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MICK SOFTLEY Street Singer 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS A1/B1 MICK SOFTLEY
Street Singer

1971 UK CBS ‎(S 64395) FIRST PRESSING
NICE COPY OF THIS PRETTY RARE FOLK/BLUES LP

Mick Softley was a legendary folk-rock singer/songwriter of the 1960s who developed a cult following. Born in 1939, he was raised in Essex, adjacent to Epping Forest, and came of age just as skiffle and rock & roll started sweeping across the British Isles. Softley was oriented a little more intellectually than most of the teenagers around him, however -- reading and writing, not listening to and playing music, were his pleasures. Writing also became his initial career goal, and his heroes (if that's what they were) tended more toward Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg than Elvis Presley or Bill Haley. He headed for Paris rather than Hamburg, seeking out the literati of the era, became disillusioned with the beats and most of the writers he encountered. It was then that he fell into music, gravitating toward that circle of serious folkies embodied by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Derroll Adams, and Davy Graham. He returned to England and became part of the burgeoning folk music revival, and later ran a club, named the Spinning Wheel

PRESSED THE FIRST SOLID ORAHGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S 64395 A1 / S 64395 A1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT COVER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE

Side 1:
Goin' Down The Road
Ragtime Mama
Water Sister, Water Brother
Just Flew In On A Jet Plane
Shucks Blues
I Seen Good Times, I Seen Bad
Peoples Talkin' 'Bout Hard Times
Side 2:
Hope
Hey Mama
Gypsy
Goldwatch Blues
Went Down To The Sea
New Day, New Way

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Both labels are clean and unmarked with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are immaculate and even under bright light there is barely a hairline to be seen
VINYL Audio: VERY GOOD+
Plays beautifully with just some light low-level crackle on occasion - no doubt present from new, nothing too major and all-in-all a fine copy which has seen little use and been well cared for
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+
Apart from general light storage rub the cover is clean and all spine text is clear

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