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nora guthrie - emily's ilness - em records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Folk

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Conk Face (rush Hour)

Nora Guthrie's ultra-rare "Emily's Illness", a lost gem of songcraft originally released in 1967, reissued now in 2009 in the same seven-inch vinyl format (b/w "Home Before Dark") as the original. Featuring the pure vocals the then seventeen-year-old daughter of Woodie Guthrie, "Emily's Illness" was written by Eric Eisner, a romantic collaboration which birthed these two songs, beautiful examples of youthful lyrical innocence tempered by world-weary wisdom, pop music with sophisticated "adult" arrangements and instrumentation, a kind of acid-folk, but informed by the harmonic and rhythmic developments of Joao Gilberto and jazz. The two songs are a perfect combination of Eisner's lyrical skills and wistful melodicism, Guthrie's unaffected vocals, and rich yet elegantly restrained arrangements from Artie Schroeck. Arranged and conducted by Artie Schroeck Produced by Monte Kay and Jack Lewis