Andy Roberts "Home Grown" 1st UK Press SF 8086

	£		89
	$		118

Andy Roberts "Home Grown"

Original 1st UK Press, Stereo, 1970 RAC Records: cat no. SF 8086 Matrix: XGBS 0313, XGBS 03134

The second great album from this unsung hero of UK Prog/folk.

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Sleeve Condition: VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT-MINT.

The laminate sleeve is in fantastic shape front & back with only light ring wear and a very small area of the laminate lifting slighty on the front spine edge. Spines are mint with only very minor corner rubs.

Vinyl Condition, Visual: EXCELLENT.

A lovely shiny copy with only a few hairline surface marks that generally don't affect play.

Vinyl Condition, Audible: EXCELLENT.

Plays great with some light surface noise in between some track and the odd very minor click.

Label Condition: EXCELLENT-MINT.

Has some very light spindle marks, no ring wear, generally very clean.

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Review:

This is the 1st and only pressing of the original version of this album (3 radically different versions of the album exist! To my mind this is THE quintessential prog folk psych album. Accompanied on many tracks by the fabulous contemporary pysch band, Mighty Baby, the breadth of stylings: from prog to folk to country to whimsy to psychedelic to blues / R‘n’B and all the way back makes the whole unique to these ears. That Roberts remains a criminally under-rated (and obscure) musician and songwriter (despite the best attentions of Pink Floyd, Roy Harper and many, many others) is surely only testament to the whims of the publicity machine and his preference to take the stage as an accompanist rather than a band leader. Anyway … his solo career which began here and ended in 1973 after only a handful of albums was short on timespan whilst very high on quality.

There has been much debate about whether this RCA pressing was supplied with a lyric insert. The RCA pressing is very rare in itself and most copies that surface have no insert. The inserts I have seen have all been creased from having been folded. It seems clear from this fact that the LP itself had no insert when sold in the shops but that the purchaser was given instructions by the sales staff to write to RCA for an insert (if they could be bothered) and those that did subsequently received a folded copy in an envelope. This copy does have an original insert which bears the creases of having been folded!

For more information on Andy Roberts and his amazing career in music, check out his excellent website at: http://www.andyrobertsmusic.com/index_two.html

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