Gene Clark ‎– No Other / No Other Sessions (1974 us, brilliant folk country classic rock, 2019 hybrid SACD three disc box set)

Barely understood when it was released in 1974, No Other is Gene Clark’s most polarizing record but generally considered essential today.

Almost every song an epic, Clark’s songwriting was never up for debate, nor his genuinely poetic verses, but it’s Thomas Jefferson Kaye’s production that would weed out hordes of would-be fans. I contend the producer made only one mistake: the use of “power gospel” backing vocals on every track is probably what turns most people off to No Other. Strike the voices and this record would be hailed as a mid-70s masterpiece for Clark’s efforts as much as its lush, candied orchestration.

The record starts off without skipping a beat from the Clark oeuvre; “Life’s Greatest Fool” sounds like a natural step forward from his earlier country rock. The supporting musicians are perfectly in tune with the vision; I want to dig in deeper with the sound every listen, so I hardly consider it overcooked. One tune does embody Gene’s new super-glam image in sound, where you can “hear the cocaine” churning the record: the sinister title track, “No Other,” is slathered with sleazy synth lines and electric guitars. Whether for camp or pure songcraft it’s an irresistable jam and centerpiece of the record.

All of the numbers possess the signature Gene Clark sound. Say when he waits for “Strength Of Strings” to reach full crescendo before sinking into his minor-tinged verse with that untouchable heartworn vocal. Clark is one of the world’s greatest songwriters, his skill in transforming traditional progressions to his unique brand of song unmatched.

Give this record the right chance and you’ll reach the point where you appreciate every overdone detail, down to the gorgeous sleeve and awesomely hideous poster of Gene decked in flowing garments, beads, and makeup in front of an airbrushed Gene Clark monument. I only have the record, but the CD resissue is reportedly worth it for the alternative versions and “Train Leaves Here This Morning,” a retake from the Expedition.

by Brendan McGrath

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Life's Greatest Fool 4:44

2. Silver Raven 4:53

3. No Other 5:08

4. Strength Of Strings 6:32

5. From A Silver Phial - 3:40

6. Some Misunderstanding - 8:09

7. The True One - 3:59

8. Lady Of The North (Gene Clark, Doug Dillard) - 6:04

All songs by Gene Clark except track #8

Disc 2

1. From A Silver Phial (Version 4) - 3:51

2. Silver Raven (Version 2) - 6:35

3. Some Misunderstanding (Version 3) - 5:20

4. Life's Greatest Fool (Version 2) - 4:27

5. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 2) (Bernie Leadon) - 5:02

6. Lady Of The North (Version 2) (Gene Clark, Doug Dillard) - 5:45

7. The True One (Version 2) - 4:18

8. Strength Of Strings (Version 2) - 6:29

9. No Other (Version 2) - 5:40

All songs by Gene Clark except where noted

Disc 3
1. From A Silver Phial (Version 1) - 4:08
2. Life's Greatest Fool (Version 1) - 4:10
3. No Other (Version 1) - 5:15
4. Lady Of The North (Version 1) (Gene Clark, Doug Dillard) - 5:54
5. Some Misunderstanding (Version 1) - 5:12
6. Silver Raven (Version 1) - 5:00
7. Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 1) (Bernie Leadon) - 5:46
8. The True One (Version 1) - 4:42
9. Strength Of Strings (Version 1) - 6:23
10.Life's Greatest Fool (1974 Single Version) - 3:10
11.Silver Raven (1974 Single Edit) - 3:21
All songs by Gene Clark except where stated

Musicians
*Gene Clark - Lead Vocals, Guitar
*Jerry Mcgee - Guitar
*Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
*Buzz Feiten - Guitar
*Stephen Bruton - Guitar
*Danny Kortchmar - Guitar
*Ben Keith - Pedal Steel Guitar
*Leland Sklar - Bass
*Chris Hillman - Mandolin
*Michael Utley - Keyboards
*Craig Doerge - Keyboards
*Bill Cuomo - Rheem Organ
*Russ Kunkel - Drums
*Butch Trucks - Drums
*Joe Lala - Percussion
*Ted Machell - Cello
*Richard Greene - Violin
*Ronnie Barron - Background Vocals
*Cindy Bullens - Background Vocals
*Venetta Fields - Background Vocals
*Clydie King - Background Vocals
*Claudia Lennear - Background Vocals
*Sherlie Matthews - Background Vocals
*Timothy B. Schmit - Background Vocals
*Carlena Williams - Background Vocals

1964-90  Gene Clark - Flying High
1964-82  Gene Clark ‎- The Lost Studio Sessions (2016 audiophile double Vinyl set) 
1967  Gene Clark - Echoes
1967  Gene Clark - Sings For You (2018 digipak with unreleased material)
1968-69  Dillard And Clark - Fantastic Expedition / Through The Morning, Through The Night
1971  Gene Clark - White Light
1972  Gene Clark - Roadmaster  (2011 Edition)
Related Acts
1979  McGuinn, Clark And Hillman (2014 Japan SHM Remaster)
1964  The Byrds - Preflyte (2012 Edition)
1973  Byrds - Byrds (2004 issue)
1967-68  The Rose Garden - A Trip Through The Garden (2018 bonus tracks remaster)

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David Blue - Cupid's Arrow (1976 us, great blend of country bluesy smooth classic rock, 2006 reissue)

Singer/songwriter David Blue has tended to be well supported by talented studio musicians on his string of albums, of which this is the seventh in ten years. Here, he boasts a backup band as good as any he has used in the past: Jesse Ed Davis on lead guitar, producer Barry Goldberg on piano and organ, Auburn Burrell on pedal steel and rhythm guitar, Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. & the MG's on bass, and Levon Helm of the Band (or Michael Baird) on drums, with David Lindley adding mandolin, slide guitar, and violin. 

The playing gives him more of a rock sound than he has used before, although the musicians are versatile enough to give the leadoff track, "Run, Run, Run," a lilting Southwestern/Mexican feel to go along with its lyrics about the Santa Ana winds and the lights of Santa Fe, and to negotiate a reggae rhythm on "Maria, Maria." More typical, however, is "Tom's Song," a sinuous rocker that recalls the Eagles' "One of These Nights." But as the musical content of Blue's records has become more accessible and accomplished, his songwriting has tended to take more of a backseat, and his monotonic singing has remained only adequate. Here, the songs have interesting lines as they tell their tales of love and loss, but they are not as effective on the whole as Blue's earlier work. 

by William Ruhlmann

Tracks
1. Run Run Run - 4:34
2. The Ballad Of Jennifer Lee - 4:23
3. Tom's Song - 4:11
4. I Feel Bad - 2:32
5. Cordelia - 4:34
6. Maria, Maria - 4:02
7. Cupid's Arrow - 4:11
8. Primeval Tune - 5:18
9. She's Got You - 4:47
All songs by David Blue

Musicians
*David Blue - Guitar, Vocals
*Michael Baird - Drums
*Pattie Brooks - Vocals
*Phyllis Brown - Vocals
*Auburn Burrell - Guitar
*Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
*Donald "Duck" Dunn - Bass
*Barry Goldberg - Keyboards,
*Levon Helm - Drums
*David Lindley - Guitar, Mandolin, Slide Guitar, Violin
*Jackie Lomax - Vocals
*Bill Schwartz - Vocals

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster)
1968  David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (2007 reissue) 
1969  David Blue - Me, S. David Cohen (2007 edition)
1972  David Blue - Stories (2006 edition)
1973  David Blue - Nice Baby And The Angel (2006 issue)
1975  David Blue ‎- Com'n Back For More (2006 release)

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David Blue - Stories (1972 us, beautiful folk country rock, 2006 edition)

With his fourth album, Stories, David Blue joined Asylum Records, the label headed by David Geffen that had been set up to shelter singer/songwriters like Jackson Browne. For Blue, it was another welcoming home after stints at similarly artist-friendly Elektra and Reprise, and Stories was a continuation of his explorations of the personal relationships of sensitive people. 

The opening song was called "Looking for a Friend," and that was a good introduction to an album that was about the ups and downs of friendship and the loneliness that sets in when friends are not around. Musically, the album was divided between its two LP sides, each containing four songs. On the first four, the arrangements tended to be limited to two acoustic guitars, while the second half used more extensive instrumentation, including Pete Jolly's accordion on "Marianne," the piano-with-strings "Fire in the Morning" (the chart done by Jack Nitzsche), the full-on rock band playing on "Come on John," and piano/organ folk-rock for "The Blues (All Night Long)," with Ry Cooder adding slide guitar. Blue's lyrical reflections, expressed in his matter-of-fact baritone, touched on experiences that ranged from temporary romantic contentment to suicidal urges. "It wasn't easy, when I think about it/Living in the house of changing faces," he sang in the chorus of "House of Changing Faces," "I still have the tracks to remind me what life was like, high and wasted/When I wanted to die." That wasn't the only song to allude to drug use.

The most explicit was "Come on John" (previously recorded by Helen Reddy), a cautionary tale for a friend that left little doubt about its subject when it began, "I've got a friend with a habit/A habit of runnin' away/He says he can't take it/But he takes it every day." Musically, the song had the feel of Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," but for once Blue didn't sound so much like Dylan on Stories as he did like Leonard Cohen. In fact, there was one song that might have been a direct response to Cohen. It's hard not to at least speculate that "Marianne" may share a subject with Cohen's "So Long, Marianne," particularly because of the musical similarity and because of the lines "I knew her from another song her older poet, he'd wrote before/We played in the morning, laughing on the floor/Till he came a-knocking on the Lower East Side door." Although Blue, too, seemed not have stayed with her, he made a point of countering Cohen's farewell, singing in the chorus, "Do not cry, you have helped me, I will not say goodbye." Whether or not this is the same Marianne, however, she is another friend described by Blue in a series of songs about a community of companions who love and lose each other, yet whatever their fates, he seemed grateful to them all. 

by William Ruhlmann

Tracks:
1. Looking For A Friend - 3:41
2. Sister Rose - 3:53
3. Another One Like Me - 3:17
4. House Of Changing Faces - 6:23
5. Marianne - 4:37
6. Fire In The Morning - 3:50
7. Come On John - 3:38
8. The Blues (All Night Long) - 6:25
All songs written by David Blue

Personnel
*David Blue - Vocals, Guitar, Piano
*Ry Cooder - Slide Guitar
*Chris Ethridge - Bass
*Bob Rafkin - Bass, Guitar
*Ralph Shuckett - Organ
*Pete Jolly - Accordion
*Russ Kunkel - Drums
*James Karstein - Drums
*John Barbata - Drums
*Milton Holland - Percussion
*Rita Coolidge - Backing Vocals
*Jack Nitzsche - Strings Arrangements

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster)
1968  David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (2007 reissue) 
1969  David Blue - Me, S. David Cohen (2007 edition)
1973  David Blue - Nice Baby And The Angel (2006 issue)
1975  David Blue ‎- Com'n Back For More (2006 release)

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David Blue ‎- Com'n Back For More (1975 us, wonderful folk soft rock, 2007 rerelease)

Backed up by some fine musicians, David Blue recorded his fifth album "Com'n Back For More" in 1975 (not counting his album "Me" under his real name Stuart David Cohen). 

The album contains some nice catchy songs, a good cover of Leonard Cohen's "Lover Lover Lover" a rocker "Where Did It Go" and the beautiful folkish "23 Days #2".

Tracks
1. Com'n Back For More - 3:00
2. Oooh Mama - 4:58
3. When The Rains Came - 2:56
4. Who Love - 2:38
5. Save Something (For Me Tonight) - 3:31
6. Lover, Lover, Lover (Leonard Cohen) - 2:58
7. Hollywood Babies - 3:20
8. 23 Days #2 - 4:06
9. Any Love At All - 3:26
10.Where Did It Go - 2:32
All songs written by David Blue except where noted

Personnel
*David Blue (Stuart David Cohen) - Vocals, Guitar
*Bob Dylan - Harmonica
*Joni Mitchell - Vocals
*Max Bennett - Bass
*Kreag Caffey - Harmonica
*Ben Keith - Pedal Steel Guitar
*Ben Benay - Guitar
*Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - Guitar
*Don Felder - Guitar
*Larry Carlton - Guitar
*Robben Ford - Guitar
*Larry Nash, Tom Hensley - Piano
*Dick Hamilton - Moog Synthesizer
*Renie Press - Bass
*Karin Lamm - Vocals
*Dan Peek - Vocals
*Dewey Bunnell - Vocals
*Jerry Beckley - Vocals
*Carol Carmichael - Vocals
*John Guerin - Drums, Percussion, Vocals

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster)
1968  David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (2007 reissue) 
1969  David Blue - Me, S. David Cohen (2007 edition)
1973  David Blue - Nice Baby And The Angel (2006 issue)

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David Blue - Nice Baby And The Angel (1973 us, awesome country folk rock, 2006 issue)

David Blue, whose song publishing company is called Good Friends Music, has always relied on his fellow musicians, many of them more prominent in the record business than he is. His most prominent musical friend on his fifth album, Nice Baby and the Angel, is Graham Nash, who produced the disc in addition to singing background vocals and playing acoustic guitar and electric piano. Nash's influence has made for a fundamental change in musical style for Blue, whose previous efforts harked back to '60s folk and folk-rock. Not so Nice Baby and the Angel. Under Nash's aegis, and with sidemen including guitarist Dave Mason and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, and additional background singers Mason, Glenn Frey of the Eagles, and Jennifer Warren, Blue is brought into the Southern California rock fold of country-inflected singer/songwriter music à la Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Jackson Browne.

The changeover is apparent right at the start with the rocking leadoff track "Outlaw Man." (The song was quickly taken up by the Eagles as appropriate for their Desperado concept album and released by them as a singles chart entry, giving Blue his biggest payday.) Mason makes himself felt right away with an electric guitar solo that runs right through the song. Anchored by Nash's keening tenor, the background vocals considerably sweeten this and other songs. Another potential single is "True to You," which is reminiscent of the First Edition hit "But You Know I Love You," while the catchy "Darlin' Jenny" makes lots of room for Lindley's slide guitar work. There are a few tracks on the LP that hark back to Blue's earlier style, the first of which is "On Sunday, Any Sunday," which features an arrangement for two acoustic guitars augmented by Lindley's violin and viola and Terry Adams' cello. "Yesterday's Lady" and "Troubadour Song" boast similar instrumentation, and the latter in particular is more characteristic of the old Blue with its downcast, introspective lyrics. 

Otherwise, Blue's words are somewhat less personal and involved than usual, although his outlook is much the same as ever, expressing the views of a lonely, sensitive man who encounters love but doesn't retain it. As he puts it in the album-closing "Train to Anaheim," "I'm still on the road/I can't be satisfied." Thanks to Nash, Nice Baby and the Angel dresses such sentiments in highly accessible musical garb that may make it easier for a larger audience to appreciate.

by William Ruhlmann

Tracks
1. Outlaw Man - 2:50
2. Lady O' Lady - 3:20
3. True To You - 3:40
4. On Sunday, Any Sunday - 3:44
5. Darlin' Jenny - 3:54
6. Dancing Girl - 2:48
7. Yesterdays Lady - 4:35
8. Nice Baby And The Angel - 3:06
9. Troubadour Song - 3:46
10.Train To Anaheim - 3:29
All songs by David Blue

Musicians
*David Blue - Acoustic Guitar, Piano, String Arrangements, Vocals
*Graham Nash - Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Electric Piano, String Arrangements, Vocals
*Jennifer Warren - Vocals
*Terry Adams - Cello
*John Barbata - Drums
*Chris Ethridge - Bass
*Glenn Frey - Vocals
*David Lindley - Acoustic, Slide Guitar, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Zither
*Dave Mason - Guitar, Vocals
*Bob Rafkin - Bass, Acoustic Guitar

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster)
1968  David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (2007 reissue) 
1969  David Blue - Me, S. David Cohen (2007 edition)

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David Blue - Me, S. David Cohen (1969 us, excellent country folk rock, 2007 edition)

For this album only, David Blue reverted to his name, David Cohen. By this time, impressively, the overt Bob Dylan-isms of his 1966 debut had faded far enough that most listeners would not automatically peg him as a Dylan imitator anymore. It's a little Dylan-esque, certainly, but not more so than several other singer/songwriters of the period. More specifically, his voice was coming more into his own personality as a low-key country-rocker who was able to keep in tune much more than he had as a Dylan clone. 

Recorded in Nashville, as was fashionable among folk-rock singer/songwriters in the late '60s and early '70s, it's a low-key but pleasant record, coming as close to Townes Van Zandt as Bob Dylan. There are sturdy, somber story songs like "Atlanta Farewell"; breezy, poetic romantic ones like "Turning Towards You," which has an almost jazzy, breezy feel at points; and an occasional Tex-Mex border mood (as there had been on 1968's These 23 Days in September), which comes particularly to the fore on "He Holds the Wings She Wore" and "Better off Free." Certainly the most ambitious track is "Sara," which mixes Leonard Cohen-style spoken poetry with Mexican-influenced barroom lament. It might be a minor 1970 singer/songwriter/folk-rock album, but as such albums go, it's one of the better ones. 

by Richie Unterberger

Tracks
1. Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) - 4:37
2. Lady Fair - 3:12
3. Atlanta Fairwell - 5:45
4. Turning Towards You - 3:35
5. Isn't That The Way It's Supposed To Be - 2:12
6. Beautiful Susan - 3:14
7. He Holds The Wings She Wore - 3:56
8. Better Off Free - 3:50
9. Me And Patty On The Moon - 2:50
10.How Much My Life Means To Me - 3:52
11.Sara - 5:56
All songs by David Blue except track #1

Musicians
*David Blue - Guitar, Vocals
*Charlie McCoy - Harmonica

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster)
1968  David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (2007 reissue) 

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Bodkin - Bodkin (1972 uk, enormous heavy prog, 2008 bonus track digipak remaster)

Bodkin was a Scottish quintet that released a self-titled album in 1972 (over the years this current title has become attached to its release). A very palatable blend of dark organ-rock and dirty blues, Bodkin will surely please listeners interested in the murky and mysterious early years of the Heavy Prog scene and anyone seeking rare prog.

They made a classic-sounding, rough-edged heavy progressive rock with the emphasis on Doug Rome's Hammond organ and complimented by Mick Riddle's guitar, Bill Anderson's bass, Dick Sneddon on drums, and the cool wailing of Zeik Hume. Somewhat more jam-oriented than contemporaries such as Atomic Rooster or Uriah Heep (and not quite as hard-hitting), Bodkin nevertheless delivered spirited rock music with energetic interplay between guitar and organ, fine musicianship, and distractingly good compositions from the 21 year-old Doug Rome. Give it a listen, it will crush you against the wall until it is all over!  

Tracks
1. Three Days After Death (Part 1) - 9:28
2. Three Days After Death (Part 2) - 7:09
3. Plastic Man - 5:59
4. Aunty Mary's Trashcan - 10:48
5. After Your Lumber - 5:12
6. Three Days After Death (Part 2) - Instrumental - 7:09
All compositions by Zeik Hume, Mick Riddle, Doug Rome, Dick Sneddon, Bill Anderson
Bonus Track 6

Bodkin
*Zeik Hume - Vocals
*Mick Riddle - Guitar
*Doug Rome - Organ
*Dick Sneddon - Drums
*Bill Anderson - Bass

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Dog Soldier - Dog Soldier (1975 uk, remarkable hard funky blues rock, 2011 bonus track remaster)

The first official CD release of the album Dog Soldier. Keef Hartley formed the band bringing together Mel Simpson keyboards/vocals, Miller Anderson vocals/guitar, Paul Bliss bass/vocals, Derek Griffiths guitar/vocals and Hartley on drums. Hartley a British drummer got his start when he was one of the drummers to replace Ringo Starr in the band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes in 1963 when Ringo left to join the Beatles. From the Hurricanes Hartley joined the Artwoods which was a band headed by Arthur Wood the oldest brother of Ronnie Wood of The bands Faces and Rolling Stones. Derek Griffiths was a member of Artwood with Hartley and Miller Anderson was a part of Keef Hartley Band and a member of Savoy Brown band in 1974.

Another member of Artwood was Jon Lord who went on to be a founding member of Deep Purple and Hartley went to John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In the late 60s Hartley formed Keef Hartley Band and in 1969 it was one of the few British bands to play Woodstock Festival. The sole album of Dog Soldier was recorded between November 18 and December 15, 1974 and featured excellent material such as Pillar To Post , Thieves And Robbers and the twelve minute long Looks Like Rain .According to Miller Anderson's interview:Dog Soldier was an Indian name that Keef Hartley thought of as a band name. When Al Teller, the boss of United Artists in the USA, heard I had more or less turned down the gig with BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS, he was interested to see what else I was doing. Keef knew that if anything came from this it would be because of this interest and wanted to be just part of the the band for a change. Al Teller came to London to hear the band and signed us to United Artists. And that was the "Dog Soldier" album. 

Tracks
1. Pillar To Post (Miller Anderson) - 5:03
2. Several People (Keef Hartley) - 5:21
3. You Are My Spark (Derek Griffiths) - 7:18
4. Long And Lonely Night (Mel Simpson) - 5:31
5. Giving As Good As You Get (Paul Bliss) - 4:52
6. Thieves And Robbers (Miller Anderson) - 5:52
7. Stranger In My Own Time (Mel Simpson) - 4:34
8. Looks Like Rain (Miller Anderson) - 11:36
9. Looks Like Rain (First Version) (Miller Anderson) - 15:33

Dog Soldier
*Miller Anderson - Vocals, Guitar
*Keef Hartley - Drums
*Mel Simpson - Keyboards, Vocals
*Derek Griffiths - Guitar, Vocals
*Paul Bliss - Bass, Vocals

Related Acts
1968-72  Not Foolish Not Wise
1969  Halfbreed (2008 Esoteric)
1969  The Battle Of North West Six  (2008 Esoteric)
1970  The Time Is Near (2008 Esoteric)
1970  Overdog (2005 Eclectic)
1971  Little Big Band
1972  Seventy Second Brave (2009 Esoteric)
1972  Lancashire Hustler (2008 Esoteric)
1971  Miller Anderson - Bright City
1973  Hemlock - Hemlock (2004 issue)

1969  Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress (2009 Edition) 
1970  Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress II 
1974  Savoy Brown - Boogie Brothers

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Hemlock - Hemlock (1973 uk, remarkable hard funky blues rock, 2004 issue)

The only album ever released by Hemlock is truly one of 70's British rock's hidden jewels! Soulful, melosic, unpretentious, this was the next careere step for Miller Anderson who'd just left Keef Hartley Band a year earlier, and could easily be construed as his second solo album (you wouldn't be too far off the mark thinking that it was, anyway).

It had all the right ingredients for succes, however it failed due to miserable promotion and the general lack of effort on behalf of Deram, which caused this short lived formation to dissolve.

CD Liner Notes

Tracks
1. Just An Old Friend - 5:44
2. A Lover's Not A Thief - 3:28
3. Mister Horizontal - 3:23
4. Ship To Nowhere - 5:51
5. Monopoly - 3:21
6. Broken Dreams - 3:50
7. Fool's Gold - 2:41
8. Garden Of Life - 3:12
9. Young Man's Prayer - 5:38
All compositions by Miller Anderson

Hemlock
*Miller Anderson - Vocals, Guitars
*Peter Dines - Organ, Acoustic Guitar
*Michael Weaver - Organ, Piano, Clavinet, Congas
*James Leverton - Bass
*Eric Dillon - Drums, Percussion
With
*Chris Mercer - Baritone, Tenor Saxophone
*Pete Willsher - Steel Guitar

Related Acts
1971  Miller Anderson - Bright City
With Keef Hartley
1968-72  Not Foolish Not Wise
1969  Halfbreed (2008 Esoteric)
1969  The Battle Of North West Six  (2008 Esoteric)
1970  The Time Is Near (2008 Esoteric)
1970  Overdog (2005 Eclectic)
1971  Little Big Band
1972  Seventy Second Brave (2009 Esoteric)
1972  Lancashire Hustler (2008 Esoteric)
..other..
1969  Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress (2009 Edition) 
1970  Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress II 
1974  Savoy Brown - Boogie Brothers

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David Blue ‎- These 23 Days In September (1968 us, fascinating folk country rock, 2007 reissue)

"David Blue's  strikes something like a warning with the cover, a vintage Highway 61 shot with a sullen Blue in a leather jacket. His delivery is quite like Dylan's on Blonde on Blonde. But behold, the lyrics are among the best I've recently heard. Though the stance is like Dylan's, the words themselves indicate he really knows some things Dylan knows, and some things the master doesn't," 

by Arthur Schmidt, September 28th, 1968

While Inside Llewyn Davis is loosely based on "the King of Greenwich Village" Dave Van Ronk, you could draw just as many parallels between the Coen brothers' creation and David Blue. Also a regular of the Greenwich Village folk scene, Blue frequently performed in the company of Van Ronk, Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. After his own solo career stalled, Blue briefly joined Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue before trying his hand at acting, including roles in Wim Wenders' The American Friend and Neil Young's still-out-of-print oddball comedy Human Highway. Blue died suddenly of a heart attack in 1982 at the age of 41. Kris Kristofferson and Joni Mitchell were among the musicians who attended his memorial.

by Daniel Kreps

Tracks
1. These 23 Days In September - 5:25
2. Ambitious Anna - 3:25
3. You Need A Change - 3:01
4. The Grand Hotel - 4:00
5. The Sailor's Lament - 5:19
6. You Will Come Back Again - 3:30
7. Scales For A Window Thief - 5:44
8. Slow And Easy - 3:24
9. The Fifth One - 2:46
All songs by David Blue

Musicians
*David Blue - vocals, guitar, arranger
*Eric Hord - guitar
*Gabriel Mekler - keyboards
*Bob Rafkin - guitar
*Joe Osborn - bass
*James Burton - guitar

1965-66  David Blue - David Blue / Singer Songwriter Project (2001 remaster) 

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