradise of Bachelors is honored to celebrate the life and music of influential songwriter, singer, and guitarist WILLIE FRENCH LOWERY (1944-2012) with the first-ever reissue of the sole eponymous album by his interracial swamp-psych band PLANT AND SEE. Originally released in 1969 on L.A. label White Whale—home of Jim Ford, the Turtles, and the Rockets—Plant and See is the strange fruit of disparate people, places, and players in dialogue. Its humid, storm-cloud guitars, ductile vocal harmonies, and intuitive, loose-limbed drumming are redolent of a specifically Southern syncretic musical identity and sense of place, testifying to the outstanding, colorblind musicianship of Lowery, African American drummer FORRIS FULFORD, Latino bassist RON SEIGER, and Scotch-Irish backup vocalist CAROL FITZGERALD.