John Stewart Old Forgotten Altars - The 1960s Demos (CD)

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John Stewart: Old Forgotten Altars - The 1960s Demos (CD)

(Omnivore Recordings) 19 tracks

Collection includes demos of songs recorded by The Kingston Trio and for Stewart’s classic California Bloodlines album

In a career spanning more than four decades, John Stewart swiftly progressed from his beginnings in a southern California garage band, through folk groups The Cumberland Three and The Kingston Trio, to a successful solo career. He contributed well over 40 albums and more than 600 songs to our musical universe. His song catalog is not only staggering in volume, but it’s also loaded with classic compositions. Most will know Stewart’s songwriting from “Daydream Believer” by The Monkees (and Anne Murray) or his own Lindsey Buckingham-produced, “Gold,” a #5 hit in 1979, but just as impressive are “Runaway Train” from Rosanne Cash’s 1987 King’s Record Shop album, “Sweet Dreams Will Come” on Nanci Griffith’s Little Love Affairs or “Mother Country” from Stewart’s own 1969 California Bloodlines album which was used to usher the Apollo 11 spacecraft safely back to Earth after its historic journey.

Omnivore is thrilled to present Old Forgotten Altars: The 1960s Demos. Four tunes found here wound up on The Kingston Trio’s Children Of The Morning album released in 1966 with one of them, “The Spinnin’ Of The World,” getting a second airing on 1979s hit album, Bombs Away Dream Babies which yielded the aforementionaed charting single, “Gold,” with two other songs, “Midnight Wind” and “Lost Her In The Sun” also making the Top 40. Three duets with Buffy Ford Stewart foreshadow Signals Through The Glass album which the singing partners, and later husband and wife team, would release on Capitol Records in 1968. This collection also features five tracks that would form nearly half of Stewart’s classic California Bloodlines album released in 1969. Of particular note, “July, You’re A Woman” makes its first recorded appearance here alongside demos for “Mother Country” and “The Pirates Of Stone County Road.”

In 2001, Stewart was honored by the World Folk Music Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award and continued to perform live until nearly 2008. We honor his life’s work and legacy with this peek behind the curtain into his songwriting process while he was making his way from The Kingston Trio to his solo career.

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Interpret: John Stewart
Album titlle: Old Forgotten Altars - The 1960s Demos (CD)
Genre Country
Label Omnivore Recordings
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0816651018642
weight in Kg 0.1

Stewart, John - Old Forgotten Altars - The 1960s Demos (CD) CD 1
01	Livin’ That Way (Demo)	John Stewart
02	When You’Ve Been Away For A Long Time (Demo)	John Stewart
03	Down The Highway You Go (Demo)	John Stewart
04	Lock All The Windows (Demo)	John Stewart
05	Rambler Get On Board (Demo)	John Stewart
06	Shackles & Chains (Demo)	John Stewart
07	One More Chapter Is Gone (Demo)	John Stewart
08	Being Born Again (Demo)	John Stewart
09	Long Life (Demo)	John Stewart
10	Children Of The Morning (Demo)	John Stewart
11	The Spinnin’ Of The World (Demo)	John Stewart
12	Draft Age Today (Demo)	John Stewart
13	The Pirates Of Stone County Road – John Stewart With Buffy Ford Stewart (Demo)	John Stewart
14	One Tiny Grain Of Sand (Demo)	John Stewart
15	July, You’Re A Woman (Demo)	John Stewart
16	Big Sur – John Stewart With Buffy Ford Stewart (Demo)	John Stewart
17	Mother Country (Demo)	John Stewart
18	She Believes In Me – John Stewart With Buffy Ford Stewart (Demo)	John Stewart
19	Hey Sarrey (Bonus Track 1959 Bonus Demo)	John Stewart

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John Stewart

John Stewart ranks among the great American songwriters, his talent sustaining a career that spanned more than three decades. He began with the Cumberland Three before spending seven years in the legendary Kingston Trio. No sooner had he left the group than he handed The Monkees their biggest hit, "Daydream Believer" – a song of his own.

Stewart's own output was prodigious: some twenty albums, among them the 1979 Top Ten record "Bombs Away Dream Babies" with its worldwide success "Gold". As late as November 1988, Rosanne Cash scored a number one country hit with his composition "Runaway Train". And yet Stewart remained, throughout his life, an artist for connoisseurs – revered by a few and all but unknown to the wider public.

His cult reputation rests above all on his two Capitol albums. "California Bloodlines" was cut in Nashville in 1969: producer Nik Venet had Stewart sing live with the band straight onto a two-track machine, preserving the spontaneity of the travelling singer. "Willard", recorded a year later in Los Angeles with Peter Asher, took the opposite, perfectionist approach. On both records Stewart conjured the heat and spirit of rural America and made willing travelling companions of his listeners.

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