Stories

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Vinyl LP pressing. Aficionados of the "stoners and loners" genre have slept on Stories. In the estimation of those long involved in the activities of eremite records, Stories finest moments (and there are many) foreshadow dark classics from later in the decade such as Gene Clark's No Other, Neil Young's 'Ditch Trilogy' and Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, spirit albums in which the artists' torments are transfigured into high art through bummer song. As an expression of appreciation and love to David Blue, eremite's edition of Stories surpasses all previously available versions in both audio reproduction and presentation. Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio gently remastered the music from the original tapes and cut the lacquers. Pressed on premium audiophile 120 gram vinyl at RTI, Stories is presented in a retro flipback jacket with a 12x12 hand screenprinted (in peacock blue ink) insert by Alan Sherry / Siwa that reproduces in-full Leonard Cohen's 1982 eulogy for David Blue. Stories is the only release on eremite records' subsidiary label Sister Rose (titled after the second song on side 1 of Stories).