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01. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Flowering Trees
02. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - When School Begins
03. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Run With The Ponies
04. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Be On My Way
05. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - She Picks The Violets
06. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Valentine King
07. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Eyes Are The Window
08. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Humming Bird
09. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Mr. Parker
10. ORIGINAL HARMONY RIDGE CREEK DIPPERS - Jericho
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Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers
FORMAT
LP+CD

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NN 007LP NN 007LP
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RELEASE DATE
1/5/2010

When the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers' self-distributed inaugural CD first appeared in 1997, fans of Jayhawks-founder Mark Olson had to work pretty hard to find it. Now, Nero's Neptune Records presents this overlooked masterpiece on vinyl for the first time. Pressed at RTI on 180 gram virgin vinyl (with deluxe packaging that includes a free CD), a new era of discerning music-lovers can now discover what a devout few have known all along: Mark Olson is one of this country's very finest songwriters, and this LP is as fine a representation of his poetic vision as has ever been bestowed upon the world. Olson, together with multi-instrumentalists Mike "Razz" Russell and Victoria Williams, offers 10 tunes that revolve around his gently strummed acoustic guitar. Lovingly woven background vocals (courtesy of Ms. Williams) and tasteful, sparse use of piano, mandolin, fiddle and banjo flesh out Olson's heartbreakingly sincere and affecting songs. Pure and simple, this is a desert island-level classic. As No Depression magazine gushed, "it's the kind of music that's impossible to strive for, to fashion from careful study or conscious effort; the only way it happens like this is when it flows straight out from the soul."