Gene Clark Solo Albums-album by album & *now* track by track on p. 23*

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  1. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    8) In The Plan

    Gettin' old, but I'll say anyway...wow! Fantastic, Gene.



    Someone is speaking of time now to gain
    The voice cryin' be I am bound
    Life is undyin' yet somebody weaves
    The season declares it's own sound

    Encirclin' my mind
    These worlds that I find
    Tell me why
    Tell me what shall I seek that shall be found

    Now as the waters of morning will fall
    The wind is set free to demand
    And one but of distance inclusive of all
    To know there is space to expand

    These things that I see
    These things that are me
    Tell me why
    Tell me where do I fit in the plan

    Play that harmonica, brother.

    These things that I see
    These things that are me
    Tell me why
    Tell me where do I fit in the plan


    Source: Musixmatch
    Songwriters: Gene Clark
     
  2. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    9) Something's Wrong

    Well, the fantastic expedition is almost over, but...
    we can always flip the vinyl and play it again, or hit the replay button.

    Sublimely beautiful...what a great closing track.



    Hours of joy when I was just a boy
    And never wrong I knew
    Kites of red would fly above my head
    The birds would sing their song

    Now something's wrong
    Where the Sherwood used to be
    Neon brambles now I can see

    Fields of corn on early summer mornings
    Or late afternoons
    Anytime there was a place to find
    Where life seemed not so soon

    Now all too soon
    Is this where I used to be
    Still remembering what is me

    And I won't even try
    To find a reason why
    I must live here just to die

    Now something's wrong
    Where the Sherwood used to be
    Neon brambles now I can see...

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    The Zen master...such amazing lyrics.
     
  3. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    I was unsure if I should say that about the Eagles cover...glad you did! I agree 100%.
     
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  4. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    And "Why Not Your Baby" is easily as good as anything on the album...
     
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  5. AlienRendel

    AlienRendel Senior Member

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    That first Dillard & Clark album is one of my favorites in Clark's entire discography - probably the one I listen to the most. They had some great chemistry.
     
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  6. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    England
    Because I have the Edsel reissue from the 80s, which adds Why Not Your Baby as track 5, I always thought it was part of the LP and one of the best tracks on it. I didn't understand why the sound quality wasn't up to the standard of most of the rest of the album for a long time. It's dubbed from vinyl. The Edsel version also adds Lyin' Down The Middle and Don't Be Cruel. For better or worse, having those three tracks added changes the feel of the album.
     
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  7. AlienRendel

    AlienRendel Senior Member

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    Yeah, that was the first version of the album I had, too. Really love the inclusion of those 3 extra tracks, but my more recent Sundazed LP sounds a lot better.
     
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  8. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    I think the sound is fine aside from the three extra tracks, but I haven't heard it any other way. I have the Edsel on vinyl and CD.

    I would like to get a much better sounding Why Not Your Baby on something. I think I read that the master tape has now been found. I have the Gene Clark - Flying High CD compilation but don't remember it sounding much better on that.
     
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  9. AlienRendel

    AlienRendel Senior Member

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    Sundazed did a 7" single of WNYB in 2012, but I haven't heard it.
     
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  10. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

    Location:
    England
    I found out about it too late. Not long ago. I'd like one. I had the original UK A&M 45 for a long time, but traded it to a friend, also a big Gene Clark fan. It has The Radio Song on the B-side.
     
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  11. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    The next by Dillard & Clark is sadly a let down overall..yet as Gene has shown throughout his career, when surrounded by mediocrity at best, he rises to the occasion as with The Byrds reunion and here....
    by contributing the strongest tracks and classic in themselves.

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    I will only feature Gene's tracks here:

    Music critic Richie Unterberger, writing for Allmusic, called the album "a disappointment in relation to their far more eclectic and original prior effort, "The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark". The primary difference is that whereas the earlier record had leaned on Gene Clark's original compositions, and a reasonably adventurous attitude toward country-rock fusion in general, the follow-up saw them turning into a much more traditional folk/bluegrass act... Taken on its own, it's a fair, pleasant, heavily bluegrass-flavored outing with few surprises."[1] --wiki


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Morning,_Through_the_Night

    Track listing

    1. "No Longer a Sweetheart of Mine" (Don Reno, Red Smiley, Swift) – 3:16
    2. "Through the Morning, Through the Night" (Gene Clark) – 4:06**
    3. "Rocky Top" (Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant) – 2:47
    4. "So Sad" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) – 3:21
    5. "Corner Street Bar" (Gene Clark) – 3:35 **
    6. "I Bowed My Head and Cried Holy" (Traditional, arranged by Dillard & Clark) – 3:33
    7. "Kansas City Southern" (Gene Clark) – 3:40 **
    8. "Four Walls" (George Campbell, Marvin Moore) – 3:40
    9. "Polly" (Gene Clark) – 4:22 **
    10. "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" (Bill Monroe) – 2:50
    11. "Don't Let Me Down" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:52
    ** Gene Clark compositions

    Great lineup, though:


     
  12. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    Track 2: Through The Morning, Through The Night
    ...as good as Gene gets. A masterpiece of a song!

     
  13. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    track 5: Corner Street Bar
    A novelty tune...not a fave but pretty cool nonetheless

     
  14. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    track 7) Kansas City Southern
    A nice bluegrass version... pretty nice

     
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  15. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    track 9) Polly
    Such a stunning song...another of my all time favorite Clark songs,
    covered by so many.

     
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  16. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

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  17. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    As reviewed though, still a nice bluegrass album, if not fully a Gene Classic...except for his part in the effort.


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  18. BourbonAndVinyl

    BourbonAndVinyl Forum Resident

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    I love this thread. I had never heard of Gene Clark six months ago. I saw the flawed but enjoyable documentary 'Echos In The Canyon' and they highlighted the Byrds. I started buying the Byrds records, they had always been a blind spot for me. I am absolutely enamored with their music right now (them and the Buffalo Springfield, who'd I'd already been into). That led me to Gene Clark... Coincidentally 'No Other' had been issued in a deluxe box... I can't believe I'd never heard this masterpiece. Gene's name should be uttered in the same hushed tones as Stills, Young or even Gram Parsons. I had to share my thoughts with this group. I'm new to Gene Clark but scribbling down song and album titles from this thread. Thanks to all of you for expanding my Gene Clark knowledge. Cheers!

    LP Review: Ex-Byrd Gene Clark, ‘No Other (Deluxe Edition)’, Forgotten 1974 Masterpiece
     
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  19. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    Thanks for your kinds words.
    This is a must read bio by legendary rock writer John Einarson:

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    Great last solo LP too...I am so lucky to have a NM vinyl copy of this Takoma classic


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  20. BourbonAndVinyl

    BourbonAndVinyl Forum Resident

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    Thank you for the tip on the bio and this LP... will check it out!
     
  21. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter



    White Light (1971) is of course a must...coming next in the track by track feature, in a couple days...


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  22. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    Gene was born and raised in Tipton, Missouri...pretty near you (well, 124 miles near).
    He is buried there and is a destination for many who love Gene:



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  23. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    Enjoy an interesting read as you shelter in...

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    Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story
    of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation
    Part XVII

    By Wes Penre

    In many ways, the Gene Clark story reads a lot like the Gram Parsons story. Both were considered by their peers to be among Laurel Canyon’s brightest stars, yet both are now largely forgotten. Both of their lives were cut tragically short (though Clark lived considerably longer than Parsons). Both of their deaths were overshadowed to some extent by unusual events that occurred just after their passing. Both were considered pioneers of the country-rock genre. Both played for a time with the Byrds. Both recorded duets with Emmylou Harris, and both employed many of the same musicians on their various solo projects. Both had legions of female admirers. Both had a keen interest in UFOs and believed in alien visitations. Both were notorious drug and alcohol abusers...

    ...read on:


    Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation Part XVII

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  24. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    The 2nd solo album for Gene.

    2) White Light (Gene Clark album)

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    But not in Holland...they loved Gene there! -LK
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    Clark's backing band on the album included producer and guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, bassist Chris Ethridge of the Flying Burrito Brothers, organist Michael Utley, along with pianist Ben Sidran and drummer Gary Mallaber, both of the Steve Miller Band. Although Clark began another album for A&M, the label stopped the sessions before that album was completed. Those tracks were available in the Netherlands on Clark's 1973 album Roadmaster, which was not released in the United States until 1994.[1]

    Reception[edit]


    Music critic Thom Jurek, writing for AllMusic, wrote the album "has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made... Using melodies mutated out of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds' sound on White Light, Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged gentility, and are harrowingly intimate in places. His reading of Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage", towards the end of the record rivals, if not eclipses, the Band's. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a bewildered tome of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock."[3] -wiki

    1. "The Virgin" 3:40
    2. "With Tomorrow" Clark, Jesse Ed Davis 2:27
    3. "White Light" 3:41
    4. "Because of You" 4:06
    5. "One in a Hundred" 3:36
    6. "For a Spanish Guitar" 5:00
    7. "Where My Love Lies Asleep" 4:23
    8. "Tears of Rage" Bob Dylan, Richard Manuel 4:15
    9. "1975" 3:49

    2002 Universal/A&M CD reissue bonus tracks
    No. Title Writer(s) Length
    10. "Because of You" (alternate mix) 4:04
    11. "Stand by Me" Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller 2:43
    12. "Ship of the Lord" 2:32
    13. "Opening Day" 4:00
    14. "Winter In" 3:17

    Personnel[edit]
    Musicians

    Production
    • Jesse Ed Davis – producer, mixing
    • Joe Zagarino – engineer
    • Baker Bigsby – assistant engineer

     
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  25. lemonade kid

    lemonade kid Forever Changing Thread Starter

    track 1) The Virgin

    All I can say is, wow, wow, wow...so sublime.



    She went off to the city
    To find what she was looking for
    To identify, to really try
    To find herself some hope
    With the summer sun for laughing
    And the winter rain did pour
    She was lovelier from learning
    And from living, loving more
    From her dancing love and young soul
    And the gypsies in her dream
    To the pulse of stark acceptance
    When the winds began to freeze
    With no curfews left to hold her
    And no walls to shield her pain
    Finding out that facts were older
    And that life forms are insane.
    The presence of protection seemed
    To fade, as did her doubt
    That she now was no exception
    Nor was the love who pushed her out
    Though the streets cried out,
    Go, homesick
    Virtues strength of mind would ring
    In the maladies of meaning
    The sad song she learned to sing.
    Now, her teachers and philosophers
    And the poet's silver throat
    Are the vessels which on wisdom's karmic ocean she will float.
    Was this her revolution,
    Just a child in love's crusade,
    With the question in her innocence
    Through the lies her eyes betrayed?

    Source: LyricFind
    Songwriters: Gene Clark
    The Virgin lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
     
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