John D. Loudermilk - Sings A Bizarre Collection Of Most Unusual Songs (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

×

John D. Loudermilk - Sings A Bizarre Collection Of Most Unusual Songs (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Close

John D. Loudermilk - Sings A Bizarre Collection Of Most Unusual Songs (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 34:31 minutes | 1,22 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 34:31 minutes | 749 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Despite the widespread if somewhat under-publicized popularity of many of his songs, it's hard to know just what to expect from John D. Loudermilk's own recordings. One of the most original songwriters in 1960s Nashville, Loudermilk penned a number of hits that have been recorded by artists ranging from Nina Simone and Norah Jones ("Turn Me On") to William Bell ("Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"), from Johnny Cash ("Bad News") to the Flying Burrito Brothers ("Break My Mind"), and from Paul Revere and the Raiders ("Indian Reservation") to practically every delinquent garage band on the planet ("Tobacco Road"). Loudermilk himself recorded many of these and released them some forty years ago on albums with titles like The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk, John D. Loudermilk Sings a Bizarre Collection of the Most Unusual Songs, and Suburban Attitudes in Country Verse. Sure, there was an element of novelty-song humor to some of Loudermilk's work, but much of what's collected on this disc – a fantastic-sounding reissue of Open Mind and almost all of Most Unusual Songs, plus some other numbers of note, twenty-seven songs in all – reveals Loudermilk to have been a witty, pop-conscious songsmith who at his best transcended novelty and exhibited, yes, an open mind during years of uncertainty and peril. While some of what's here might seem uncomfortably obvious today, the social consciousness, the regard for life of all stripes, is often remarkable.