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GRBOX 965LP
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Glitterhouse Records release Golden State Locket, a four-LP box set which contains the first three albums of Mark Olson's The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers. Two of the first three albums appear here for the first time ever on vinyl. It also contains an EP with four new and never before released songs by The New Creek Dippers and an extensive booklet. Two years after he left alternative country pioneers The Jayhawks, Mark Olson and singer-songwriter Victoria Williams alongside Mike Russell formed The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers and released their stunning self-titled debut album in 1997. "The Creek Dippers create a perfect summer day that in your dreams would stretch on forever," No Depression magazine praised the bands' first born. "Olson's songs commemorate such common, everyday pleasures as a good rain and changing seasons," All Music Guide wrote about the band's second album entitled Pacific Coast Rambler (1998) that was followed by the amazing Zola & The Tulip Tree in 1999. All recorded in Joshua Tree, California. The New Creek Dippers are: Mark Olson, Ingunn Ringvold, Michele Gazich, Dave Rawlings, and Danny Frankel. 180 gram vinyl; Includes four CDs; Carefully remastered; Edition of 500.
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NN 007LP
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When the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers' self-distributed inaugural CD first appeared in 1997, fans of Jayhawks-founder Mark Olson had to work pretty hard to find it. Now, Nero's Neptune Records presents this overlooked masterpiece on vinyl for the first time. Pressed at RTI on 180 gram virgin vinyl (with deluxe packaging that includes a free CD), a new era of discerning music-lovers can now discover what a devout few have known all along: Mark Olson is one of this country's very finest songwriters, and this LP is as fine a representation of his poetic vision as has ever been bestowed upon the world. Olson, together with multi-instrumentalists Mike "Razz" Russell and Victoria Williams, offers 10 tunes that revolve around his gently strummed acoustic guitar. Lovingly woven background vocals (courtesy of Ms. Williams) and tasteful, sparse use of piano, mandolin, fiddle and banjo flesh out Olson's heartbreakingly sincere and affecting songs. Pure and simple, this is a desert island-level classic. As No Depression magazine gushed, "it's the kind of music that's impossible to strive for, to fashion from careful study or conscious effort; the only way it happens like this is when it flows straight out from the soul."
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