rare Lightnin' Hopkins-Guy Clark-KT Oslin private label
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Look It's Us!
rare private label compilation album
mid 1960's release ofhouseperformersat Jesters club in Houston, Texas
featuring one track by blues legend Lightin' Hopkins, and whatis probaby among the earliest recordings of future Grammy award winning artist Kay Oslinand Guy Clarke. Also featured are Scott & Vivian Holtzman were later producers of Houston's psychedelic rock pioneers Fevertree, & along with Frank Davis wrote most of their material.
tracks are folk&blues standard's of the day.
To my knowledge, these tracks have not been released anywhere else.
featuring Lightnin' Hopkins- Trouble in Mind
Guy Clarke-Cotton Mill Girls
Kay (K.T.) Oslin-Brave Young Sailor
Frank Davis-East Virginnia
Scott & Vivian Holtzman-RailroadWife,CopperKettle
also Arthur Hodges, Jenny Bell, Kenn Roberts, Jim Gunn, Sarah Wiggins, Judi Stewart, Mack Webster
Note: this is not a live recording......according to the jacket the artists were recorded at Gold Star Studios for this album.
Jester Records, Inc.
2815 Bammel Lane
Houston, Texas
jacket notes by John A. Lomax. Jr.
Disc: VG (deep groove/thick pressing; few light scuffs that don't affect playability)
cover: VG (ring wear, Moses Melody Shop sticker & owners name stamped on back)
Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the genre change remarkably, but he never appreciably altered his mournful Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins' nimble dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem easy, and his fascinating penchant for improvising lyrics to fit whatever situation might arise made him a beloved blues troubadour.
Moving to Houston, Guy Clark began his career during the "folk scare" of the 1960s. Fascinated by Texas blues legends like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins and steeped in the cultural sauce piquante of his border state, he played traditional folk tunes on the same Austin-Houston club circuit as Townes Van Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker. "It was pretty 'Bob Dylan' in the beginning," Clark said. "Nobody was really writing." Eventually, Clark would draw on these roots to firebrand his own fiddle-friendly and bluesy folk music, see it embraced as country and emerge as a songwriting icon for connoisseurs of the art.
Oslin debuted in 1987 with 80's Ladies, whose anthemic title track made the country Top Ten and won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal. The follow-up singles, "Do Ya" and "I'll Always Come Back," both hit number one and so did the album, which went on to sell over a million copies. The follow-up, 1988's This Woman, was another chart-topping platinum smash, paced by the number one, double-Grammy-winning hit "Hold Me," and the Top Five singles "This Woman" and "Hey Bobby."
1960s psychedelic group, Houston's Fever Tree is most famous for their single "San Francisco Girls," with its dramatic melody, utopian lyrics, and searing fuzz guitar. Most of their best material, ironically, was written by their over-30 husband-wife production team, Scott and Vivian Holtzman, who had previously written material for Tex Ritter and the Mary Poppins soundtrack. These odd bedfellows produced some fairly distinctive material with more classical/Baroque influences and orchestral string arrangements than were usually found in psychedelic groups.
Combined shipping: will ship additional albums in the US for $1.00 extra each disc.
NR - no reserve
I use heavy boxes, plastic sleeves, & ship with the disc outside of the cover.
Additional albums add $1.00 each for shipping.
Thanks! the record guy
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