Lavender Country: Lavender Country - COMPACT DISCS

Lavender Country: Lavender Country - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Lavender Country Artist: Lavender Country Label: Paradise Bachelors Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 616892185048 Genre: Country Release Date: 2014 03 25 Number of Discs: 1 2014 deluxe reissue of the 1973 album widely recognized as the first openly gay country music album and cited as such even by Nashville institutions like the Country Music Hall of Fame and CMT the landmark self titled Lavender Country album stands as nothing less than an

Title: Lavender Country
Artist: Lavender Country
Label: Paradise Bachelors
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 616892185048
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2014-03-25
Number of Discs: 1

2014 deluxe reissue of the 1973 album widely recognized as the first openly gay country music album-and cited as such even by Nashville institutions like the Country Music Hall of Fame and CMT-the landmark self-titled Lavender Country album stands as nothing less than an artifact of courage, a sonic political protest document of enormous power, clarity, and grace. Songwriter, singer, and guitarist Patrick Haggerty, a fearless first-generation gay liberation activist and artist, seasons his songs with Yippie deviousness; in the manner of the Cockettes, the laughs both sharpen and sweeten the impact. The inimitable aesthetics and glimpses of cockeyed humor recall some ethereal psych-folk nexus of the Flatlanders and the Holy Modal Rounders as much as any standard country and western forebears, rendering the biting poetry in an even more otherworldly and timeless light. The record reflects Haggerty's experiences: his upbringing on a tenant dairy farm in rural Washington, on the Canadian border; his dismissal from the Peace Corps on the spurious grounds of his sexuality; and his righteous struggles as an outraged young gay man navigating the Pacific Northwest in the immediate aftermath of Stonewall. He designed Lavender Country as a vehicle for what he deems "The Information": valid cultural communications intended to resonate with those unable to access similar resources. (Playing "Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears," one of the indisputably great country song titles ever, cost a brave Seattle DJ her FCC license.)

Tracks:
1.1 Come Out Singing
1.2 Gypsy John
1.3 Waltzing Will Trilogy
1.4 Georgie Pie
1.5 Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears
1.6 Back in the Closet Again
1.7 I Can't Shake the Stranger Out of You
1.8 To a Woman
1.9 Straight White Patterns
1.10 Lavender Country

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