Shawn Phillips: Contribution / Second Contribution on CD
Contribution / Second Contribution
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- BGO
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1970/1971
- Item number:
- 7578038
- UPC/EAN:
- 5017261208712
- Release date:
- 1.6.2009
Originally released in 1970 and 1971 on the A&M record label
Shawn Phillips is one of most fascinating and enigmatic artists to come out of the early ‘70s singer-songwriter boom. The fact that he was a musician as much as a singer / songwriter made him stand out, and his refusal to shape his music – which crosses between folk-rock, jazz, progressive, pop and classical – to anyone else's expectations has allowed him to hold onto a large and dedicated following.
‘Contribution’, Phillips’ first major album, mixes progressive rock and folk sounds in a manner unique to its time. Recorded with help from members of Traffic (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Caleb Quayle) among others, this is a condensation of a far more ambitious studio original that was intended to fill three LPs.
On ‘Second Contribution’, Phillips carries us across folk (‘The Ballad Of Casey Deiss’) and rock styles, with a heavy R&B feel at times (‘Song For Mr. C’), accompanied by a band and arranger Paul Buckminster’s (Elton John, Stones, Bowie, Bee Gees) most restrained orchestrations. (Quotes courtesy AMG)
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Man hole covered wagon
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2 L ballade
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3 Not quite nonsense
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4 No question
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5 Withered roses
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6 For jfk rfk & mlk
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7 Lovely lady
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8 Screamer for phlyses
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9 She was waiting for her mother at the station in t
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10 Keep on
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11 Sleepwalker
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12 Song for mr. c
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13 The ballad of casey deiss
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14 Song for sagittarians
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15 Lookin' up lookin' down
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16 Remedial interruption
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17 Whazz at
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18 Schmaltz waltz
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19 F sharp splendor
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20 Steel eyes
