(White Mansions: A tale from the American Civil War..)-Eric Clapton-H8-LP

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ITEM: VINYL LP 33 1/3 RPM
ARTISTS: VARIOUS 
Eric Clapton/ Waylon Jennings/Jessi Colter/John Dillon/Steve Cash
TITLE: White Mansions: A tale from the American Civil War 1861-1865  
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: A&M Records– L 36593
ORIGINAL 1ST PRESSING
COVER:  Gatefold (Grade at NEAR MINT-) small ss front top right cnr
INNER COVER:  Gatefold (Grade at EXCELLENT+) some “age” spots
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
BOOKLET:  28 pages (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
VINYL: (Grade at EXCELLENT+)
TRACKS:
Part One
  A1 Story To Tell (The Preface)
  A2 Dixie, Hold On
  A3 Join Around The Flag
  A4 White Trash
  A5 The Last Dance & The Kentucky Racehorse
  A6 Southern Boys
  A7 The Union Mare & The Confederate Grey

    Part Two
  B1 No One Would Believe A Summer Could Be So Cold
  B2 The Southland's Bleeding
  B3 Bring Up The Twelve Pounders
  B4 They Laid Waste To Our Land
  B5 Praise The Lord
  B6 The King Has Called Me Home
  B7 Bad Man
  B8 Dixie, Now You're Done
    COMMENT: Wikipedia
White Mansions is a 1978 album by various artists documenting the lives of American southerners in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The songs on the album were written by Paul Kennerley and are performed by Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, John Dillon and Steve Cash. Each singer took on a separate and distinct persona, portraying different characters in an attempt to show the Confederacy and the concept of "Southern pride" through said characters' eyes; in essence, therefore, White Mansions is a concept album. Eric Clapton played guitar on several tracks. The album charted at #38 on the Country Billboard chart and #181 on the Billboard 200.

In his autobiography, Waylon Jennings claims Kennerley was inspired to compose the songs after hearing "That's Why the Cowboys Sings the Blues" on London radio, which had appeared on Jennings 1975 LP Dreaming My Dreams, and declared, "White Mansions is a lovely record, and it touched me in a deeply personal way, as a man whose house is built on a Civil War battlefield and a Southerner. Though it probably went over the heads of its intended audience, making the album was one of my most enjoyable experiences."[1] 

CHARACTERS: Wikipedia
The four main characters portrayed in the album are:

· Matthew J. Fuller (played by John Dillon) – The 23-year-old son of a Southern cotton planter, he received a full education in college and military academy. When the Civil War begins, he joins the Confederate Army infantry regiment as a captain.

· Polly Ann Stafford (played by Jessi Colter) – Matthew's significant other; at the start of the war, she begins working in a hospital, tending to wounded and dying soldiers.

· Caleb Stone (played by Steve Cash) – Representing the stereotype of "white trash", Caleb is a man who possesses neither a permanent job nor his own property or land, opting instead for accepting random jobs requiring little skill. He detests the powerful plantation owners of the South and fights against the Union to "preserve his superiority over the blacks".

· The Drifter (played by Waylon Jennings) – The Drifter is the album's narrator. His real name is not known, but the listener is told that he was wounded fighting for Texas in the U.S.-Mexican War; during the Civil War, he doesn't participate in the fighting, traveling from town to town and commenting on the events that unfold instead.

In addition, a single brief track is performed by Rodena Preston's Voices of Deliverance credited as "The Slaves"; this, as is explained in the liner notes, is symbolic, in that, "despite the fact that they represented over a third of the population of the South, their voice was seldom heard".

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