| Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil | ||||
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| Released | May 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, experimental rock | |||
| Length | 32:09 (Original) 38:20 (2001 Reissue) | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Bowen, Bob Markley | |||
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Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil is the fourth album by the American psychedelic rock band The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB), and was released on Reprise Records in May 1968. By the time the group commenced recording Volume 3, guitarist Danny Harris had excused himself from the WCPAEB, reducing their numbers to a trio. As with the WCPAEB's earlier work, the album saw the band continue to blend psychedelic influences and complex studio techniques, and was marked by a bizarre fusion of innocence and malice in the band's lyrics. Volume 3 featured the WCPAEB's most ambitious music to date, and the striking cover art of John Van Hamersveld, yet it failed to sell in sufficient copies to chart nationally. In more recent times, the album has been considered the band's most accomplished work and a masterpiece of the psychedelic genre.[citation needed]