2001 Rhino Handmade
Out-of print. Released by Rhino Handmade as an individually-numbered limited edition of 3,000 copies.
It is impossible to think of the music of the 1960s without thinking of The Lovin’ Spoonful. And it is impossible to think of The Lovin’ Spoonful without thinking of John Sebastian.
Mr. Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler formed The Lovin’ Spoonful in Greenwich Village in New York. Over several precious years, they produced several precious albums that yielded songs that both kept them in the Top Ten and, it would turn out, kept their delicious lyrics and melodies a part of our stream of musical consciousness for more than 30 years. What is remarkable, however, is that John Sebastian's solo albums for Reprise Records are every bit as wonderful as anything in his entire recorded oeuvre. For fervent proof of this, we are proud to offer our new collection of the five particularly wonderful albums he recorded for Reprise between the years 1969 and 1976, which we are calling Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings.
Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings collects all five of his Reprise albums. The 1970 John B. Sebastian debut, 1971's Cheapo Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live and The Four Of Us (with the side-long epic "The Four Of Us" suite), Tarzana Kid from 1974 and his final Reprise album, 1976's Welcome Back. In addition, we have included both sides of his non-LP 1972 "Give Us A Break" single and, for the first time anywhere, his complete five-song performance from the original 1969 Woodstock Music And Art Fair in Bethel, NY.
A quote from the liner notes of The Big Ball, one of the fabled 2-LP promotional albums released by Warner Bros/Reprise in 1970, puts Mr. Sebastian's recordings in a proper context: "Name a folk or rock and roll idiom in which John has not written an incredible song, and we'll ship you a storeroom full of albums. Name us a more versatile songwriter-singer on the current American scene, and we'll provide you with a chauffeur for six months. Name a young ex-Village-folkie who comes as close to capturing the sheer joy of being alive in his songs, and we'll paint voluptuous nudes all over your van. If you think we're enthusiastic, you're right."
Disc 1:
(John B. Sebastian 1970)
1. Red-Eye Express (2:53)
2. She's A Lady (1:43 )
3. What She Thinks About (3:00 )
4. Magical Connection (2:46 )
5. You're A Big Boy Now (2:46 )
6. Rainbows All Over Your Blues (2:26 )
7. How Have You Been (4:07 )
8. Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy (2:56 )
9. The Room Nobody Lives In (3:10 )
10. Fa-Fana-Fa (2:43 )
11. I Had A Dream (2:42 )
(Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian 1971)
12. Mobile Line (Gonna Carry Me Away From The Bull Frog Blues) (2:31 )
13. Lovin' You (1:49 )
14. Fishin' Blues (3:38 )
15. Younger Girl (3:57 )
16. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (2:23 )
17. Rooty-Toot (2:37 )
18. In The Still Of The Night (I Remember Parris) (3:44 )
19. Teen Angel (0:47 )
20. Blue Suede Shoes (2:02 )
21. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (0:39 )
22. Nashville Cats (2:27 )
23. Waiting For A Train (3:26 )
24. My Gal (3:00 )
25. Younger Generation (3:40 )
26. Darlin' Be Home Soon (4:31 )
27. Blues For Dad And JB's Happy Harmonica (3:43 )
28. Amy's Theme (1:56 )
Disc 2:
1. Goodnight Irene (4:43 )
(The Four of Us 1971)
2. Well, Well, Well (2:20 )
3. Black Snake Blues (2:28 )
4. I Don't Want Nobody Else (3:16 )
5. Apple Hill (3:09 )
6. Black Satin Kid (2:38 )
7. We'll See (2:05 )
8. Sweet Muse (3:54 )
9. The Four Of Us (17:12 )
(non lp single 1972)
10. Give Us A Break (3:41 )
11. Music For People Who Don't Speak English (3:49 )
(Tarzana Kid 1974)
12. Sitting In Limbo (3:25 )
13. Friends Again (2:25 )
14. Dixie Chicken (3:47 )
15. Stories We Could Tell (3:07 )
16. Face Of Appalachia (4:18 )
17. Wild Wood Flower (1:50 )
18. Wild About My Lovin' (3:02 )
19. Singing The Blues (2:20 )
20. Sportin' Life (3:05 )
21. Harpoon (2:21 )
Disc 3:
(Welcome Back 1976)
1. Hideaway (2:54 )
2. She's Funny (3:35 )
3. You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine (2:55 )
4. Didn't Wanna Have To Do It (3:22 )
5. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (4:38 )
6. Welcome Back (2:48 )
7. I Needed Her Most When I Told Her To Go (2:56 )
8. A Song A Day In Nashville (4:05 )
9. Warm Baby (2:38 )
10. Let This Be Our Time To Get Along (3:14 )
(Live Set From Woodstock 1969)
11. How Have You Been (4:30 )
12. Rainbows All Over Your Blues (3:15 )
13. I Had A Dream (3:05 )
14. Darlin' Be Home Soon (4:25 )
15. Younger Generation (3:20 )
(Winterland, San Francisco 1969)
16. Sitting on Top of the World
17. Magical Connection
18. You're a Big Boy Now
19. I Found a Dream
20. Daydream
21. Younger Girl
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