Gene Clark S/D, C/D

yeah love those demos

Hadn't heard about this: https://www.allmusic.com/album/gene-clark-sings-for-you-mw0003172175

whoa! thank you for sharing that.

Yes very cool. Thanks

What the hell?!

I see Omnivore also did an exhaustive reissue of the Rose Garden album: https://www.allmusic.com/album/trip-through-the-garden-a-rose-garden-collection-mw0003175126

with no curfews left to hold her
and no walls to shield her pain
finding out that facts were older
and that life forms are insane

Yeah, one of my favorite Gene lines (and songs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7H9PASFQM

I referred to this one in passing, on my Nashvlle Scene ballot re '08: (Clark's Silverado Live... is pretty decent West Coast country rock etc, pretty spare musically, tho couple of songs have some kind of purple rants in their baggy pants)(also a couple of co-writes with founding Flying Burrito/Eagle Bernie Leadon, from when the Eagles were better).
2018 ballot let notebook scribbles stand:
girlfriend fleeing a guy “knows next time he’ll do what
he’s said he will”,
“sometimes I see her face”: for series of sessions
just now released
as Gene Clark Sings For You, he hired good musos,
but yeesh intensely broody verbose sub-D ritualistic “folk”
/folk-rock. No a few might work in another context,
one w out so much autodepresso drone of self-absorption and terrible lines
(people lookin for a place called Somewhere, fake tributes to a
strong woman when he’s really just into his own depression-
rejection etc.) But “Yesterday Am I Right” with some lyric edits
and maybe a few others toward the end incl. levels of proficiency going to
waste and kinda making the bad stuff worse by carrying it
along pushing in some cases

I find Clark's lyrics so vague and hard to parse that they wouldn't be the criterion I'd use to reject one of his songs. I thought Sings For You was exceptionally strong for a left-over set of demoes.

I mean it was genuinely good, and EXCEPTIONALLY good for a bunch of leftovers.

lyrics of “strength of strings” are bizarre and awesome

And allude to Dylan