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Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, was dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's this one. Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made. After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the Dillard & Clark group that was a pioneering country-rock outfit, Clark took time to hone his songwriting to its barest essentials. The focus on these tracks is intense, they are taut and reflect his growing obsession with country music. Produced by the late guitarist Jesse Ed Davis (who also worked with Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, Link Wray, and poet John Trudell, among others), Clark took his songs to his new label with confidence and they supported him. The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris Ethridge, the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, organist Michael Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber. Clark's writing, as evidenced on "The Virgin," the title cut, "For a Spanish Guitar," "One in a Hundred," and "With Tomorrow," reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines. Using melodies mutated out of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds' sound on White Light, Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged gentility, and are harrowingly intimate in places. His reading of Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage," towards the end of the record rivals, if not eclipses, the Band's. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a bewildered tome of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist - Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer - Richard G. Manuel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist - B.E. King, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Mike Stoller, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 2002 A&M Records
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gene Clark, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jesse Davis, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, was dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's this one. Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made. After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the Dillard & Clark group that was a pioneering country-rock outfit, Clark took time to hone his songwriting to its barest essentials. The focus on these tracks is intense, they are taut and reflect his growing obsession with country music. Produced by the late guitarist Jesse Ed Davis (who also worked with Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, Link Wray, and poet John Trudell, among others), Clark took his songs to his new label with confidence and they supported him. The band is comprised of Flying Burrito Brothers' bassist Chris Ethridge, the then-Steve Miller Band-pianist (and future jazz great) Ben Sidran, organist Michael Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber. Clark's writing, as evidenced on "The Virgin," the title cut, "For a Spanish Guitar," "One in a Hundred," and "With Tomorrow," reveals a stark kind of simplicity in his lines. Using melodies mutated out of country, and revealing that he was the original poet and architect of the Byrds' sound on White Light, Clark created a wide open set of tracks that are at once full of space, a rugged gentility, and are harrowingly intimate in places. His reading of Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage," towards the end of the record rivals, if not eclipses, the Band's. Less wrecked and ravaged, Clark's song is more a bewildered tome of resignation to a present and future in the abyss. Now this is classic rock.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:06
- Main artists: Gene Clark
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2002 A&M Records This Compilation ℗ 2002 A&M Records
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