Formats
ASH102 - LP
857661008087
Details
Singer-songwriter Bob Lind will forever be immortalized by his 1965 hit, “Elusive Butterfly,” but his career is so much more interesting than the fading wonder of that one hit. Once a hard-partying buddy of Charles Bukowski, Lind was the inspiration for the character “Dinky Summers,” a down-on-his-luck folk singer in Bukowski’s 1978 novel Women. Lind also doubled as a writer, penning a number of novels and plays as well as serving as a long-time staff writer at the lowbrow tabloid Weekly World News. If that wasn’t enough, Lind is also responsible for one of the greatest major-label “loner” albums of all time, 1971’s Since There Were Circles. After several years languishing without a second hit for the World Pacific label, Lind signed to Capitol and went into the studio with some of the biggest names in the LA country-rock scene including Doug Dillard, Gene Clark, Bernie Leadon and legendary session bassist Carol Kaye. While the record was wellreceived critically, it sold poorly and marked Lind’s bitter departure from the music business for several decades. The intervening half-century has been incredibly kind to Since There Were Circles, and it is now regarded as a cult masterpiece that pairs perfectly with Gene Clark’s No Other, Bobby Charles’ self-titled Bearsville album and Lee Hazlewood’s Cowboy In Sweden. Lind’s songwriting here is vastly darker and more self-reflective than anything from his folk-pop period, and the production is simultaneously loose and rootsy, yet lushly orchestrated and occasionally bombastic. Lind somehow manages to bring it all together with wry delivery and literate detail.
Tracks
1. I Love To Sing/Sweet Harriet
2. City Scenes
3. Love Came Riding 4. Loser
5. Not That I Would Want Her Back
6. Theme From The Music Box
7. Anymore 8. Spilling Over
9. She Can Get Along
10. Up In The Morning Me
11. Since There Were Circles
Press
Originally released in 1971 on Capitol
Records
Singer-songwriter cult masterpiece
Recorded at the Record Plant with Doug
Dillard, Gene Clark, Bernie Leadon and
Carol Kaye
Recommended for fans of Gene Clark?s No
Other, Bobby Charles self-titled album and
Lee Hazlewood's Cowboy In Sweden