Clay Riness - Rollin' in My Changes (Rare and great 1983 US Private Rural Folk LP)

 

I think this is an amazingly great LP.
Often one can get a pretty good idea about a record just by checking out the titles & various details on the cover and/or in the liners; this is a prime example of such examination. How could it not be raw, rustic folk with a label name like Weary Wolf & a publishing company called Folked Up Musics, with songs like "Trapper", "Yodelin' Cowboy", and "Knock Kneed Country Woman" ? How could it not have a slight beat/jazzy/coffeehouse cool to it with a poem like that by Robert "One Man" Johnson on the back ? Right - what you see is what you get, and it's all the better for it.
Only two songs have full accompaniment with drums, bass & femme backing vocals; otherwise Clay sticks to himself & he's doing just as good that way. The guitarplaying is absolutely topnotch, vocals are soulful & deliver the moodiness of "Me And My Old Man" and "Yodelin' Cowboy" with the same ease as the ironic wit of "Movin' To The City Rag".
The songwriting is also of a very high class, balancing the derivation that is part of this game with original ideas that stand up to comparisons with (should-be) classics of the genre, like the Bob Frank LP on Vanguard. Also mandatory for folkblues LPs, at least to my ears, is the need for a few spins to let the songs grab hold of you - it hardly ever happens right away.
Rivaling "Me And My Old Man" for the hotspot is the, also aforementioned, melancholic "Yodelin' Cowboy", full of nostalgia and late-night sadness that may come when looking back upon happier and/or easier times but I wouldn't want to be without any of these ten songs. "Rollin' In My Changes" is a seemingly lost chapter in the record lists, but I'm sure collectors will catch up eventually.
(review taken from https://www.beautifullies.se/farm-faves/)

Listen : A3. Me and My Old Man  &  B5. The Age of Consent

Complete with the original insert !

Clay Riness himself told me that there were only one thousand of this LP pressed and released. Rare indeed !

Record : EXC+
Cover : EXC (see pictures)
Insert : EXC
Price : 80,00 Euros (+ expedition costs - by registered parcel - calculated by the Belgian Post office)
Payment : PAYPAL only to etienne.reyser@gmail.com
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Ferré Grignard - Captain Disaster (Great 1968 Belgian Psych Folk Blues LP - 1st UK issue on Major Minor)

 

 

Produced by Rikki Stein, 1968's "Captain Disaster" featured a mixture of Grignard originals and revamped traditional tunes. While his sound remained firmly rooted in '60s singer-songwriter folk and American blues (as interpreted by a Flemish hippie), producer Stein slapped an update sound on the ten selections. With backing from an un-credited band, performances like 'I Won't Have a Dance', the single 'Yama Hey' and the title track mixed his folk and blues moves with a heavy dose of psychedelic effects. Again singing all of the material in English, the combination of Grignard's ragged voice; limited English and those psychedelic arrangements made for a truly strange album. To be honest, had it not been for his "hippie" reputation (long hair, mod clothing, don't-care attitude), it's hard to imagine that Grignard would ever have worked himself out of a small Antwerp club. And maybe that "real person" vibe was part of what made this album interesting. Okay, half of it was lousy, but exemplified by tracks like the opener 'I Won't Have a Dance' and 'Hansie Pansey', the other 50% was fascinating in a train-wreck fashion.

 

Listen : A5. Hansie Pansy & A4. My Friend & A2. Tell Me Now 

 

This the first UK issue from 1972 on Major Minor (Catalog number SMLP72) !!!

Record : EXC
Cover : EXC (see pictures)
Price : 50,00 Euros (+ expedition costs - by registered parcel - calculated by the Belgian Post office)
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Nashville - Départ (Amazing 1976 Private French Psychedelic Folk LP)

 

Very rare and excellent French Folk LP privately released in 1976 on Farfadet Music.

Tracklist :
A1 Les vieux
A2 Pourquoi faut-il un jour
A3 La mélodie du souvenir
A4 Le vagabond
A5 La chanson des marins
A6 Vietnam
B1 Les chemins de Katmandu
B2 Lettre à un fils
B3 Les enfants de Nanterre
B4 Turn On
B5 Atlantide
B6 Départ

Credits :
Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Banjo, Vocals – Gérard Royer
Flute, Percussion, Vocals – Jean Paul Toczek
Twelve-string Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals – Serge Rey

(with Dany Pontarolo & Sylvain Vidal - additional acoustic guitars)

 

Listen :  A5. La chanson des marins  &  A6. Vietnam 73  &  B5. Atlantide  &  B6. Départ 

Don't miss this one ... you could regret it !

Record : EXC+
Cover : VG++ (see pictures)
Price : 150,00 Euros (+ expedition costs - by registered parcel - calculated by the Belgian Post office)
Payment : PAYPAL only to etienne.reyser@gmail.com
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