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eddie noack - ain't the reaping ever done? (1962-1976) - iron mountain analogue research - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. These Hands
2. Too Hot To Handle
3. Barbara Joy
4. When The Bright Lights Grow Dim
5. Have Blues - Will Travel Have Blues - Will Travel
6. Flowers For Mama
7. No Blues Is Good News
8. A Day In The Life Of A Fool
9. We%u2019ll Still Be On Our Honeymoon
10. If It Ain't On The Menu
11. The Poor Chinee
12. God's Eyes
13. A Few Good Funerals
14. For Better Or For Worse
15. Ain%u2019t The Reaping Ever Done?
16. Before You Use That Gun

A marginal but respected songwriter in his own lifetime, Eddie Noack has become a Honky-Tonk legend in the decades since his death, best known today for an obscure 45 he cut in 1968 called 'Psycho'

Noack was a stellar songwriter and consummate performer who never really got his due. Here, for the first time, are reissued some of Noack's very rarest recordings - some fine LP cuts (recorded in Nashville 1973) that was only ever issued in the U.K (on a minuscule label) and a multitude of rare '60s/'70s 45 only cuts that are rescued from undeserved obscurity. Many of these cuts are the equal of anything in the Noack canon - dark empathic ballads and wry commentaries on the human condition. 'A Few Good Funerals' is a sardonic take on small-town mores, 'Before You Use That Gun' a desperate plea for mercy and 'The Memories Are Restless Tonight' a chilling elegy from a man at the end of his tether. Though schooled in journalism, Noack devoted his life to country music - he went largely unrewarded but left collectors a large body of stunning work. Equally adept at Honky-Tonk weepers, Gospel odes and grim murder ballads, Eddie Noack was always 'pure country.'