THIS IS THE 1986 UK REPRESSING on EDSEL label. The single cover is in VG+ CONDITION. Normal wear, and without any major deterioration, BUT very light discolouration/wear on corners, mild creases on edges, 2cm seams split on bottom spine, left spine is fully readable, for details see photos (with or without flashlight). The vinyl is in EX condition, and plays wonderfully.
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STEVE YOUNG
with JAMES BURTON, DON BECK, DAVE JACKSON, HAL BLAINE
plus GENE CLARK, GRAM PARSONS, MYER SNIFFIN
Singer and songwriter, and early member of the outlaw country movement, who wrote hits for Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. A singer, tunesmith, and purveyor of what he dubbed "Southern music" -- a brew of country, folk, rock, blues, gospel, and Celtic styles -- Steve Young was a songwriter's songwriter, an acclaimed performer whose work found its greatest commercial success in the hands of other artists and earned him praise from the likes of Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, and Lucinda Williams. Born in Georgia and raised throughout the South, by his teens Young was already playing guitar and writing his own songs. In the early '60s, he moved to New York City and became affiliated with the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk music scene...
<reissue, originally published 1969>
LP EDSEL RECORDS ED 193
MADE IN ENGLAND 1986 REPRESSING
SINGLE COVER
Barcode: 5 014757 131936
Pressing Plant ID: Λ
LABEL: EDSEL - LILAC LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: ED 193
Catalog on labels: ED 193 ED 193-A / ED 193 ED193-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ED∙193∙A1 A PORKY PRIME CUT. (Stamped): Λ
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ED 193 B3 A PORKY PRIME CUT. (Stamped): Λ
On labels: rim text reads "All Rights Reserved............Manufactured in the UK"
Manufactured under license from A&M Records Ltd
℗ 1969 A&M Records
© 1986 Demon Records Ltd
On Back Cover: Notes by Steve Young June 10th 1986
Manufactured under license from A&M Records Ltd
Edsel Records. A division of Demon Records Ltd. Brentford, Middlesex
Manufactured in England
tracklisting
Side A: THAT'S HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS - ROCK SALT & NAILS
I'M A ONE WOMAN MAN - COYOTE - GONNA FIND ME A BLUEBIRD - LOVE IN MY TIME
Side B: 7 BRIDGES ROAD - KENNY'S SONG
HOLLER IN THE SWAMP - HOBOIN' - MY SWEET LOVE AIN'T AROUND
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Rock Salt and Nails is a highly regarded cult country-rock-folk record, in part because some of the supporting musicians are highly regarded pioneers of the form: Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark all appear on the album. While it is not among the very best of such late-'60s hybrids, it is pretty good, though too low-key to command the kind of wide interest (by cult standards, anyway) that someone like Clark or Parsons does. Steve Young has an unusually convincing reedy voice, never overdoing the melodramatics yet establishing a dramatic atmosphere that admits hints of blues, soul, and swamp pop. When distant, mournful strings are added to his more anguished and somber songs, like "Seven Bridges Road," "Holler in the Swamp," and "Kenny's Song," there's an effective multi-dimensionality rare in early country-rock. Other songs, particularly the covers of old country tunes, are less striking. It's an interesting release, though, that's quite rewarding for fans of more adventurous country-rock fusions...(AllMusic)