GENE CLARK White Light original UK A&M LP The Byrds rural country psych rock
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Description
ARTIST: GENE CLARK
TITLE: WHITE LIGHT
LABEL + YEAR: A&M AMLS 64292; 1971, Original UK 1st Press. It comes on semi-transparent dark red / black vinyl, only visible when seen with a lamp lit from behind.
CONDITION VINYL: Excellent
CONDITION DOUBLE LAMINATED SLEEVE: Excellent-
DESCRIPTION: A truly wonderful LP!!
White Light is the second solo album by Gene Clark, former member of the Byrds. It received universal critical acclaim, upon its release, but only achieved commercial success in the Netherlands where rock critics also voted it album of the year. It is considered by many to be Clark's magnum opus, although, like all of his post Byrds' records, it did very poorly on the US charts.
Clark took his songs to his new label with confidence and they supported him. The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris Ethridge, the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, organist Michael Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber(also from the Steve Miller band). Clark's writing reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines. Using melodies mutated out of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds' sound on White Light, Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged gentility, and are harrowingly intimate in places. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a bewildered tome of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock.
TRACKLISTING: Side 1: THE VIRGIN; WITH TOMORROW; WHITE LIGHT; BECAUSE OF YOU; ONE IN A HUNDRED. Side 2: SPANISH GUITAR; WHERE MY LOVE LIES ASLEEP; TEARS OF RAGE; 1975.
