1969, and comes shortly after his “Classical Gas” period. (This album has a stripped-down re-recording of it, which I don’t like that much. It needs orchestral support.) It also contains another two parts of his five-part Dada Trilogy (“The Tomato Vendetta” and “The Exciting Accident’). Now all I have to do is find a recording of “(Whistle)Hear,” and I’ll have the whole thing.
It doesn’t look like much, but this is a second pressing of Nanci Griffith’s first album (the Featherbed release, 1982). While my luck has been in lately, I’m still not holding out a lot of hope that I’ll ever find the B. F. Deal first pressing from 1978.
Yet one more I never thought I’d get my hands on. This is Steven Fromholz’s very first album, released by ABC in 1969 and immediately relegated to obscurity by a management shakeup a few weeks later. The album’s never been re-released, and copies are both scarce and kinda pricey unless you get really lucky (and get lucky I did; this cost me $3.99 when it should have cost $35). This is the album that has the Texas Trilogy on it, covered by Lyle in 1991 on Step Inside This House.
It’s not all been incoming, either; to make room for my recent purchases, I unloaded all my Otis Redding, all my Van Morrison (just don’t like either one of ’em’s voice), a Clancy Brothers, a Harry Chapin, Free, Joe Cocker, and Jerry Lee. Gotta get rid of something to make room. Next possibility for the chopper: some, at least of Merle Haggard. I don’t like him as much as I got recordings. The Jimmie Rodgers album stays, but everything else is out there.
About 30,000 pounds of mashed fnord.
