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Emmett Finley

by Emmett Finley

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So Easy 04:45
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Gospel 07:57
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Paula's Song 04:04
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Monster 05:23
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Sky King 03:02
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My Friend 02:57

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"Blessed with a reedy, delicate voice reminiscent of Neil Young at his most reflective. Finley had an ability to grapple with love, loneliness and the wanderer’s life. It is a pleasure to have his long lost country gospel gem in the world once more.” Will Hodgkinson

First ever reissue of this true lost masterwork from 1971 on extremely limited vinyl editions.

“I watched and wrote and watched. From a hilltop graveyard I watched. And all I did was write and play for the funeral..” Emmett Finley

Imagine songs redolent of prime ‘Doom Trilogy’ Neil Young, Love, Exile On Main Street’s honk via the swagger of Stone Roses (no kidding). Add the crushed biblical ballads of Bill Fay plus mini rock operas and we’re close to describing this ornately crafted but beautifully raw collection.

Like Fay, he was a willful studio maverick, a virtuoso who pushed his music as far as it would go and no mind for a career. Both eschew 70’s strings in favour of driven piano, loose skronky guitar. And soul to burn.

Emmett knew Hendrix and booked him to play on ‘Sky King’ - a rollicking paean to their competitive friendship. Hendrix vanished to England, but guests who did show included gospel trio The Ellington Sisters. Emmett enthused about their adventurous collaboration including a powerful “Three part harmony on G diminished 7th chords” & lovely snarl on “Gospel’s” finale “Come, come and believe...” giving way to two minutes of vocal musique concrète - and you’re only midway through side one!.

Lyrically beautiful and haunted, Emmett later described his main influence was ‘the Time’. “In 69, Rock had nothing higher to offer, Woodstock was a peaceful, contained riot. Charles Manson slammed the door of that generation shut!”. It’s dark, it’s emotional, it’s groovy, just a perfect album from a brilliant hooky songwriter and guitarist - with the look & ambition of a rockstar expecting to fly.

And then Emmett disappeared from the scene. Forever? A mystery wrapped in an enigma?

“I may wind up a thoroughly obscure figure entirely forgotten” Emmett Finley

The songs, the beguiling, exquisite arrangements, the ambitious undated production of this soul-piercing album should say otherwise.

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released March 10, 2023

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