Oar: Crystal Clear Numbered Vinyl LP

Label: Music on Vinyl
Release Date: 15th May

One of the great cult psychedelic travellers from Jeffy Airplane to the mighty Moby Grape (please check 'em, if not familiar) and on his lone solo album 'Oar', which remains one of those perfect oddball folk records, which was never going to be a success but rather the stuff of oft-written and mythologised legend. It's raw, it's tender, it's sometimes difficult but like Big Star's 'Thirteen' or Trout Mask Replica once you crack the nut it's a moreish listen. 

180 gram audiophile vinyl
The only solo album by Alexander "Skip" Spence, released in 1969
Psychedelic folk classic featuring the song "Little Hands"
Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl

The Canadian-born Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence was the co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year he released his only solo album: ‘Oar’. The album was recorded after Spence had spent six months in a mental institution following a delusion-driven attempt to attack his Moby Grape band mates with a fire axe, after having ingested LSD. As the urban myth goes, on the day of his release he drove a motorcycle, dressed in only his pajamas, directly to Nashville to record his only solo album. Fact is that he recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself and that the end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album. After this album Spence largely withdrew from the music industry.
Oar is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl.

SIDE A
1. Little Hands
2. Cripple Creek
3. Diana
4. Margaret-Tiger Rug
5. Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
6. War In Peace
 
SIDE B
1. Broken Heart
2. All Come To Meet Her
3. Books Of Moses
4. Dixie Peach Promenade
5. Lawrence Of Euphoria
6. Grey/Afro