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Artist...............: Gene Clark
Album................: White Light
Genre................: Folk Rock
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 1971 Rem 2002
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Flac
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 321 Mb
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Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, was
dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's
this one. Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter
albums ever made. After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the
Dillard & Clark group that was a pioneering country-rock outfit, Clark took time to hone his songwriting to
its barest essentials. The focus on these tracks is intense, they are taut and reflect his growing
obsession with country music. Produced by the late guitarist Jesse Ed Davis (who also worked with Taj
Mahal, Leon Russell, Link Wray, and poet John Trudell, among others), Clark took his songs to his new label
with confidence and they supported him. The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris
Ethridge, the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, organist Michael Utley,
and drummer Gary Mallaber. Clark's writing, as evidenced on "The Virgin," the title cut, "For a Spanish
Guitar," "One in a Hundred," and "With Tomorrow," reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines. Using
melodies mutated out of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds'
sound on White Light, Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged
gentility, and are harrowingly intimate in places. His reading of Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage," towards the
end of the record rivals, if not eclipses, the Band's. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a
bewildered tome of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock.
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Tracklist
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01. The Virgin
02. With Tomorrow
03. White Light
04. Because Of You
05. One In A Hundred
06. For A Spanish Guitar
07. Where My Love Lies Asleep
08. Tears Of Rage
09. 1975
10. Because Of You (bonus track)
11. Stand By Me (bonus track)
12. Ship Of The Lord (bonus track)
13. Opening Day (bonus track)
14. Winter In (bonus track)
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