Tupelo Honey - Original 1971 US Warner Bros label 9-track LP - Incl. Poster

Original 1974 US Warner Bros label 9-track LP - Morrisons 5th album - which "has become one of Morrison's most likeable albums, but the very elements that make it appealing to many - the homey feeling, the personal odes to married life -also make it a complacent album for an artist who had been pushing forward and challenging boundaries for the past few years."*

Vinyl has the generic green and black printed company labels with upper 'shield' logo - comes complete with large fold out poster depicting a front shot of Van Morrison holding a guitar - poster has catalogue number in lower left corner.

Vinyl is held in an era specific company inner sleeve and ultimately in a sturdy inner pasted gatefold picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Poster)/VG+ (Cover):
Vinyl is exceptionally nice - superlustrous with a single fine and light sleeve mark only - by far nothing needle induced and far from audible.
Labels are mint, Vinyl is overall graded straight near mint.

Poster is extremely close to mint with only the faintests signs of having been unfolded.

Cover has a touch of superficial smudging - very faint upper front and back left corners sticker glue residue. Cover has light age discolouration from spine... mixed with a little humidity absortion in the imediate spine area. Inner spread is extremely close to mint.

Seams are intact except for a cm or so from lower back panel opening - straight except for a couple of cm's eneveness in the upper opening area inflicted bu a lighter corner dents - all in a all a very nice cover with a series of mostly marginal defects which has only litle effect on the experience of the artwork - graded at least VG+.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Wild Night - 3:33
2. (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball - 3:43
3. Old Old Woodstock - 4:17
4. Starting a New Life - 2:10
5. You're My Woman - 6:44

Side 2:
1. Tupelo Honey - 6:54
2. I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) - 3:27
3. When That Evening Sun Goes Down - 3:06
4. Moonshine Whiskey - 6:48


Recorded Spring-summer 1971, at Wally Heider, San Francisco and Columbia Studios, San Francisco

Credits:
Van Morrison - rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals, backing vocals
Ronnie Montrose - electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, backing vocals
Bill Church - bass
Rick Shlosser - drums
Connie Kay - drums on "Starting a New Life", "Tupelo Honey", "When That Evening Sun Goes Down" and "Old Old Woodstock"
Jack Schroer - alto, tenor and baritone saxophones
Mark Jordan - piano, electric piano
Gary Mallaber - percussion, vibraphone
John McFee - pedal steel guitar
Ted Templeman - organ on "Tupelo Honey"
Bruce Royston - flute
Luis Gasca - trumpet
"Boots" Houston - flute, backing vocals
Ellen Schroer, Janet Planet - backing vocals

Technical Credits:
Van Morrison, Ted Templeman - Production
Stephen Barncard, David Brown, Doc Storch - Engineers
Lee Herschberg, Donn Landee - Remix
Van Morrison, Jack Schroer - Horn arrangements
"Boots" Houston - Flute arrangements on "Like a Cannonball"
Bruce Royston - Flute arrangements on "Tupelo Honey"

Artwork:
Ed Thrasher - Art direction
Michael Maggid - Photography

*Hage, Erik (2009), The Words and Music of Van Morrison, Praeger Publishers, ISBN 978-0-313-35862-3