VARIOUS – One Mile From Heaven – 2LP – Vinyl [JUL 7]

2LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl. 20 obscure songs from 70s and early 80s singer songwriters original privately pressed albums. Includes Insert with information and text by Steve Krakow.

Superb compilation of 70s Outsider Singer/Songwriter Private Press Gems.Features Jim Sullivan, Gary Higgins, Bobb Trimble, Merrell Fankhauser and many more.

ONE MILE FROM HEAVEN is a dreamy travel through the 70’s and beyond private singer songwriters scene. There have always been privately-pressed records. A private LP is an album that has been composed, performed, recorded and edited usually very-DIY style by the very artist or by an amateur label. A private press record is, above all, an act of the artistic urge. Its an act that takes place outiside of the industry out of need, out of a lack of knowledge out of love, out of a drive, out of ambition… you can choose among the many reasons. Depending on their genre, origins, time, and above all, quality, some of these efforts have become valuable pieces for the music collector. Having been created behind the canonical history of music written by the industry, every now and then an archaeologist will bring to the surface an artifact they have found in some basement or flea market, or that was kept covered in dust in the shell of some old recording studio soon to be torn down.

All these records have their own story, and some are still especially relevant, and others are but small footnotes in the encyclopedia of music that made their way into the margins of the mainstream world. These are the most limited of editions (and mostly locally made ones) of largely unsociable and mostly unobtainable records, and when found, they are often exorbitantly priced. Many of these marginalized and obscure artists have stayed alive only through the wonderful work of tireless song rescuers, music lovers, vocational archivists, collectors, and record labels with an idealistic drive. These romantics have been rescuing and indexing a form of music that very few have showed interest in until recent years. This record is a tribute to all of those who managed to make these songs not be lost to time.

Above all, this release is a tribute to all those artists who recorded their songs on their own, mostly because they couldnt keep the music inside themselves.

Tracklist:

Maitreya Kali–OneLast Farewell
Gary Higgins–Thicker Than A Smokey
Alicia May–Summer Days
Dan Gillmor & Doug McClaran–Ghost Song
Bobb Trimble–OneMileFromHeaven
Bob Patterson–Friends Of Mine
Jim Sullivan–JeromeC
Chuck & Mary Perrin–Corrine
Dan Modlin & Dave Scott–Loser, Lover
Billy Hallquist–Persephone
Richard Goldman–Sweethearts
Olav Rixen & Ulrich Fausten–Pilgrimade
Naomi Lewis–More Beautiful
Jerry and Nancy Stevens–A Little Resolution
Merrell Fankhauser–On Our Way To Hana
Michael Angelo–Field Of Lonely Eyes
Carm Mascarenhas–In The Sun
Joe & Bing–Daybreak
Philip John Lewin– –Diamond Love
Michael Yonkers–“And Give It To You”