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hese days, singer-songwriter and actor David Blue tends to be remembered only in relation to Bob Dylan. A member of the supporting cast in mid-60s Greenwich Village and The Rolling Thunder Revue. Yet to categorise Blue in this way is reductionist, and does him an injustice. He was something of an archetype of the 60s generation of Greenwich Village singer-songwriters. Yet, esteemed by his peers, he was overlooked. He released seven albums in a decade, and his acting career was shaping up when he died suddenly at the age of just 41. His passing was barely noted in the rock press, and in the subsequent years Blue was all but forgotten. Of late, though, that’s changed. His albums started to reappear on CD on small labels and, in 2020, both Rolling Stone and Mojo magazines published major reappraisals. Blue – at last – was getting the attention denied him in life.



It wasn’t until 1965 that Blue, as Dave Cohen, released his first recordings – three songs on Elektra’s Singer Songwriter Project. All betrayed a debt to pre-electric Dylan. But then again, so did much else coming out of Greenwich Village at the time. Elektra contracted Blue to do his own album, and in 1966 David Blue was released – his first recording to appear under that name. Electric folk rock with a garage band attitude, somewhat in debt to Highway 61, it didn’t sell well. Shortly after the album’s release Blue formed and toured with The American Patrol, a four-piece rock band, recording an album for Elektra that was never released.



Now, for the first time, Hanky Panky and Mapache release those historical abandoned American Patrol recordings, along with the three tracks included on Elektra’s 1965 LP Singer Songwriter Project, as David Blue And The American Patrol The Lost 1967 Elektra Recordings & More and David Blue, his self-titled 1966 debut album, on two exclusive vinyl editions limited to 500 copies

The Gasman Won't Buy Your Love

3:00


About My Love

2:35

So Easy She Goes By

3:31

If Your Monkey Can't Get It

2:58

Midnight Through Morning

4:52

It Ain't The Rain That Sweeps The Highway Clean

3:30

Arcade Love Machine

3:50

Grand Hotel

4:03

Justine

2:58

I'd Like To Know

2:22

The Street

6:10

It Tastes Like Candy

4:08



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These days, singer-songwriter and actor David Blue tends to be remembered only in relation to Bob Dylan. A member of the supporting cast in mid-60s Greenwich Village and The Rolling Thunder Revue. Yet to categorise Blue in this way is reductionist, and does him an injustice. He was something of an archetype of the 60s generation of Greenwich Village singer-songwriters. Yet, esteemed by his peers, he was overlooked. He released seven albums in a decade, and his acting career was shaping up when he died suddenly at the age of just 41. His passing was barely noted in the rock press, and in the subsequent years Blue was all but forgotten. Of late, though, that’s

changed. His albums started to reappear on CD on small labels and, in 2020, both Rolling Stone and Mojo magazines published major reappraisals. Blue – at last – was getting the attention denied him in life.



It wasn’t until 1965 that Blue, as Dave Cohen, released his first recordings – three songs on Elektra’s Singer Songwriter Project. All betrayed a debt to pre-electric Dylan. But then again, so did much else coming out of Greenwich Village at the time. Elektra contracted Blue to do his own album, and in 1966 David Blue was released – his first recording to appear under that name. Electric folk rock with a garage band attitude, somewhat in debt to Highway 61, it didn’t sell well. Shortly after the album’s release Blue formed and toured with The American Patrol, a four-piece rock band, recording an album for Elektra that was never released.



Now, for the first time, Hanky Panky and Mapache release those historical abandoned American Patrol recordings, along with the three tracks included on Elektra’s 1965 LP Singer Songwriter Project, as David Blue And The American Patrol The Lost 1967 Elektra Recordings & More and David Blue, his self-titled 1966 debut album, on two exclusive vinyl editions limited to 500 copies

A1

David Blue & The American Patrol–

You Need A Change

3:48

A2

David Blue & The American Patrol–

23 Days In September

5:15

A3

David Blue & The American Patrol–

Vaudeville Blues

3:50

A4

David Blue & The American Patrol–

King Of Spain

3:22

A5

David Blue & The American Patrol–

Anna

3:56

B1

David Blue & The American Patrol–

Dr. Smith's Electrical Light Machine

2:37

B2

David Blue & The American Patrol–

Scales For A Window Thief

4:36

B3

David Blue & The American Patrol–

Best Of Your Childlike Smiles

5:05

B4

David Cohen*–

I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning

2:20

B5

David Cohen*–

It's Alright With Me

1:58

B6

David Cohen*–

Don't Get Caught In A Storm

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We couldn't be happier to announce the first Mapache Records compilation after all these years. ONE MILE FROM HEAVEN is a dreamy travel through the 70's and beyond private singer songwriters scene.



There have always been privately-pressed records. Such a "private" LP is an album that has been composed, performed, recorded and edited usually very-DIY style by the very artist or by an amateur label. A private press record is, above all, an act of the artistic urge. It's an act that takes place outiside of the industry out of need, out of a lack of knowledge, out of love, out of a drive, out of ambition... you can choose among the many reasons.



Depending on their genre, origins, time, and above all, quality, some of these efforts have become valuable pieces for the music collector. Having been created behind the "canonical history of music" written by the industry, every now and then an archaeologist will bring to the surface an artifact they have found in some basement or flea market, or that was kept covered in dust in the shell of some old recording studio soon to be torn down.



All these records have their own story, and some are still especially relevant, and others are but small footnotes in the encyclopedia of music that made their way into the margins of the mainstream world. These are the most limited of editions (and mostly locally made ones) of largely unsociable and mostly unobtainable records--and when found, they are often exorbitantly priced. Many of these marginalized and onscure artists have stayed alive only through the wonderful work of tireless song rescuers, music lovers, vocational archivists, collectors, and record labels with an idealistic drive. These romantics have been rescuing and indexing a form of music that very few have showed interest in until recent years. This record is a tribute to all of those who managed to make these songs not be lost to time. Above all, this release is a tribute to all those artists who recorded their songs on their own, mostly because they couldn't keep the music inside themselves.



TRACKLIST



Maitreya Kali "One Last Farewell"

Gary Higgins "Thicker Than A Smokey"

Alicia May "Summer Days"

Dan Gillmor & Doug McClaran "Ghost Song"

Bobb Trimble "One Mile From Heaven"

Bob Patterson "Friends Of Mine"

Jim Sullivan "Jerome"

Chuck & Mary Perrin "Corrine"

Dan Modlin & Dave Scott "Loser, Lover"

Billy Hallquist "Persephone"

Richard Goldman "Sweethearts"

Olav Rixen & Ulrich Fausten "Pilgrimade"

Naomi Lewis "More Beautiful"

Jerry and Nancy Stevens "A Little Resolution"

Merrell Fankhauser "On Our Way To Hana"

Michael Angelo "Field Of Lonely Eyes"

Carm Mascarenhas "In The Sun"

Joe & Bing "Daybreak"

Philip John Lewin "Diamond Love"

Michael Yonkers "And Give It To You"

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Clasic debut album by Epic Soundtracks from The Swell Maps.



Collaborations by Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) , Rowland S. Howard (The Birthday Party) and Martyn P Casey (The Bad Seeds).



Strings arrangements by Henry Olsen.



Insert with unseen pictures and liner notes by Chris Coleman.



“Rise Above is an album that fell through the cracks – in 1992, records by singer-songwriters were more likely to be ignored than they were 20 years before in the early 1970’s or would be 20 years later in the early 2010’s. It was certainly critically acclaimed but unnoticed by the world at large. Time, surely, for these dozen classic songs to be re-assessed." (Chris Coleman)



“Rise Above is a work of pensive autumnal fragility and of such high quality, that it would be a monumental injustice to halt the fresh flow of Epic’s muse.” (Melody Maker)



“One of the “10 Best Albums Of The Year” (Spin)



"A gem out of left field... A bounty of delightfully anachronistic rock tunes here, in league with the best of Alex Chilton." (Billboard)



“...it’s even Mr Soundtracks’ version of Dennis Wilson’s “Pacific Ocean Blue”. People will come across “Rise Above” in ten years’ time and wonder where the hell it came from. For now, here’s the out-of-the-blue album of 1992." ( Select magazine’s Andrew Perry)



TRACKLIST



FALLEN DOWN

FARMER’S DAUGHTER

RUTHLESS

EVERYBODY ELSE IS WRONG

I FEEL GOOD

BIG APPLE GRAVEYARD

I DON’T KNOW

MEET ME ON THE BEACH

SAD SONG

SHE SLEEPS ALONE / LOVE FUCKS YOU UP

WILD SITUATION

SHE SLEEPS ALONE

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