LP Cat Stevens:"Tea for the Tillerman" (UK Island MINT)
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LP Cat Stevens:"Tea for the Tillerman (UK Island 1970)
UK Island ILPS 913554.
Sterling (LH) cut, matrix nos. 4/4
Pink rim / palm tree label: this was the first label: it was never issued with the pink label
Condition: Disc looks and plays absolutely mint although a bright halogen lamp reveals a few surface grazes where the disc has been taken out of its inner sleeve over the years. However early UK pressings of this album do not turn up very often so it would be difficult to find a better copy.; Sleeve absolutely mint.
Bright laminated gatefold sleeve
Tracks: 1. Where do the children play 2. Hard headed woman 3. Wild world 4. Sad Lisa 5. Miles from nowhere 6. But I might die tonight 7. Longer boats 8. Into white 9. On the road to find out 10. Father and son 11. Tea for the tillerman
Cat Stevens tends to be lumped in with the early-1970s singer/songwriter school led by James Taylor and Carole King but he actually fits in rather neatly with such wistful contemporaries as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett and Donovan.
Tea for the Tillerman's "Wild World", "Into White" and "Longer Boats" indicate that he may have been a more gifted tunesmith than the lot of them. As with the best of the Brit folk-rockers, Stevens mixed melancholy with whimsy.
Yes, he was prone to airy platitudes but when he harnessed his eccentricities, as he did throughout this 1970's masterwork, you had something truly distinctive. Stevens' greatest drawback was that he was a natural cult artist, à la Tim Buckley and Leonard Cohen. But that's a tough role to play when you're selling 25 million records.
This album has appeared on the American magazine The Absolute Sound's (TAS) Superdisc list of audiophile demonstration discs.
LP will be shipped next to jacket for protection against seam splits, inside of an outer liner in sturdy cardboard mailer with extra stiffening material to avoid any possibility of damage in transit. Package will clearly say DO NOT BEND!
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