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01. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - In The Morning
02. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Chard & Chives
03. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Rain
04. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Hang Out & Breathe
05. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Thanksgiving Hymn
06. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Rinpoche
07. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Oh Sweet Self
08. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Waterwheel
09. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Mandala
10. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Nineteen Sixty-Six
11. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Vai Raga
12. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Pain & Love
13. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Lullaby
14. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Family To Me
15. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Sky Blues
16. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - Invocation
17. ALICIA BAY LAUREL - In The Morning (40 Voices)
ARTIST
TITLE
Music from Living On the Earth
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1047LP EM 1047LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/26/2015

Alicia Bay Laurel is well known as the writer and illustrator of one of the classic books of the back-to-the-earth movement, the 1970 hand-written guide to living the good life, Living On the Earth. She is also an accomplished singer, songwriter, and guitarist, the latter skill honed by studying with John Fahey. The songs on Music from Living On the Earth were composed concurrently with the writing of the book, permeated by the sun and soil of the commune life. Bright and earthy paeans to the natural world, featuring ABL's pure, strong, and uplifting voice atop her fluid, confident, and deft steel-string acoustic guitar fingerpicking, her style showing that she learned well from Fahey. She also collaborated with San Francisco Tape Music Center co-founder Ramon Sender Barayón, who contributes the 40-voice choral arrangement for the closing track. Although these songs were written as the '60s became the '70s, Music from Living On the Earth was actually recorded in 2000, first issued as a self-produced CD, and reissued on CD by EM Records in 2006 (EM 1047CD). This 2015 15th anniversary edition is its first appearance on vinyl, and includes liner notes by the artist as well as English and Japanese lyrics, allowing listeners to again hear ABL's blues, jazz, and Indian music influences meld with folk roots to glorious effect.