LAVENDER COUNTRY '73 PRIVATE GAY COUNTRY FOLK OUTSIDER DIY GONZO FLATLANDERS
  $   150

 


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Jul 8, 2013 Sold Date
Aug 26, 2012 Start Date
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LAVENDER COUNTRY -- Same -- ex. rare, original 1973 U.S. album.  Landmark and truly jawdropping Private Press Alt Country-Folk-Outsider Music album, historic for being the first openly gay country LP ever released and now in the permanent archives of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  Only 1,000 copies of this were pressed and very few survive now.  Musical vibe is early 1970's lonesome Austin-sounding Alt Country-Folk w/ eerie high-pitched vocals courtesy of singer/songwriter Patrick Haggerty ... imagine Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders doing truly deranged songs like "Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears" (!!) and "Back In The Closet Again":  "It's sure a bummer being Gay/When I'm Back in the Closet Again/The Revolution started outright/Black Panthers were leading the fight/The Lords were the left flank/The women drove a Sherman tank."  Or this, from "Georgie Pie":  "Convince yourself my kiss was an illusion/Control yourself with misery and confusion/Let your mother's ghost browbeat you/Let the goblins in to greet you/With their musty lust in the closets of seclusion."  Must be heard to be believed, and surely one of the strangest, most intimate/personal and most otherworldly LP's I've come across in years ... Would definitely appeal to Acid Archives-DIY-Private Press fans.  Two songs veer into haunting downer Folk-Psych, "To A Woman," with female vocals credited to Eve (who also plays violin and acoustic guitar throughout) and "Georgie Pie," both very good.  An incredibly difficult record to come by ... I've never seen another copy.  Includes lyric sheet insert.  Cover:  VG+, ring wear and wear at corners, tiny 3/4" split upper right corner, light stain upper right, 1" separation/wear middle of bottom edge.  Record:  VG+/VG++, light surface wear on Side Two, overall very clean, on gray private label, U.S. press.  


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