Judee Sill / Judee Sill (US, Asylum Records, SD 5050) <September 15, 1971>

Judee Sill / Judee Sill (US, Asylum Records, SD 5050) <September 15, 1971>
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ジュディ・シルはアサイラムが最初に契約したミュージシャンで、またアサイラム・レーベルのからの1枚目のレコオードは彼女のデビュー作である本作品でした。このレコードはオリジナル盤というだけで激レアですが、白ラベルのプロモ盤は価格が付けがたいほど稀少です。

最近ようやく入手して初めて聴きましたが、穏やかで美しい音楽にはしばし耳を奪われました。これだけ音楽を聴いてきて、この年になって、いま50年近く前の音楽で感動するなんて・・・。

Judee Sill (born Judith Lynne Sill, October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979) was an American singer and songwriter. The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released two albums on Asylum and partially completed a third album before dying of a drug overdose in 1979. Her eponymous debut album was released in late 1971 and was followed about 18 months later by Heart Food. In 1974 she recorded demos for a third album, which was never completed.

Judee Sill – guitar, piano & vocals
Clydie King, Rita Coolidge, Venetta Fields – background vocals
Don Bagley, Bob Harris – orchestration
David Crosby - guitar
Graham Nash - organ & production on "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CalHct6FA
Jesus Was A Cross Maker

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flyin' low for me
One time I trusted a stranger
Cuz I heard his sweet song
And it was gently enticin' me
Tho there was somethin' wrong,
But when I turned he was gone.

Blindin' me, his song remains remindin' me,
He's a bandit and a heart breaker,
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker.

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flyin' low for me
He wages war with the devil
A pistol by his side
And thogh he chases him out windows
And won't give him a place to hide,
He keeps his door open wide

Fightin' him he lights a lamp invitin' him,
He's a bandit and a heart breaker,
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flyin' low for me
I heard the thunder come rumblin'
The light never looked so dim
I see the junction git nearer'
And danger is in the wind
And either road's lookin' grim

Hidin' me, I flee, desire dividin' me,
He's a bandit and a heart breaker.
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker
Yes, Jesus was a cross maker

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flyin' low for me
One time I trusted a stranger
Cuz I heard his sweet song
And it was gently enticin' me
Tho there was somethin' wrong
But when I turned he was gone

Blindin' me, his song remains remindin' me,
He's a bandit and a heart breaker,
Oh, but Jesus was a cross maker.

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flyin' low for me

http://uenosono.com/13-jesus-was-a-crossmaker/