Dave
Well-Known Member
OK, good news: The first two Mac Davis albums, Songpainter and I Believe In Music, both on one CD just got reissued...! By Cherry Red/TiBird Reissues...
Quickly ordered my copy Wed. & it got to my house Fri. (Just order the "rush shipping"...!)
Lots of liner notes & photos & even w/ the two albums totaling 31 songs (the between-song ad-libs on Songpainter are included), they both fit...
Though the Songpainter is the "re-issue" version from 1974, lacking the musician credits, but has a different shot of Mac Davis playing his guitar on top of the drainage easement as in the original issue...
The song-order is different from the original 1970 edition, too... So I "re-programmed" the songs, after kicking off w/ Track 1 (in which they BOTH start with the same song) and just play the 6-songs that make up "Side 2" of I Believe In Music separately...
There were a couple of non-LP/'45' bonus tracks, not included, however: A bare-bones version "Beginning To Feel The Pain", which Mac would later record on his S/T LP in '73, the Simon & Garfunkel-like "Butterfly Girl" (from the Songpainter sessions) and a different version of "Poem For My Little Lady" backed by strings & a pedal steel guitar, whereas the LP version just has him & his guitar, and "Sweet Dreams & Sarah", backed by The Cissy Houston Singers & New York Strings (which Mac later recorded on Burnin' Thing), both I Believe In Music-era tracks...
Hopefully more will come...
Dave
Quickly ordered my copy Wed. & it got to my house Fri. (Just order the "rush shipping"...!)
Lots of liner notes & photos & even w/ the two albums totaling 31 songs (the between-song ad-libs on Songpainter are included), they both fit...
Though the Songpainter is the "re-issue" version from 1974, lacking the musician credits, but has a different shot of Mac Davis playing his guitar on top of the drainage easement as in the original issue...
The song-order is different from the original 1970 edition, too... So I "re-programmed" the songs, after kicking off w/ Track 1 (in which they BOTH start with the same song) and just play the 6-songs that make up "Side 2" of I Believe In Music separately...
There were a couple of non-LP/'45' bonus tracks, not included, however: A bare-bones version "Beginning To Feel The Pain", which Mac would later record on his S/T LP in '73, the Simon & Garfunkel-like "Butterfly Girl" (from the Songpainter sessions) and a different version of "Poem For My Little Lady" backed by strings & a pedal steel guitar, whereas the LP version just has him & his guitar, and "Sweet Dreams & Sarah", backed by The Cissy Houston Singers & New York Strings (which Mac later recorded on Burnin' Thing), both I Believe In Music-era tracks...
Hopefully more will come...
Dave