Relax your mind
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| Studio album by Jon & Alun | ||||
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Publication |
1963 |
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| Label (s) | Decca LK 4547 | |||
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Format (s) |
LP |
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Folk, skiffle |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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| occupation | Vocals and guitar: Jon Mark Vocals and guitar: Alun Davies |
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Relax Your Mind is the debut album by acoustic guitarists Jon Mark and Alun Davies. The album produced by Shel Talmy was released in 1963 on Decca Records and is assigned to the genre Skiffle and Folk .
History
The album "Relax Your Mind", released in 1963, is the first joint record release by the two school friends Jon Mark and Alun Davies, who founded the band "Sweet Thursday" around 1968 together with Nicky Hopkins , Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers, whose album of the same name (" Sweet Thursday ", 1969) because of the bankruptcy of the record company shipwreck, whereupon Jon Mark was hired by John Mayall , on whose albums" The Turning Point "and" Empty Rooms "Mark played, before in 1970 he started folk rock with Johnny Almond -Jazz band Mark-Almond , who briefly belonged to Alun Davies in 1973, who was best known in the 1970s as the guitarist of Cat Stevens ' band.
Album cover as a film prop
In Richard Lester in 1965 staged a British film comedy The Knack is next to the lying on a bed Actress Rita Tushingham the LP cover of "Relax Your Mind" as a movie prop to be seen.
Track list
A side
- Relax Your Mind ( Burchell , Davies)
- Walk to the Gallows ( Burchell , Davies)
- I'm My Own Granpa (Dwight Latham, Moe Jaffe)
- The Poor Fool's Blues ( Burchell , Davies)
- Black is the Color ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
- Easy Rambler ( Burchell , Davies)
- I Never Will Marry ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
B side
- Alberta ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
- John B. ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
- The Song of the Salvation Army ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
- Lone Green Valley ( trad.arr.Talmy , Stone)
- The Way of Life ( Burchell , Davies)
- Sinking of the Reuben James ( Woody Guthrie )
Audio sample
- Jon Mark & Alun Davies: Alberta.
Web links
- Murphy Anderson: Relax Your Mind With Jon & Alun. Retrieved May 8, 2013 .
- Jon & Alun: Relax Your Mind With Jon & Alun. Discogs , accessed May 8, 2013 .
- Popmuseum: Jon Mark and Johnny Almond. Rolling Stone Forum, accessed May 1, 2013 .
- Andreas Weigel : Jon Mark and Johnny Almond. John Mayall's forgotten master class. ORF , Ö1 , Spielräume , April 21, 2013, accessed on May 1, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Records in 'The Knack ... And How to Get It' (filmed in 1964). ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
