Track Listing 1. Colours 2. To Try For the Sun 3. Sunny Goodge Street 4. Oh Deed I Do 5. Circus of Sour 6. Summer Day Reflection Song, The 7. Candy Man 8. Jersey Thursday 9. Belated Forgiveness Plea 10. Ballad of a Crystal Man 11. Little Tin Soldier 12. Battle of Geraldine, The 13. Universal Soldier 14. Ballad of a Crystal Man, The 15. War Drags On, The 16. Do You Hear Me Now 17. Turquoise 18. Hoy Gyp (Dig the Slowness)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Shawn Phillips | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes FAIRYTALE is a reissue of Donovan's second album from 1965 and includes the UNIVERSAL SOLDIER EP and two non-album B-sides. Personnel: Donovan (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Shawn Phillips (electric guitar, 12-string guitar). Producers include: Eden, Stephens, Terry Kennedy. This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other. Sequel Records' followup to their CATCH THE WIND compilation, FAIRYTALE documents the era where Donovan Leitch was slowly turning from earnest folkie to pop oddball, though here he's still much more the former than the latter. Buffy Sainte Marie's "Universal Soldier" and his own "Colours," both heard here in two different versions, set the tone early on, but later in songs like "Sunny Goodge Street" and "The Summer Day Reflection Song," his SUNSHINE SUPERMAN-era twee-pop tendencies start to come to the fore. Donovan's early records are mostly charming examples of mid-'60s folk rock--any Simon and Garfunkel fan, for example, will find FAIRYTALE interesting. The reissue includes a number of rare single sides.
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