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Fred Neil's epoymous second album (third overall if you count his collaboration with Vince Martin, Tear Down The Walls) came out in 1966, when the folk-rock and singer-songwriter genres were taking off - it’s often considered an important album in the development of both genres.Leaving the tradition of folk songs as protest music behind, its lyrics focused on more personal and introspective. Fred Neil - Bleecker & MacDougal (1965) Fred Neil was an influential American singer-songwriter. Fred Neil was born in Ohio in 1936, and from an early age benefited from a life of music, travelling across the US with his father (who worked as a representative of a jukebox company). In the late 50s Neil moved to New York and found work as a. Bleecker & MacDougal Fred Neil. Released 1965. Bleecker & MacDougal Tracklist. Bleecker & Macdougal Lyrics. Blues on the Ceiling Lyrics. Sweet Mama Lyrics. Little Bit of Rain.
13 Songs, 33 Minutes
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EDITORS’ NOTES
Though its title refers to the epicenter of the early Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Bleecker & MacDougal is hardly a run-of-the-mill coffeehouse record. With his dark-hued, sonorous voice and advanced songwriting skills, Neil was something quite apart from the hordes of hootenanny-goers in the Village. “Blues On the Ceiling” and “The Other Side of This Life” expressed the harrowing inner life of a tormented soul beyond what Joan Baez, or even Bob Dylan, had shown up to that point. And while it may have been the acoustic rave-ups like “Bleecker & MacDougal” and “Gone Again” that made Neil the toast of his peers, it was the languid style he showcased on “Little Bit of Rain” and “The Water if Wide” that would become his trademark. Forerunners to Neil’s haunting masterpiece “The Dolphins,” these narcotic blues would inspire everyone from Neil contemporaries Tim Hardin and Tim Buckley, to later exponents of inner-space rock’n’roll like Spacemen 3 and the Verve.
EDITORS’ NOTES
Though its title refers to the epicenter of the early Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Bleecker & MacDougal is hardly a run-of-the-mill coffeehouse record. With his dark-hued, sonorous voice and advanced songwriting skills, Neil was something quite apart from the hordes of hootenanny-goers in the Village. “Blues On the Ceiling” and “The Other Side of This Life” expressed the harrowing inner life of a tormented soul beyond what Joan Baez, or even Bob Dylan, had shown up to that point. And while it may have been the acoustic rave-ups like “Bleecker & MacDougal” and “Gone Again” that made Neil the toast of his peers, it was the languid style he showcased on “Little Bit of Rain” and “The Water if Wide” that would become his trademark. Forerunners to Neil’s haunting masterpiece “The Dolphins,” these narcotic blues would inspire everyone from Neil contemporaries Tim Hardin and Tim Buckley, to later exponents of inner-space rock’n’roll like Spacemen 3 and the Verve.
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- 13 Songs, 33 Minutes
- Released: Aug 1, 1965
- ℗ 2004 Elektra Entertainment. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing
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