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Mark Johnson aka Marc Jonson
Originally released on Vanguard Records 1972
Available now on Radioghost as a special product
Produced by Mark Johnson assisted by Wayne Ashdown
Rainy Dues / Mary / Mother Jane / Fly / A Long Song / Autopsy / The Return To The Relief / Munich / The Treadmill BONUS TRACK Ended
The story of how this record got made is a classic tale of a music business dream. I literally walked cold, into a New York City music publisher, played her three songs from the tape and watched as she called her friend at RCA. Thirty minutes later I was in his office listening to my music again. A week later I was being offered a deal an artist/producer deal. As it turned out, Vanguard Records offered me another situation and I went with that. I suppose a desk job at RCA didn't appeal to my vision of being a traveling troubadour. I produced the record over the course of 1971 at Vanguard's 23rd street studio. I used left over harpsichords from classical sessions the night before. I hired string players and a string arranger. I even met a street player named Steven Gardner who played the recorder and set him to task on a long instrumental part of one of the songs. It was very ahead of its time in many ways.