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Sam Parry - If Sadness Could Sing (1972)

Track listing:
  1. Ain't No Place Like Home 3:22
  2. My Farm 3:35
  3. The Blind Man 2:41
  4. All I Wanted Was A Walk 2:56
  5. Fusion 4:10
  6. Going Up The Mountain 3:12
  7. The Day I Met My Lord 4:03
  8. If Sadness Could Sing 4:01
  9. Those Summer Days Are Over 4:43
  10. What's A Gambler To Do 2:57
  11. Everybody Knows I Do 7:44

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Originally released on argo in 1972 and featuring contributions from Bryan Daly & Dave Moses this is an interesting folk/psyche rarity Strangely enough the sleeve design is by a young mick rock.

This enigmatic Welshman’s sole album is a somewhat despondent collection of acoustic singer-songwriter material. Some songs (the bluesy ‘Ain’t No Place Like Home’, sprightly ‘All I Wanted Was A Walk’ and disapponting instrumental ‘Fusion’) are unremarkable folk-club fare, but he scores higher with more introspective numbers, to which his emotive voice is better-suited. The best is the superbly creepy ‘My Farm’, but the morose ‘Blind Man’, lovelorn title track and wistful ‘Those Summer Days Are Gone’ are quite good too. Overall, though, the lack of a consistent mood makes it hard to recommend. There’s a lot of harmonica, too; if it’s not your favourite instrument, you may well take exception to some of the music here.

01. Ain’t no place like home
02. My farm
03. The Blind Man
04. All I wanted was a walk
05. Fusion
06. Going up the mountain
07. The day I met my lord
08. If sadness could sing
09. What’s a gambler to do?
10. Those summer days are over
11. Everybody knows I do