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01. TRYAD - I'm Wonderin' How I Ever Got That Way
02. TRYAD - Columbia Tavern
03. TRYAD - Uptown Suburban Alley
04. TRYAD - The Coming Time Of Gone
05. TRYAD - Something Sweet In Dying
06. TRYAD - Country Way
07. TRYAD - Spider Song
08. TRYAD - Don't Talk To Strangers
09. TRYAD - Northern Journey
10. TRYAD - Eulogy/Raga
ARTIST
TITLE
If Only You Believe In Lovin'
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
DV 012LP DV 012LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/12/2018

2022 restock, low price, last copies. Del Val Records present a reissue of Tryad's If Only You Believe In Lovin', originally released in 1971 as a private press. Ultra-deluxe LP reissue on the newly resurrected Del Val label -- obscure but legendary label previously responsible for early editions by The Brigade, The Bachs, Bent Wind, D.R. Hooker, Fifty Foot Hose, etc. Long overdue and much delayed reissue of this 1971 NYC private press few have heard and less have seen. Comparable to the best UK folk-fusion LPs of the era, this is like a Yankee version of Hunter Muskett's great Every Time You Move (1970) with co-ed vocals plus bass/drums/pedal steel/flute/keys accompaniment and East Coast haunted not West Coast hip, though you'll be reminded of a certain revered private from out there that wouldn't exist for another five years: Relatively Clean Rivers. Comes with a four page lyric insert and the cover is what they were made like fifty years ago.

"Low key but really cool. Hard to believe it's an NYC piece from '72 from a sonic aspect. There's a kind of innocence to overall heft that puts me in mind of very early Bay Area stuff, like the second We Five LP (1967). That same sort of psych-is-hanging-unnamed-in-the-background vibe. The only thing that really places it in the '70s is that pedal steel which has a definite post-Sneaky-Pete feel. Very cool." --Byron Coley