SCARCE 1970 ORIG ? FREEWAY GYPSY ? LYNNE HUGHS The CHARLATANS S.F. PSYCH Blues
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= ORIGINAL 1970 FIRST PRESS =
Bluesy SAN FRANCISCO SOUND Artifact!
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LYNNE HUGHES
Freeway Gypsy
USA - FONTANA RECORDS - 67611
the Hippies "Summer Of Love" ... 50th year anniversary listings ...
Original SCARCE Original 1970 first pressing of an important San Francisco Sound female bluesy rock artifact ... one of the first of the female hippies entertainers, even before Grace Slick or Janis Joplin hit the scene...
If you read too much 1960s rock history by the “experts,” you just might think that Grace Slick and Janis Joplin were the only two women who lived in the Haight-Ashbury district during San Francisco’s psychedelic golden age. Such narrow-mindedness diminishes the importance of fringe (but no less important) figures such as Lynne Hughes, who had been around before the scene even really came into existence. And what more could you want in a woman? She possessed a great deal of talent, had a lovely singing voice, could play decent guitar,and knew the songbooks of several important prewar blues singers…
After growing up in the Pacific Northwest and being part of Seattle’s folk scene in the early 1960s, Lynne Hughes relocated to the Bay Area and became friends with Chandler Laughlin and the characters who would eventually establish the legendary Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. This, in turn, led to her becoming an occasional member of the Charlatans with whom she often performed and handled lead vocal duties on two songs during their ill-fated recording sessions for Kama Sutra. She acknowledged that the time spent with them broadened her knowledge of blues artists like Robert Johnson, which considerably expanded her repertory.
WITH THE CHARLATANS, 1966 Formed toward the end of the 1960s, Tongue and Groove was an interesting blues-rock outfit that was in some respects an offshoot of the Charlatans in that it included Hughes and that band’s original piano player (and one the first Haight-Ashbury scenesters) Mike Ferguson, who also did the album’s cover artwork.
In 1970 Lynne Hughs released the now very scarce "Freeway Gypsy" Lp cited by at least one prominant top collector as being one of the great lost unknown Lp's of the sixties, putting it on the same level as "Pet Sounds" and "Forever Changes" - which may sound as quite a stretch, but fact is, the Lp is a remarkable folk/blues/rock mix that grows like fungus with repeat plays.
*Lynne Hughes - Vocals
*Mike Melvoin - Keyboard, Arranger
*Mike Dacy - Guitar, Sitar, Dobro
*Louis Shelton – 6, 12 String Guitar
*Therutius Deeps - Guitar, Backing Vocals
*Jerry Scheff, Joe Osbourn - Bass
*Hal Blaine - Drums
*Gary Coleman - Percussion
Bad Dream
Rose Of Woe
Night Life
Never Stop A Dream
Gypsy
Good Time
Freeway Gypsy
Rags And Old Iron
My Man Is Gone
And When I Die
It Didn't Even Bring Me Down
CONDITION: The cover: rated: near M- looks strong, there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity by far lesser seen ... and not getting any easier to find 47 years later...
The vinyl: Rated: M- TOP COPY CLEAR and smooth over both sides having very enjoyable CLEAN audio ...play back should not reveal any alarming or distracting surface problems ... both Fontana labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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