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ARTIST
LUCAS, TED
TITLE
Ted Lucas
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
YOGA RECORDS
CATALOG #
Y 014LP
Y 014LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/16/2018
Restocked.
Ted Lucas
, the sole published album by singer-songwriter and master guitarist
Ted Lucas
has achieved an almost mystical reputation amongst aficionados and collectors.
Ted Lucas
is a seamless marriage of moody odes and raga-style instrumentals regarded by many to be, simply put, the greatest private press folk/psych album ever recorded. Lucas was a fixture in the Detroit rock scene of the sixties and seventies. His first band,
The Spike Drivers
, relocated to San Francisco to become one of the very first true psych bands, the Motor City's answer to
Jefferson Airplane
and
The Byrds
. Following that band's collapse, Lucas returned to Detroit and paid bills doing session work with Motown. And there he recorded, in 1972, the demo for Warner Brothers which would become
Ted Lucas
, released in two private editions in 1975 and known informally to friends and family as "The OM Album", after Lucas' own label. The album was released with artwork by the legendary
Stanley Mouse
originally created for
Jimi Hendrix
. A troubled figure whose lack of commercial capitalization and general disgust with the music business fueled a tragic narrative of self-destruction and an untimely death at 53, Lucas nevertheless reflects a regal confidence on this album, both in terms of his
Sandy Bull
-level guitar workouts and his masterful songwriting, as reflected in covers by the
Blind Boys of Alabama
,
Richard Buckner
,
Phil Cook
, and
Father John Misty
. As singular as
Skip Spence
's
Oar
(1969), as liminal and uncanny as
David Crosby
's
If I Could Only Remember My Name
(1971),
Ted Lucas
is a collection of elevated and elegiac cosmic folk music, presented here in a newly re-mastered edition from the original tapes with high-quality tip-on sleeves and the original back cover art.
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