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DEL 026CD
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"First ever release of the heavily mythologized outlaw concept album from 1972. RIYL Johnny Cash, Crazy Horse, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Charles, and The Band. Vinyl edition features: download code, tip-on jacket, four-panel heavy insert containing rare photographs, essays by Frye Gaillard (Watermelon Wine: Remembering the Golden Years of Country Music) and Vince Matthews, and the recipe for Melva's Wine! CD edition housed in deluxe digipak with 24-page booklet containing both essays and exclusive photos. Features the original version of 'Laid Back Country Picker,' recorded by and live staple of Waylon Jennings (and recently performed by Shooter Jennings, and by Father John Misty). An amphetamine-fueled, prophetic, loose, and gritty 1972 Polaroid snapshot into the lives of a small town of an America gone by. Championed by Johnny Cash (who provided his studio and engineer, and penned the liner notes), and produced by Shel Silverstein (along w/ Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Cowboy Jack Clement), the Suite was the talk of the Nashville outlaw underground, but was then mysteriously shelved for 40 years. Preserving the old ways, and presented for the first time ever -- God save Kingston Springs! Vince Matthews and Jim Casey were two of the best and wildest songwriters to emerge during the brief post-Dylan artistic renaissance period in Nashville, TN (it was 'a little like Paris in the 1920s' according to Mickey Newbury). Their songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Gordon Lightfoot, and Sammi Smith, among others, and their 24-hour lifestyle was accepted and encouraged. The Suite was their ambitious dream project, and its presentation was to include film, slides, costumes, narration, and songs. A script/treatment by Vince was green-lighted to be a complete episode on the Johnny Cash television show. The Cash show never happened, but the Suite was performed at a Johnny Cash concert at Pocono Speedway, and at a dress rehearsal in the Kingston Springs HS gymnasium (with Johnny, June, and baby John Carter in attendance). But things began falling apart as Vince's ambitions grew bigger and his craziness got crazier. Shel Silverstein and Larry Wilkerson immortalized him in their song 'Vince' ('And that great speckled bird sang her song in his ear. Whisperin' words of magic that only he could hear.'), but the Suite was never completed to his satisfaction and remained unreleased. Interest lagged and the doors slammed shut by 1974, when Nashville had shaken off the crazies and gotten back to business as usual."
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LP version in tip-on jacket with four-panel heavy insert containing rare photographs, essays by Frye Gaillard (Watermelon Wine: Remembering the Golden Years of Country Music) and Vince Matthews, and the recipe for Melva's Wine. Includes download code.
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DEL 025CD
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"Peter Walker is an American original, as eclectic and enigmatic as the songs he writes. The legendary seventy-five year old raga/psychedelic/folk acoustic guitarist, who was schooled by masters such as Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, has been described by Larry Coryell as, 'One of the most original practitioners of contemporary music' and proclaimed by the Beatles' press agent Derek Taylor as 'Perhaps the greatest guitarist in the world.' His music, celebrated by the late Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Thurston Moore, and Greg Davis, all contributed original compositions to the 2006 tribute album, A Raga for Peter Walker. In the mid-'60s, while musical director to Timothy Leary's LSD explorations, Walker released the classic Rainy Day Raga LP in 1966, and 1968's influential Second Poem to Karmela, or Gypsies are Important, both on Vanguard Records. Following that, Peter Walker disappeared from recording for almost forty years, but never stopped practicing, learning, and reaching. Now, Delmore Recording Society is proud to announce the release of a lost studio session from 1970. Recorded at Mercury Studios, NYC. Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms? is Peter Walker's manifesto. A solo guitar/vocal album, all one take, no overdubs, that could have been Peter's classic third album had it been released at the time. (Peter had been storing the reels in a converted bread truck for decades). While his previous two records are incredible collaborative efforts, the playing of Bruce Langhorne, Jeremy Steig, and John Blair as important to the final product as Peter's, this album is 100 proof Walker. A requiem to the 1960s, chronicling lovers on the run, anti-war movement adventures, and living off the grid in Mexico, California, Detroit, and NYC."
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Deluxe gatefold LP version with lyrics and download card.
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"In 1970, Gary Stewart, future King Of The Honky-Tonks, was five years from his first #1 record, 'She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Doubles,' and living in a beat-up trailer near Franklin, TN. Gary and Bill Eldridge, were getting their songs cut by Stonewall Jackson, Hank Snow, Cal Smith, etc. and Gary was recording unsuccessful singles. The wild abandon of Gary's stratospheric tenor co-mingling with Riley's sandpaper vocals, spot on group harmonies, psychedelic guitars mixing with southern slide, melodic bass lines, and driving drums, formed a hazy sort of perfection. Further details about the late-night sessions remain as elusive as the album itself, but what is certain, is that a sound emerged that was not yet in Nashville and Nashville didn't want it. Trickles of 'country-rock' were seeping out of various corners of the US, but what these fools had stumbled across was pure 'headneck' genius. In 1971, Riley pressed up 500 copies to sell at gigs back in Michigan until a 'real' record deal came through. But within a year, the band splintered, with Riley and the two Jim's going their separate ways and Gary going on to gigs with Nat Stuckey and then Charlie Pride, before his breakthrough. One song from the album did eventually see daylight, when in 1976, Gary re-recorded Easy People style for his second RCA album, Steppin' Out. But the rest have remained unheard....until now." Includes 3 bonus tracks and a 16-page booklet.
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LP version. Includes sticker and insert with photographs and extensive notes. "In 1970, Gary Stewart, future King Of The Honky-Tonks, was five years from his first #1 record, 'She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Doubles,' and living in a beat-up trailer near Franklin, TN. Gary and Bill Eldridge, were getting their songs cut by Stonewall Jackson, Hank Snow, Cal Smith, etc. and Gary was recording unsuccessful singles. The wild abandon of Gary's stratospheric tenor co-mingling with Riley's sandpaper vocals, spot on group harmonies, psychedelic guitars mixing with southern slide, melodic bass lines, and driving drums, formed a hazy sort of perfection. Further details about the late-night sessions remain as elusive as the album itself, but what is certain, is that a sound emerged that was not yet in Nashville and Nashville didn't want it. Trickles of 'country-rock' were seeping out of various corners of the US, but what these fools had stumbled across was pure 'headneck' genius. In 1971, Riley pressed up 500 copies to sell at gigs back in Michigan until a 'real' record deal came through. But within a year, the band splintered, with Riley and the two Jim's going their separate ways and Gary going on to gigs with Nat Stuckey and then Charlie Pride, before his breakthrough. One song from the album did eventually see daylight, when in 1976, Gary re-recorded Easy People style for his second RCA album, Steppin' Out. But the rest have remained unheard....until now."
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