Bootleg
A1 The American Dreamer
A2 She's the Kind of Girl
A3 One in a Hundred
A4 Here Tonight
A5 She Darked the Sun
A6 Outlaw Song
B1 Back to Earth Again
B2 The Lighthouse
B3 The Awakening Within
B4 Sweet Adrienne
B5 Walking Through this Lifetime
B6 The Sparrow
B7 Only Yesterday's Gone
Another Gene re-imagining; this time I'm trying to make sense of the 1970 recordings.
During this period, Gene embarked on a series of one off sessions, I've made these the basis of Side 1. 'The American Dreamer' and 'Outlaw Song' are both short solo pieces Gene wrote and recorded for 'American Dreamer', starring Dennis Hopper.
'She's the Kind of Girl' and 'One in a Hundred' were intended to be released as a 'reunion' Byrds single in 1970 and features all five original members. Far superior to anything on the 1973 reunion album, it's a mystery as to why this single was cancelled.
'Here Tonight' and 'She Darked the Sun' were recorded by Gene and The Flying Burrito Brothers. It's tantalising to think about a Gene Clark led Burritos after the departure of Gram Parsons, all we have is this (again aborted) single.
The two unissued singles eventually ended up the European only release 'Roadmaster'. However, they sat uneasy with new recordings from 1973, which made for an unbalanced listen.
The second side features half an albums worth of songs that finally saw the light on Sierra Records 'The Lost Studio Sessions 1964–1982'. Again recorded in 1970, it's unclear what these were being recorded for. They are solo performances and a little too professional to be demos.
This would of made a great Gene Clark album of contrasting styles and makes sense of this period before Gene once again set about making an album proper the following year.
Other Gene Clark re-imagined albums on this blog:
The Lighthouse (1970)
5 comments:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ozyhz3793l92h8v/ilif357-GnClrk-ThLghthus.zip/file
I've been talking to the guy at the Clark-0-file about this. I dug the Byrds. White Light is the first of Gene's LPs I got. I heard nothing before and for years nothing after. At the time it was head and shoulders above (sorry) crap like James Taylor or early Elton John....I was basically into much harder rock buy loved White Light....better than CSN too. But I have Roadmaster and No Other and I can't shake the White Light sound....slick or whatever. The other albums fall a little flat for me and I want to love them. I'm stuck. It'll take mushrooms or something for me to get over it.
Notwithstanding the excellence of their sound, the acoustic songs, like those included on Omnivore’s Here Tonight, were demos.
There’s no conclusive evidence to support the idea that Here Tonight/She Darked the Sun was intended to be a single.
And only one of the two, Here Tonight, was included on Roadmaster; She Darked the Sun did not see release until The Lost Studio Sessions—an album I worked on, so I’m a little disappointed to see it being given away for free here.
Hi Tom.
I try only make available material that is out of print. However, I want to thank you for your work on 'The Lost Studio Sessions' and the link is now inaccessible.
Thank you for the additional info.
Would it be possible to reup the link--after of course deleting just the She Darked The Sun track--please?
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