Catch O’ The Day:
- Phil Everly: Phil’s Diner (Pye Records), $3.00.
- The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over (Epic Records, mono), $5.00.
- The Dave Clark Five: Return! (Epic Records, mono), $5.00.
- The Dave Clark Five: American Tour (Epic Records, mono), $5.00.
- Ivan Neville: If My Ancestors Could See Me Now (Polydor Records), $5.00. Produced by Danny Kortchmar (Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Carole King).
- John Hartford: Aereo Plain (Warner Brothers Records), $5.00. Produced by David Bromberg. Accompanying musicians include Vassar Clements, Norman Blake, and Randy Scruggs, names very well known in Bluegrass, Country, and Folk circles.
To illustrate the role luck, timing, and perseverance play in finding out-of-print LP’s you are looking for: I was in Millennium Music the middle of last week, spending about two hours looking for the titles in my little black book (6 mini-ring, 6" x 3-1/2" lined filler paper). I was back at MM today---picking up some titles I had seen on that visit but had to check on, and again looked for some of the same titles as on my last visit. THIS time---only four or five days later---there was the John Hartford record! A very hard to find LP.
- Rodney Crowell: Ain’t Living Long Like This (Warner Brothers Records), $6.00. An album from very early in Rodney’s career, produced by Emmylou’s Brian Ahern (Rodney served as Emmylou’s bandleader/rhythm guitarist/harmony singer for a while, a role now played by the great Buddy Miller). And listen to the list of Rodney’s accompanying musicians: Albert Lee (The Everly Brothers’ long-time guitarist, a solo artist, and much-revered Telecaster master), James Burton (Elvis, Ricky Nelson), Amos Garrett (he played the great guitar solo on Maria Muldaur’s "Midnight At The Oasis"), Ry Cooder (my favorite living guitarist. Mazzy’s too.), Ricky Skaggs, Hal Blaine (The Wrecking Crew, of course), John Ware (excellent drummer), Emmylou Harris (acoustic guitar, harmony vocals), Glen D. Hardin (a pianist’s pianist), Mac Rebennack (Dr. John!), Hank DeVito (a steel guitar player’s steel guitarist), Byron Berline (1st-call fiddle player), Mickey Raphael (long-time harp player in Willie Nelson’s band), Richard Greene (Seatrain fiddle player), Nicolette Larsen (vocals), Willie Nelson (vocals), and Emory Gordy, Jr. (Dylan’s mid-period bassist). WOW!
And finally, an out-of-print but still-sealed LP from Light In The Attic Records: Pot Luck by Spooner Oldham, $21.99. Spooner is the legendary Muscle Shoals songwriter/pianist, and a member of The Swampers (Fame Studios house band). He was also on Neil Young’s Harvest album, Dylan albums, hell a lot of albums (Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, hundreds of others) . A fantastic, fantastic musician.
Pot Luck---Spooner’s lone solo album---was originally released in 1972, and died a quick death. I don’t even remember hearing about it at that time. Finding an original copy is about as close to impossible as an LP can be, so Light In The Attic---a very hip Seattle, Washington record company---reissued it in 2015. LITA is currently semi-dormant, and in a phone call told me the LP is out-of-stock, and they have no plans to do another press. So when I found it today---hidden in Music Millennium’s "Soul" section, I couldn’t believe it. The shop’s price sticker was dated 9-06-17, so the LP had been sitting in the rack for 3-3/4 years, just waiting for me to find it. Yeah, baby!
