DAVY GRAHAM Large As Life Twice As Natural Vinyl LP '68
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DAVY GRAHAM
Large As Life & Twice As Natural.
You are bidding on a wondeful original 1st press vinyl record on the early unboxed red Decca, Mono issue LP from 1968.
This is the high gloss laminated sleeve issue and in lovely condition.
This is a super rare and hard to find 60s Folk Blues & Beyond
music album with 1st press ARL-8494 1B/1B run off matrix.
This comes straight from my own collection.
I only have this one so don't miss out . . .
Band Line Up :-
Davy Graham - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Danny Thompson - Bass
Jon Hiseman - Drums
Harold McNair - Flutes
Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxphones
Produced By - Ray Horricks
Recording Engineer - Bill Price
Brief Davy Graham History :-
Davy Graham was a young and promising guitarist when he was discovered in London by blues patriarch Alexis Korner. Soon, he establish himself as the most original guitarist around, the only one who could wed folk, blues and jazz. On his first EP (1962) he played She Moves Through the Fair as if it were an Indian raga: only Sandy Bull in the USA was bolder than Graham. (In that song Graham introduced the DADGAD tuning instead of the usual EADGBE tuning).
Guitar Player (Pye, 1963) contains his most famous song, Angie, that was originally on a 1962 EP credited to Alexis Korner and that established his reputation. Folk Roots New Routes (Decca, 1964), a collaboration with vocalist Shirley Collins, marked a bold departure for the folk movement, as Collins embraced jazz.
Folk Blues and Beyond (Decca, 1965 - Les Cousins, 2008), featuring bassist Danny Thompson, ran the gamut from folk to blues to jazz. It also winked at Indian (Leaving Blues) and Arabic (Maajun) music. More experimental albums followed: Large As Life (Decca, 1968 - Les Cousins, 2008), his creative peak (Sunshine Raga, Blues Raga) featuring Pentangle's bassist Danny Thompson, Colosseum's drummer Jon Hiseman and Colosseum's saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith, and Hat (Decca, 1969 - Les Cousins, 2008), a collection of shorter pieces.
When rock musicians embraced folk and bands like Pentangle began plundering his pioneering ideas, Graham was largely forgotten. He was given no credit for raga-rock and world-music, that he had helped launch.
He came back in the second half of the 1970s with a bunch of instrumental albums, the best being Dance For Two People (Kicking Mule, 1979), where he plays oud, sarod and bouzouki besides guitars.
Fire In The Soul is an anthology of his best albums.
Graham died in december 2008 at 68 of lung cancer.
Condition :-
Sleeve - VG++
Vinyl - VG++/EX
Cat numbers :-
LK.4969 - MONO
Matrix run off numbers :-
ARL-8494-1B
ARL-8495-1B
Sleeve :-
THIS SLEEVE IS IN VG++ CONDITION WITH SOME LIGHT CREASING AND VERY MINOR CORNER WEAR. THIS IS THE EARLY HIGH GLOSS CLARIFOIL LAMINATED ISSUE SLEEVE. IT HAS A BRIGHT A SHARP BACK SPINE AND THE TITLE TEXT IS CLEAR TO READ. IT IS A BRITISH CELANESE LTD. PRINTED SLEEVE. COMES COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL BLUE PRINTED TEXT DECCA MONO INNER SLEEVE. SOME SURFACE RUB AND BACK HANDLING MARKS. OVERALL A SHARP AND TIDY CONDITION SLEEVE.
Vinyl :-
THE EARLY HEAVY WEIGHT VINYL IS IN VG++/EX CONDITION. ONE OR TWO VERY MINOR SURFACE SCUFFS BOTH SIDES. TWO CLEAN DEEP RED LABELS AND WITH CENTRE TEXT (1968 BIEM NCB - GEMA.). THE VINYL HAS A BRIGHT SHARP AND CLEAN SURFACE SHEEN.
Track Listing:-
BOTH SIDES NOW
BAD BOY BLUES
TRISTANO
BABE, IT AIN'T NO LIE
BRUTON TOWN
SUNSHINE RAGA
FRIGHT-TRAIN BLUES
JENRA
ELECTRIC CHAIR
GOOD MORNING BLUES
BEAUTIFUL CITY
BLUE RAGA
This is a unique opportunity to purchase a super rare and tidy collectors item.
It's a fabulous sounding LP record with some great tracks.
A REAL 60s FOLK BLUES GEM. Don't miss out . . .
I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING RECORDS MYSELF FOR OVER 20 YEARS AND UNDER STAND THE NEED FOR A GOOD AND INFORMED DESCRIPTION. BID WITH CONFIDENCE.
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