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BEAU

Creation

Original UK LP released on Dandelion Records in 1971.

DAN 8006 A1   /   DAN 8006 B1

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This was Beau's second album for John Peel's Dandelion label, released in 1971. What sets this apart from his first album is the fact that Tractor are his backing band for this outing.

It's a strange mix; the Folk songs of a renowned folk songwriter with the twisted rock musings of Tractor. Possibly the song where this works best is "Silence Returns", which has a undercurrent of darkness that is just about kept in check until the end when all hell breaks loose through an incredible acid guitar piece until the song eventually fades out.

It's nowhere near as "Acid" as the first Comus album for example, but as a whole the album does work. Some songs are more traditional, some far more twisted.

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Beau is a specialist twelve-string guitar player who first became known in the late 1960s through his recordings for John Peel's Dandelion label. He released two albums on Dandelion - "Beau" (1969) and "Creation" (1971) which featured Jim Milne and Steve Clayton from Tractor as backing musicians on some tracks, plus the single "1917 Revolution" which had greater success abroad than it did in the UK. "1917 Revolution" is said to have been the inspiration for America's "A Horse With No Name".

His best known song however is probably "The Roses Of Eyam" (written under the name of John Trevor) which folk singer Roy Bailey took around the world and which he recorded on his "Hard Times" LP in 1985. This version was subsequently re-released on Bailey's "Past Masters" CD in 1998. (Beau himself released the song on his "Lost Songs Found!" CD in 2001.)

Beau has produced several hundred songs, and has also recorded under the names of John Trevor and Trevor Midgley. Though mostly known as a "folk" performer, his writing has been also been strongly influenced by blues and rock. He co-wrote "WARHOL - The Musical" with Steve Clayton of the band Tractor.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Nine Minutes 
There Once Was A Time 
Spider 
April Meteor 
Is This Your Day 
Creation

Side Two

Blind Faith 
Ferris Street 
Release 
A Reason To Be 
Silence Returns

 

Released on 'Dandelion Records' in 1971

Catalogue No. DAN 8006

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (small sticker tear / general wear)

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