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

track 2) With Tomorrow

I won't get tedious by saying how much I love every track...use this comment as a template for every subsequent:
I love this track!



It was more like a dream than reality
I must have thought it was a dream while she was here with me
When she was near I didn't think she would leave
When she was gone it was too much to believe
So with tomorrow I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream and another with tomorrow
So if there some day won't be time just to look behind
There won't be reasons, no descriptions for my place and mind
There was so much I was told that was not real
So many things that I could not taste but I could feel
So with tomorrow I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream and another with tomorrow
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Jesse Davis / Harold Clark
With Tomorrow lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 3) White Light

Ok, I know, I know. Damn I love this country rockin' track.
Gene's harp playing so fine.




Oh, the village of the hill
Sitting silently at will
Like some prophecy forgotten by an age
With no guns before its gate
The mysterious estate
Lies waiting for its history's dawning page
With the raging of the sea before its height
And the strength of those whom see beyond their sight
Oh, the smithies anvil rings
And the symphony it sings
No voice nor poet's pen can put to tune
And electric lines of force
Ring around the humble lives
Of the souls that hear the master saying soon
With the clouds that gather near disturb the night
Striking flashes of a difference, fleeing fright
No slight of tongue nor hand
Can so boldly there withstand
When the spirit of it's truth shall speak the time
And no ignorance of life
Can be held within the sight
Of the buttresses of ageless binds of time
The communion of the forces take delight
With the fear that no tongues may read nor write
White Light
Oh the village of the hill
Sitting silently still
With the strength of ages past they're still at hand
Reckons not to look behind
But to look within and find
And to hear of those enlightened by the lamb
With the powers of the wind both fierce and light
And the waters of the storm went through the night
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
White Light lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 4) Because Of You

Ditto.


You toss your head and turn your eyes when storm clouds brew
You look around to quick relate to a good time you knew
Then the dark clouds break away and a rainbow comes on through
The sun I see only shines for me because of you
Before this time we both saw blind in spite of fact
We lost our place and made no haste to make contact
Now by what we gain the taste of one and two
I'm satisfied beneath my pride because of you
And now the worth of living wealth is more in the end
And now the price of simple things is not so much to spend
So close your eyes and pick a place to fly away
And think of reasons why this warmth is here to stay
Then the dark clouds break away and a rainbow comes on through
The sun I see only shines for me because of you
Yes, the sun I see only shines for me because of you
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
Because of You lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

track 5) One In A Hundred






Don't you come down
Don't you feel bad
Even though your dreams are of
The things you've never had

Close to the earth
Near to the sun
Reflecting your own life
You can see that you
Can be more than one

Hear the bells ring, morning has come
Over the town the morning star fades in the dawn
Voices of time bringing surprise
Voices that sing in waking moments

To look into life's eye
Aren't you glad it's another day
Look and tell
So you though you would run away
But you know that way too well

Rhythms of rhyme
Seasons shall say
To look at a longer life now
A longer yesterday

Don't you come down
You know you're the one
Looking at tomorrow
Let your your troubles
Fade and fly into the sun

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
One in a Hundred lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 6) For A Spanish Guitar

A song Dylan said he wished he had written. Sublime.




The dissonant bells of the sea
Who are ringing the rhymes of the deep
As they sing of the ages asleep
Not so near or so far

And the old masters wind of the waves
Sped forth for the free men and slaves
Whispers of secrets it saves
And about whom they are
And the workings of sunshine and rain
And the visions they paint that remain
Pulsate from my soul through my brain
In a Spanish guitar

The beggar whom sits in the street
On his miserable throne of defeat
Envisions no wealth there to meet
Thinking nowhere is far

And the laughter of children employed
By the fantasies not yet destroyed
By the dogmas of those they avoid
Knowing not what they are


And the right and the wrong and insane
And the answers they cannot explain
Pulsate from my soul through my brain
In a Spanish guitar

To play on a Spanish guitar
With the sun shining down where you are
Skipping and singing a bar
From the music around

Just to laugh through the columns of trees
To soar like a seagull in breeze
To stand in the rain if you please
Or to never be found

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

 

track 7) Where My Love Lies Asleep

Yep. More wonderful harp.




Where my love lies asleep
There's no chains to her spirit
As she enters the doorway
Of dreams drifting free
Lightning's flash, rivers roar
Round the island she's sleeping
And the echoes soul
That speaks where she's sleeping
Where my love lies asleep
There's no past nor tomorrow
Only treasures to keep
There's no fears there to borrow

Through the hallways of wonder
Down the steps of the deep
And the secrets that drum
Where my love lies asleep
Past the suns in the morning
Past the stars in their sleep
And the worlds that are near
Where my love lies asleep

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
Where My Love Lies Asleep lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 8) Tears Of Rage

Great cover.



We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day,
And now you'd throw us all aside
And put us on our way.
Oh what dear daughter 'neath the sun
Would treat a father so,
To wait upon him hand and foot
And always tell him, "No"?
Tears of rage, tears of grief,
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We're so alone
And life is brief.

We pointed out the way to go
And scratched your name in sand,
Though you just thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand.
Now, I want you to know that while we watched,
You discover there was no one true.
Most ev'rybody really thought
It was a childish thing to do.
Tears of rage, tears of grief,
Must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We're so low
And life is brief.

It was all very painless
When you went out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe.
And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse.
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?
Tears of rage, tears of grief,
Must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We're so low
And life is brief.

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Richard Manuel / Bob Dylan
Tears of Rage lyrics © Audiam, Inc

 

track 9) 1975

Great closer...I won't get into the reissues bonus tracks, but they are worth checking out.

With all the legends that the century sings
And it's vision bring to life
While foreign waters breathe against the shore
And the wind plays ore it's rusted fife
I see the ships of a friendly fleet
And a song so sweetly sounding
And gentle souls who think not to defeat
As across the waves they are bounding

And then the thoughts of all the days this time
They have been confined without reason
And in the matters of their health and wealth
They cannot be defined but as treason
But go where and find the better life
As in the name of love you have freed them
And those you need not you have left behind
And those you keep in mind you know to heed them

Across the bridge, across the river
Where we've never been before
Within and out of worlds around us
And in the light of finding more
We always easy understood that
It was no good not to explore
But never really understood that
It was no good just to ignore

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Harold Eugene Clark
1975 lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 

White Light..listen again!

A wonderful album to share....enjoy guys.
I especially envy those who are hearing this for the first time.



AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, was dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's this one. Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made.

After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the Dillard & Clark group that was a pioneering country-rock outfit, Clark took time to hone his songwriting to its barest essentials. The focus on these tracks is intense, they are taut and reflect his growing obsession with country music. Produced by the late guitarist Jesse Ed Davis (who also worked with Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, Link Wray, and poet John Trudell, among others), Clark took his songs to his new label with confidence and they supported him.

The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris Ethridge, the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, organist Michael Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber. Clark's writing, as evidenced on "The Virgin," the title cut, "For a Spanish Guitar," "One in a Hundred," and "With Tomorrow," reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines.

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.

 

See you all in a couple days for the next...Roadmaster.

 

I think Gene hit his songwriting peak on White Light. Some really lovely and interesting music on White Light.

 

3) Roadmaster
3rd solo LP



Roadmaster is a country rock album by Gene Clark released in 1973. The album was compiled from various unreleased recordings for A&M Records made in 1970 through 1972. Eight tracks yielded from an April 1972 recording session featuring Clarence White, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Berline and Michael Clarke;[2] two tracks ("One in A Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl") derived from an unissued single reassembling the five original Byrds prior to their 1973 reunion album; and the remaining track, "Here Tonight", had been recorded with The Flying Burrito Brothers.[2]

Initially released in the Netherlands and Germany only on the A&M subsidiary Ariola, it was reissued on compact disc for the American market in 1994.
-wiki

The rather ugly Holland release...

1. "She's the Kind of Girl" (Clark) – 2:59
2. "One in a Hundred" (Clark) – 2:45
3. "Here Tonight" (Clark) – 3:29
4. "Full Circle Song" (Clark) – 2:44
5. "In a Misty Morning" (Clark) – 4:56
6. "Rough and Rocky" (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs) – 3:14
7. "Roadmaster" (Freddy Weller, Spooner Oldham[3]) – 4:12
8. "I Really Don't Want to Know" (Howard Barnes, Don Robertson) – 4:35
9. "I Remember the Railroad" (Clark) – 2:31
10. "She Don't Care About Time" (Clark) – 3:37
11. "Shooting Star" (Clark) – 4:38

Personnel[edit]
Tracks 1, 2: with The Byrds

• Gene Clark – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Chris Hillman – bass guitar, vocals
• David Crosby, Roger McGuinn – guitars, vocals
• Michael Clarke – drums
• Bud Shank – flute on "She's The Kind Of Girl"

Track 3: with The Flying Burrito Brothers

• Gene Clark – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Chris Hillman – bass guitar, vocals
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
• Bernie Leadon, Rick Roberts – guitars, vocals
• Michael Clarke – drums

Tracks 4-11:

• Gene Clark – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
• Clarence White – electric guitar, backing vocals
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
• Spooner Oldham – keyboards, backing vocals
• Chris Ethridge – bass guitar
• Michael Clarke – drums
• Byron Berline – fiddle
• Roger McGuinn, Rick Clark - backing vocals presumably not included in the definitive album mix

Production[edit]

• Producers: Jim Dickson (Tracks 1–3), Chris Hinshaw (Tracks 4–11)
• Recording Engineer: Chris Hinshaw
• Art Direction: n/a
• Photography: Henry Diltz
• Liner notes: Barry Ballard

The wonderful reissue vinyl by Sundazed:

 

UK release on Edsel




Sundazed:

 

track 1) She's The Kind Of Girl
(Clark)

Have I said how much I love this one!



She's the kind of girl
Together like a lion
The kind everybody wants to know
She can fool you with her ways
Leave you with nothing much to say
And you try not to hang around
But you really don't want to see her go away

She's the kind of girl
Mary golden time
Sunshine and flowers in her hair
Simple ways she don't complain
She likes to move
She won't explain
And you wonder in the night
If everything was right with you
She might remain
Doesn't everybody want to hear
Doesn't everybody want to know
What it is to be so near
And watch it go

She's the kind of girl
Really has to see
What it is that's on your mind
She takes the time and understands
She makes no judgments, no demands
But she makes you feel the fool
When you wonder how she slipped
Right through your hands

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
She's the Kind of Girl lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 

track 2) One In A Hundred
(Clark)



Don't you come down
Don't you feel bad
Even though your dreams are of
The things you've never had

Close to the earth
Near to the sun
Reflecting your own life
You can see that you
Can be more than one

Hear the bells ring, morning has come
Over the town the morning star fades in the dawn
Voices of time bringing surprise
Voices that sing in waking moments
To look into life's eye

Aren't you glad it's another day
Look and tell
So you though you would run away
But you know that way too well

Rhythms of rhyme
Seasons shall say
To look at a longer life now
A longer yesterday
Don't you come down
You know you're the one
Looking at tomorrow
Let your your troubles
Fade and fly into the sun

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
One in a Hundred lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 3) Here Tonight
(Clark)



It's ten PM and I should have made the road tonight
The moon was out and the clouds came in and took it's light
My suitcase is over there somehow I just don't care
Cause I don't want to be anywhere but right here tonight

The rains came down and I should have made an early plane
Where I'd rather be if it can't be seen then I can't explain
It's so warm in here and I want to hold you near
And there is no pain or fear right here tonight

With tomorrows dawn I will carry on what I've set aside
It's not a matter of my faith or of my pride
It just seems so insane to strike out in the rain
When it's so easy to remain right here tonight

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

 

track 4) Full Circle Song
(Clark)



Funny how the circle turns around
First your up and then your down again
Though the circle takes what it may give
Each time around it makes you live again

Funny how the circle is a wheel
And it can steal someone who is a friend
Funny how the circle takes your flight
And if it's it right it brings you back again

Funny how the circle turns around
You think your lost and then you're found again
Though you always look for what you know
Each time around it's something new again

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
Full Circle Song lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management

 

track 5) In A Misty Morning
(Clark)

A true favorite by Gene. Wonderful backing instruments.



I came into town on a Monday morning
The tall buildings breaking up the city sky
The streets were wet it had just been pouring
Like the clouds above the storm just had to cry

I trained my eye on a police cruiser
I watched and I gulped as he passed me by
I looked around to see the street lights changing
And a voice down deep inside me asked me why

Running through my thoughts
Were the memories of the days that I had left behind
Way down in my soul were the hope
That better days were always there to find

The fog rolled in and the lights grew dimmer
And the sound of the city streets seemed amplified
In the misty morning when it had just been pouring
Like the clouds above the storm just had to cry
Like the clouds above the storm just had to cry

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
In a Misty Morning lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 

track 6) Rough & Rocky
(Flatt & Scruggs)

Fantastic cover as always, by Gene.



Darling I've come to tell you
Though it really breaks my heart
But before the morning dawn
We'll be many miles apart

Can't you hear the night birds crying
Far across the raging sea
Why of others you are thinking
Won't you ever think of me

Don't that road look rough and rocky
Don't that sea look wide and deep
Don't my baby look the sweetest
When she's in my arms asleep
Can't you hear...

Source: Musixmatch

 

track 7) Roadmaster
(Freddy Waller, Spooner Oldham)

Love this so much.





I´m a roadmaster baby and I spent my life on the road
I´m a traveling musician and I`m carrying a pretty big load
I´ve spend my days driving down the highway
When the show is over I gotta do it my way
So look out honey `cause a roadmaster´s on the road

I met a pretty woman down in Nashville, Tennessee
She said she´d blew the harp if I could blow a number and see
The evening was nice, I knew her pretty well
She said she´d like to stick around and talk for a spell
But tomorrow I´ll be wakin´ and a roadmaster´s got to move on

One evening at a truck stop when I was on the way to a gig somewhere
Some slick-back truck drivers started givin´me some sh#t about my long hair
I just smiled, I told them they were right
And I snuck out the door like a thief in the night
Got the four wheels a-turnin´, got the roadmaster back on the road

I´m a fool for the highway, I never thought of settling down
I like to play my music when there´s lots of pretty women around
Never noticed any difference between a woman and a lady
I love ém all from sixteen to eighty
When the moon is shining and the roadmaster´s on the road

I´m a roadmaster baby and I spent my life in the road
I´m a traveling guitar picker and I feel I got a big load
I´ve spend my days driving down the highway
When the show is over I gotta do it my way
So look out honey `cause a roadmaster´s on the road

 

track 8) I Really Don't Want To Know
(Barnes & Robertson)



How many arms have held you
And hated to let you go
How many, how many I wonder
But I really don't want to know

How many lips have kissed you
And set your heart a-glow
How many, how many I wonder
But I really don't want to know

So always make me wonder
Always make me guess
And be there if I ask you
Darling don't confess

Just let it remain your secret
Cause darling I love you so
How many, how many I wonder
But I really don't want to know

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Howard Barnes / Don Robertson
I Really Don't Want to Know lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

track 9) I Remember The Railroad
(Clark)

Classic!



I see the travelers comin'
I watch them rollin' down the line
I see the transits movin'
I remember the railroad line.

I see some smilin' faces
Common place like they've peace of mind.
So many different places
I remember there's more than one kind.

From a place that I can call my home
Down the road that I must call my own
I see no easy way
(But) Today I've got to say
I don't mind seeing what I'm being shown

So I see the jet planes flying
I watch them out of sight
I keep on what I'm tryin'
Hoping that time will treat me right
I remember the railroad line.

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
I Remember the Railroad lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 

track 10) She Don't Care About Time

This version rises to the level of best ever, even compared to the Byrds (originally the b-side to Turn Turn Turn), or any time, ever.




Hallways and staircases everyday to climb
To go up to my white walled room out on the end of time
Where I can be with my love for she is all that is mine
And she'll always be there, my love don't care about time

I laugh with her, cry with her, hold her close she is mine
The way she tells me of her love and never is she trying
She don't have to be assured of many good things to find
And she'll always be there, my love don't care about time

Her eyes are dark and deep with love, her hair hangs long and fine
She walks with ease and all she sees is never wrong or right
And with her arms around me tight I see her all in my mind
And she'll always be there my love don't care about time

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
She Don't Care About Time lyrics © BMG Rights Management

 

track 11) Shooting Star
(Clark)



You were born into the storm
Cast adrift upon a wave
To be living and make life begin

Like the ancient mystic ship
Bounding seaward toward the sun
Becomes a cosmic dancer in the wind

Stars that shine and rains that swirls
Sparkling sands of endless worlds
Driven by the thought that men are free

Love that makes and breaks a man
Memories fade and new ones stand
And another ship bounds through the sea

Like in dreams sometimes it's so confusing to change
When you move from where you have been
To where you have come
Like in life when you look in to a child's eyes
They see it's all very clear
It's near and then gone

Before the rising of the sun
Before the whirling winds were stirred
Before the simple rhymes of men were sung

Before the age of hate and pride
Before we laughed, before we cried
We were all contained and then begun

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Gene Clark
Shooting Star lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

 

AllMusic Review by Matthew Greenwald [-]

Gene Clark, record business equals bad news. Case in point, this album. Or masterpiece, you could say. After two brilliant Dillard & Clark albums, A&M signed Clark to a solo deal. Okay, fair enough -- so far. In 1972, he delivered perhaps the finest album of his career, Gene Clark, (also known as White Light). Excellent reviews in all the top magazines, including Rolling Stone. Guess what? Almost zero sales.





Now, here's the follow up, almost -- if not more -- brilliant. Released only in Holland. Aside from containing some of Clark's finest tracks like "In a Misty Morning" and "Full Circle Song," this record contains two gems recorded with the willing participation of the other original Byrds. "One in a Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl" are so good that they would have easily stood out on The Byrds box set, had McGuinn elected to include them. Oh well, the music is still here -- an example of an artist who couldn't quite get in on with commerce. What a disaster.

The man should be mentioned in the same breath as Neil Young. Roadmaster is one of the many reasons why.





Enjoy!