DILLARDS BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS RARE ORIG'63 ELEKTRA STEREO LP GUITAR PLAYER LABEL

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·       THE DILLARDS – BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS (THE DILLARDS’ GROUND-BREAKING FIRST ALBUM) – ORIGINAL 1963 ELEKTRA RECORDS STEREO LP EKS-7232

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       VERY RARE ORIGINAL STEREO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN MONO

·       ORIGINAL WHITE ELEKTRA LABEL WITH ‘JAGGED’ EDGE ALONG THE PERIMETER OF THE LABEL AND GOLD "GUITAR PLAYER" LOGO AT THE CORE OF THE LABEL.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 4/63 (APRIL 1963) HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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Over the course of their lengthy career, the Dillards would venture into numerous styles, including folk-rock and country-rock, with particularly innovative forays into the latter category. They'd started out as a bluegrass group, however, and bluegrass would remain at the core of their music, even as their blend of several genres broadened their listenership far beyond the folk and bluegrass audiences. Nowhere was their approach more in the solid bluegrass vein than on their first Elektra LPs

Although their earliest Elektra album, 1963's Back Porch Bluegrass, was their first record to gain wide distribution, the two brothers in the Dillards already had several years of recording experience by the time the LP came out. Doug Dillard and his younger brother Rodney started playing together in Missouri bands back in the 1950s, and while both were multi-instrumentalists, Doug would be most known as a banjo player, and Rodney most celebrated as a guitarist. In the late 1950s, they made some home recordings (with young fiddler John Hartford among the backing musicians) that found release on obscure singles (and an EP) billed to the Dillard Brothers on the small K-Ark label. Some other tapes from the time, recently issued on Early Recordings 1959, feature not only Doug and Rodney, but also mandolinist/singer Dean Webb and (as arranger) Mitch Jayne. With Jayne assuming the bass position, the Dillards became a quartet, moving to California in 1962 (though yet another recording predating the move, a summer '62 concert, found release in 1999 on the  CD A Long Time Ago—The First Time Live!).

Things happened quickly for the group when they arrived in Los Angeles. Jamming onstage at the Ash Grove folk club with fellow bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys, the Dillards were seen by Jim Dickson, who offered them a recording contract. Elektra was in the process of considerably expanding its West Coast operations, and Dickson was a key figure in that development, producing folk albums for the label by the Dillards and Hamilton Camp (also producing recordings for the Modern Folk Quartet during the same era for another company, Warner Brothers). Even before Back Porch Bluegrass came out in 1963, the Dillards had made their first appearance (as members of the Darling family) on television's The Andy Griffith Show, guesting in that role on the program on several more episodes over the next few years.

While there was much traditional about the bluegrass on the Dillards' debut LP, in some respects it wasn't as traditional as some purists would have liked. For one thing, half a dozen of the tracks were original tunes, though most of the others came from  traditional sources. And as ludicrous as it might seem today, the record also attracted some criticism for not being authentic. "We had troubles when our first record came out with the bluegrass people," Rodney Dillard told me in 2001. "At that time, everybody was wanting to put it in a museum, keep it the way it was, just look at it once in a while, and protect it so it didn't change. And we came along and our first album, Back Porch Bluegrass, had echo on the record. One of the guys from one of the little back-east [folk] rags said, 'Since when did they have echo chambers on back porches?' Well, that guy'd probably never been off his block, because you sit back here on my back porch right now, and you get nothing but echo, because I live up on a side of a mountain. I came from a rural area, grew up on a farm with no electricity and no bathroom until I was fourteen. That music had been around just like the dogs in a yard; I grew up with it. So from the very beginning, I had problems with the traditionalists."

 (EXCERPT FROM AN CD LINER NOTES BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Gorgeous mix of bluegrass, folk, blues and even some mountain balladry tossed in for good measure, this rare 1963 Dillards album presents them at their early best. Great work from the Elektra roster of artists, not to be missed.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record comes in Elektra stock inner sleeve (historically inaccurate).

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Stereo  pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more preferable to its mono  counterpart. The mix is more graphic, the sound resolution more precise, and the channel separation (which does not exist on mono version) adds a whole new dimension to the music. Also, the stereo mixes are (by definition) somewhat different than on the mono version. We estimate that mono copies of this album outnumber stereo copies  by a ratio of at least 5:1.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD+++.

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has a visible "wrinkle"(crease)  in one of the corners.

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.   (nothing significant)

-         Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged  / bent.

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the top seam    (nothing significant)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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