MELANIE The Good Book 1971 UK BUDDAH - TEXTURED BOOK COVER - BARELY PLAYED
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MELANIE The Good Book 1971 UK BUDDAH - TEXTURED BOOK COVER - BARELY PLAYED
MELANIEThe Good Book
UK BUDDAH RECORDS (2322 001) FIRST PRESSING (May 1971)
BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL COPY - BARELY PLAYED
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BUDDAH LABELS
MATRIX: 2322001 A//4 ?420 11 11 / 2322001 B//1?420 11 12
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL BOOK COVER "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford”
COMPLETE WITHE THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE CODED '0471' (April 1971)
RECORD: EXCELLENT+ both surfaces shine like new - a touch of surface/one-off tick noted - nothing really - sounds great - but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so this will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins (I prefer not to clean records unless absolutely necessary)
LABELS: NEAR MINT clean and unmarked - just a couple of light spindles
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT the original fold out, centre loading book cover is clean and unmarked (please see close-up photographs) with just light creasing and edge rub
Having found her stride in the studio on 1970s Candles in the Rain, Melanie's 1971 release The Good Book seemed like a case of two steps forward, one step back. The Good Book was recorded while Melanie was at loggerheads with her record label, Buddah Records (Melanie and her husband and studio collaborator Peter Schekeryk would form their own label, Neighborhood Records, and while it doesn't seem to have impacted the craft of the album, the presence of three covers and the frequently dour mood of these songs don't seem to reflect an artist who was entirely at peace with herself.
Melanie's cover of Dylan's "Sign on the Window" and her own title track both depict a woman tired of the music business (if not her art) and eager to tend cows and look after kids rather than deal with the trappings of stardom, and if her take on Phil Ochs' "Chords of Fame" and her own composition, "The Nickel Song," lack the agrarian influence of the former tunes, if anything they're even stronger variation on the same theme.
However, it's worth noting there's no such thing as a Melanie album without a bit of emotional excess, and she speaks her heart and mind with clarity and gentle force on these numbers, while finding room for the hard-won wisdom of "The Saddest Thing" and Judy Collins' "My Father," and the playful proto-feminism of "Babe Rainbow."
If The Good Book was a product of a troubled moment in Melanie's career, there's little arguing that she made the very best of a bad situation
Side 1:
Good Book (4:02)
Babe Rainbow (5:41)
Sign In The Window (2:10)
Saddest Thing (4:58)
Nickel Song (3:42)
Isn't It A Pity (0:31)
Side 2:
My Father (4:59)
Chords Of Fame (4:56)
You Can Go Fishin' (4:09)
Birthday Of The Rain (6:10)
The Prize (4:38)
Babe Rainbow (Reprise) (1:04)
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