here's a wonderful slightlty-fractured-folk album from ESP-Disk (originally a self-titled release on their short-lived ORO subsidiary) that i was quite surprised recently to discover isn't terribly available out in the ether of the interwebs.
at once haunting and spare; another familiar and congenial; yet another as warm as a napping cat purring delicately on your chest.
enjoy.
tracklisting:
01 in the misty-eyed shores of morning
02 geneva brown
03 the half-masted schooner
04 the girl of stone
05 this song about the railroad shack
06 feet of clay
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Hello
ReplyDeleteAny chance of a reposting here.
This album sings to me of resonance.
Hoping
Cy from Pck
Hi from Cy
ReplyDeleteThanks Record Fiend for your comments and your efforts in helping me, I just can't get the hang of where to get the file to download so that I can unzip it using the password.
I recall this album and the beautiful promo film that illustrated 'The Half Masted Schooner.'
Life is a serious of challenges.
Cy from Pck.
Cy from Pck,
ReplyDeleteWhat is your e-mail address? I'll send each track to you as an MP3 attachment.
RF
Hi from Cy
ReplyDeleteYears ago, around The Times, I tried to collect all I could on ESP Disc, The Fugs et al, and including Bruce MacKay as his album had Lee Crabtree, a Fug, on organ and yours is the only blog in cyber space to have posted the album. I'm not that hot on urls etc, usually requiring a sensitive button in the blog to enable me to download.
You would make me very happy if you could send me the tracks as MP3:
My email is cypirie@tiscali.co.uk
My thanks Record Fiend in anticipation.
Cy Pirie at Pck, Scotland
Hi Record Fiend
ReplyDeleteHey......cyber space works for Cy and thanks a million for the mp3's which floated in etherally a little while ago into my email box. The files have been made into a little replica of that piece of plastic now in the netherland of gone but not forgotten.
I'm listening now to Half Masted Schooner and in my mind's eye I am back on a sunny Edinburgh street, outside the Ezy Rider Record Exchange circa 1974, gazing at the pebble on the cover of Bruce Mackay's slice of creativity.
I don't live in the past, but Record Fiend you have made this old dog, smile a smile that is a mile wide as I am reconnected to youthful feelings. Nostalgia is only relevant if it is good for you.
Good night from Scotland.
Cy from Portknockie.
Cy,
ReplyDeleteI'm very pleased to know that it all worked out, and I especially enjoyed reading your little stroll down memory lane. This is what record collecting and blogging is all about. I know how important music can be in a person's life, especially when one has non-mainstream tastes. Listening to off-the-beaten-path recordings can give a person comfort that they're not the only human who at times feels like an oppressed minority of one. If I or any of the other contributors here can assist in finding albums that bring fellow music collectors to that special place in their minds, then we're doing a good thing, anti-piracy laws be damned.
I spent a year abroad at the University of York in England, visited Edinburgh many times during my stay, and always had a wonderful time in that very enchanting city. This was 1993-1994, so I think Ezy Rider Record Exchange was long gone by then. I believe we all think highly of the legendary ESP Disk record label here, so you're in good company. I'm a huge Fugs fan myself, and I tip my cap to you for mentioning Lee Crabtree, who also did great keyboard work on the Holy Modal Rounders' "Indian War Whoop" LP.
Oh, and let's give credit to the north star grassman for posting this excellent album in the first place.
Again, I appreciate your comments. Comments like yours confirm that this blog does help make this world a better place in its own very small way.
Best regards,
RF
Dear RF/North Sea Grassman,
ReplyDeleteHoping 'North Sea Grassman' is able to read this THANK YOU FOR THE ORIGINAL POSTING OF BRUCE MACKAY!
K and I sat up and listened last night, to the whole thing start to finish and I may tell you that the real North Sea is barely 70 steps from my front door here in Portknockie, Scotland.
This album has that essential quality, 'authenticity' and bears the marks of true creativity, i.e. the footprints left by 'improvisation' the true home of creativity.
Respect and thanks.
Cy
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give me some speed and i'll tell ye the tale of THE NIGHT I SPENT WITH LEE CRABTREE [1970]... our poor suicidal pal
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