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n.
Any of several trees, such as certain species of eucalyptus or Pinckneya pubens, of the southeast United States, having leaves or bark used to allay fever.


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WordNet: fever tree
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The noun has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: any of several trees having leaves or barks used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever

Meaning #2: ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
  Synonyms: Georgia bark, bitter-bark, Pinckneya pubens

Meaning #3: tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish
  Synonyms: blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus

Meaning #4: African tree supposed to mark healthful regions
  Synonym: Acacia xanthophloea

Artist: Fever Tree
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Group Members:

John Tuttle, Michael Knust, Dennis Keller, E.E. Wolfe, Rob Landes

Similar Artists:

Crow, Blues Magoos, The Litter, The Music Machine, Steppenwolf, The Centurys, Bubble Puppy, Odyssey, 006, The Count Five, Moby Grape, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chambers Brothers, The Chocolate Watchband

Followers:

The Swamis

Performed Songs By:

Rob Landes, Scott Holtzman, Vivian Holtzman, Michael Knust
  • Formed: 1966
  • Disbanded: 1970
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Best of Fever Tree", "San Francisco Girls: The Best of Fever Tree", "San Francisco Girls
  • Representative Songs: "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)", "Grand Candy Young Sweet", "Girl Don't Push Me

Biography

A minor, if reasonably interesting, late-'60s psychedelic group, Houston's Fever Tree is most famous for their single "San Francisco Girls," with its dramatic melody, utopian lyrics, and searing fuzz guitar. Most of their best material, ironically, was written by their over-30 husband-wife production team, Scott and Vivian Holtzman, who had previously written material for Tex Ritter and the Mary Poppins soundtrack. These odd bedfellows produced some fairly distinctive material with more classical/Baroque influences and orchestral string arrangements than were usually found in psychedelic groups. Their pretty, wistful ballads (enhanced on their first album by arranger David Angel, who had also worked on Love's classic Forever Changes) endure better than their dirge-like fuzz grinders, which epitomize some of the more generic aspects of heavy psychedelia. Releasing four albums (the third of which, Creation, included guest guitar by future ZZ Top axeman Billy Gibbons), their records grew weaker and more meandering with time, and the group disbanded in 1970. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Wikipedia: Fever Tree
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This article is about the 1960s psychedelic rock band. For the collection of short stories, see The Fever Tree. For the ornamental tree, see Acacia xanthophloea.

Fever Tree is a former American psychedelic rock band of the 1960s, chiefly known for their anthemic 1968 hit, "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)" (#91 Pop Singles).

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The band hailed from Houston, Texas and started in 1966 as folk rock outfit, The Bostwick Vines. They changed their name to Fever Tree a year later after the addition of keyboard player Rob Landes.

Their fifteen minutes of fame arrived when their song "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)" reached #91 in the U.S. charts, sometime in late 1968. Like most of the band's material, it was written by the couple of Scott and Vivian Holtzman, who also were their producers. This four-minute track captured all the band's trademarks: Dennis Keller's incantation-like vocals, the quick shifting between slow parts with an almost sacral feeling and faster, more rock-oriented parts, and especially the searing guitar work by Michael Knust.

Fever Tree also released their self-titled debut album, Fever Tree, in 1968, which charted at #156. A second album, Another Time, Another Place, followed in 1969. Apart from "San Francisco Girls", they never had another hit, although they later also tried writing songs themselves when they had dropped the Holtzmans as producers. The group disbanded in 1970, but reformed in 1978 with only guitarist Michael Knust remaining from the original line-up. The new formation of the group had little commercial success; Fever Tree was not heard of again until 2003 when Michael Knust passed away.

Fever Tree's first two albums ("Fever Tree" and "Another Time, Another Place") were re-released as a single CD on October 31, 2006. Fever Tree's third and fourth albums ("Creation" and "For Sale") are also available as a single CD.

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