LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Marc Brierley was a talented folk artist who made his name as a singer-songwriter during the second half of the Sixties
• After making an EP in 1966 for Transatlantic, Marc signed with CBS for two albums, Welcome To The Citadel (1968) and Hello (1969), helped by some of the best musicians on the circuit. Both are now prized collector’s items by fans of Acid Folk era.
• This welcome reissue of Marc’s second album Hello is swelled by eleven bonus tracks: the stand-alone CBS single from 1969, ‘Be My Brother’/‘ If You Took The Bandage Off Your Head You Wouldn't Be So Blind’, and a batch of demos recorfor Island Records in 1973.
• Marc Brierley has written new sleeve-notes for this overdue reissue of a cult classic.
• Several of the demo tracks were recorded as a duo, Brierley Cross (with Steve Cross)

Track Listing

1. SUNNY WEATHER
2. LADY OF THE LIGHT
3. TODAY I FEEL LIKE LEAVING YOU
4. O HONEY
5. A PRESENCE (I AM SEEKING)
6. THE ROOM
7. BYRD LIVES
8. HELLO
9. LOOKIN' AROUND THE ROOM
10. WHEN MARTHA COMES

BONUS TRACKS

11. BE MY BROTHER
12. IF YOU TOOK THE BANDAGE OFF YOUR HEAD YOU WOULDN'T BE SO BLIND
13. THE BEST PART OF THE NIGHT (Demo) *
14. IN THIS HOUR OF LOVE (Demo) *
15. ONE FINE MORNING (YOU WILL WAKE UP) (Demo) *
16. SCREAMING SCHIZOPHRENIA BLUES (Demo) *
17. ABIDE WITH YOU (Demo) *
18. BROWN SHIPS (Demo) *
19. FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PARTED (Demo) *
20. SWEET SUMMER (Demo) *
21. BE MY BROTHER (Demo) *