Trevor Lucas Overlander Ultra rare Folk LP on Reality

£ 58

$ 77

£ 58 Sold For

Sep 22, 2008 Sold Date

Sep 19, 2008 Start Date

£ 30 Start price

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One of the most beautiful folk LP's ever recorded.

Trevor George Lucas was born in Melbourne, Australia on December 25, 1943.

He trained as a carpenter in Melbourne performing Folk/Blues blues songs in the local clubs in the evening. His first recorded appearance was in1963 on The Folk Attick Presents (Folksong, 1963) and the following year came the first LP ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’ (East, 1964).

He moved to England in 1965 and recorded his second album Overlander (Reality, 1966), guested on Bert Lloyd's Leviathan (Topic, 1967) and appeared on the film soundtrack Far From the Madding Crowd (MGM, 1967). Trevor joined the band Eclection, playing the bass guitar. He recorded one album with them, Eclection (Elektra, 1968) and stayed with the band until the group folded in the second half of 1969. Also in 1969, he guested on the Fairport Convention album Unhalfbricking (Island, 1969). At that time Trevor was already going out with Sandy Denny, who would later become his wife. When Sandy left Fairport at the end of 1969, Trevor and Sandy formed the legendary folk group Fotheringay with Trevor on acoustic guitar and vocals, Sandy on vocals, guitar and piano, Jerry Donahue on guitar, Pat Donaldson on bass, and Gerry Conway (also from Eclection) on drums. They produced only one album, Fotheringay (Island, 1970) which is still considered a classic today. Fotheringay was disbanded before their second album was finished. Later that summer, Trevor recorded several songs for The Great Australian Legend (Topic, 1971). After a Farewell Fotheringay UK tour early 1971, Sandy Denny went solo. Trevor was planning to hold a band together with himself as lead singer, and recorded a few songs with Jerry, Pat and Gerry but the plan was short-lived.

He continued recording and working until his death in 1989

THIS COPY

Now the good news is the cover is nigh on perfect. The record sadly does have a problem. On side has series of dent marks in a line across the track. God knows what this is from. It does give background clicks as it plays through-now although it does stop now and then-it is there. They tend to be light in volume. Although not as visible on the other side

there is some lighter background sound but much less .It's a shame really as the general look of the LP is pretty clear with just light hairlines. I also note a couple of sticks between tracks but not all the time.

I didn't find the sound that intrusive but some people might so please think before bidding

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