WILCOX-SULLIVAN-WILCOX psych folk LP GOLDUST private label ’73 NM grail SUPERB

$

350

WILCOX SULLIVAN WILCOX LP ON GOLD DUST 
DISC VG++ Very Nice.
JACKET MINT AND UNHANDLED 

Label:   GOLDUST RECORDS.  Stereo pressing on thin flexi- vinyl (typical of records pressed in the ‘70s during petroleum shortage era).  Label is black with grey text.  Catalog number is LPS-163. 

Personnel: 

Michael Sullivan – lead guitar, electric guitar, solo voice on “Little Man”

Judy Wilcox – guitar, solo voice on “Soon I’ll See You”

Dennis Wilcox – vocals, guitar, bass

Terry Dymeki – piano

Calvin Turbeville – pedal steel

Junior Daugherty – fiddle

Women’s chorus – Caryl Porter, Kristin Porter, Elisabeth Porter Wilcox, Melodi Grisham

Year:   1973.

About this album:   Mega-rare 1973 private label pressing of original music by New Mexico male/female trio Michael Sullivan, Judy Wilcox, and Dennis Wilcox.  Folky psychedelic rock with lush male-female harmonies. Bright and brilliantly textured acoustic guitar work throughout.  Rocks at times, goes into hillbilly/country territory and honest folk at others, with an acid influence that is pervasive yet subtle.  Serious collectors have been swooning over this album for years, and with good reason.  This is pure magic.

Reviews from Rate Your Music:

"Heaped with praise in The Acid Archives, they were totally right. A rare vanity/private press facemelter with NO covers!" "Interesting record, for a few reasons. Total guru-spiritual yogi trip as soft as they come, barefoot, ethereal voices creeping in the edges of your hair, steel guitar used like a thin ray of sunshine gleaming on a cymbal, light splashing around the room. Seemingly bogus seeker lyrics surprise and delight with clichés run backwards and through a crystal pool. It works somehow, that when you think you know what you should hear, you've only heard a shadow of it really, and the truth is clearly ahead in something entirely new and unknown... like breathing air, and forgetting you are doing so. 'Snow On A Mountain' truly is a stunning track, and a desert island pick for the genre -- magical, dark, mid-winter ennui from the depths of the reclusive preoccupied 1970s."