CORKY CARROLL & FRIENDS Laid Back LP/71 US/Surfer Hippie Folk Rock/Acid Archives

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CORKY CARROLL & FRIENDS 'Laid Back' LP (Japan, EM Records, Catalogue #EM1093LP) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2011 EM Records label LP vinyl edition of scarce 1971 Surfer Hippie Folk Rock album entitled Laid Back by Corky Carroll (legendary surfer) & Friends (originally released in 1971 on the Rural Records label.)
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Just in time for summer: "Laid Back" by Corky Carroll and friends, a warm-hued snapshot of the musical life of one segment of the American surfing world, circa 1971. This album, the first ever recorded by true surfers, captures the relaxed, truly laid back feeling of the surfing life. The album features none of the tropes of "surf music": no reverb, no sugary vocal harmonies. Simply recorded with warm fidelity, what we hear is pro surfer Corky Carroll and his surfer pals in various combinations delivering songs and instrumental pieces, perfectly capturing the sultry seaside atmosphere and their idyllic oceanic lives.

All the performers were, in Corky's words, "real surfers" (unlike the Beach Boys), well-recorded in casual circumstances in California in 1971. Beginning (and closing) with Hawaii-born master board-maker Raymond Patterson's joyful slack-key guitar fantasias, the album features the famed Denny Aarberg on guitar (with Kathy Dragon of the legendary Dragon family), the articulate folk picking of David Lyons, Al Oakie's affable acoustic blues (with some fine harmonica), and the folky guitar playing of Carroll himself.

A blend of vocal and instrumental pieces, the album is largely acoustic, and even the two tracks with electric instruments (from the band Hana, with electric pianist Jon Close, guitarists Dave Rullo and herb Torrens, and bassist Dave Shoffner, surfers all) do not break the serenity of the calm, Pacific mood.

"Laid Back" was Carroll's first recording, released independently on Rural Records (jointly run by Carroll and Dennis Dragon) while Carroll was still surfing professionally. Dragon, a skilled engineer, and Carroll "travelled up and down the California coast with (Dragon's) mobile recording setup and recorded this music in these people's living rooms and garages." You can feel the ocean nearby...

"Laid Back", a long-prized treasure, is an oceanic balm retrieved from the waves of time and offered to all in 2011 by EM Records.

Corky Carroll (b. September 9, 1947) was a professional American surfer and is considered a pioneer in the sport by becoming the first real professional surfer as well as being the first to receive endorsements.
Carroll started his career in 1959 at a very early age and by the time he retired in 1972, he was only 24 years old. From 1966-1970 he won the United States Surfing Championship and also won the International Surfing Championship three times.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

A1Lahaina Girl2:32A2
Haleiwa2:19A3
Love Sick2:09A4
Waikiki Shuffle2:02A5
War4:13A6
Merrit3:12A7
Leavin' California Blues2:40B1
Hanalei2:55B2
Ain't Nothing (In The World)2:03B3
Sparkles1:00B4
Easy Ride3:52B5
All Pretty Women4:49B6
A Walk On Hot Sand1:43B7
Maui Chines2:45

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