DAVID BLUE rare self titled MONO 1966 LP &Insert PSYCH
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David Blue rare self titled LP on original US issue 1966 Elektra Records MONO #EKL-4003... MONO Vinyl has high luster, and a few minor scuffs, and rates an easy very good plus to near mint condition...The Jacket has the original shrinkwrap still on it, though has been openned, overall in MINT CONDITION!....Also contains a 4 page insert with lyrics AND a 1966 Elektra Records cataloge!! (both Mint) .. I use the strict Goldmine Magazine guidelines for grading records, and most dealers think I rate TOO tough!!! Mailed in a special hard cardboard LP mailer..Sent media rate for $3.00 in the USA, or Priority in the USA for $6.00. For overseas rates, please use the US Postal Service Internet site for rates and restrictions...Most LPs with the mailer weigh about one pound, give or take one ounce...
DAVID BLUE 1966Much influenced by Bob Dylan, who was his friend in Greenwich Village, David Blue (aka David Cohen) was in the wave of singers/songwriters who moved away from folk into topical songs. (Comparable with, say, Richard Farina, Tom Rush or Eric Andersen.) His first album is truly excellent and explores the ways opened by Dylan with Highway 61 and Blonde And Blonde: poetic songs with a strong electric back-up, often with strident guitar solos. Check out Justine, It Tastes Like Candy, If Your Monkay Can't Get It or Arcade Love Machine. Three of these songs can also be heard on Jim and Jean's Changes (also with Harvey Brooks and Paul Harris).
Blue then moved to California and his following albums are in the singer/songwriter style, often using excellent musicians (Cooder, Lindley, Barbata, Dave Mason, Levon Helm or Dylan).
David Blue died in 1983.
(Stephane Rebeschini)
Born in Providence, RI, as S. David Cohen (a name he returned to for one of his albums), David Blue was a member of the folk singer/songwriter community of Greenwich Village in the '60s and a close friend of Bob Dylan's (he recounts this period of his life in Dylan's movie Renaldo & Clara). Blue made several albums for Elektra, Reprise, and Asylum in the '60s and '70s, and is best remembered for his songs "I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning" and "Wanted Man" (recorded by the Eagles). If music fans concerned about Bob Dylan in the wake of his July 29, 1966, motorcycle accident were looking for an immediate replacement, they might have found him the following month when Elektra records released David Blue's self-titled debut LP. Blue, a friend of Dylan's, was heavily influenced by the folk-rock sound Dylan had developed in 1965-1966, with its rock & roll band prominently featuring keyboards and topped by an acoustic guitar. He was also inspired by Dylan to write allusive lyrics full of fantastic imagery rendered in a sardonic tone. And he sang in a similarly flat, partly spoken voice that, like Dylan's, owed a lot to Mose Allison. (The only thing missing, it seemed, was the harmonica playing.) Of course, none of these things made him unique at a time when Dylan's sound had been appropriated by everyone from Sonny & Cher to Barry McGuire, and, in truth, Blue came by the approach honestly, having worked his way up through the same Greenwich Village music scene as Dylan. In the album's ballads, particularly "Grand Hotel," but also "Midnight Through Morning" and "The Street," he revealed a more lyrical style that was warmer and sadder than anything in Dylan's repertoire. Those songs would point a direction for him to find more of his own sound on subsequent albums. In the meantime, David Blue actually turned out to be behind the curve in the rapidly changing music of the mid-'60s, released the same month that the Beatles started to take pop down a different road with Revolver, and the album quickly disappeared from sight. 1. The Gasman Won't Buy Your Love (Blue) - 3:03 2. About My Love (Blue) - 2:38 3. So Easy She Goes By (Blue) - 3:31 4. If Your Monkey Can't Get It (Blue) - 2:59 5. Midnight Through Morning (Blue) - 4:53 6. It Ain't the Rain That Sweeps the Highway... (Blue) - 3:31 7. Arcade Love Machine (Blue) - 3:49 8. Grand Hotel (Blue) - 4:05 9. Justine (Blue) - 2:59 10. I'd Like to Know (Blue) - 2:23 11. The Street (Blue) - 5:59 12. It Tastes Like Candy (Blue) - 4:06price rating
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