Stoneground Words (DUSKY PINK VINYL) (Vinyl)

Woodstock and Glastonbury Fayre icon Melanie had been working with Easy Action on the deluxe vinyl and CD rerelease of one of the most legendary albums in her long catalogue prior to her very sad passing.

In 1972, Melanie and her producer and husband Peter Schekeryk began work on what she intended to be her most ambitious album yet. Stoneground Words was to be a double album - the first such statement from any female rock artist. It would also be the first worldwide release on Neighborhood Records, the label she and Schekeryk established in 1971 - another first, as she entered territory into which only the Beatles, the Stones and the Moody Blues had previously stepped. Even more crucially, however, it was her personal response to the enormous success, earlier in the year, of the hit Brand New Key - the bicycle song, as so many people recall it. Stoneground Words returned to the drawing board. Ten songs were selected; the remainder were placed to one side; and the album was released to generally positive reviews which included Melody Makers assertion that it was the most sophisticated she's made. The naivetÈ of [the past has] been replaced by deeper, more comprehensive methods of expression. She is the first to admit that the new edition of Stoneground Words is not a true facsimile of the original. The paperwork for all three projects, after all, disappeared long ago, as did the tapes (who knows where?)

Stoneground Words will be released in March 2024 by Easy Action / Neighbourhood Records.

A1. Here I Am A2. My Rainbow Race A3. Wild Horses A4. Summer Weaving A5. Between The Road Signs B1. Together Alone B2. Maybe Not For A Lifetime B3. I Am Being Guided B4. 4I Think Its Going To Rain Today B5. The Actress C1. Pretty Boy Floyd C2. Lovers Cross C3. Maybe I Was A (Golf Ball) C4. Song Of The South C5. I Am Not A Poet C6. Pine and a Feather D1. Stoneground Words D2. Do You Believe D3. Holding Out D4. Love to Lose Again D5. Here I Am - alt Version

• Internal ID: JITRE
• Released: 4/26/24
• Format Detail: 2LP, Dusky Pink Vinyl
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Rock