LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Lost 1969 Classic
• Long-awaited reissue
• Detailed background notes
• Rare images
• 45 with picture sleeve
• Bonus postcard insert

Ottilie Patterson had been a celebrated jazz and blues singer since the 1950s, but enormously expanded her repertoire with this July 1969 release. Taking in a range of songs ancient and modern, set to meticulous orchestral arrangements by Richard Hill, it touches on folk, funk, pop and more and adds up to a powerful and moving statement of her esoteric personality. It has long-awaited first reissue here, together with detailed background notes, rare images and a repro promo card.

Track Listing

SIDE ONE
• Song Of Solomon 1.27
• The Orphan 2.08
• Latin Drinking Song 1.37
• Please Accept My Apologies, Mrs. Pankhurst 1.49
• Why So Pale And Wan 1.12
• Helen Of Kirkconnell 3.42
• The Sound Of The Door As It Closes 2.40
SIDE TWO
• Spring Song 2.32
• The Bitterness Of Death 4.45
• Ad Uxorem 1.31
• Hey, Ho, The Wind And The Rain 2.34
• It Was A Lover And His Lass 1.25
• Sonnet No. 8 3.37
• Mrs. Pankhurst Returns 0.56
7inch track listing
• Bitterness Of Death (45 version) 4:44
• Make Me Or Break Me (unreleased demo) 3:22