I’ll be first to admit I’ve never heard of the long-forgotten California power trio Parish Hall. Until now.

They made a solitary album, released at the end of 1970 on a small local label, which sank swiftly into oblivion…

At least until the 1990s, when someone unearthed it and copies began to change hands for increasingly large sums of money.

Now it’s reached its biggest audience yet by being included in the film The Long Walk, an adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel.

It’s a kind of Hunger Games / Battle Royale affair in which 50 young men have to walk non-stop for more than 300 miles until only one of them is left alive.

This song appears in the middle when one of the men plays it on his phone, I think; in any case it’s on the movie soundtrack.

Parish Hall were one of many power trios that formed in the late Sixties and early Seventies in the image of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, hoping to capture some of that blues-rock magic.

It never happened for Gary Wagner (guitar, piano, vocals), John Haden (bass) and Steve Adams (drums), perhaps because of their terrible name – or perhaps because of the album cover.

A portrait of a dreamy-looking young man (presumably Wagner) staring pensively into the middle-distance with windswept hair, perhaps pondering the beauty of nature – it made the album look like some sort of acoustic singer-songwriter record.

The contents were anything but that: a set of ten driving hard rock tunes with a bluesy undercurrent, such as this one – My Eyes Are Getting Heavy.

It’s fairly undistinguished as a song, and fairly generic, but stands up as an artefact of the era and does feature some great guitar work by Wagner in the latter stages.

* Trivia fact: In 1965 Wagner had a brush with rock stardom when Sly Stone produced a single by his previous band The Chosen Few, only for the label to fold – and he left to pursue his hobby of rebuilding old cars.