CHRISTIE, SUSAN ~ PAINT A LADY ~ lp (finders keepers, uk)
susan christie was a philly-based sophomore folk singer who had one novelty hit for a major label and never quite recovered…and afterwards, her psychedelic take on country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude that was backed by a break heavy folk-funk rhythm section was never accepted as a commercial viability by record company big-wigs: they obviously couldn’t quite muster their ‘nostradamus’ sensibilities to foresee what future hip-hop producers and djs would be feeding into digital music-machines 30 years down the line! luckily three-fifths of a handful (literally three!) privately pressed vanity copies were manufactured in early 1970, one of which became the source material for this b-music release, nesting in the finders keepers’ ever-expanding library of obscure, obtuse, obsolete and obsessive vintage music from the ’60s and ’70s. the uber-legend john hill (who penned the mind-blowing acid rock floor-filler ‘love love love love love’ for wool) produced this release: which features 8 tracks including a twelve minute drugsploitation epic called ‘yesterday – where’s my mind’ featuring the enigmatic susan flipping vocal styles between janis joplin and margo guryan (who was in fact a close friend of susan’s at the time of recording.… pretty wild & great one. nice gatefold covers. limited.
CHRISTIE, SUSAN ~ PAINT A LADY ~ lp (finders keepers, uk)
CHRISTIE, SUSAN ~ PAINT A LADY ~ lp (finders keepers, uk)
susan christie was a philly-based sophomore folk singer who had one novelty hit for a major label and never quite recovered…and afterwards, her psychedelic take on country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude that was backed by a break heavy folk-funk rhythm section was never accepted as a commercial viability by record company big-wigs: they obviously couldn’t quite muster their ‘nostradamus’ sensibilities to foresee what future hip-hop producers and djs would be feeding into digital music-machines 30 years down the line! luckily three-fifths of a handful (literally three!) privately pressed vanity copies were manufactured in early 1970, one of which became the source material for this b-music release, nesting in the finders keepers’ ever-expanding library of obscure, obtuse, obsolete and obsessive vintage music from the ’60s and ’70s. the uber-legend john hill (who penned the mind-blowing acid rock floor-filler ‘love love love love love’ for wool) produced this release: which features 8 tracks including a twelve minute drugsploitation epic called ‘yesterday – where’s my mind’ featuring the enigmatic susan flipping vocal styles between janis joplin and margo guryan (who was in fact a close friend of susan’s at the time of recording.… pretty wild & great one. nice gatefold covers. limited.