FROM OMNIVORE RECORDINGS:
GENE CLARK SINGS FOR YOU
The legendary 1967 Gene Clark recordings. Also includes six
additional previously unissued & unknown recordings
Gene Clark’s musical legacy is most certainly assured as a
singer, songwriter and member of some xclusive company as an inductee to Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame, a founder of The Byrds, and collaborator in groups such
as Dillard & Clark, Gene Clark and the Gosdin Brothers, McGuinn Clark &
Hillman and later as the duet partner of Carla Olson (The Textones).
His songs
have been covered by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Iain Matthews, Robert
Plant & Alison Krauss, The Rose Garden, and Chris & Rich Robinson of
The Black Crowes among many others. As well documented as Clark’s career has
been, there have been remarkable discoveries over the years (see Omnivore’s Here
Tonight: The White Light Demos for example), but now the Holy Grail of
Clark’s post-Byrds career is finally about to see the light of day.
For
longtime Gene Clark fans and aficionados, the tracks on this remarkable
archival album are the stuff of legend. Since word first spread in the
1980s about the discovery of these 1967 recordings on a rare acetate in Liberty
Records’ vaults, fans have come to regard Gene Clark Sings For You as nothing
less than the Holy Grail of the singer/songwriter’s extraordinary body of work.
Shrouded in mystery and the subject of much speculation and conjecture, few
have ever had the opportunity to hear these forgotten gems from one of Gene
Clark’s most prolifically creative periods. Until now.
In addition to the 8 tracks from the Gene Clark
Sings For You acetate, recorded in 1967 after he famously left The Byrds,
there are an additional 5 previously unknown tracks from a further 1967 acetate
given to the band The Rose Garden for recording consideration. This new
compilation also includes a previously unissued demo rescued from a tape in the
collection of John Noreen, member of The Rose Garden. This demo of the song
“Till Today” is Clark running through the song for the band who would cut it on
their only album, the 1968 self-titled effort on Atco Records (also being
reissued and expanded at the same time as Gene Clark Sings For You).
Released with the full approval and cooperation with both
the Estate of Gene Clark and the band The Rose Garden, Gene Clark Sings
For You is produced for release by Grammy-winner Cheryl Pawelski with
restoration and mastering by Grammy-winner Michael Graves. With previously
unseen photos.
CD / 2-LP / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:
ON HER OWN
PAST TENSE
YESTERDAY,
AM I RIGHT
PAST MY
DOOR
THAT’S
ALIRGHT BY ME
ONE WAY
ROAD
DOWN ON THE
PIER
7:30 MODE
ON TENTH
STREET
UNDERSTAND
ME
A LONG TIME
BIG CITY
GIRL
DOCTOR
DOCTOR
TILL TODAY
For more
information and to pre-order your copy visit the Omnivore Recordings website:
http://www.omnivorerecordings.com
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