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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Crayon Angels | |||
| 2. The Phantom Cowboy | |||
| 3. The Archetypal Man | |||
| 4. The Lamb Ran Away With The Crown | |||
| 5. Lady-O | |||
| 6. Jesus Was A Cross Maker | |||
| 7. Ridge Rider | |||
| 8. My Man On Love | |||
| 9. Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos | |||
| 10. Enchanted Sky Machines | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. There's A Rugged Road | |||
| 2. The Kiss | |||
| 3. The Pearl | |||
| 4. Down Where The Valleys Are Low | |||
| 5. The Vigilante | |||
| 6. Soldier Of The Heart | |||
| 7. The Phoenix | |||
| 8. When The Bridegroom Comes | |||
| 9. The Donor | |||
| 10. Jig | |||
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A revelation,
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This review is from: Abracadabra: The Asylum Years (International Release) (Audio CD)
I thought I had heard 'The Kiss' somewhere before when I saw a recent 'Whistle Test' compilation of West Coast '70s artists; Judee Sill played a live version of it alongside other artists including Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and Warren Zevon. I bought this CD on the strength of this beautiful performance.
Now, I just can't believe these two albums (contained within the extras on this CD) have not become classics. Judee Sill manages to produce a masterclass of song writing. Not since listening to John Martyn's 'Solid Air', Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' or Bruce Springsteen's 'Born To Run' have I been quite so absorbed in the music. Unfortunately Judee Sill is no longer with us, more is the pity as this desperate, flawed, ethereal and wonderfully talented soul could have given so much more.
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At long last,
By Posthumous Thwack "dust" (righthere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Abracadabra: The Asylum Years (International Release) (Audio CD)
Poor Judee.This is some of the best music made in the seventies, its deeper,higher and more soulful than most of her singer songwriting peers,her arrangements and production more thoughtful and considered. There is a really deep yearning in this stuff that links her emotionally with gram parsons and brian wilson,it has one foot in country but its head is somewhere else, particular favourites- 'Lady O','Lopin along through the cosmos', the demos of 'the Phoenix' and 'crossmaker' on her debut, and 'the kiss', 'the valley' song and 'soldier of the heart' from soul food, anyone of these songs heard alone at night on headphones would convert pretty much anyone to her music im sure and good old Rhino for sticking this together, too bad about the cover as it is advertised on this page, but dont let that keep you from this beautiful transcendant music.its way up there god bless her.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just buy them,
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Abracadabra: The Asylum Years (International Release) (Audio CD)
Great lost artist ...blah blah blah...Criminally underrated....blah blah blah ...Should have sold a gazillion albums blah blah blah. It's very tedious when everybody says the same thing all the time until it becomes a cliché. Except like most clichés there is a great deal of truth implicit in the following statement. Judee Sill is criminally underrated (though her critical profile is definitely on the up), is a great lost artist (though that's being remedied to some degree by the re-release of her two albums and the recent release of her aborted third "Dreams Come True") and she should have sold a lot of albums. There is still time.
What will help in that department, indeed in all three, is this album which has amalgamated her first two albums on the Asylum label into one release. Previously her first two albums, the eponymous debut and "Heart Food" were only available on CD on import which made them expensive and hard to track down, though I would say unequivocally they were well worth the effort... This release will improve that situation. There can be no excuse now. Everyone should consider it their duty to buy this album and listen to it a lot. Why? Because with very few exceptions and in some cases -" Jesus Was A Crossmaker" "The Kiss" , "Soldier Of My Heart"- none, this is the most sublime music anyone will ever hear. Sills voice is pure and unaffected yet utterly affecting .There is no show boating or extraneous frippery , just gorgeous note perfect singing. Classically trained and a hugely gifted song writer she encompasses country through the opaque gauze of 70,s California but gives the arrangements a complex classical twist. Some of the songs on this release are so great they will remove you from whatever environment you are in and seal you a little rainbow clouded bubble with just you and her and of course the music. Judee Sill really is that good. This re-issue also includes all the demos and alternate tracks that have previously been available on the Rhino Handmade versions including an eight minute version of "The Donor ". Sill battled an addiction to opiate drugs all her adult life and eventually succumbed to an "Acute cocaine and codeine intoxication" in 1979. A truly great loss to music. But her music is still with us of course and if there is any justice in this misbegotten world this album will sell by the truck load and her name will become as well known as Joni Mitchell's .It's the least her astonishing music deserves.
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