ARTIST: Terry Callier
TITLE: Occasional Rain
LABEL: Verve
GENRE: R&B
BITRATE: 175kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43min total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-12-11
Track List:
1. Segue #1 - Go Ahead On 0:41
2. Ordinary Joe 4:15
3. Golden Circle 3:36
4. Segue #5 - Go Ahead On 0:48
5. Trance On Sedgewick Street 6:21
6. Do You Finally Need A Friend 5:44
7. Segue #4 - Go Ahead On 0:46
8. Sweet Edie-D 5:03
9. Occasional Rain 4:03
10.Segue #2 - Go Ahead On 0:53
11.Blues For Marcus 4:02
12.Lean On Me 6:30
13.Last Segue - Go Ahead On 0:38
Occasional Rain, originally released in 1972, is the first of three albums,
Chicago singer/songwriter Terry Callier cut for Cadet in the 1970s with producer
Charles Stepney. Eight years earlier Callier, then a soulful blues and folk
singer, cut an album of covers (as was par for the course in 1964 at the end of
the folk revival, Bob Dylan was just getting his momentum) for Prestige, but it
was shelved until 1968 and went nowhere. Callier spent the intervening time
touring coffeehouses and small clubs around the country until he signed with
Cadet. While the voice is most certainly the same, the nearly alchemical
transformation of his sound via his own songwriting -- and the way those songs
were treated by Stepney -- is still mind-boggling. Occasional Rain is recorded
as a suite; not quite a concept album, there are segues, all titled "Go Head
On," fading in and out that introduce various stages in the recording.