Judee Sill - Abracadabra - The Asylum Years [2 CD]

Judee Sill's life would make an amazing biopic: violence, reform school, heroin addiction and prostitution. Although she eventually traded heroin's 'dark peace' for LSD's 'light peace', her songs were created on the cusp of inner torment and her quest for redemption.

That creative spark reflects soul music's struggle between sex and God and is equally explosive, her pure vocals undaunted by lyrics about 'the dealer' and glimpsing her spirit 'flying'. Abracadabra compiles her work including two albums for David Geffen's Asylum and belies the fact that her songs never achieved the success of contemporaries Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro.

Sill felt let down by Geffen: her life again descended into car crashes, dependency and an apparent rape. Her 1979 overdose went unnoticed, but in death she is slowly finding the audience she always craved. ~ The Guardian

Disc 1 :

• Crayon Angels
• The Phantom Cowboy
• The Archetypal Man
• The Lamb Ran Away With The Crown
• Lady-O
• Jesus Was A Cross Maker
• Ridge Rider
• My Man On Love
• Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos
• Enchanted Sky Machines
• Abracadabra
• The Pearl (Bonus Track)
• The Phoenix (Bonus Track)
• Ridge Rider (Bonus Track)
• My Man On Love (Bonus Track)
• Intro/The Vigilante (Bonus Track)
• Lady-O (Bonus Track)
• Enchanted Sky Machines (Bonus Track)
• The Archetypal Man (Bonus Track)
• Crayon Angels (Bonus Track)
• The Lamb Ran Away With The Crown (Bonus Track)
• Jesus Was A Cross Maker (Bonus Track)

Disc 2 :

• There's A Rugged Road
• The Kiss
• The Pearl
• Down Where The Valleys Are Low
• The Vigilante
• Soldier Of The Heart
• The Phoenix
• When The Bridegroom Comes
• The Donor
• Untitled
• The Desperado (Bonus Track)
• The Kiss (Bonus Track)
• Down Where The Valleys Are Low (Bonus Track)
• The Donor (Bonus Track)
• Soldier Of The Heart (Bonus Track)
• The Phoenix (Bonus Track)
• The Vigilante (Bonus Track)
• The Pearl (Bonus Track)
• There's A Rugged Road (Bonus Track)
• The Donor (Bonus Track)

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