Jackson C. Frank Eponymous Vinyl LP 33SX 1788 1965

	£		78
	$		103

You are bidding on the 12" LP: Jackson C. Frank by Jackson C. Frank.  

Track listing

A side:

Blues Run the Game

Don't Look Back

Kimbie

Yellow Walls

Here Come the Blues

B: side:

Milk and Honey

My Name Is Carnival

I Want to Be Alone (Dialogue)

Just Like Anything

You Never Wanted Me

Release date: 1965

Label: Columbia

Catalogue number: 33SX 1788

Sleeve: Good (notes: There are however pen added track times, to 5 tracks on the rear. These do not cover any artwork. (Photograph attempted). Theere is s tear to the bottom and rear middle left. The outline of the vinyl can be seen on the front, where there are also some slight creases.)

Vinyl: Good (notes: Some scratches.)

One of the most interesting and enigmatic cult figures of 1960s folk, Jackson Frank's reputation rests almost solely upon one hard-to-find album from the mid-'60s. A stronger composer than a singer, he nonetheless had an appreciable influence on many more famous performers of the decade

Trauma and misfortune have dogged Frank throughout his life. At the age of 11, a fire in his elementary school killed many of his classmates, and left him with burns over most of his body. He eventually recovered and learned to play the guitar, and hung around the early-'60s New York coffeehouse scene. A large insurance settlement enabled him to travel to England after he turned 21, and it was there that he made most of his impact.

Frank shared a London flat with fellow American expatriates Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, who were briefly based there in the mid-'60s prior to their first hit, "The Sounds of Silence." Simon, then a struggling folk singer/songwriter himself, was impressed enough to produce Frank's self-titled album, released in the U.K. only. While Frank's voice was tremulously earnest, the quality of the compositions was often impressive, with a reflective, melancholic air that most likely influenced Simon, Al Stewart, (who made his recording debut on one of the LP's tracks, "Yellow Walls"), and Nick Drake

Frank, however, was unable to come up with a similar quality of material for a follow-up. This, combined with stage fright, depression, and an end of the funds from the insurance settlement that had enabled him to travel in high style, meant that he returned to the States in 1969 without releasing another album.

Based in Woodstock, NY, Frank continued his song-writing, but family and depression problems resulted in homelessness by the mid-'70s. For most of the next two decades, Frank lived on the streets or hospitals, too discouraged to contact old friends and family. He was further hobbled by arthritis, inappropriate medication for his mental problems, and a shooting incident that left him legally blind in his left eye. In the mid-'90s, a sympathetic folk fan, helped Frank regroup from his setbacks by helping him gain more appropriate medical assistance and settle back in Woodstock, where he resumed song-writing, and occasionally performed.

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