Emmy Lou Harris "Gliding Bird" orig Jubilee..near Mint

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Emmy Lou Harris "Gliding Bird" orig Jubilee..near Mint!

1969/Cdn/Jubilee JGS-8031........here's a super clean original pressing of her earliest recordings, , she covers Dylan's "I'll be Your Baby Tonight", Fred Neil's "Everybodys Talkin'", a couple of other covers and the rest originals.......Though other performers sold more records and earned greater fame, few left as profound an impact on contemporary music as Emmylou Harris. Blessed with a crystalline voice, a remarkable gift for phrasing and a restless creative spirit, she traveled a singular artistic path, proudly carrying the torch of "Cosmic American music" passed down by her mentor, Gram Parsons. With the exception of only Neil Young -- not surprisingly an occasional collaborator -- no other mainstream star established a similarly large body of work as consistently iconoclastic, eclectic or daring; even more than three decades into her career, Harris' latter-day music remained as heartfelt, visionary and vital as her earliest recordings. Harris was born on April 2, 1947 to a military family stationed in Birmingham, Alabama. After spending much of her childhood in North Carolina, she moved to Woodbridge, Virginia while in her teens, and graduated high school there as her class valedictorian. After winning a dramatic scholarship at the University of North Carolina, she began to seriously study music, learning to play songs by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Soon, Harris was performing in a duo with fellow UNC student Mike Williams, eventually quitting school to move to New York, only to find the city's folk music community dying out in the wake of the psychedelic era. Still, Harris remained in New York, travelling the Greenwich Village club circuit before becoming a regular at Gerdes Folk City, where she struck up friendships with fellow folkies Jerry Jeff Walker, David Bromberg and Paul Siebel. After marrying songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969, she recorded her debut LP, "Gliding Bird". Shortly after the record's release, however, Harris' label declared bankruptcy, thus sending this record into obscurity...re: MSN.......the cover and vinyl are both in near Mint or M- condition!, pretty much as if you just bought it at the record store around the corner!, includes original factory inner sleeve, I have placed a very reasonable reserve on this very rare original pressing, please check my other auctions for more folk/psych/rock etc., good luck and thanks for looking!