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JON-MARK

SALLY FREE AND EASY
Label RPM
Catalog RETRO993
Format CD
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-09-22
Description
JON-MARK’s enviable skills as a musician are familiar to many due to his leadership of the much-loved Mark-Almond band during the 1970s. Less familiar is his early work as an itinerant folk guitarist and session player in the mid-1960s the recorded evidence of which expertly showcases a natural and prescient talent. Top producer Shel Talmy signed the guitarist in 1964 whilst he was making a name as Marianne Faithfull’s accompanist and prepared a full-length acoustic album scheduled for release in the autumn of 1965. It remained unreleased until now. Sally Free And Easy presents the intended album in order along with outtakes from the 1965 sessions as well as Mark’s debut 45 ‘Baby I’ve Got A Long Way To Go’ (the flip being Mark’s original version of the popular mod item ‘Night Comes Down’). Mark’s last session with Talmy in late 1965 featured an interesting orchestrated version of Jackson C Frank’s notable ‘Blues Run The Game’. Transferred from the original master tapes by compiler Alec Palao and packaged with detailed notes and rare images Sally Free And Easy adds a fascinating and heretofore little-discussed chapter to the Brit-folk movement of the mid-1960s.
tracklisting
1. SALLY FREE & EASY
2. PARIS BELLS
3. CONFUSION
4. BLUES FOR HOBBITS
5. I WAS BORN IN WINTER
6. GOING DOWN THE ROAD
7. LOVE FROM AFAR
8. GOTTA MAKE THEIR FUTURE BRIGHT
9. THE VULTURE
10. BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A DIME
11. WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN I’M GONE
12. PORTLAND TOWN
13. BABY I’VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
14. NIGHT COMES DOWN
15. IF YOU’RE GONNA LEAVE ME
16. NORTH COUNTRY FAIR
17. ONCE I LOVED A GIRL
18. BLACK GIRL
19. YOU DON’T KNOW MY MIND
20. THE FIRST TIME
21. SALLY FREE & EASY (ACOUSTIC GUITAR VERSION)
22. BABY I’VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO (ACOUSTIC VERSION)
23. STAGGER LEE
24. ROOM SERVICE (BLUES RUN THE GAME)
 

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