Stumpwater - Motel In Saginaw (Vinyl) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

STUMPWATER had an unreleased 1973 LP. Yep — and not only that, it’s a friggin’ concept LP about the characters populating a small town hotel (think Lee Hazlewood’s Trouble is a Lonesome Town, but not really) called Motel in Saginaw (a place ol’ Mike Nesmith seemed to know too). To say the Motel In Saginaw homespun album was a revelation is putting it lightly — gorgeous tunes about death that’d have Simon and G crying in their cappuccinos, creepy Dylan-esque tales that David Blue would have liked to have written, maudlin hearts of gold in every groove — basically a hazy, sepia-stained song cycle for all the Judy Blue Eyes in the world to get lost in while rollin’ a dirt- weed joint. The Topanga Canyon-in-thee-midwest boheme coffeehouse has finally come to you via this archival release. The deluxe package includes an inner sleeve with photos and info, a cracking mastering job by wunderkind Carl Saff and an original (hopefully non-warped) copy of their original private-press single. The complete Stumpwater at last! So kick back, take your socks off, drop the needle on this lost classic-to-be, and let yer hair blow in the prairie wind, my dusty denim children.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: LP
• Format: Vinyl
• Label: GZD
• Catalog Number: LP-GZD-739