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NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Gypsy Cowboy (CBS 65008) RARE 1976 UK Pressing MINT!
RARE mid-70s UK pressing of the New Riders Of The Purple Sage album "Gypsy Cowboy" on CBS Records (December 1972). With its bi-coloured CBS record labels, this is the second UK pressing, issued in 1976. 
"Gypsy Cowboy is such a great album. In some ways it is the epitome of the whole cowboy rock or country rock which began with the Byrds` Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and which later blossomed and reinvigorated much of the two genres. This album is consistently good throughout beginning with the soulful "Gypsy Cowboy" which no-one could imagine to be the first choice of DJs to play on the radio but which sets the tone and standard for the rest of the album to follow.
This band had finally escaped from the shadow of the Grateful Dead although my strongest feeling about this is that it is very close in feel to Garcia's first album and highlights his own skill with the pedal steel guitar. It is clear too that the songwriting talents of Dawson and Torbert were in some competition with each other, producing some very high quality songs indeed.

Some of the standard themes are clearly in evidence: Illegal whiskey running and trying to escape the taxman and the finding of gold during the goldrush days testify to the attractions of the cowboy image of individuality and finding your own way in life while the conflicting images of women portrayed in "Groupie" and "Linda" as well as "She's No Angel" are clearly articulating the contentious dichotomy which they play in men's lives.

The highlight for me of this album has to be "Death And Destruction", not only because of the subject matter which compares historic human disasters against the then contemporary anti-capitalistic view of the American way of life which the musicians had rejected in favour of the earlier rugged individualistic cowboy era. The lyrics are very evocative and bring horrific images to mind while the music skillfully complements those images but soars into the stratosfear nevertheless. Apocalyptic in more senses than one.

Others have remarked upon the individual musicians and I heartily concur, but this is certainly a case not of their being "there are are no I's in Team" but of "Team is made up of I's". Certainly their reputations as individual musicians was already high but this combination is greater than that. Revisiting this album some twenty-two years after it's release, it is surprising in some ways but not in others, how new and refreshing this album sounds today. A classic of it's time which I would sum up in one word...sublime." - Review by "Junglies" for amazon.com

GRADING:

MINT(-) COVER. Original unlaminated sleeve in pristine condition. Please see photos for details.
- A single small crease to the front spine. Otherwise perfect.

MINT(-) RECORD that looks unplayed.
- Perfect vinyl on both sides, with impeccable audio reproduction throughout.
- The record was bought new in the late seventies. It has not been played more than once or twice: Pure perfection! 
- No hairlines, scuffs or any other visible signs of previous play at all!
- Original bi-coloured CBS Records labels with no spindle wear whatsoever.
- The matrix stamps in the run-off grooves read "S 65008  A1" and "CBS 65008  B1".
- This record is certified to be a second UK pressing of "Gypsy Cowboy", released in 1976.
PLEASE NOTE: Not to be compared with the more-often-than-not substandard vinyl on offer on eBay, this item is in honestly-graded MINT(-) condition. For more information on the veracity and reliability of my grading, I kindly refer the prospective buyer to my feedback comments and seller rating.
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