CHARLIE LOCHNER Winter In My Life LP rare private folk
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Description
This is a very good/near mint condition vinyl record album, a 1976 release on
the American JC Productions label by singer/songwriter Charlie Lochner, “Winter In My Life”
13 tracks of his loner sounds, including songs like “Memory Fixed In Stone,” “Yahweh,” and” I Awoke One Day.”
From a music blog review, “This is a very pretty, very obscure (it’s not even mentioned in the Lysergia/Acid Archives book) folk album from a songwriter who lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was released in 1976, and definitely leans towards the downer/loner side of folk music. I would make comparisons to Nick Drake and Jackson C. Frank, but Lochner has quite a unique approach to writing and recording music. His singing is most-closely aligned with British singers: a higher-register voice with nice vibrato. His guitar playing is very, very minimal, which is where he differs from the two names mentioned before. The guitar and voice are not as baroque, but one could also compare Lochner to Sibylle Baier, the two seem to share a fondness for passionate lyricism. What’s more, both seem to be singers more than they are musicians.
There is a note from Lochner included with this LP, which reads:
“My dear friends,
In buying this record you buy a little bit of me. I ask you to handle “me” with care. I am a human being. I need to be listened to and accepted as I am. My music is on the quiet side because I am on the quiet side. I sing about love and pain, faith and freedom. That is what I am about. I sing of my struggle to love and let myself be loved. That is what we are about.
I must admit that I have always found it difficult to let others know who I am — to let them get close to me. Trusting them with my true feelings has been scary and also rare. I guess that fear has been part of my winter-life. However, something new is happening for me, and this record, though a song of Winter, is for me, one sign of Spring…
I hope and pray that you will allow this music to get close to you — close enough to free within you all those things that need to cry and sing.
- Charlie”
Cover in m- condition - xx.
Vinyl in xx condition - xx.
Currently, I am turntable-challenged, but all albums are diligently sight-graded. Domestic postage is $4.00 - priority mail, confirmation and/or insurance at buyer’s request and expense. Canadian buyer to pay $6.50 for unregistered airmail. Overseas buyer to pay $16.50 for unregistered airmail. *Italian bidders*, please note: due to a high percentage of postal losses this past year, I will NOT be refunding for any circumstances- you bid knowing that you accept full responsibility for any loss or damage by your erratic postal service. Thanks for reading all of this!
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