New sealed Naomi Lewis Cottage Songs 1975 Folk Psych rock Rare LP vinyl record

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Naomi Lewis

“Cottage Songs” New sealed copy of this rare title. 

Naomi

“Cottage Songs”

1975 original US pressing. Cottage Records

All words music and french horn arrangement by Naomi Lewis 1975

Recorded at Syndicated Recording Studios Provo Utah

Engineered and mixed by: Lynn Bryson

Recording engineer: Tracy Jorgensen

Arrangements: David Eyre

Music Central Recording Studio

Cover art and design by Stefane Clark

Executive Producer: Daniel W. Crosby

Special thanks to: Ronald Lee Deutschendorf (brother of John Denver)

Mark Evans  percussionist

Tracklist

A1 How Do? 2:55

A2 Life Is Song 4:32

A3 Dear Friend 2:05

A4 I Have A Blue Sky 2:04

A5 Get On Down 2:00

A6 I'm The Lucky One 2:30

B1 You Keep Me Warm 3:00

B2 Mellowside 2:00

B3 Woodhive Day 3:00

B4 Children Of The Light 3:00

B5 Gonna Find Me A Rainbow 2:35

B6 Seasons 4:07

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Naomi Lewis’ two albums are regarded to be among the best privately pressed folk/singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s with a production quality and creativity that goes beyond many in the genre. Although the albums are now seen as classics that fetch high prices Naomi’s background and the circumstances regarding the making of the albums still remains a mystery. Initially, the idea of recording an album was a way to share her songs with friends and as she said it herself “I no longer needed to record each person a tape, I could offer them an album”. This resulted in her debut album “Cottage Songs”, which was released in 1975 followed by “Seagulls and Sunflowers” the year after. Both were pressed in a 1000 copies and released on her own label “Cottage Records”, named after the cottage in Utah where she lived and wrote many of the songs for the albums. The style of the albums is similar and Naomi is both a skilled songwriter and has a willingness to experiment with different arrangements and instrumentations making her music diverse and intriguing. This also explains the range of different styles heard on the albums, from the funky soul-rock in “Get On Down” to moody introspective folk, like in “Dusty Painting” and “Seasons”. Many of the songs also have a dreamy quality to them, e.g. “More Beautiful” and “I Have a Blue Sky”, which evokes a slight psychedelic feel. Although to describe her music as psychedelic folk, which you sometimes see, is rather misleading. Instead her music springs from a more mainstream singer-songwriter and folk tradition with Joni Mitchell as an important inspiration for her early songwriting. Both albums received good reviews in the local press but after the release of “Seagulls and Sunflowers” she started to grow tired of the record industry and she didn’t felt like pursuing a professional music career. She continued however to write music and is still active today writing for the Nashville country scene.

Naomi surfaced a few years ago when she realized that people were looking for her records but so far there is very little information available and this is the first time she has been interviewed since the ‘70s. 

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