LOVE psych LP “Four Sail” ELEKTRA orig USA ’69 red label stereo Arthur Lee NM

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Artist:  LOVE

Title:   “Four Sail”

Label:   ELEKTRA.  Red label with black text.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is EKS 74049.  

Date:  1969. 

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT with nice bright artwork.   Seams, spine, and surfaces are excellent.  Cutout hole at upper left corner.  A bit of wear at corner tips.  Overall a very fine jacket.  

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• August
• Your Friend and Mine – Neil’s Song
• I’m With You
• Good Times
• Singing Cowboy

Side Two:

• Dream
• Robert Montgomery
• Nothing
• Talking In My Sleep
• Always See Your Face

Review:

“From a retrospective point of view, this might be the first album in the career of singer and songwriter Arthur Lee that might have been received with more enthusiasm had it been released under his name, and not under the band name.  Obviously, it must have been in his commercial best interests to retain the Love identity, but here Lee is the only member of the original band left.  He is trying to recreate a Love-able identity with fewer players than he had before and a completely different sound.  The old Love delivered material in a solidly folk-rock vein, meaning among other things an emphasis on combinations of acoustic and electric guitars.  When the original group wanted something a little heavier, it would really put the hammer down.  Records such as "My Little Red Book" and "Seven & Seven Is" were tough enough to be rightly considered precursors of punk rock, which is a lot of mileage to get out of a Burt Bacharach tune.  Lee's new lineup here does not have this kind of versatility.  Guitarist Jay Donnellan plays a heavy lead guitar minus the impressive chops and gets lots of solo space in the arrangements.  The rhythm section favors a more leaden sound as well, particularly drummer George Suranovich, who soaks the barbecue with Keith Moon and Mitch Mitchell licks.  Lee fills in on several different instruments, but his real strength is the set of ten original songs he has provided.  The tracks are deep in feeling and performed with an emotional fervor that sometimes approaches anguish.  It is like going into a dark coffeehouse late at night and finding an electrically charged performer delivering messages about things familiar to one and all: love, memories, friendship, "Good Times," and even "Nothing."  Lee's lyrics and performances have been compared to Jimi Hendrix, certainly a compliment.  This album is such a good example of these strengths that it rises above the garage band sound to communicate a sense of time and place as well as some truly sincere feelings.”

(review courtesy of Eugene Chadbourne, allmusic.com)

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