MIKE ASPINWALL (A Thumbnail Sketch) '60s? private Xian hippie loner folk-psych
  $   80

 


$ 80 Sold For
Dec 21, 2012 Sold Date
Dec 14, 2012 Start Date
$   25 Start price
7   Number Of Bids
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** ALL ITEMS ARE ORIGINAL U.S PRESSES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

·         ARTIST/GROUP: MIKE ASPINWALL

·         TITLE: A Thumbnail Sketch

·         FORMAT: LP

·         LABEL/CATALOGUE #: Aquarius #100

·         RELEASE DATE: ca. late ‘60s/early ‘70s

·         LABEL DESCRIPTION: See Photo

 

·         SONG TITLES:

 

·         Mike’s Song

·         Father Down The Road

·         One-Way Street

·         The Tongue Twister Song

·         Mr. Silent

·         Get Your Head Straight!

·         Take Your Time

·         Beacon Street Blues

·         The Lord’s Day

·         Help Me With My Wooden Feet

·         Every Day Can Be Christmas

·         This Man

·         Do You Believe In Him?

·         I Believe

 

 

·         COMMENTS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Rare and evocative private Christian hippie folk-rock/psych from Southern California! Beautiful solo vocals, self-accompanied on acoustic guitar, with a haunting melancholy loner vibe. DIY deep groove press on the Aquarius label from the L.A suburb of Manhattan Beach.  Cover is a homemade job – generic white fold-over cardboard, hand-taped at the seams (obviously manufactured that way), with the only identifier being a thumb-print and signature at bottom right.  Name is misspelled on the label: "Mike Aspenwall". No other information is given about the production, but it appears that most or all of the songs are originals. 

 

NEARLY-UNKNOWN RARITY!  The only reference I could find for it is an entry on Popsike, which says this is the same “Michael Apsinwall” who led New Life (a group that made a couple rare Christian folk-psych LP in the early ‘70s),  from Ascension Luthern Church in Rolling Hills, CA.  Whoever wrote the entry suspects this solo album was made after the New Life recordings, but I seriously doubt it, based on the style and production.

 

 

CONDITION:  (See GRADING GUIDELINES below for further details)

 

·         VINYL: VG/VG+ (close to VG+; has couple small spots of “milkiness” at beginning of both sides which do NOT affect play)

·         COVER: VG+/++

 

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