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Guitarist/singer/song writer Michael Chapmans first album was originally released in 1969. It was a fine debut. It has a few rough edges but never mind.
The first track It Didnt Work Out rocks along good ho with the atmospheric instrumental Rainmaker following.
You Say is a beautiful song as is is No-one Left To Care. The guitarist has several fine musicians lending a hand including Rick Kemp, Danny Thompson, Clem Clemson and Aynsley Dunbar.
No Song To Sing is another winner featuring some fine acoustic bass from Thompson I presume.
One Time Thing may be the best on the album. Very much a song of its time but still sounding good.
There are 5 bonus tracks for those that like that sort of thing. They are interesting but as usual take away the feeling of the original whole.
His second album Fully Qualified Survivor is brilliant.
The first track It Didnt Work Out rocks along good ho with the atmospheric instrumental Rainmaker following.
You Say is a beautiful song as is is No-one Left To Care. The guitarist has several fine musicians lending a hand including Rick Kemp, Danny Thompson, Clem Clemson and Aynsley Dunbar.
No Song To Sing is another winner featuring some fine acoustic bass from Thompson I presume.
One Time Thing may be the best on the album. Very much a song of its time but still sounding good.
There are 5 bonus tracks for those that like that sort of thing. They are interesting but as usual take away the feeling of the original whole.
His second album Fully Qualified Survivor is brilliant.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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It took the 'Fully Qualified Survivor' album to bring Michael Chapman to my attention, (via his appearance on the Dudley Moore TV show in 1970), but had I been fortunate enough to have heard this album in 1969 when first released, there would have been a copy in the collection far earlier.
Michael Chapman is a phenomenal guitarist with a mournful but endearing and soulful Northern voice. His songs often have odd titles and strange themes, but it only adds to the man's mystery and magic, for he is unique in his field. Still playing on the live circuit, catch him if you can, and get this to familiarise yourself with his work. For a debut, this album is a corker, and he just got better...
The original album had the first 11 tracks listed here, 12 to 16 are a Bonus for this splendid re-issue.
Michael Chapman is a phenomenal guitarist with a mournful but endearing and soulful Northern voice. His songs often have odd titles and strange themes, but it only adds to the man's mystery and magic, for he is unique in his field. Still playing on the live circuit, catch him if you can, and get this to familiarise yourself with his work. For a debut, this album is a corker, and he just got better...
The original album had the first 11 tracks listed here, 12 to 16 are a Bonus for this splendid re-issue.
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An important debut given a long-overdue treatment
4 Mar 2012
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So here I sit for another review, this time hopelessly hooked on Michael Chapman's "Rainmaker". That is, the newly remastered and expanded edition, released through Light In The Attic in January 2012. As with Chapman's second effort "Fully Qualified Survivor" in 2011, these new remasters are totally mind-blowing - while revealing all the subtle nuances of the master tapes, they also sound solid and powerful. Truly definitive editions, period.
Mainly recorded in October 1968, "Rainmaker" was only to be released in July 1969, due to delays concerning other releases from the same label, the much cherished EMI's Harvest records. Michael then recorded a few more tracks in 1969 to be included on the album, two of them making their way into the tracklist - "It Didn't Work Out" and "Not So Much A Garden-More Like A Maze". Produced by Gus Dudgeon, it originally featured eleven excellent Chapman originals, now augmented to seventeen. Six top-quality bonus tracks have been added which have all been culled from the album sessions, save for a great outtake called "On My Way Again" which belongs to the "Window" sessions, Michael's third album for Harvest from late 1970. There's also an earlier version of "Among The Trees" that's arguably nicer than the one that would appear on the aforementioned "Window" album. Why it was left off the original album can only be classified as a mystery as it portrays Michael at his very best.
More intense than "Fully Qualified Survivor", "Rainmaker" does rely on the same recipe of interspersed sung and instrumental tracks though, in a very interesting mix of acoustic and electric guitars and bass with Chapman's impossibly addictive free-flowing - and quite possibly stoned - voice. The album opens with the rocking "It Didn't Work Out", then followed by the title track - one of three great acoustic instrumentals which still sound really fresh while showing Michael's undisputed skills. One can tell by the different tunings he used, and their eastern tinges, that he was coming from that same group of highly-talented British guitar players, such as Bert Jansch and Jimmy Page.
"Rainmaker" also lets it show more of how important Bob Dylan's influence was to Michael. Third song "You Say" is a reworking of Dylan's 1962 "Girl From The North Country" while a few other tracks, such as "No Song To Sing" and the beautiful closer "Goodbye To Monday Night", carry an undeniable Dylan feel to his voice, which is great if you ask me. Songs like "No-One Left To Care" and "Not So Much A Garden-More Like A Maze" are epic in scope and do stand out.
Again, as with the Light In The Attic edition of "Fully Qualified Survivor", it's a digipak and comes with a chunky 28-page booklet which is very informative and carefully executed throughout. In all, while possibly not as fulfilled as "Fully Qualified Survivor", "Rainmaker" does stand side by side with it due to its sheer spontaneity and power.
Mainly recorded in October 1968, "Rainmaker" was only to be released in July 1969, due to delays concerning other releases from the same label, the much cherished EMI's Harvest records. Michael then recorded a few more tracks in 1969 to be included on the album, two of them making their way into the tracklist - "It Didn't Work Out" and "Not So Much A Garden-More Like A Maze". Produced by Gus Dudgeon, it originally featured eleven excellent Chapman originals, now augmented to seventeen. Six top-quality bonus tracks have been added which have all been culled from the album sessions, save for a great outtake called "On My Way Again" which belongs to the "Window" sessions, Michael's third album for Harvest from late 1970. There's also an earlier version of "Among The Trees" that's arguably nicer than the one that would appear on the aforementioned "Window" album. Why it was left off the original album can only be classified as a mystery as it portrays Michael at his very best.
More intense than "Fully Qualified Survivor", "Rainmaker" does rely on the same recipe of interspersed sung and instrumental tracks though, in a very interesting mix of acoustic and electric guitars and bass with Chapman's impossibly addictive free-flowing - and quite possibly stoned - voice. The album opens with the rocking "It Didn't Work Out", then followed by the title track - one of three great acoustic instrumentals which still sound really fresh while showing Michael's undisputed skills. One can tell by the different tunings he used, and their eastern tinges, that he was coming from that same group of highly-talented British guitar players, such as Bert Jansch and Jimmy Page.
"Rainmaker" also lets it show more of how important Bob Dylan's influence was to Michael. Third song "You Say" is a reworking of Dylan's 1962 "Girl From The North Country" while a few other tracks, such as "No Song To Sing" and the beautiful closer "Goodbye To Monday Night", carry an undeniable Dylan feel to his voice, which is great if you ask me. Songs like "No-One Left To Care" and "Not So Much A Garden-More Like A Maze" are epic in scope and do stand out.
Again, as with the Light In The Attic edition of "Fully Qualified Survivor", it's a digipak and comes with a chunky 28-page booklet which is very informative and carefully executed throughout. In all, while possibly not as fulfilled as "Fully Qualified Survivor", "Rainmaker" does stand side by side with it due to its sheer spontaneity and power.
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