Artist:  WHISTLER, CHAUCER, DETROIT & GREENHILL             

Title:  “The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc.”

Label:  UNI.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is yellow with black text.  Catalog number is UNI 73034.  

Year:  1968

Review:  “Although Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit & Greenhill were indeed a quartet, no one in the band actually went by any of those names.  Instead, their eclectic, whimsical psychedelic-influenced 1968 LP, The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc., was recorded by David Bullock (guitar, bass, vocals), Scott Fraser (guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals), Eddie Lively (guitar, vocals), and Phil White (bass, keyboards, vocals), with John Carrick adding guitar and vocals, and a young T-Bone Burnett producing.  Bullock, Fraser, Lively, and Burnett all wrote material on the album, a low-key but ever-shifting mixture that defied an easy label.  Some songs ("The Viper [What John Rance Had to Tell]," "House of Collection") sounded rather like an oblique take on early, rustic Neil Young, though it's highly unlikely Young was a direct influence. Others offered accomplished country-rock ("Just Me and Her"), stirring folk-rock with touches of hard psychedelic rock guitar ("Ready to Move"), pastoral Renaissance-flavored orchestrated folk that sounded very much like some of the most baroque pieces recorded in the late '60s by the Beau Brummels ("Upon Waking from the Nap," "Tribute to Sundance"), and a haunting cabaret-like number laced with violin and disembodied backing vocals ("Street in Paris").

The group formed in Fort Worth, TX, where Fraser and Lively had been in the band the Mods.  After picking up the other members, they began recording in a basement studio of a local radio station, coming to the attention of Burnett.  Guy Clark, later to become a rootsy singer/songwriter of some renown, was also associated with the group and did the LP's cover design and photography.  The record, however, was barely noticed upon its initial release.  After Fraser, Bullock, and White hooked up with drummer Brett Wilson in Austin, they changed their name to Space Opera, recording more polished (though often still folk-rock-influenced) sounds for a self-titled album on Columbia in the early '70s..”

(couresty Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com)

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is gorgeous NEAR MINT, a beauty!  The playing surface is immaculate, with a high luster, played a small number of times and handled with utmost care.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity. 

Labels are clean and pristine with no spindle trail marks. 

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG++.  Front artwork is clean and bright.  Front and reverse are beginning to show very light traces of ring wear in a couple places, barely noticeable.  Seams and spine are excellent.  No writing, stickers, or other issues. 

There is a small drill hole at bottom right corner indicating that the album was originally sold as a cutout.  Overall a very fine jacket to accompany the beautiful disc.     

Track Listing: 

Side One: 

The Viper Day of Childhood Upon Waking from the Nap Live Till I Die Street in Paris As Pure as the Freshly Driven Snow        

Side Two:

Tribute to Sundance House of Collection Just Me and Her On Lusty Gentlemen Ready to Move

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