BRIDGET ST JOHN Songs For The Gentle Man ORIG UK Dandelion LP Acid Folk Psych
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Jun 15, 2014 Sold Date
Jun 5, 2014 Start Date
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BRIDGET ST JOHN: Songs For The Gentle Man
Bridget St John was a members of the Kevin Ayers band on the great Lp Shooting at the Moon.
This is the original UK LP released on Dandelion Records in 1971. Textured gatefold sleeve.
DAN 8007 A1   /   DAN 8007 B1
Record and sleeve are in EX(-) condition.  
  On her second album, Bridget St. John expanded her arrangements from the acoustic guitar of her previous effort considerably, with the aid of producer Ron Geesin. While these took the risks of sometimes bathing the songs in too much fruitiness, in general the added cellos, flutes, bassoons, violins, horns, and backup voices did much to add welcome spice to a sound that had gotten a little numbingly similar over the course of her debut. The songs, too, were a little more playful and melodically interesting, though they retained the reserved, even-tempered pastoralism of her prior work. She still sounds like a challenge to raise either a smile or a frown out of most of the time, like a hermit determined to stay out of the city at all costs. It's pleasant if not penetrating rainy-day folk/Baroque, breaking out of that mood with "Seagull-Sunday" (which certainly sounds influenced by Joni Mitchell) and Donovan's "The Pebble and the Man" (with some eccentric, operatic male backup vocals). She never sounded more like Nico than she did on the too-short 42-second closer, "It Seems Very Strange," with its doom-struck harmonium.

Tracks Are :
Side One
 A Day A Way
 City-Crazy
 Early Morning Song
 Back To Stay
 Seagull-Sunday
 If You'd Been There

Side Two
Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall - Part 2
 Making Losing Better
 The Lady And The Gentle Man
 Downderry Daze
 The Pebble And The Man
 It Seems Very Strange
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