Gene Clark Roadmaster (LP - Colored Vinyl)
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Gene Clark: Roadmaster (LP - Colored Vinyl)
Legendary Gene Clark album assembles abandoned 1972 sessions and more! By 1972, singer/songwriter Gene Clark had settled into a new life in Mendocino far from the intrusive media glare and fan adulation that still surrounded someone of his stature as a former member of the Byrds. However, he still owed A&M Records one more album. Gathering together the cream of the Los Angeles country-rock fraternity'innovative guitarist Clarence White, Chris Ethridge on bass, ex-Byrd and Burrito Brother Michael Clarke on drums, pedal steel guitarist extraordinaire Sneaky Pete, Byron Berline on fiddle and pianist Spooner Oldham'Gene set about recording an album of pure country rock unfettered by any commercial dictates. Although the spring 1972 recording sessions were ultimately abandoned, Gene left eight precious songs in the vaults. 'Full Circle Song' (later recorded by the reunited Byrds and a bona fide country-rock classic) and 'Shooting Star' reveal a deep, introspective soul-searching. 'I Remember the Railroad' and 'In a Misty Morning' reflect a longing for the simpler days of his youth.
The sessions also produced spirited versions of Flatt & Scruggs' 'Rough and Rocky,' the country standard 'I Really Don't Want to Know,' Freddie Weller's rollicking 'Roadmaster' and a reinterpretation of his standout Byrds song, 'She Don't Care About Time.' Gene's manager Jim Dickson took these eight tracks and paired them with three additional unreleased recordings to assemble Roadmaster. The unreleased tracks chronicled two previous attempts at a Byrds reunion ('One in a Hundred' and 'She's the Kind of Girl') as well as the stunning 'Here Tonight,' with Gene backed by The Flying Burrito Brothers. Originally a 1973 European-only release, imported copies of Roadmaster soon found their way to North America as fans came to recognize the brilliance in the ill-fated sessions. 'The album itself I was proud of,' acknowledged Gene years later. 'I was proud of the writing and proud of the bunch of people who played on it.' This legendary recording makes its Sundazed debut on compact disc and wondrous vinyl. It has been painstakingly mastered from the original A&M session tapes and is packaged in new album artwork. CD includes extra photos and new liner notes by Gene Clark biographer John Einarson. Add this recording to your collection and bear full witness to Gene Clark's panoramic musical vision.
Article properties:Gene Clark: Roadmaster (LP - Colored Vinyl)
Interpret: Gene Clark
Album titlle: Roadmaster (LP - Colored Vinyl)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label SUNDAZED
- Preiscode VLP2
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0090771407917
- weight in Kg 0.25
| Clark, Gene - Roadmaster (LP - Colored Vinyl) LP 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | She's the Kind of Girl | Gene Clark | ||
| 02 | One in a Hundred | Gene Clark | ||
| 03 | Here Tonight | Gene Clark | ||
| 04 | Full Circle Song | Gene Clark | ||
| 05 | In a Misty Morning | Gene Clark | ||
| 06 | Rough and Rocky | Gene Clark | ||
| 07 | Roadmaster | Gene Clark | ||
| 08 | I Really Don't Want to Know | Gene Clark | ||
| 09 | I Remember the Railroad | Gene Clark | ||
| 10 | She Don't Care About Time | Gene Clark | ||
| 11 | Shooting Star | Gene Clark | ||
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 Rockywas 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 Callingand 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.
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