Upon its release in 1974, Gene Clark's No Other was soundly reviled as an exercise in studio and financial excess, a critical and commercial failure -- it was pop music's {#Heaven's Gate}. However, a scant year and a half later, Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album and its successor, Rumours, utilizing similar performance and production techniques, were adored by critics and the record-buying public, and have become cultural mainstays. The appearance of No Other on CD in America some 26 years   [ read more ]

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So Rebellious a Lover caused quite a stir when it first appeared on the Demon label in 1987, and was hailed as a return to form for Clark. Carla Olson, the Austin native who transplanted to L.A. (and is criminally underappreciated in America), was the perfect foil for Clark. As a songwriter, her lean and taut lines resonate her visions of weary hearts and broken but hopeful lives. Her tunes are rooted in the Americana tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Clark, and others. Clark's tunes   [ read more ]

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Gene Clark was one of the most gifted singers and songwriters of his generation, but bad luck and self-destructive habits followed him like a shadow, and it seemed sadly appropriate that he died in the spring of 1991 as he was working on a follow-up to the biggest success of his solo career, So Rebellious a Lover, his 1987 collaboration with Carla Olson of the Textones. Clark's poor health (aggravated by drinking) and fear of flying prevented a full-scale tour in support of {^So Rebellious a    [ read more ]

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Gene Clark's luck was rarely good when it came to his career after leaving the Byrds, and though his 1974 album No Other would come to be seen as a neglected masterpiece years after the fact, by early 1975 it was considered an expensive flop that put Clark on the bad side of David Geffen, and Clark was doing club dates when and where he could to make a buck and keep his name before the public. On February 19, 1975, Clark played in Denver, CO at a club called Ebbets Field, where he sh   [ read more ]

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Gene Clark, record business equals bad news. Case in point, this album. Or masterpiece, you could say. After two brilliant Dillard & Clark albums, A&M signed Clark to a solo deal. Okay, fair enough -- so far. In 1972, he delivered perhaps the finest album of his career, Gene Clark, (also known as White Light). Excellent reviews in all the top magazines, including Rolling Stone. Guess what? Almost zero sales. Now, here's the follow up, almost -- if not more -- brilliant. Released only in   [ read more ]

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Gene Clark's post-Byrds solo career was as fraught with false starts and unmet promises as his two years with the Byrds were filled with fame, fulfillment, and recognition. Firebyrd was an artistic triumph and a commercial disaster -- released to rave reviews and an enthusiastic response as one of the finest solo projects ever to come from an ex-Byrd, it was killed by poor distribution (demand in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, where fan interest in Clark and the Byrds was very hi   [ read more ]

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The first album that Gene Clark released after his departure from the Byrds followed very closely on the model of his earlier efforts on the Byrds' first two albums. His backing musicians included ex-bandmates Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke, as well as future Byrd Clarence White and Clark collaborator Doug Dillard, not to mention the Gosdin Brothers, whose harmonies resembled a rockier Everly Brothers and brought the sound very close to that of the Byrds. The album cont   [ read more ]

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Gene Clark's 1971 platter, with its stark black cover featuring his silhouette illuminated by the sun, was dubbed White Light -- though the words never appear on the cover -- and if ever a title fit a record, it's this one. Over its nine original tracks, it has established itself as one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever made. After leaving the Byrds in 1966, recording with the Gosdin Brothers, and breaking up the Dillard and Clark group that was a pioneering country-rock out   [ read more ]

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Kudos to Australia's Raven for assembling this fine 24-track overview of Gene Clark's most fertile period. Included are three Clark-penned Byrds stunners, two of the best from his first solo album, six from the Dillard & Clark albums (the Velvet Crush-covered "Why Not Your Baby" is unfortunately overlooked), a Flying Burritos-backed gem, two ersatz Byrds reunion cuts from Roadmaster, a whopping six from White Light, "Full Circle" from the otherwise tepid 1973 Byrds reu   [ read more ]

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