For my first few posts, I figured I'd pull records that are personal favorites. Gene Clark's "No Other" is a good place to start:
Ex-Byrd songwriting powerhouse and early purveyor of the "cosmic country" sound that became huge by the mid-seventies on the west coast, Gene Clark offered up this heavy slab of burnt-out introspection in 1974. Production-wise, this one's on the lusher end of the spectrum for the cosmic country genre; detractors at the time were critical of it for this very reason, but I think that's what makes it special. Time has been good to "No Other": in recent years it has gone from record-head cult favorite to bona fide classic. Mean Gene has a knack for evocative songwriting and melody, but it's his searching, road-weary delivery of his songs that cuts to the core. When Gene sings, you believe him.
Key Tracks: No Other, Life's Greatest Fool, Strength of Strings, From a Silver Phial, The True One.
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