THE DILLARDS BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS RARE SEALED ORIG (?) '63 ELEKTRA STEREO LP

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·       THE DILLARDS – BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS (THE DILLARDS’ GROUNDBREAKING FIRST ALBUM) – ORIGINAL (?) 1964 ELEKTRA RECORDS STEREO LP EKS-7232

·       ORIGINAL (?) U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED ELEKTRA STEREO LP, POSSIBLY THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING, BUT MORE LIKELY TO BE A VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA 1970 ON ELEKTRA'S 'BUTTERFLY' LABEL WITHOUT WEA LOGO ON THE EDGE OF THE LABEL (WE ARE NOT ENTIRELY SURE) ***

·       THREE “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least thick, and  10 being the thickest), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Over the course of their lengthy career, the Dillards would venture into numerous styles, including folk-rock and country-rock, with particularly innovative forays into the latter category. They'd started out as a bluegrass group, however, and bluegrass would remain at the core of their music, even as their blend of several genres broadened their listenership far beyond the folk and bluegrass audiences. Nowhere was their approach more in the solid bluegrass vein than on their first Elektra LPs

Although their earliest Elektra album, 1963's Back Porch Bluegrass, was their first record to gain wide distribution, the two brothers in the Dillards already had several years of recording experience by the time the LP came out. Doug Dillard and his younger brother Rodney started playing together in Missouri bands back in the 1950s, and while both were multi-instrumentalists, Doug would be most known as a banjo player, and Rodney most celebrated as a guitarist. In the late 1950s, they made some home recordings (with young fiddler John Hartford among the backing musicians) that found release on obscure singles (and an EP) billed to the Dillard Brothers on the small K-Ark label. Some other tapes from the time, recently issued on Early Recordings 1959, feature not only Doug and Rodney, but also mandolinist/singer Dean Webb and (as arranger) Mitch Jayne. With Jayne assuming the bass position, the Dillards became a quartet, moving to California in 1962 (though yet another recording predating the move, a summer '62 concert, found release in 1999 on the  CD A Long Time Ago—The First Time Live!).

Things happened quickly for the group when they arrived in Los Angeles. Jamming onstage at the Ash Grove folk club with fellow bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys, the Dillards were seen by Jim Dickson, who offered them a recording contract. Elektra was in the process of considerably expanding its West Coast operations, and Dickson was a key figure in that development, producing folk albums for the label by the Dillards and Hamilton Camp (also producing recordings for the Modern Folk Quartet during the same era for another company, Warner Brothers). Even before Back Porch Bluegrass came out in 1963, the Dillards had made their first appearance (as members of the Darling family) on television's The Andy Griffith Show, guesting in that role on the program on several more episodes over the next few years.

While there was much traditional about the bluegrass on the Dillards' debut LP, in some respects it wasn't as traditional as some purists would have liked. For one thing, half a dozen of the tracks were original tunes, though most of the others came from  traditional sources. And as ludicrous as it might seem today, the record also attracted some criticism for not being authentic. "We had troubles when our first record came out with the bluegrass people," Rodney Dillard told me in 2001. "At that time, everybody was wanting to put it in a museum, keep it the way it was, just look at it once in a while, and protect it so it didn't change. And we came along and our first album, Back Porch Bluegrass, had echo on the record. One of the guys from one of the little back-east [folk] rags said, 'Since when did they have echo chambers on back porches?' Well, that guy'd probably never been off his block, because you sit back here on my back porch right now, and you get nothing but echo, because I live up on a side of a mountain. I came from a rural area, grew up on a farm with no electricity and no bathroom until I was fourteen. That music had been around just like the dogs in a yard; I grew up with it. So from the very beginning, I had problems with the traditionalists."

 (EXCERPT FROM AN CD LINER NOTES BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Gorgeous mix of bluegrass, folk, blues and even some mountain balladry tossed in for good measure, this rare 1963 Dillards album presents them at their early best. Great work from the Elektra roster of artists, not to be missed.

For additional historical information on this album, including track listing ►click here

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

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(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)             The record is  apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a small, neat, circular cutout hole in one of the corners

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a minor wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the back panel (apparently, a minor cover construction flaw)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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