JULIET LAWSON BOO LP TREES PSYCH PROG FOLK ROCK 1972 UK

	£		82
	$		109

LP JULIET LAWSON BOO UK 1972 RELEASE SOVEREIGN LABEL CATALOGUE NUMBER SVNA 7257 (IE 064 93873) STEREO

VINYL SIDE I IS IN EXCELLENT MINUS CONDITION AS IS SIDE 2.

THE DARK BLUE LABELS WITH SILVER LETTERINGS MINUTE SIGNS OF SPINDLE WEAR GENERALLY CLEAN BUT PLEASE NOTE ON BOTH SIDES OF LABEL THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAS WRITTEN HIS NAME FRED IN LIGHT BIRO BELOW THE PRINTED WORDS SOVEREIGN AND ABOVE THE PRINTED WORD BOO. ANYONE WITH THE PATIENCE AND A STRONG ERASER/CORRECT CLEANING FLUID SHOULD BE ABLE TO REMOVE THESE,

GATEFOLD COVER HAS A LIGHT TEXTURED WALLPAPER TYPE EFFECT . NOT QUITE AS HEAVY OR RIPPLED AS THE ORIGINAL KING CRIMSON IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON BUT SIMILAR.

THE FRONT OUTER OF THIS GATEFOLD COVER HAS JULIET LAWSON PRINTED IN GREEN AND BOO PRINTED IN YELLOW AGAINST A BROWN BACKING. THERE IS A COLOURED DRAWING OF A CHIMPANZEE WEARING A STARRED DARK BLUE CONICAL HAT. A RED WAISTCOAT WITH DULL YELLOW/BROWN BUTTONS AND A MULTI COLOURED STRIPED SHORT SLEEVED SHIRT. THE BACKGROUND IS WHITE AND BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS OWNER NEVER KEPT THE ALBUM IN A PROTECTIVE POLY COVER IT IS SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAR. ESPECIALLY ALONG THE BOTTOM AREA TO THE LEFT OF THE CHIMPS LEFT ARM. ALSO THERE IS A VERY MINUTE STICKER IN THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER AND BENEATH IT AND AROUND IT SIGNS OF WHERE  A PREVIOUS STICKER HAS BEEN.

THE REAR OF THE COVER  HAS THE CATALOGUE NUMBER AND THE SONG TITLES PRINTED IN GREEN AND THE REST OF THIS BACK COVER IS THE SAME WHITE BACKGROUND TEXTURE AS THE FRONT COVER. AGAIN THE WHITE IS SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAR DUE TO BAD STORAGE PRACTICE BY THE PREVIOUS OWNER THE MYSTERIOUS FRED.

ABOUT AN INCH OF THE SPINE HAS WORN AWAY BUT YOU CAN STILL JUST ABOUT READ LAWSON WHILST BOO AND THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS CLEARLY VISIBLE. THIS AREA OF SPINE WEAR IMPINGES FOR 4TENTHS OF AN INCH TO A DEPTH OF 2TENTHS OF AN INCH ONTO THE REAR COVER.

THE INNER GATEFOLD COVER HAS FARED SLIGHTLY BETTER. IT FEATURES ALL THE LYRICS OF THE FANTASTIC SONGS ON THIS GREAT SCARCE LP A GREAT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OF JULIET LAWSON WITH HEAVILY BLACK MASCARRA AROUND THE EYES AND WEARING A PSYCHEDELIC SWIRLING PATTERNED TOP WITH LACY LOOKING COLLAR HER SVELT LIKE FIGURE SUGGESTS AN ANDROGYNE MARC BOLAN OR DAVID BOWIE CIRCA HIS EARLY RCA LPS. IT SETS THE EERIE ETHEREAL MOOD FOR THE FASCINATING MUSIC WITHIN,

THIS INNER GATEFOLD CENTRESPREAD BECAUSE IT IS SET AGAINST A BLACK  BACKGROUND DOES NOT SHOW AS MUCH WEAR AS THE OUTER FRONT PART OF THE GATEFOLD.

OVERALL I SHALL GRADE THE COVER VERY GOOD MINUS. I HAVE BOUGHT LPS ON E BAY WITH WORSE COVERS THAN THIS THAT HAVE BEEN GRADED AS EXCELLENT CONDITION SO I THINK MY GRADING AND DESCRIPTION IS VERY REASONABLE.

IF YOU WANT A MINT CONDITION ITEM LOOK ELSEWHERE. THIS IS A FUNCTIONAL COPY OF A MEGA RARE ITEM. IN OVER 45 YEARS OF RECORD COLLECTING I HAVE ONLY EVER SEEN ONE OTHER COPY WHICH I ALSO OWN. I WAS SENT A COPY TO REVIEW BACK IN 1972 WHEN I WAS ENTERTAINMENTS SECRETARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. THAT COPY IS IN MINT CONDITION BUT HAS THE DREADED WHITE AND RED FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE STICKER ON ONE OF THE LABELS. 3 YEARS AGO A VERY WELL KNOWN NAME RECORD COLLECTOR OFFERED ME TWO HUNDRED POUNDS FOR IT.

PLEASE NOTE I PROVIDE FREE OF CHARGE A POLY OUTER PROTECTIVE SLEEVE WITH EVERY LP THAT I SELL ON E BAY. IF ONLY FRED HAD KEPT THIS LITTLE GEM IN A SIMILAR COVER WE WOULD BE TALKING OF THE COVER BEING IN EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION RATHER THAN VERY GOOD MINUS.

THE SOVEREIGN LABEL WAS CONCEIVED BY EMI IN THE EARLY 1970S AS BEING A HIP ALTERNATIVE TO THEIR OWN HARVEST LABEL WHICH WAS BY 1972 RUNNING OUT OF STEAM AND APART FROM THE PINK FLOYD WAS SUFFERING A DECLINE IN SALES VOLUME. SOVEREIGN THOUGH FARED NO BETTER AND THE FEW ALBUMS THAT APPEARED ON IT ARE NOW EVEN MORE SCARCE THAN SOME OF THE HARVEST COLECTABLES. THIS GREAT LP BEING PROBABLY THE LABELS MOST SORT AFTER ITEM.

IF YOU CAN IMAGINE A HIP FEMALE NICK DRAKE THEN YOU MIGHT JUST GET AN INKLING OF WHAT JULIET LAWSON WAS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU LOVE BRIDGET ST. JOHN OR SOLO PERIOD SANDY DENNY OR JUDY DYBLE AND JACKIE MACAULEY IN TRADER HORN OR THE MID POP FOLK ERA OF THE PENTANGLE THEN YOU SHOULD GET A BID IN ON THIS FANTASTIC ITEM.

FANS OF THE GREAT FOLK PSYCHE PROG ROCK BAND TREES WILL BE KEEN TO GRAB THEIR HANDS ON THIS LP TOO BECAUSE NOT ONLY DOES IT FEATURE TREES BASS AND KEYBOARDPLAYER BIAS BOSHELL ON MOST OF THE TRACKS BUT ALSO  THE WHOLE CABOODLE WAS PRODUCED BY TREES GUITARIST DAVID COSTA SON OF 1950S 1960S LEGENDARY BBC DJ SAM COSTA.

TRACKS ON THIS PIECE OF PLASTIC FANTASTIC ARE

DEAR FOOL

WHO IS INDIA

IGLOO

LET ME NOT PUT YOU DOWN

NOTHING NEW

ONLY A WEEK AWAY. ( IVE GOT THE SINGLE OF THIS SOMEWHERE when i find it i shall put it on e bay)

I WONT GET MY FEET WET AGAIN

PLAYING IS NO SONG

YOURE SO RIGHT SEPTEMBER

ROLLING BACK

THE WEEDS IN THE YARD (THIS WAS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SINGLE)

FROG IN THE JAM

THE MUSICIANS ARE

JULIET LAWSON ACOUSTIC GUITARS,   PIANO, VOCALS

IAIN BLAIR ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITARS

BIAS BOSHELL BASS KEYBOARDS

BARRY DE SOUZA DRUMS.    the ace session man

LUIS JARDINE PERCUSSION

LOL COXHILL SAXOPHONE.  DANDELION AND VIRGIN CAROLINE RECORDING STAR GENERAL ECCENTRIC GOOD TIME GEEZER AND SESSION MAN WHO IN HIS TIME HAS WORKED WITH EVERYONE FROM KEVIN AYRES TO THE DAMNED AND BEYOND AND BACK AGAIN. WE WONT HEAR HIS LIKE AGAIN FOR A VERY LONG TIME

RUSSELL VALDEZ  STEEL DRUMS

MIGUEL BARRADAS, CASEY SYNGE, KAREN FRIEDMAN, DARI LALOU BACKING VOCALS

STRINGS THE HAFNER STRING QUARTET . ARRANGED BY TONY COX

PRODUCED BY DAVID COSTA FOR FEELIES PRODUCTIONS

PLEASE NOTE I AM HAVING A MASSIVE DOWNSIZE OF MY MONSTER MUSIC COLLECTION AND HAVE OVER 2000 OTHER PROG FOLK ROCK PSYCHE LPS THAT I SHALL BE LISTING ON E BAY OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS SO Check out my other items! AND Be sure to add me to your favourites list! AND KEEP LOOKING IN MY E BAY SHOP