SMALL FACES AUTUMN STORE SEALED GATEFOLD MARRIOTT LANE

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U.S. BUYERS SHIPPING MEDIA  $ 5.50    PRIORITY $ 7.00   ADDITIONAL RECORDS $ 1.50 .  BOTH WITH A TRACKER. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PAY ACTUAL COST   ( ESTIMATE $ 15.00 - $ 16) ADDITIONAL RECORDS ( $5 ) COMBINED SHIPPING ALWAYS HONORED.  GATEFOLD COVER AND RECORD SEALED .  IMMEDIATE RECORDS  . CATALOG NUMBER SMIM 2107/8.  SEE PICTURES ON MONDAY/ TUESDAY. Released as a sort of greatest hits package with some previously unreleased rarities after the band had broken up (actually just guitarist/singer Steve Marriott had left; the other three teamed up with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood to form the also brilliant band the Faces), this album is excellent. The songwriting duo of Marriott/Lane is in full display here, featuring such hits as "Lazy Sunday", "Tin Soldier" and of course "Itchycoo Park", plus many other great tracks. Some of my favorites are the gentle title track, "Red Balloon", "Call It Something Nice" and, well, just about all of the others! Anyway, a great purchase if you are a fan or if you'd like to become one.  When Steve Marriott in late 1968 decided to leave the Small Faces and the group subsequently disbanded, they had already begun recordings for the successor to their legendary masterpiece "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake".

"The Autumn Stone" became to some extent this successor, and the album which was originally a double album, contains some of these "post-ONGF" recordings. The album that was first released in 1969 by Immediate and never approved by the group members was a mixture of old and new - demos and live recordings.

Immediate had obtained a license to include the group's big hits for Decca such as "All or Nothing", "My Mind's Eye" and "Whatcha Gonna Do About it." The later Immediate hits were naturally also obvious choices for such a release, but most interesting were, of course, the previously unreleased songs, some of which presumably would have been found on what would have been the group's third studio album for Immediate. These include for an exciting interpretation of Tim Hardin's "Red Balloon" and Steve Marriott's own "The Autumn Stone" - both tracks show the group on their way in new directions - more subdued and complex melodies.