Since There Were Circles

by Bob Lind

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1.	I Love To Sing/Sweet Harriet 04:23	buy track
2.	City Scenes 03:32	buy track
3.	Love Came Riding 03:11	buy track
4.	Loser 03:31	buy track
5.	Not That I Would Want Her Back 02:49	buy track
6.	Theme From The Music Box 03:27	buy track
7.	Anymore 03:32	buy track
8.	Spilling Over 03:57	buy track
9.	She Can Get Along 02:57	buy track
10.	Up In The Morning Me 02:07	buy track
11.	Since There Were Circles 05:15	buy track

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Singer-songwriter Bob Lind will forever be remembered for the 1965 hit "Elusive Butterfly," but his career is so much more interesting than the fading wonder of that one song. Once a hard-partying buddy of Charles Bukowski, Lind was the inspiration for the character "Dinky Summers," a down-on-his-luck folk singer in Bukowski's 1978 novel Women. Lind also doubled as a writer, penning a number of novels and plays as well as serving as a longtime staff writer at the lowbrow tabloid Weekly World News.

If that wasn't enough, Lind is also responsible for one of the greatest major-label "loner" albums of all time, 1971's Since There Were Circles. After several years languishing without a second hit for the World Pacific label, Lind signed to Capitol and went into the studio with some of the biggest names in the LA country-rock scene including Doug Dillard, Gene Clark, Bernie Leadon and legendary session bassist Carol Kaye. While the record was well-received critically, it sold poorly and marked Lind's bitter departure from the music business for several decades.

The intervening half-century has been incredibly kind to Since There Were Circles, and it is now regarded as a cult masterpiece that pairs perfectly with Gene Clark's No Other, Bobby Charles' self-titled Bearsville album and Lee Hazlewood's Cowboy In Sweden. Lind's songwriting here is vastly darker and more self-reflective than anything from his folk-pop period, and the production is simultaneously loose and rootsy, yet lushly orchestrated and occasionally bombastic. Lind somehow manages to bring it all together with wry delivery and literate detail. Comes with lyric booklet.

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released January 1, 1970

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Singer-songwriter, chart topper with "Elusive Butterfly", inspiration for everyone from Bukowski to Jarvis, supermarket tabloid scribe, celebrated author and playwright, music industry survivor.

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