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01. Mick Stevens - No Survivors Now
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02. Mick Stevens - The Girl Came To Our Town
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03. Mick Stevens - Book Eight
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04. Mick Stevens - '77
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05. Mick Stevens - Crazy For Your Love
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06. Mick Stevens - Suite (To A Seagull)
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07. Mick Stevens - The River
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01. Mick Stevens - Out And Running
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02. Mick Stevens - Little Miss Freedom
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03. Mick Stevens - The Ballad Of Laszió Fehér
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04. Mick Stevens - Drunk By Myself
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05. Mick Stevens - The Englishman
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06. Mick Stevens - The Eagle And Me
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07. Mick Stevens - Somewhere
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08. Mick Stevens - Steppenwolf
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09. Mick Stevens - The Other Side Of The Rever
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10. Mick Stevens - Anji (Home Recording)
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11. Mick Stevens - The Englishman (Home Recording)
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12. Mick Stevens - Sea That My Grave's Kept Clean (Home Recording)
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13. Mick Stevens - LBC Interview
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ARTIST
STEVENS, MICK
TITLE
The River/The Englishman
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
SHADOKS MUSIC
CATALOG #
SHAD 072CD
SHAD 072CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/22/2005
These are the last recordings of Mick Stevens, originally released in 1977 (
The River
) and 1979 (
The Englishman
), respectively. Mick Stevens arrived on the music scene and then disappeared, seemingly without anybody noticing. Two sublime, inventive, and beautifully-crafted homemade albums in the early 1970s --
See The Morning
and
No Savage Word
-- (previously reissued by Shadoks, SHAD 038CD) were evidence of the superior songwriting and arranging skills that he possessed. Though highly personalized, the performances, the songs, the musicianship, and the painstaking (low-budget and homespun) production of these first two records gave them a sound and a feel that suggested that here was a real talent on the launch-pad of a musical career of some substance. By 1977, and with no record contract in sight, Mick took a group of musician friends into Spaceward Studios in Cambridge (England) and recorded the tracks for
The River
, the first CD in this 2CD collection. The dreamy vocal layers so prevalent in the earlier albums are subservient to a much harder and "rockier" sound, while Stevens' electric guitar-playing is of the highest order. Since the '70s were a time of much creativity and wholly new approaches to sound, a number of musical influences can be heard in Stevens' music on this particular album. The opening to the lengthy "Suite (To A Seagull)" has overtones of
King Crimson
or
Gentle Giant
, developing into a
Yes
-like section and a middle-eight reminiscent of early
Steely Dan
. The album
The Englishman
is self-assured, confidently and beautifully played by a bunch of first-rate musicians including
Ric Sanders
of
Soft Machine
, the
Albion Band
and
Fairport Convention
, and
Michael Gregory
-- whose crisp drumming patterns are a real highlight. The track "The Englishman" is the clear apex of the album, with Stevens' voice and solo acoustic guitar completely filling the audio waves in a song about an Englishman overseas. The original vinyl pressings of all Mick Stevens' albums are now collector's items, all exorbitantly expensive. These songs have never sounded as good as they do on these CDs due to the care and attention of the transfer process in removing all the surface noise to be found on the original vinyl and tapes.
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