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Artist:
FLANDERS, TOMMY
Title:
The Moonstone
Label:
LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
LR 106CD
Russian reissue of this 1969 MGM album. "Hunky Blues Project singer Tommy Flanders dropped out of the NYC band after their 1966 debut, probably to the joy of his management & Verve marketers. A few years & zero-interest singles later, his first & only solo LP shattered any commercial notions his handlers had. Flanders shed the R&B/Blues-covers hat for one that wouldn't be out of place on Robin Williamson's head.
Moonstone
, which appeared & disappeared in '69, doesn't quite have the din of most career-suicide records, but the trick was turned none the less. A dusted, laid-back folk affair from the start, Flanders thumbed a ride back to New England that left him a brokenhearted troubadour at the tree-line of the spirit world. Tommy vibes his way to a cross between a low-key, slightly fey take on Gene Clark/Kristofferson on-the-road coke-folk & later flowery, private-press freedom. A singer at heart, Flanders rounds out his studio group with the great guitarist Bruce 'Mr. Tambourine Man' Langhorne, who fills this album's sound up to near forgotten-classic status. Never-were heavies "Purple and Blue" & "The Moonstone" will pay for themselves on this flower for Dylan that's not quite
Red Hash
, but not quite James Taylor either." -- Kris Price.
Artist:
FLANDERS, TOMMY
Title:
The Moonstone
Label:
LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:
LP
Price:
$22.00
Catalog #:
LR 106LP
"Original lead singer for The Blues Project, Tommy Flanders left the group in March 1966 and signed to Verve on which he released his one solo effort in 1969 after putting out a few singles. An album of very pleasantly mellow singer/songwriter folk rock in the vein of early James Taylor." 180 gram virgin vinyl.
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