TED LUCAS - SELF-TITLED "TED LUCAS" (1975) LP COVER ART BY STANLEY MOUSE 2018

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Ted Lucas Self-Titled "Ted Lucas" YOGA RECORDS, 2018 LP
Ted Lucas, the sole published album by singer-songwriter and master guitarist Ted Lucas has achieved an almost mystical reputation among aficionados and collectors. 
"Ted Lucas" is a seamless marriage of moody odes and raga-style instrumentals regarded by many to be, simply put, the greatest private press folk/psych album ever recorded. 
Lucas was a fixture in the Detroit rock scene of the sixties and seventies. 
His first band, The Spike Drivers, relocated to San Francisco to become one of the very first true psych bands, the Motor City's answer to Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds. 
Following that band's collapse, Lucas returned to Detroit and paid bills doing session work with Motown. 
And there he recorded, in 1972, the demo for Warner Brothers which would become "Ted Lucas", released in two private editions in 1975 and known informally to friends and family as "The OM Album", after Lucas' own label. 
The album was released with artwork by the legendary Stanley Mouse originally created for Jimi Hendrix. 
A troubled figure whose lack of commercial capitalization and general disgust with the music business fueled a tragic narrative of self-destruction and an untimely death at 53, Lucas nevertheless reflects a regal confidence on this album, both in terms of his Sandy Bull-level guitar workouts and his masterful songwriting, as reflected in covers by the Blind Boys of Alabama, Richard Buckner, Phil Cook, and Father John Misty. 
As singular as Skip Spence's Oar (1969), as uncanny as David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971), Ted Lucas is a collection of elevated and elegiac cosmic folk music, presented here in a newly re-mastered edition from the original tapes with high-quality tip-on sleeves and the original back cover art.
Track Listing: A1. Plain & Sane & Simple Melody  A2. It's So Easy (When You Know What You're Doing)  A3. Now That I Know  A4. I'll Find A Way (To Carry It All)  A5. Baby Where You Are  A6. It Is So Nice To Get Stoned 
B1. Robins Ride  B2. Sonny Boy Blues  B3. Love & Peace Raga
- Ted Lucas, the sole published album by singer-songwriter and master guitarist Ted Lucas has achieved an almost mystical reputation among aficionados and collectors.  - Ted Lucas is a seamless marriage of moody odes and raga-style instrumentals regarded by many to be, simply put, the greatest private press folk/psych album ever recorded.  - Ted Lucas is presented here in a newly re-mastered edition from the original tapes with high-quality tip-on sleeves and the original back cover art.
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