Jay Bolotin

VINYL FORMAT. Described by Kris Kristofferson as "one of the three best songwriters in the country," Kentucky native Jay Bolotin's songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard, Dan Fogelberg and Porter Wagoner, among many others. Yet his eponymous debut, released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label, had the half-life of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970. Today, it remains as phantasmal as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky. However uncertain the release may have been some forty years ago, one thing is certain: in a darkened room in New York City at the end of a Kentucky childhood, the 20-year-old Bolotin cut a singularly enchanted album of unhurried, low-key loner ballads with the confidence and honesty of a seasoned journeyman - an unqualified singer-songwriter gem that will appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Alex Chilton. Features Kenny Lyon and Mark Taber, both veterans of the Providence scene, as well as The Fug's Bobby Mason and David Mowry.