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Occasional Rain by Terry Callier

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Segue #1 - Go Ahead On 0:39 1,645
2 Ordinary Joe 4:14 24,012
3 Golden Circle 3:35 1,711
4 Segue #5 - Go Ahead On 0:46 435
5 Trance On Sedgewick Street 6:20 2,302
6 Do You Finally Need A Friend 5:43 1,449
7 Segue #4 - Go Ahead On 0:45 385
8 Sweet Edie-D 5:02 1,144
9 Occasional Rain 4:04 3,877
10 Segue #2 - Go Ahead On 0:52 335
11 Blues For Marcus 4:01 1,399
12 Lean On Me 6:29 2,058
13 Last Segue - Go Ahead On 0:39 319
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Universal Music Classics & Jazz (2008) Released: 22 Apr 2008 13 tracks (43:09)
Occasional Rain, originally released in 1972, is the first of three albums, Chicago singer/songwriter Terry Callier cut for Cadet in the 1970s with producer Charles Stepney. Eight years earlier Callier, then a soulful blues and folk singer, cut an album of covers (as was par for the course in 1964 at the end of the folk revival, Bob Dylan was just getting his momentum) for Prestige, but it was shelved until 1968 and went nowhere. Callier spent the intervening time touring coffeehouses and small clubs around the country until he signed with Cadet. While the voice is most certainly the same, the nearly alchemical transformation of his sound via his own songwriting — and the way those songs were treated by Stepney — is still mind-boggling. Occasional Rain is recorded as a suite; not quite a concept album, there are segues, all titled “Go Head On,” fading in and out that introduce various stages in the recording. Stepney put together a band led by Callier’s excellent acoustic guitar playing, his own harpsichord and organ, pianist Leonard Pirani, bassist Sydney Simms, and drummer Bob Crowder — it’s the leanest production job in their collaboration. The beautiful touch, though, is Stepney adding a backing chorus with sopranos Minnie Riperton and Kitty Haywood, and contralto Shirley Wahls! The nearly baroque soul sound is heard almost immediately on the classic “Ordinary Joe.
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