Rare Meic Stevens Outlander LP Original UK Folk/Psych

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Dec 5, 2010 Sold Date

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Meic Stevens 'Outlander'

Original UK 1st Press LP released on Warner Bros Records in 1970. Orange label.

MATRIX NUMBERS:

A Side: WS 3005A-1 *T STEREO B Side: WS 3005B-3 *T STEREO

For Meic Stevens, Outlander marked the point where the Welsh folk legend tried to get inland – or, rather, to mainstreamland. Released by Warner Bros in 1970, it featured him singing in English on record for the first time and was, in many ways, a moment of consolidation for Stevens, who had spent the years immediately prior to recording the album travelling Europe, raising a family and recording for small independent Welsh labels.
Picking up on European folk one moment and hanging out with British 60s psych luminaries Mighty Baby the next, Stevens approaches Outlander doing two things at once. He’s rooted in the “Welsh Bob Dylan” mould on some acoustic songs (though really Stevens was simply drawing on his own Celtic folk knowledge, as opposed to Dylan’s), and then going very Eastern psych with the likes of Yorric, something of a tribute to that most famous of skulls.
Stevens’ 10-piece band help to keep the flow going, picking up where their leader’s rough edges fray. Not just for the English language is this the most accessible of Stevens’ early works, though Stevens turned his back on Warners, and thus this part of his career, almost immediately, travelling back to Wales to feel more at home back on the indies.

Side One Tracks:

Rowena

Love Owed

Left Over Time

Lying To Myself

The Sailor And Madonna

Oxblood

Side Two Tracks:

Yorric

Midnight Comes

Ghost Town

Dau Rhosyn Coch