Gene Clark & Doug Dillard The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
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Gene Clark & Doug Dillard: The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
Groundbreaking album that helped define country-rock! In 1965 Missouri-born Gene Clark was riding the crest of unprecedented success and adulation as a member of the Byrds. Anointed as America's answer to the Beatles, the Byrds topped the charts with folk-rock anthems like 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' and 'Eight Miles High.' Gene was front and center as tambourine player, singer and principal songwriter for the group. But in early 1966 he flew the Byrds' coop. A gifted songwriter, expectations ran high for a stellar solo career, but those hopes were dashed when his debut solo album and single both failed to chart.
Dropped by Columbia Records the following year, Gene's career remained in limbo until teaming up with banjo player extraordinaire Doug Dillard. What emerged from a series of informal jam sessions in and around Laurel Canyon was a loose-knit group of pickers seeking to break bluegrass music out of its traditional confines and redefine it in a contemporary country-rock context. The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark is a groundbreaking album that helped define country-rock and set the template not only for that genre but the entire alt.country, Americana and Roots Rock movements of the '90s. Together with future Eagle Bernie Leadon, who co-wrote 'Train Leaves Here This Morning' with Gene (featured both on the Fantastic Expedition album and later on the Eagles' debut release), the Dillard & Clark merger represents a high-water mark in Gene Clark's impressive canon of recordings and one of the most satisfying periods in his often troubled career. The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark ranks among a handful of seminal 1960s country-rock experiments.
'I think we made our mark in country rock,' muses Doug Dillard. 'We didn't make the charts but we sure influenced a lot of people.' To insure that their influence carries on, Sundazed proudly presents this newly mastered edition, sourced from the original A&M analog tapes, available on resonant vinyl and compact disc and packaged in a vibrant recreation of the original cover artwork. CD includes extra photos and new liner notes by Gene Clark biographer John Einarson. It's an expedition you'll want to take time and time again!
Article properties: Gene Clark & Doug Dillard: The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
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Interpret: Gene Clark & Doug Dillard
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Album titlle: The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
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Genre Country
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Label SUNDAZED
- Preiscode VLP2
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
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Artikelart LP
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EAN: 0090771534415
- weight in Kg 0.25
| Clark, Gene & Doug Dillard - The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark LP 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Out Of The Side | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 02 | She Darked The Sun | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 03 | Don't Come Rollin' | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 04 | Train Leaves Here This Mornin' | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 05 | With Care From Someone | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 06 | The Radio Song | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 07 | Git It On Brother | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 08 | In The Plan | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
| 09 | Something Wrong | Gene Clark & Doug Dillard | ||
Gene Clark
Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky (aka Rough And Rocky)
Although Gene Clark's first solo A&M album, colloquially known as 'White Light,' followed two Dillard & Clark LPs into the cut-out bins, A&M kept the faith, bankrolling some sessions in April, May, and June 1972. Clark brought in some new songs and a few non-originals. He was working with Chris Hinshaw, who'd engineered some Taj Mahal, Sly Stone, and Byrds albums. In June, A&M pulled the plug. The final straw came when Sly Stone arrived, racking up thousands of dollars on A&M's dime when Clark was out of town. "Those sessions were fun and I had great people playing on them," Clark told Dominic Priore, "but it was hard to get it together the way I wanted it." Clark saw musical tastes shifting toward heavy metal and decided to go low-key and meditative. A&M sat on the tapes, seeing no future for them until Clark's sometime manager, Jim Dickson, went to Holland and saw Byrds and Burrito bootlegs. Deciding that the A&M tapes were better than the bootlegs, he prevailed upon A&M to lease the tapes to their European licensee, Ariola. Roger McGuinn sang harmony on some songs, quite possibly because he was talking to Gene about the reunion of the original Byrds. There's an unissued mix on which he's clearly audible on Rough And Rocky. None of the Byrds was doing especially well on his own, but Clark probably had the most to gain from a reunion, and he provided that unremarkable album with most of its high spots.
Flatt & Scruggs' Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky was a song that Gene probably heard the duo perform on their Martha White television show, but, until comparatively recently, it was only available on a single. They recorded it in 1954 and copyrighted it then, but it was a much older song of unknown provenance. The Blue Sky Boys had recorded it in 1936 as Can't You Hear That Night Bird Calling and it went under a bunch of other titles dating back to the dawn of recorded country music history. Its origin probably lay in a nineteenth century pop or minstrel song.
Various Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels - The Blissed-Out Birth Of Country Rock, Vol. 6: 1973 (2-CD)
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