1970 Shrink BRIDGET ST JOHN UK BAROQUE FOLK
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1970 TEXTURED ORIGINAL "DANDELION" FIRST PRESS
IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAP!
BRIDGET ST JOHN
Songs For The Gentle Man
\ USA - DANDELION - EKS 74104
TOP COPY! STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER with both the original printed inner sleeve and song lyrics insert ... a rare complete album, harder to find than you may think!
Original 1971 first pressing vinyl on the old Dandelion label ... with a her distinctively deep and somewhat melancholy voice, "Songs For THe Gentle Man" is Bridget St. John's second album, and decidedly one of the very best female singer/songwriter works of the early 1970s boom.
On her second album, Bridget St. John expanded her arrangements from the acoustic guitar of her previous effort considerably, with the aid of producer Ron Geesin. While these took the risks of sometimes bathing the songs with added cellos, flutes, violins, and appealing instrumentations as such, that added a welcome spice to her sound on her first album. The songs, too, were a little more playful and melodically interesting, though they retained the reserved, even-tempered pastoralism of her prior work. She still sounds like a challenge to raise either a smile or a frown out of most of the time, like a hermit determined to stay out of the city at all costs. It's pleasant if not penetrating rainy-day folk/Baroque, breaking out of that mood with "Seagull-Sunday" and Donovan's "The Pebble and the Man". She never sounded more like Nico than she did on closer, "It Seems Very Strange," with its doom-struck harmonium.
Overall, in tone, Songs for the Gentle Man is distinctly quiet and blurry owing to the extensive use of the backing arrangements which is used to amazing effect on the mesmerising opening two songs "A Day A Way" and "City Crazy", describing how people wanted to get away from the hectic life of urban Europe. The everyday tone of the lyrics adds greatly to the songs by making communication with the aware listener very easy.
"Early Morning Song" and "Back to Stay", the next two tracks, are still quieter yet, but they are dreamy and beautiful and catch on in a strange manner, whilst the dramatic "Seagull Sunday" is a wonderful combination of dynamics with pure serenity. Later on the album, "Downderry Daze" and "It Seems Very Strange" take the hazy tone already established to a further dimension that must be called enchanting. "If You'd Been There" and "Making Losing Better" are equally good with the less layered tone of the album's first few songs, and on the latter track it is amazing how Bridget can sing so softly - it must be a great deal harder than screaming.
CONDITION: The Cover: rich textured cover in original factory shrink wrap is MINT, strinkingly preserved over 40+ years...no split seams, no bends, no writing. A top copy
The Vinyl: clean and shiny over both sides..."EX" (excellent) with nothing more than soft hir scuffs from sliding the record out of the paper inner sleeve...play graded very nice (excellent) with no audible problems ... both Dandelion labels are clean...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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