HUCKLE - UPON A ONCE TIME 1974 CANADIAN HIPPIE FOLK ORIGINALS REMAST LTD EDT LP

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HUCKLE – Upon A Once Time. Mapache Records MAPA 0003. Spanish release. NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Originally issued in 1974 as a limited edition private pressing. This edition issued in 2014. Remastered from the original tapes and limited to 500 copies. Includes the original paste on cover art work along with a photo/liner note insert. Comes housed in a clear resealable outer mylar sleeve; as shipped by the label. MUSICIANS:  Huckle (guitar, mandolin, vocals) with Paul Gellman (guitar, fiddle, vocals), Michael Butler (bass, backing vocals), Kouman Taros (congas, backing vocals), Wende (flute, backing vocals), Richard Keelan (guitar, percussion, backing vocals), and Jesse Melesky (banjo). TRACKS:  April, Flavers, Get Down, Beyonder, Sunshine Shuffle, Hello Sunshine, Good Morning, Lady Golberry, Gabriola Day, Minstrel Song (All We Need Is Harmony), and Ocean. DESCRIPTION:  First ever vinyl reissue project of Canadian hippy folker Huckle. This first album was recorded with only accoustic instruments in the Spring of 1974 with the help of some of the members of The Perth County Conspiracy and had a very limited original release. This is one of finest psych folk albums to come from the Canadian scene of the 70's. An extremely rare and difficult to find record; a folk masterpiece with beautiful songwriting and a great performance. Mapache presents this vinyl reissue, digitally remastered from the original tapes, with original artwork, including the paste-on cover and an extra insert with unseen pictures. This edition is limited to a press run of just 500 copies.

For your further reading enjoyment and enlightenment I offer the following additional background information which appears on the CanuckistanMusic website, written by Robert Williston:

The singer-songwriter known as Huckle (nee Kelly Cavanagh) was raised in Montreal and Toronto, but by 1973 the self-described freak ("...we didn't call ourselves hippies then - we were freaks") had shifted west to B.C.'s Gabriola Island, helping to organize two western tours by Perth County Conspiracy and performing as the warm-up act for some of the shows. The 19-year-old Huckle took to B.C. granola culture immediately. "I arrived in Nanaimo on bathtub weekend. They were pretty excited about my hair. We lived at the stump farm on Gabriola, a little log cabin way out in the woods - no electricity, running water, or car." In the spring of 1974 on the first of the Perth County tours, a live recording was made of eleven Huckle originals with Gary McKeehan engineering. After the soundcheck for a gig at Vancouver's Pender Auditorium in March, Huckle recorded nine songs live with a backing band (which included three Perth County members). Those tracks, as well as a couple more taped the following night at Gabriola Hall, would become the insanely obscure roots/folk debut Upon A Once Time. The record's home-spun quality is evident even in the primitive hand-written paste-on cover ("I did it with Tommy (Agostino) and Kjell, the photographer"). And with only 500 copies pressed up and hawked at shows for three bucks a pop, Upon A Once Time was destined to become a bit of a holy grail for Canadian folkies. Several tours and a second equally obscure LP followed, 1976's Wild Blue Yonder (also available in my listings), as well as a spot on the national CBC radio show Touch The Earth with Sylvia Tyson and Bill Garrett. Huckle finally settled on nearby Salt Spring Island, where he lives as "a lapsed hippie", performing sporadically as KC Kelly over in Victoria, B.C. 

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