Κάτι μάλλον δύσκολο για να
βρεθεί και να ακουστεί αλλά εκτιμώ πως πρέπει και να τα ακούστε αλλά και να το
βάλετε στη συλλογή σας πριν μας κλείσουν.
Κανα δυο βιντέκια με τραγούδια
τους κυκλοφορούν στο νετ αλλά το δίσκο όσοι τον έχουν, δεν τον ανεβάζουν με
τίποτα. Και δυστυχώς υπάρχουν πολλοί δίσκοι που μένουν κρυφοί και δεν μπορεί να
τους ακούσει ο κόσμος. Τι τους κρατάνε κρυφούς? Μαζί τους θα τους πάρουνε?
Τέλος πάντων εγώ ότι αξιόλογο έχω στη κατοχή μου και δεν κυκλοφορεί θα το
ανεβάζω διότι μαζί μου σίγουρα δεν θα τα πάρω. Υγεία να έχουμε και θα ανέβουν
πολλά τέτοια.
Μπάντα ήταν ή από το NewJersey ή από την Pennsylvania (μικρή
σημασία έχει νομίζω), η οποία κυκλοφόρησε αυτό το privatepress σε λιγότερες
από 300 κόπιες.
Κατάφερα να βρω χρόνο να
ανεβάσω ακόμα ένα δισκάκι από αυτά που δεν κυκλοφορούν στο νετ από όσο
τουλάχιστον πρόλαβα να ρίξω μία ματιά. Εδώ να ξεκαθαρίσω κάτι. Προσπαθώ να
ανεβάζω δισκάκια πρώτον που να μου αρέσουν και δεύτερον να μην υπάρχουν τόσο
εύκολα ώστε να μπορούν να ακουστούν ξανά. Το να ανεβάζουμε πράγματα που
υπάρχουν δεν έχει νόημα ίσως.
Λοιπόν αυτοί οι Saltcreek δεν πρέπει
να μπερδευτούν με κάποιους άλλους SaltCreek που
είναι δύο λέξεις το όνομά τους (θα ανεβάσω κάποια στιγμή από αυτούς το JustAboutDue ένα privatepressστην MTRecordsτου 1977).
Οι πληροφορίες λιγοστές όπως
σχεδόν πάντα. Σύμφωνα με όσα αλίευσα στο νετ, πρόκειται για μπάντα από την Μασαχουσέτη,
των οποίων ο δίσκος στους κυκλοφόρησε το 1971 στην UnitedSound (USR 6061) ανήκει
folk αλλά
υπάρχουν και δύο κομμάτια καθαρά XIAN. Εμφανίζεται
σύμφωνα με τις λιγοστές πληροφορίες ως κουαρτέτο αλλά στο δίσκο αναγράφονται
πέντε μέλη.
Saltcreek - Tomorrow's Sunshine (1971)
Επίσης αν ψάξετε και εσεις στο
νετ θα παρατήσετε κάποιο προβληματάκι όσον αφορά τον τίτλο του δίσκου. Είναι
«Ι» ή «1»; Η εκτίμησή μου κοιτώντας το label είναι το «1».
Rare (probably only) self-released LP from this New England folk-rock outfit from the early 70's. All
original songs and self produced, recorded at Century Recording in Holyoke Massachusetts and
pressed at United Sound/Century in California
(USR 6061).
Saltcreek - Used To Be (1971)
Band members:
Dave Barsalou: drums and flute
John English: 6-string guitar and lead vox
Dave Hicksh: 12-string guitar and vox
Bruce Johnson: 12-string guitar and vox
Ken Lawing: bass and 6-string guitar
Across two discs, In the Doorway of the Dawn presents
almost 40 years of previously unheard songwriting from Tully founder Richard
Lockwood.
Lockwood is renowned as the driving force behind early 70s Sydney
folk-psych icons Tully, and for his work with the similarly revered Extradition
and Tamam Shud.
In the process of working with Richard on the reissue of Tully’s
landmark recordings (second album Sea Of Joy was released in
2012 Chapter, third record Loving Is Hard in 2013 and first
album Tully in 2014), Chapter discovered that the very private songwriter had
never stopped recording after the end of his much-loved band – only that he had
lost interest in making his beautiful, transcendental music available to
others.
It took some persuading for Richard to agree to a solo compilation to
accompany the Tully reissues, but In the Doorway Of the
Dawn justifies the effort beyond measure. Mostly recorded to cassette four
track, and played impeccably on every imaginable instrument by Richard
himself, In the Doorway Of the Dawn reveals a singular songwriter
with an unswerving focus.
Of the 33 songs presented here, virtually all are written in tribute
to spiritual master Meher Baba, whom Richard disovered in the late 60s and
whose influence wholly transfigured the remainder of his life. Suffused in
equal parts with serenity and yearning, Richard’s songs have a grace that is
almost unequalled.
Of special note are the settings Richard recorded of works by
Australian poet Francis Brabazon, named “the poet of the age” by Meher Baba.
Over the course of decades, Richard interpreted many Brabazon poems, of which
five are presented here.
The span of these recordings begins with live solo performances
in 1972 (just after Tully had disbanded and Richard had joined fellow
adventurers Tamam Shud) and continues right up until late last decade, with
home recordings made by Richard in Melbourne. For 40 years, Richard wrote songs
that could have been classics.
But he was content merely to write them, sing
them, sometimes record them, offer them to his Beloved Meher and then put them
away in a box of cassettes in his cupboard. Complete with extensive liner
notes, lyrics and photos, In the Doorway Of the Dawn is a revelation,
the life’s work of a rare talent, even rarer for his lack of concern with
public recognition.
Sadly, Richard Lockwood passed away in September 2012.
The
most delicate of folk groups featuring Ron and Nancy Ellis together with
Michael and Collene Lynch. Their debut There’s
A Time There’s A Moment is a first-class charmer that melts your
heart with fragile harmonies overtop gentle acoustic guitar, piano and flute.
Beautiful graceful melodies are lovingly expressed through songs like ‘Look At
My Gifts’, ‘Jesus Heal Us’, ‘Song Of Ruth’, ‘Sweet Sweet Sound’ and the title
track. ‘Taste And See’ has some nice acoustic guitar leads, while ‘Our Father’
is enriched by cello accompaniment. Catholic I’m assuming since one of the
songs is ‘Hymn To Mary’. A wonderful example of stirring mellow acoustic music.
Is that a tear forming in my eye? Nah, couldn’t be. (The
Archivist, 4th edition by Ken Scott).
Known
more for being the mastermind behind the group St. Louis Jesuits, John Foley
and fellow member John Kavanaugh have a crafted a beautiful double album of
moody folk music unequaled in the Christian market.While Foley’s other projects have been more
praise-oriented, here the approach is not so much Jesus music (though the
Savior’s name appears 2 or 3 times), but rather observations about life,
people, and relationships written from a Christian perspective.Most of the album is just an acoustic guitar
and the two singers as on ‘Peas, Carrots, & Cabbages’, a 13-minute parable
expanding on the lilies-of-the-field principles in Matthew 6.A couple of the songs on the second disk get
some heavy electric fuzz guitar.Both
gents share in the songwriting which leans toward the poetic – call it
thinking-man’s folk.(The Archivist,
4th edition by Ken Scott).
"...I have been singing, playing and writing for over 40 years
- and the music has always been a key part of my life and for me the songs
capture life's moments in a way that no picture, memory or physical souvenir
can do. I love the fellowship with others it brings and, I love song as an art
form and delight in the many manifestations of the form I encounter along the
way. There are of course enough songs out there already and no need for more
from me, but, sometimes seemingly driven by a force outside me, the songs have
kept coming.
A survey of the songbook would find some favorite material
originating from 1970-73 and a steady output continuing until 1990 by which
time there were 320 songs. For the next 10 years there was virtually nothing
and it appeared to be over, then late in 2001 my mischievous muse woke again
and since then has supplied me with another 50 plus songs - but quantity was
never a guarantee of quality, was it? - but there really are people who like
some of them, and some of the older stuff has endured well.
Sadly (perhaps) money remains one of the main ways we
register value in the world. But as for me I am richer every time someone says
'I like that song', and enriched many times over by songs and performances I
hear from others.
I have recorded quite a few songs, now all collected on 10
separate CD's. I have also got sheet music (top line, chords and words) for
around 50 of the songs. Just e-mail me on dave.atkinson27@googlemail.com if you
are interested. Thank you!..."
Peter
Harris was a school teacher within the NSW school system and was posted to the
area around 1974. He wrote a song about the PS Ruby and recorded a full album
back in Sydney which was released on Ritz records, a subsidiary of Festival.
Ruby was the title track of the album (and we have a copy at HOT FM)
When
I was on the tourist Board we had two goes to get a good song on Mildura. In
1975 we got the late Tex Williams to record locally a single "The
Paddleboat Song" and "The Mildura Song". It was recorded at the
Norco Studios in Mildura by the late Brian Norris and issued as NCP 208. Both
sides were written by Tex and Paul Williams, who were living out at Ruby Hayles
place at Trentham Cliffs.
Around
1977 we did a similar experiment with Peter Harris and he wrote and recorded
"The Murray Song" and "The River Bird Cries" It was
recorded at Nor-Co and issued with the catalogue number of NCP 243.
Soon
after that Peter left the district and from memory went to the Casino area of NSW
[...] Peter did a lot of work with school kids on both sides of the Murray
River during his time here.
