FRED NEIL BLEECKER & MACDOUGAL ULTRA-RARE '65 ELEKTRA STEREO LP GOLD LABEL N/M

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·       FRED NEIL – BLEECKER AND MACDOUGAL – 1965 ELEKTRA RECORDS STEREO LP EKS-7293

·       GENUINE U.S. PRESSING

·       VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA 1966 ON TAN (BROWN) ELEKTRA LABEL

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 28-5-(5)-65 (MAY 28, 1965) HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

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Given the late Fred Neil's near mythic reputation as a songwriter, singer, environmentalist, and recluse, the 1965 Bleecker & MacDougal is of historic importance. But rather than being an artifact of the man who wrote "Everybody's Talkin'," "Other Side to This Life" (which appears here), and "Dolphins," this album is made of the material that gave Neil his enigmatic presence. This is a highly evocative and emotionally charged set of material, nearly all of which Neil composed. The lineup on the album was similar to his previous outing with Vince Martin, and featured John Sebastian on harmonica, Felix Pappalardi on bass, and guitarist Pete Childs (who also played dobro and electric on the date -- the latter was heresy for a folk record), with Neil playing 12-string. The pace of the set is devastating, from the greasy blues of the title track to the strolling darkness of "Blues on the Ceiling," the jug band stomp of "Sweet Mama," and the balladic heraldry of "Little Bit of Rain," a dynamic Tim Buckley would bring his own magic to as he emulated it a few years later. In addition, there's the tough Chicago blues meets California swagger of "Country Boy," which Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield would perfect two scant years later. "Other Side to This Life" is its own elegiac painting in sound, with glistening dirge-like textures caressed by Neil's baritone. The tough, battered "Travelin' Shoes" is an early example of folk-rock with a big accent on the word "rock." Yet, on the album's lone cover, a gorgeously wrought and multi-textured rendition of "The Water Is Wide," Neil added spare, haunting jazz overtones to the arrangements, transcending the folk coffeehouse prison the song had been encased in for a decade. In fact, if one listens to Bryter Layter by Nick Drake, it would be easy to hear the connection. The album closes with the winding dobro that sparks "Gone Again," underlining the album's feeling of rambling transience and willful acceptance of both the graces and hardships life offers. In 13 songs, Neil transformed the folk genre into something wholly other yet not unfamiliar to itself, and helped pave the way for an entire generation of singer/songwriters who cared as much for the blues as they did for folk revival traditions. This is -- more so than his fine compilation The Many Sides of Fred Neil (also on Collector's Choice) or his debut Elektra album, Tear Down the Walls -- the Fred Neil record to have.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY THOM JUREK, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Ladies and Gentlemen --- we have a privilege of presenting to you the KING of all folk albums of the 1960's. What we have here is the early ELEKTRA pressing of the Fred Neil's first, legendary "Bleecker and Macdougal" album originally issued in 1965. Of all minor-key, Greenwich Village-born 1960's albums, this one has got to be one of the moodiest, minor-key-est and most resonant of them all, certainly in terms of its delicate poetic vibe, overall texture, structure and form (contents, too). It also happens to be one of Fred Neil's most beloved works and one of the true gems of the pre-psychedelic singers/songwriters era. Recorded in a series of tense, convulsive sessions which threatened to tear Elektra label apart during the summer of 1965 (see a truly extraordinary article on Fred Neil in the March 2000 issue of the MOJO magazine for the  description of the sessions), Fred Neil recorded this gorgeous work just months before he would get his first big break with the immortal "Everybody's Talkin'" from 1966, and just as he was starting contemplating the direction his music and his life were taking at this point.

Track listing: Bleecker & Macdougal - Blues on the ceiling - Sweet Mama - Little Bit of Rain - Country Boy - Other Side of this life - Mississippi Train - Travelin' Shoes - Water is wide - Yonder comes the blues - Candy Man - Handful of gimme - Gone again.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2   (front side) and 3 (back side)

-         Cover shows some visible yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine   (nothing significant)

-         Cover has a visible "wrinkle"(crease)  in one of the corners.

-         Cover has a visible wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the back panel

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the seams (nothing significant)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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