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July 26, 2005

Gypsy Solitaire

Periodically I listen to cassettes which I taped from LPs before I moved from Philadelphia to Austin, and I get a hankering to replace them with CDs. Sometimes those obscure recordings have been re-released on CD, as with Ellen MacIlwaine or Malicorne.

Sometimes they haven't, as in the case of Fraser & deBolt. Some of us have been waiting decades to hear F&DB's ouevre without the scratches. I even found a used LP vendor who had a pristine copy of the first F&DB record. For $70. I almost bought it. God knows how much I would have to spend to have it transferred to CD, since I no longer own a turntable.

Daisy Debolt has forged a subsequent career as a niche-defying accordian-playing performance artist, so I wondered if she had nixed a re-release, since she is somewhat eccentric and artists feel that way about their early work sometimes. (Try to find early Joni Mitchell live recordings. Even the bootlegs have dried up.)

But no. Since my previous post the Fraser Debolt website has been born, with a link to Daisy's site, and now, finally, everyone can hear the incredible music they made in the early 70s. Which includes the best Beatles cover ever.

So go here (ignore the cheesy Renaissance Faire PR photo on the home page; that's not what they sound like at all), start with the first LP, at the bottom of the page. The fade-in on "All This Paradise" takes forever, wait it out. If you launch each soundfile as soon as the previous one has finished, you'll almost get the feel of the original LP. And think about how pathetic it is that a musician only has a scratchy copy of her own work. And lobby Columbia Records to get the masters out of the vaults and release a double CD of the only recorded music of Fraser & deBolt.

Judith | 07/26/05 at 10:08 PM | Categories: Sensual pleasures

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