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Two rare albums with Holly Near involvement, with LARGE scans, so you can actually read the liner notes. The 1970 First National Nothing album is one that I have trouble believing Columbia Records could justify spending money on…it's musically, well, uninspired. The other song with Holly on lead that I could have sampled in my show was much worse. This show was also a very early appearance of Barry Bostwick, who I fondly know most for his role of Brad in "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Also,
I'm showing a large scan of the 1976 album "Any Woman's Blues."
This was a concert at a women's prison in California and is of interest
because it featured music of Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Gwen Avery,
Linda Tillery and poetry of Pat Parker and Diane Ramsey. I've done some
research on it and have some questions. For example, I don't believe
Holly actually participated in the concert, as her solo song on the
album ("Sister-Woman-Sister") is actually the identical track
from her early 1976 album "You Can Know All I Am." That track
on that album was a live recording, but was done at a cultural center.
Now, I am not saying the liner notes are lying, just misleading. Note
they are talking about the concert and say "selections on this
album are taken primarily from that wonderful day." Without
analysis I had assumed Holly and Cris were there singing, and now I
wonder if Cris even was. Her song ("Song of the Soul") is
a live track, which I do not see elsewhere, so it could be, but I also
wonder why the "big names" (Holly & Cris) only got one
song each on the album, and they are not shown in the photos on the
album. Just wondering...
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