ROKY ERICKSON Don't Slander Me 2xLP NEW SEALED VINYL + DOWNLOAD & ETCHING

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ARTIST: Roky Erickson
TITLE: Don't Slander Me
FORMAT: 2xLP
LABEL: Light In The Attic

CATALOG #: LITA-098
RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW
DESCRIPTION: 2xLP housed in deluxe gatefold “tip-on” jackets with book-deep liner notes by Joe Nick Patoski. Includes booklet, download card for full album, and etching by artist Travis Millard (on Side D).

If The Evil One was the album that broke Erickson out of the indie ghetto and brought him to a worldwide audience, the follow-up, 1986’s Don’t Slander Me was the one that showcased his rock and roll sensibilities like no recording before. Losing the more out-there and exotic elements of earlier and future albums, it presents us with Erickson the rocker, playing punk, rockabilly, blues and – in ‘Burn The Flames’, later found on the Return Of The Living Dead soundtrack –even power ballads.

Yet with Don’t Slander Me, Roky almost stuck his spike in the turf of the rock establishment. Recorded with a rolling cast of musicians following the dissolution of The Aliens, the birth of The Explosives and a recording band featuring members of both, the album was recorded against a backdrop of the emerging punk scene, which arrived late to Erickson’s native Texas. Following the well-received The Evil One, fan interest was at an all-time high, but progress was slow. Roky Erickson was in demand. Everyone wanted a piece of him. But the man himself was prone to drug-induced emotional tailspins, and this mainstream land grab would not last long.

Life would rarely, in the future, be easy for Roky – he has at various points found himself destitute, not in control of his own affairs, celebrated, supported and reinvigorated. But the three-album arc of which Don’t Slander Me represents the apex remains among his best, most cherished work. Never again would Roky Erickson’s music be so tight, so together, and so blazingly rocking.

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