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The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
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Picked up in the great singer-songwriter sweep of the late 60s and signed to Elektra Records, David Ackles made four albums which went over the heads of the record-buying public, attracted over-the-top reviews and earned the undying devotion of fans like Elvis Costello and Elton John. Now Mark Brend’s book brings together an appreciation of his work with an account of his career before and after the three period when he was going to be the next big thing, taking in…
….the night he found himself supporting his biggest fan Elton John at the Troubadour in Los Angeles
….his year in Berkshire planning and recording “American Gothic”, an album about his distant homeland
…how two different record companies took him to their hearts but had no earthly clue how to promote him
…why it is that rock fans who boast of their eclectic tastes can’t deal with anything which sounds like musical theatre
…will he ever join the pantheon in which we have installed Nick Drake, Judee Sill and the other late musicians we are pleased to call a “lost genius”?
Buy Down River: In Search of David Ackles: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-River-Search-David-Ackles/dp/1916829228
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