Maverick reissue producer Bill Inglot recently discovered more Troubadour tapes in the archives. He and fellow reissue producer Pat Thomas uncovered five different sets of material from three days’ worth of shows. These revelatory tracks have been assembled into a 2-LP package, Greetings From West Hollywood, and a 2-CD set, Venice Mating Call, both to be released October 13, 2017 on Manifesto Records.
With the exception of “Buzzin’ Fly,” there were no other songs in common with Dream Letter, and furthermore, these early September 1969 shows featured a slew of songs that had yet to be recorded in the studio (at that point), songs that would turn up on Lorca and Blue Afternoon, and even songs that were unique to this run of shows!
The improvisational nature of the music meant that Bill and Pat could assemble a couple of albums worth of material that would duplicate the track listing from the Troubadour 1969 album but present the listener with radically different versions of each song, plus add songs that did not appear on Troubadour 1969, including one that didn’t make it onto any Buckley studio LP at all.
Why do you need both releases? Because Buckley is liberally borrowing and stealing from himself during this run of shows: he occasionally moves lyrics from one song into another (or constructs an entirely different lyric), he folds the riff from “Buzzin’ Fly” into other songs, and so on. The whole band is vamping together — going into exploratory flights at other points. The energy coming off the stage and into the tape recorder is effortlessly exciting.
Thomas also penned the liner notes, which center on an extensive new interview with long-time Buckley guitarist (and on these recordings keyboardist) Lee Underwood that reveals incredible details into Buckley’s working methods. The packaging also includes piles of previously unseen photos and memorabilia from the era.
In addition to the two new and previously unreleased Tim Buckley packages, Manifesto Records will also release re-mastered versions of the two Tim Buckley classic albums, Sefronia (1973) and Look At The Fool (1974). Original master tapes were discovered after more than 40 years and now these brilliant albums have beautiful high quality packaging along the best sound possible.
Venice Mating Call
- Buzzin Fly
- Strange Feelin’
- Blue Melody
- Chase the Blues Away
- Venice Mating Call
- Gypsy Woman
- I Don’t Need It To Rain
- Driftin’
- (I Wanna) Testify
- Anonymous Preposition
- Lorca
- I Had A Talk With My Woman
- Nobody Walkin’
- Buzzin’ Fly
- Chase the Blues Away
- I Had A Talk With My Woman
- Blue Melody
- Nobody Walkin’
- Venice Mating Call
- I Don’t Need It to Rain
- Driftin’
- Gypsy Woman
- Dolphins
- Honey Man
- Because of You
- Peanut Man
- Martha
- Quicksand
- I Know I’d Recognize Your Face
- Stone In Love
- Sefronia – After Asklopiades, Fater Kafka
- Sefronia – The King’s Chain
- Sally Go ‘Round the Roses
- Look at the Fool
- Bring It On Up
- Helpless Blues
- Freeway Blues
- Tijuana Moon
- Ain’t It Peculiar
- Who Could Deny You
- Mexicali Voodoo
- Down in the Street
- Wanda Lou
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