GENE CLARK Roadmaster LP A&M 1973 HOL 2nd press silver label BYRDS-BYRON BERLINE
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GENE CLARK
with BYRON BERLINE, ROGER McGUINN, DAVID CROSBY, CLARENCE WHITE,
RICK ROBERTS, BUD SHANK, MICHAEL CLARKE, SNEAKY PETE KLEINOW,
SPOONER OLDHAM, CHRIS HILLMAN, BERNIE LEADON
Original Byrd and legendary singer-songwriter who crafted highly poetic
folk and country-rock. Gene Clark will always be best remembered
for his two-year stint as a vocalist with the Byrds between 1964 and 1966.
A fine legacy to be sure, but the shame of it is that there was far more
to Clark's body of work than that; he was a superb songwriter,
one of the founding fathers of country-rock,
and recorded a number of fine albums with an impressive array of collaborators
whose quality far outstripped their modest sales figures
"ROADMASTER"
[recorded May 1970 - June 1972]
<reissue, originally published in 1973 on A&M 'brown' label>
LP A&M RECORDS 87 584 IT STEREO
MADE IN HOLLAND SECOND PRESSING (mid/late-70s)
[From 1963 through mid-'73, A&M used a brown label.
From then until 1985 the label was a silver gray with a large brown "AM" fading into the background]
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: A&M - SILVER GRAY LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) 87 584 IT
Catalog on labels: 87 584 IT (87 584-A) / 87 584 IT (87 584-B)
Matrix / Runout, (Side A, Etched): 87584-A H(circled)
Matrix / Runout, (Side B, Etched): 87584-B H(circled)
On labels: All rights of the record.........Ariola-Eurodisc Benelux B.V., Haarlem.
STEMRA
Made in Holland
Produced by: Chris Hinshaw
? 1973 A&M Records Inc.
(on Side A only): *by: Jim Dickson
On back cover: Notes by Ian Donkers
Ariola-Eurodisc Benelux B.V.
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: SHE'S THE KIND OF GIRL* - ONE IN A HUNDRED
HERE TONIGHT* - FULL CIRCLE SONG - IN A MISTY MORNING - ROUGH AND ROCKY
Side B: ROADMASTER - I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW
I REMEMBER THE RAILROAD - SHE DON'T CARE ABOUT TIME - SHOOTING STAR
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Gene Clark, record business equals bad news. Case in point, this album.
Or masterpiece, you could say. After two brilliant Dillard & Clark albums,
A&M signed Clark to a solo deal. Okay, fair enough -- so far. In 1972,
he delivered perhaps the finest album of his career, Gene Clark, (also
known as White Light). Excellent reviews in all the top magazines,
including Rolling Stone. Guess what? Almost zero sales.
Now, here's the follow up, almost -- if not more -- brilliant.
Released only in Holland. Aside from containing some of Clark's
finest tracks like "In a Misty Morning" and "Full Circle Song,"
this record contains two gems recorded with the willing participation
of the other original Byrds. "One in a Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl"
are so good that they would have easily stood out on The Byrds box set,
had McGuinn elected to include them. Oh well, the music is still here,
an example of an artist who couldn't quite get in on with commerce.
What a disaster. The man should be mentioned in the same breath as Neil Young.
Roadmaster is one of the many reasons why...(AllMusic)
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