Pat Ament: Songs - VINYL LP

Pat Ament: Songs - VINYL LPTitle: Songs Artist: Pat Ament Label: Grapefruit Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 600197677315 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2018 02 23 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: WITH CD Vinyl LP pressing including bonus CD edition. In 1971, at the age of 25, Pat Ament self released his debut album, Songs By Pat Ament, in a very limited run for friends and local shops. The album is sparse and moody, conjuring a space not unlike the one that Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Title: Songs
Artist: Pat Ament
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 600197677315
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-02-23
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: WITH CD

Vinyl LP pressing including bonus CD edition. In 1971, at the age of 25, Pat Ament self-released his debut album, Songs By Pat Ament, in a very limited run for friends and local shops. The album is sparse and moody, conjuring a space not unlike the one that Songs Of Leonard Cohen occupies, featuring Ament on Wurlitzer with a jazz drummer and a guitarist alternating between acoustic and electric. It's dark and at times forlorn, with meditations on yearning and loss and love. It's ideal long-night-of-the-soul music. The lyricism evokes Dylan, Cohen, Tim Hardin and Bill Fay. When he released Songs, Ament was already a world-renowned mountain climber, and he became famous for pioneering '60s and '70s ascents in Colorado and Yosemite. He wrote poetic books and essays on climbing, including biographies of legendary climbers Royal Robbins and John Gill. Through the years he's balanced multiple simultaneous careers as artist, photographer, filmmaker, chess master, karate black belt, lecturer, teacher, and, yes, singer-songwriter. Pat Ament's musical mastery was clear right out of the gate but it was only one of his many interests. Perhaps if he hadn't been moved to pursue life's other tempting summits and focused solely on music, he'd be as well known for his songs as for his climbing. Grapefruit is extremely proud to reissue this rare and virtually unknown singer-songwriter masterpiece, sourced from original sources and under Ament's supervision, with original artwork and deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket. The record also comes with a bonus career retrospective CD entitled Time Moved On of additional songs hand-picked by the artist.

Tracks:
1.1 Sometimes When I'm Lucky
1.2 A Gentle Day
1.3 The Farewell
1.4 Wrong Train Blues
1.5 It Would Be You
1.6 Wayward
1.7 I'm a Lucky Soul
1.8 Find Yourself
1.9 There's No Hurry
1.10 Right Kind of Lover
1.11 Melody of Numbers
1.12 Laurel and Hardy
1.13 Concentrating
1.14 He Belongs with You
2.1 Sometimes When I'm Lucky
2.2 A Gentle Day
2.3 The Farewell
2.4 Wrong Train Blues
2.5 It Would Be You
2.6 Wayward
2.7 I'm a Lucky Soul
2.8 Find Yourself
2.9 There's No Hurry
2.10 Right Kind of Lover
2.11 Melody of Numbers
2.12 Laurel and Hardy
2.13 Concentrating
2.14 He Belongs with You

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