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Doug Dillard & Gene Clark
Train Leaves Here This Morning
Doug Dillard & Gene Clark
Train Leaves Here This Morning
(Gene Clark-Bernie Leadon)
recorded 1968
with Gene Clark: vocal/guitar; Doug Dillard: vocal/banjo/guitar/fiddle; Bernie Leadon: vocal/guitar; Don Beck: mandolin; David Jackson: bass
A&M AMS 995
Gene Clark left the Byrds in 1965 and recorded an album with Rex and Vern Gosdin. After briefly rejoining the Byrds in '67, he quit yet again to sign with A&M Records. There were some early mis-steps before he fell into a partnership with Doug Dillard. During the early '60s, the Dillards were well known because of their appearances as the Darlings on the Andy Griffith Show (“They were the only bluegrass band that smiled on stage,” said Chris Hillman of the Byrds). By '68, banjoist Doug Dillard had fallen in with the rock crowd and had come to love rock 'n' roll life-sweeteners. He guested on Clark's album with the Gosdins before touring Europe with the Byrds. Both Dillard and Clark were from Missouri, and shared the goal of taking old music somewhere new. To this end, Dillard ordered a custom-built Rickenbacker electric banjo. “It was Doug's experience with the Byrds that led to our Dillard & Clark team-up,” Clark said later. “Doug had been playing with them in the studio and then did the tour, and they wanted him to join as an official member. Doug and I really clicked right away with a unique approach, kind of a contemporary bluegrass-folk thing that hadn't really been done yet. We'd jam every evening up on Beechwood Canyon where Doug lived. We'd get out the banjos and guitars, and David Jackson would play bass.” Guitarist-banjoist Bernie Leadon was there as well; he was living with Dillard following the collapse of his band, Hearts and Flowers.
Los Angeles was a magnet for all those stumbling toward a fusion of rock music's newfound literacy with hill country music. While Gram Parsons was enamored of late period country music, most reached further back and wanted no part of Nashville …musically or politically. Journalist Bud Scoppa was there when Dillard and Clark came together. “A typical session started with the boys pouring as much beer inside them as they could,” he wrote. “Then they'd get down to playing. It was a full-fledged attempt to regain the loose state of mind that the rigors of the music business had ground out of them.” A&M staff producer Larry Marks heard the songs and okayed a bluegrass nouveau album. Titled 'The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark,' it was a pun on the expedition of Lewis and Clark, who first crossed the North American continent to get a sense of the land bought in the Louisiana Purchase. The album was released in October 1968, and Train Leaves Here This Morning was pulled as a single in November. Billboard gave the single a Special Merit Spotlight, but it was neither rock enough for rock stations nor country enough for country. The lyrics had Bob Dylan's obliqueness and acidic humor (years later, fans figured out the address cited in the song, 1320 N. Columbus, was a hotel in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco). The exquisite harmonies prefigured the Eagles, where Leadon ended up. On the first Eagles LP, he revived Train Leaves Here This Morning.
Gene Clark died on May 24, 1991; Doug Dillard died on May 16, 2012.
- Colins Escott -
Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1968
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