Judee Sill Judee Sill 45RPM (2 LP)

Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 48/100!
AAA Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio!
Pressed at RTI on Dead Quiet 180g Vinyl! Double 45rpm LPs for Extreme Sound Quality!
Michael Fremer rated 9/11 Music, 10/11 Sound!!!
American singer/songwriter Judee Sill's classic 1971 debut, Judee Sill, is cut as a double-45RPM LP set and pressed on dead-quiet 180-gram vinyl.
The amazing Judee Sill was the first artist to be signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records, and Judee Sill was the first album to be released on the label. Sill's music is spiritual, imbued with mysticism and divine imagery. She is based on great songwriting and her pure but powerful singing voice. "Judee Sill" conveys an incredible intimacy, which is further enhanced by her sometimes complex string/orchestral arrangements.
Sill's life was tragic both personally and professionally. Her father and brother died young, and her tempestuous relationship with her alcoholic mother caused her to leave home at the age of 15. She committed robberies and began a battle with drug addiction, which she ended up losing. When the success of the two albums failed to materialize, her career never recovered. Sill died in 1979 at the age of only 35.
Sill's albums were not marketable and commercial success failed to materialize. But her work has influenced numerous artists and Warren Zevon, Shawn Colvin and Steven Wilson, among others, have shown themselves to be fans of her music. The remastering for Intervention Records was done by Kevin Gray.
"So you have a long forgotten gem (though an album still revered a friend tells me by many of today's top young L.A. area talents), engineered by the great Henry Lewy, superbly reissued on double 45 rpm vinyl cut from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray and Tip-On gatefold jacket packaged too... When you look at who was involved in producing, arranging, recording and releasing this album it was a 100% "can't miss". That's part of the cult of Judee Sill. By the way, originals regularly go for more than the cost of this Intervention reissue and they do not sound as good." - Michael Fremer, analogplanet.com, 9/11 Music, 10/11 Sound!
"Rapturous and otherworldly." - Rolling Stone
"...it's hard to suppress the inner light of Sill's work. It shines." - Pitchfork
The astonishing Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records, and Judee Sill the first album released on the label. Sill's music is intensely spiritual, redolent of mystical and divine imagery, yet grounded by great songwriting and a pure but powerful singing talent. Her songs impart incredible intimacy that is enhanced by her sometimes complex string arrangements (remarkably Sill arranged and conducted the strings/orchestra on her albums!).
Sill's life was tragic personally and professionally. Her father and brother were killed when Sill was young, and her tempestuous relationship with her alcoholic (and remarried) mother resulted in her leaving home at 15. She committed robberies and began a battle she was destined to lose against drug addiction. When stardom didn't follow the critical acclaim of her first two albums her career never recovered. Sill was dead from a drug overdose in 1979 at just 35.
The brevity of Judee's musical legacy is outweighed by the emotional power and weight of her first two extraordinary albums, Judee Sill & Heart Food. AAA mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, the master tapes are in beautiful shape, and listeners will be blown away by the revelatory inner detail and three-dimensionality retrieved from these achingly gorgeous recordings. This Intervention reissue represents THE definitive listening experience for this classic album! The original LP art has been beautifully restored by IR's Tom Vadakan and the old-style, "tip-on, brown-in" gatefold jackets are printed by Stoughton.

Features:

• AAA Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Double 45rpm LPs for Extreme Sound Quality!
• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
• Dead Quiet 180g Vinyl
• Pressed at RTI
• Beautifully Restored Gatefold Jacket Art by Stoughton
  

Musicians:

• Judee Sill, guitar, piano, vocals
• Clydie King, Rita Coolidge, Venetta Fields, background vocals
• Don Bagley, Bob Harris, orchestration
• David Crosby, guitar
• Graham Nash, organ, production "Jesus Was A Cross Maker"

Selections:

Side A
1. Crayon Angels
2. The Phantom Cowboy
3. The Archetypal Man
Side B
1. The Lamb Ran Away With The Crown
2. Lady-O
3. Jesus Was A Cross Maker
Side C
1. Ridge Rider
2. My Man On Love
Side D
1. Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos
2. Enchanted Sky Machines
3. Abracadabra