MICK SOFTLEY Any Mother Doesn't Grumble - Original UK LP - Folk Rock Psych

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MICK SOFTLEY

Any Mother Doesn't Grumble

Original UK LP released on CBS Records in 1972. Includes CBS Inner Sleeve.

S 64841 A1   /   S 64841-B1

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Mick Softley was a legendary folk-rock singer/songwriter of the 1960s who developed a cult following. Born in the early '40s, he was raised in Essex, adjacent to Epping Forest, and came of age just as skiffle and rock & roll started sweeping across the British Isles. Softley was oriented a little more intellectually than most of the teenagers around him, however -- reading and writing, not listening to and playing music, were his pleasures. Writing also became his initial goal, and his heroes tended more toward Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg than Elvis Presley or Bill Haley. He headed for Paris, seeking out the literati of the era, became disillusioned with the beats and most of the writers he encountered. It was then that he fell into music, gravitating toward that circle of folkies embodied by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Derroll Adams, and Davy Graham. He returned to England and became part of the burgeoning folk music revival, and later ran a club, named the Spinning Wheel, whose younger habitués included a young Maddy Prior.

He might have remained unknown to a broader public longer, but for the intervention of a younger friend, Donovan Leitch, who was enjoying success of his own. According to biographer Nigel Cross, it was Donovan -- who'd recorded Softley's "Goldwatch Blues" on his debut -- who persuaded his managers to make an album with Softley; a contract with EMI's Columbia imprint followed in 1965, and the result was Songs for Swingin' Survivors, itself a clever play on the name of a familiar Frank Sinatra album of the previous decade.

The album was one of the best topical folk-based albums of its period, with a bold, distinctive individual voice that ranks alongside the work of Bob Dylan and Jackson C. Frank -- the jumping-off point was Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, but Softley had leaped past emulating either of them and into something unique, in his own literary voice and with his own sound and point of view, and it was also filled with virtuoso-level playing. The record was fertile enough ground to provide Donovan with a few more songs for his repertory and subsequent records, and even British soul singer Dave Berry covered a couple of them.

His debut album proved a false start, however, as it languished in sales, gaining Softley a wider cult following -- and one that could grow as it circulated across the years -- but that was all.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

 The Song That I Sing
Hello Little Flower
Sing While You Can
The Minstrel Song
Magdalene's Song
Traveller's Song
From The Land Of The Crab

Side Two

Lady Willow
Great Wall Of Cathay
If Wishes Were Horses
Have You Ever Really Seen The Stars
I'm So Confused

Released on 'CBS Records' in 1972

Catalogue No. 64841

Disc is in EX condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (general light wear)

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