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GENE CLARK

with JESSE DAVIS, JOHN SELK, BEN SIDRAN, MIKE UTLEY

CHRIS ETHRIDGE, BOBBYE HALL, GARY MALLABER

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

"WHITE LIGHT"

<reissue, originally published 1971 on A&M 'brown' label>

Produced by Jack Clement

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LABEL:  A&M -  SILVER GRAY LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover:  (front & rear) SP4292;   (spine) SP 4292

Catalog on labels: SP-4292/Stereo (SP-4483 / SP-4484)

Matrix / Runout, (Side A, Etched): A&M SP 4483 P1

Matrix / Runout, (Side B, Etched): A&M SP 4484 P1

On labels: Produced by Jesse Davis for Washita Productions

On back cover: Recorded at The Village Recorder

A&M Records Inc., P.O. Box 782, Beverly Hills, California 90213

Printed in U.S.A.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: THE VIRGIN - WITH TOMORROW - WHITE LIGHT

BECAUSE OF YOU - ONE IN A HUNDRED

Side B: SPANISH GUITAR - WHERE MY LOVE LIES ASLEEP

TEARS OF RAGE - 1975

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RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

 Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, 

was dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's this one. 

Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made. 

After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the Dillard & Clark 

group that was a pioneering country-rock outfit, Clark took time to hone his songwriting to its barest essentials. 

The focus on these tracks is intense, they are taut and reflect his growing obsession with country music. 

Produced by the late guitarist Jesse Ed Davis (who also worked with Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, Link Wray, 

and poet John Trudell, among others), Clark took his songs to his new label with confidence 

and they supported him. The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris Ethridge, 

the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, 

organist Michael Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber. 

Clark's writing, as evidenced on "The Virgin," the title cut, "For a Spanish Guitar," "One in a Hundred," 

and "With Tomorrow," reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines. Using melodies mutated out 

of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds' sound on White Light, 

Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged gentility, and are harrowingly 

intimate in places. His reading of Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage," towards the end of the record rivals, 

if not eclipses, the Band's. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a bewildered tome 

of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock. 5 STARS...(AllMusic)