Into The Purple Valley - Original 1972 US Reprise label 11-track LP

Scarce original 1972 US Warner Bros label 10-track vinyl LP - the seconds album by eminent, eclectic Santa Monica based multi-instrumentalist ranked number eight on David Fricke's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" for Rolling Stones Magazine, 2003.

Vinyl is manufactured with the brown steamship label with boxed orange ':r' logo at top and without Warner Distribution logo rimprint at 4 o'clock - stressing that this is the original issue.

The fact that "How Can You Keep On Moving" is labelled a 'traditional' stresses that this is a 1st pressing - the track has Agnes "Sis" Cunningham writing credits on subsequent issues.

Vinyl comes complete with illustrated lyric insert - housed in a generic era specific company inner sleeve - ultimately in a slightly linen-like texturing, inner pasted gatefold picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG (Inner Sleeve)/VG+(+) (Cover):

Vinyl is bright and shiny - hardly any signs of play or handling - a touch of sleeve wear only - next to nothing and easily graded near mint.

Insert has extensive wrinkling and a regular bend - a couple of side holes... a tape tear on the entirely white back - perfectly readable though - graded straight VG.

Cover is extremely nice - perfect apart from a rubberstamped name in the uppermost top area of the left panel in the inner spread, a very marginal lower opening corner dent and hardly any edge rubbing - graded close to near mint/excellent - a simply very nice copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 How Can You Keep On Moving (Traditional) 2:25
2 Billy The Kid (Traditional) 3:45
3 Money Honey (Jesse Stone) 3:28
4 F.D.R. In Trinidad (Fitz Maclean) 3:01
5 Teardrops Will Fall (Dickey Doo, Marion Smith) 3:03
6 Denomination Blues (Washington Phillips 3:58

Side 2:
1 On A Monday (Huddie Ledbetter) 2:52
2 Hey Porter (Johnny Cash) 4:34
3 Great Dream From Heaven (Joseph Spence) 1:53
4 Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All (Traditional) 3:52
5 Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie) 4:15


Credits:
Ry Cooder - guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals
Gloria Jones, Claudia Lennear, Donna Washburn, Donna Weiss - vocals
Chris Ethridge, Fritz Richmond - bass
Jim Keltner, John Craviotta - drums
Milt Holland - percussion
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards, piano
Jim Dickinson - piano, celeste, harmonium
George Bohanon, Joe Lane Davis, Ike Williams - horns
Jerry Jumonville - saxophone

Technical Credits:
Jim Dickinson, Van Dyke Parks and Lenny Waronker - Production
Judy Maizel - Assistant Producer
Lee Herschberg - Recording Engineers, Mix
Rudy Hill - Recording Engineer

Artwork:
Ed Trasher - Artwork
Marty Evand - Photography