THE DILLARDS BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS RARE ORIG'64 ELEKTRA MONO WHITE LABEL PROMO LP

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·      THE DILLARDS – BACK PORCH BLUEGRASS (THE DILLARDS’ GROUNDBREAKING FIRST ALBUM) – ORIGINAL 1963 ELEKTRA RECORDS MONO LP EKL-232

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·      ORIGINAL WHITE AND GRAY ELEKTRA LABEL WITH THE 'GUITAR PLAYER' LOGO, EARLY '60s STYLE, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION (THIS PARTICULAR LABEL WAS UNIQUE TO ELEKTRA'S EARLY '60s PROMOTIONAL PRESSINGS; STOCK COPIES DO NOT EXIST ON THIS LABEL)

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·      ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 4/63 (APRIL 1963) HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Over the course of their lengthy career, the Dillards would venture into numerous styles, including folk-rock and country-rock, with particularly innovative forays into the latter category. They'd started out as a bluegrass group, however, and bluegrass would remain at the core of their music, even as their blend of several genres broadened their listenership far beyond the folk and bluegrass audiences. Nowhere was their approach more in the solid bluegrass vein than on their first Elektra LPs

Although their earliest Elektra album, 1963's Back Porch Bluegrass, was their first record to gain wide distribution, the two brothers in the Dillards already had several years of recording experience by the time the LP came out. Doug Dillard and his younger brother Rodney started playing together in Missouri bands back in the 1950s, and while both were multi-instrumentalists, Doug would be most known as a banjo player, and Rodney most celebrated as a guitarist. In the late 1950s, they made some home recordings (with young fiddler John Hartford among the backing musicians) that found release on obscure singles (and an EP) billed to the Dillard Brothers on the small K-Ark label. Some other tapes from the time, recently issued on Early Recordings 1959, feature not only Doug and Rodney, but also mandolinist/singer Dean Webb and (as arranger) Mitch Jayne. With Jayne assuming the bass position, the Dillards became a quartet, moving to California in 1962 (though yet another recording predating the move, a summer '62 concert, found release in 1999 on the  CD A Long Time Ago—The First Time Live!).

Things happened quickly for the group when they arrived in Los Angeles. Jamming onstage at the Ash Grove folk club with fellow bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys, the Dillards were seen by Jim Dickson, who offered them a recording contract. Elektra was in the process of considerably expanding its West Coast operations, and Dickson was a key figure in that development, producing folk albums for the label by the Dillards and Hamilton Camp (also producing recordings for the Modern Folk Quartet during the same era for another company, Warner Brothers). Even before Back Porch Bluegrass came out in 1963, the Dillards had made their first appearance (as members of the Darling family) on television's The Andy Griffith Show, guesting in that role on the program on several more episodes over the next few years.

While there was much traditional about the bluegrass on the Dillards' debut LP, in some respects it wasn't as traditional as some purists would have liked. For one thing, half a dozen of the tracks were original tunes, though most of the others came from  traditional sources. And as ludicrous as it might seem today, the record also attracted some criticism for not being authentic. "We had troubles when our first record came out with the bluegrass people," Rodney Dillard told me in 2001. "At that time, everybody was wanting to put it in a museum, keep it the way it was, just look at it once in a while, and protect it so it didn't change. And we came along and our first album, Back Porch Bluegrass, had echo on the record. One of the guys from one of the little back-east [folk] rags said, 'Since when did they have echo chambers on back porches?' Well, that guy'd probably never been off his block, because you sit back here on my back porch right now, and you get nothing but echo, because I live up on a side of a mountain. I came from a rural area, grew up on a farm with no electricity and no bathroom until I was fourteen. That music had been around just like the dogs in a yard; I grew up with it. So from the very beginning, I had problems with the traditionalists."

 (EXCERPT FROM THE CD LINER NOTES BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Gorgeous mix of bluegrass, folk, blues and even some mountain balladry tossed in for good measure, this rare 1963 Dillards album presents them at their early best. Great work from the Elektra roster of artists.

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·                          CONDITION:

·                          THE RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++, JUST A NOTCH BELOW NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions (probably just sleeve scuffs inflicted in storage over the years) ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly  insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record comes in Elektra stock inner sleeve

(c)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·      COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1  (front side) and 5 (back side)

-       Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-       Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging (nothing significant)

-       Cover has a minor 'bump' (dent) on the spine (BARELY VISIBLE)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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