Priscilla Ermel – Origens Da Luz
One of the best kept secrets of the ’60s folk scene, singer-songwriter Fred Neil Never was never quite comfortable with the music industry and would eventually walk away from all of it to hang with dolphins in Florida. His debut solo album Bleecker & Macdougal (renamed Little Bit Of Rain on this reissue) is groundbreaking for its use of electric guitar and helped plant the seeds for the later folk-rock movement. The album is named for the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Street in the Greenwich Village, which was considered the epicenter of the folk scene in New York and where it’s said Neil gave a struggling kid named Bob Dylan his first job…
Recommended – A4 Little Bit Of Rain, B2 Water Is Wide
Tags: Blues / Country / Cult Classic / Singer-Songwriter
Tracklist:
A1 Bleecker & MacDougal
A2 Blues On The Ceiling
A3 Sweet Mama
A4 Little Bit Of Rain
A5 Country Boy
A6 Other Side Of This Life
A7 Mississippi Train
B1 Travelin’ Shoes
B2 Water Is Wide
B3 Yonder Comes The Blues
B4 Candy Man
B5 Handful Of Gimme
B6 Gone Again
Credits:
Art Direction – William S. Harvey
Bass – Douglas Hatlelid*, Felix Pappalardi
Design – Robert L. Heimall
Guitar [2nd], Dobro – Pete Childs
Harmonica [Mouth Harp] – John Sebastian
Illustration [Front Cover] – Karl Swanson
Producer – Paul A. Rothchild
Supervised By [Production] – Jac Holzman
Vocals, Guitar – Fred Neil
Written-By – Neil* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B6)
