{"product_id":"david-blue","title":"David Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst ever vinyl reissue of classic 1966 folk-rock album \u003cem\u003eDavid Blue\u003c\/em\u003e - Includes four-page color inserts with notes by author and musician Mark Brend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, singer-songwriter and actor \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Blue\u003c\/strong\u003e tends to be remembered only in relation to \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan\u003c\/strong\u003e A member of the supporting cast in mid-60s Greenwich Village and The Rolling Thunder Revue. Yet to categorise Blue in this way is reductionist, and does him an injustice. He was something of an archetype of the 60s generation of Greenwich Village singer-songwriters. Yet, esteemed by his peers, he was overlooked. He released seven albums in a decade, and his acting career was shaping up when he died suddenly at the age of just 41.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis passing was barely noted in the rock press, and in the subsequent years, Blue was all but forgotten. Of late, though, that's changed. His albums started to reappear on CD on small labels and, in 2020, both \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMojo\u003c\/em\u003e magazines published major reappraisals. Blue – at last – was getting the attention denied him in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't until 1965 that Blue, as Dave Cohen, released his first recordings – three songs on Elektra's Singer Songwriter Project. All betrayed a debt to pre-electric \u003cstrong\u003eDylan\u003c\/strong\u003e. But then again, so did much else coming out of Greenwich Village at the time. Elektra contracted Blue to do his own album, and in 1966 \u003cem\u003eDavid Blue\u003c\/em\u003e was released – his first recording to appear under that name. Electric folk rock with a garage band attitude, somewhat in debt to \u003cem\u003eHighway 61\u003c\/em\u003e, it didn't sell well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortly after the album's release Blue formed and toured with The American Patrol, a four-piece rock band, recording an album for Elektra that was never released.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hanky Panky Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50478536425803,"sku":"2025481","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d14cb879251c82557600fd5b208ab01f_d18f57cf-8ae0-456b-97f7-f0c47f953876_20119.webp?v=1727485568","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/david-blue","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}