Cooper, Mike: Trout Steel
Cooper, Mike: Trout Steel
Format: CD
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Artist: Cooper, Mike
Label: Paradise Bachelors
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 616892193944
Genre: Folk
2014 reissue of the long out-of-print 1970 third solo album masterpiece. With the album's title, appropriated from Richard Brautigan's 1967 surrealist-pastoral novel Trout Fishing in America, Mike Cooper might very well have been describing his own mercurial musical practice. "Trout Steel" suggests a reflective, highly mutable, quicksilver riverine element, an apt metaphor for the lap steel runs summoned from his trademark National resophonic guitars and his restless, constantly evolving development as a singer, composer, interpreter, and improviser. By the time the Rolling Stones invited him to join the band in the early '60s, and he politely declined (true story; Brian Jones took the gig), he had already progressed far beyond the circumscribed bounds of their early, hip-histrionic Albionic blues. On Trout Steel Cooper took a decisive step away from the folk and blues scenes which he was well-known-he had toured with Michael Chapman and traveled in the same circles as Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, and Davey Graham, among others-toward the New Thing jazz of Pharaoh Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, and Derek Bailey, without sacrificing any of his lyrical songwriting or forsaking his established roots in the soil of the American Southern vernacular. Producer Peter Eden (Donovan, Bill Fay, Clive Palmer) assembled a crack team of English and South African jazz and folk musicians (including Mike Osborne, Harry Miller, Geoff Hawkins, Stefan Grossman, and Heron) to record these remarkable sessions, and the results are absolutely sui generis, a compelling mix of tradition, group improvisations, and unfettered studio explorations that presaged Cooper's adventurous work for decades to come. Includes deluxe 20 page booklet with an exhaustive essay, lyrics, and never published color photos.
Tracks:
1.1 That's How
1.2 Sitting Here Watching
1.3 Goodtimes
1.4 I've Got Mine
1.5 Half Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo Da Vinci
1.6 Don't Talk Too Fast
1.7 Trout Steel
1.8 In the Mourning
1.9 Hope You See
1.10 Pharaoh's March
1.11 Weeping Rose
