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                       Sugar Creek  -  Please Tell a Friend                              

 

J The Psychedelic Artwork is not for sale!!  Just for fun!!   J   Artist Sugar Creek     Album Please Tell A Friend  (White Label Promo)     Artist Home Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Jonathan Edwards born in Minnesota)     Cover Condition VG     Seam Splits About 3 inches at top and at the corners.     Writing small marker "69" in top left corner. Rubber stamped "Dept. of Geology Hamilton College"     Discoloration Very little     Ring Wear Very minor     Stickers Green radio tag tape on small section of spine     Vinyl Condition VG++     Scratches Minor scuffs which are only slightly visible.      Writing on label No        Warped No     I always rate my records down one level than I feel they should be, due to opinion differences.  Please note that I can not possibly play test every LP.  If there are any problems, please let me know, as my return policy is fair.  CDs are rated NM if opened but played no more than once.   J     J   Songs Side 1
A1 A Million Years   2:31
A2 Old House   2:36
A3 Who Do You Think You Are   2:48
A4 Where Do You Find the Answer   6:43
A5 Woman   2:38 Songs Side 2
B1 Heavenly Road   2:50
B2 Memory Tree   5:20
B3 Miss You   4:24
B4 Lady Linda   2:02
B5 Night Flash   3:17

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Jonathan Edwards (musician)

 Jonathan Edwards (born July 28, 1946; Aitkin, Minnesota) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

Career

Edwards's music career began in high school during the 1960s. When interviewed about his early music career he recalled, "I started on a $29 guitar and immediately started putting a band together, writing songs and learning all the contemporary folk songs of the time. I just loved it, loved everything about it, loved being in front of people playing music."[citation needed]

Edwards studied art in college at Ohio University but dropped out before graduating, and became involved in the Boston music scene.

The band in which he played soon found work, playing across New England. With Joe Dolce on lead guitar, they played cover tunes as well as their own country blues originals under various names, including the Headstone Circus, St. James Doorknob, and the Finite Minds, and they made an album forMetromedia Records as Sugar Creek.

[edit]"Sunshine"

Soon he was booked to open for acts such as the Allman Brothers Band and B.B. King, and he signed with Capricorn Records to record his self-titled debut album. "We took about a year recording the first album - different times, different studios, different sounds, different techniques", he says. "Recording was so new in '69 and '70. There was a song on the album called 'Please Find Me', and for some reason the engineer rolled over it. It got erased. We spent hours looking for it. We fired the engineer and put "Sunshine" in its place."[citation needed]

Like most of the songs on Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine" was written shortly after Edwards left the band. "I felt really fresh, really liberated," he recalls. "I just went out in the woods every day with my bottle of wine and guitar, sat by a lake near Boston and wrote down all those tunes, day after day.". "It was just at the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon," Edwards recalled. "It was looking bad out there. That song meant a lot to a lot of people during that time - especially me."[citation needed] "Sunshine" reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in January 1972.[1]

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[-]by Steve Leggett A psychedelic blues-rock outfit whose only album, 1969's Please Tell a Friend, has enough interesting moments, given the era's production quirks, to make it a highly sought after period piece, Sugar Creekoriginated when John Edwards (who later, as Jonathan Edwards, had a big hit in 1971 with "Sunshine") and guitarist Malcolm McKinney met while both were attending Ohio University. The two drafted inMalcolm's brother Tod McKinney and began playing music together as St. James Doornob, becoming the Infinite Doornob when Joe Dolceand Gary Gans came over to join from the Finite Minds. Moving east to Boston, the band built a fair following on the New England/New York club circuit, changing its name yet again, this time to Headstone Circus, and eventually settled in asSugar Creek. That was the name under which they recorded the Please Tell a Friend LP in 1969 with producer Peter Casperson in New York, releasing it on Metromedia Records (Dolce had left the band by this time and his name does not appear on the album jacket.). A curious mix of blues and rock with the frequent psychedelic touches that were so popular with the various West Coast's acid folk and harmony bands (Moby Grape, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, et. al) at the time, Please Tell a Friend has become somewhat of a lost period treasure over the past decades. Fallout Records finally reissued the LP on disc in 2008. Edwards tired of the club circuit and went in a more acoustic direction when he went solo, eventually hitting big in 1971 with the bright and folky "Sunshine." Bitmp J     J

 

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• VINYL: Record appears virtually flawless
• A very minor scuff and very little else can appear on the vinyl.
• It should play without any noise over the flaw. The flaw is very hard to see.
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• Looks brand new just shrink wrap removed.  VG++: Very Good Plus Plus   (7 on a scale of 1 to 10)
• VINYL: Minor scuffs which are only slightly visible.
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• No seam splits or writing on the cover or taped repairs can make this grade.  VG+:   Very Good Plus   (6 on a scale of 1 to 10)
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• Flaws will be noticeable to the naked eye. If the flaws don't cause any surface noise, the vinyl can still make the VG+ grade.
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• Groove wear and light scratches can affect the sound (deep enough to feel with a fingernail)
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• Will have significant distracting surface noise, and scratches and groove wear  are visible.
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• Cover will looked virtually trashed, but some artwork will still be noticed. If the artwork is worn, it is POOR and the cover is worthless.
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