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Blue Gold

by Al Manfredi

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    This is the 12th release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.
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    Double album packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Manfredi's incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

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    2 Disc CD, with all the Now Again Reserve Edition bonus material, packaged in a 6-panel eco-wallet. Includes booklet.

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Of The Sea 03:10
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Five Six 02:54
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Blue Gold 03:15
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Foggy Night 04:33
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Let It Alone 05:25
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about

Al Manfredi, born to a musical family of Italian immigrants in the small SoCal beach town of San Clemente, found regional success with his garage rock band Lost & Found while he was still a teenager. The tragic deaths of two of the band’s members in the late 60s shook Manfredi to his core, and he gave up on the band scene completely, retreating to his family’s music store, and working on music in private, multi-tracking demos of growing prowess on primitive recording equipment.

In 1973 he chose six of his favorite songs and exactingly produced and recorded an album, which he custom-pressed in minute quantities. His dreams of securing a record deal faded, but he spent the rest of his life recording music, surfing, bringing children into the world, and battling alcohol and drug abuse. This little-known West Coast rock masterpiece was rediscovered celebrated by Acid Archives founder Patrick Lundborg and others around the time that Manfredi died in 1995. This version of the album, overseen by Manfredi’s son, the hip hop producer Exile, and with Manfredi’s story told by Ugly Things’ founder Mike Stax, presents the complete package of an incredible lost and found artist.

credits

released February 23, 2019

"Don't Move Girl" (Al Manfredi)/”To Catch the Sun" (Mike Ingram)
Recorded at Debra Studio, 2613 W. Bethany Home Road, Phoenix, AZ, circa
November/December 1966 by Loy Clingman. 

Personnel: Al Manfredi (Vocals, Bass), Mike Ingram (Vocals, Rhythm Guitar), Jim Jeffers
(Lead Guitar), Mike Ryer (Drums, Vocals).

Originally released in December 1966 on Pins, AL-F-1/AL-F-2.

“Of the Sea,” “I Don't Live Today,” “Five Six,” “Blue Gold,” “Foggy Night,” “Empty of
Your Possession” all written by Al Manfredi.

Recorded at unknown studio by Al Manfredi, circa 1972.

Originally released early in 1973 as Al Manfredi on Band N’ Vocal Mobile Recording
Service, BVRS 1285

Personnel: Al Manfredi (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums)

“What A Way To Be Laughing,” “Never With You (Acoustic Version),” “Can Be Near You,” “Basking,” “What A Way to Be Laughing (Acoustic Version),” “Star Factory,” “Just Can’t Stay Away” all written by Al Manfredi.

Recorded at unknown home studios by Al Manfredi on unknown dates, assumed to be between 1971 and 1975.

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt and Alek “Exile” Manfredi. Associate production and liner notes by Mike Stax. Original sessions produced by Al Manfredi. Lost & Found sessions produced by Loy Clingman.

Restored and remastered by Jason Bitner at Traffic Entertainment Group, Boston.
Lacquered by Chris Potter at Electric Mastering, London.
Art Direction by Errol Richardson.
Licensed courtesy Alek “Exile” Manfredi.

"What an amazing experience, to have a hand in helping my Father live his dream of his music being heard, even after his death. Since his passing, I have come closer to understanding my Father’s struggle and, through his lyrics and music, to realizing how soulful of a human he was. May his music warm your hearts and give you inspiration to make it through; may it live through the mystical sound waves of this planet for as long as it’s here.

A most sincere thank you to Egon and Mike Stax for guiding this journey in re-releasing my Father’s music and in telling his story. Special thanks to Lance Manfredi, Alberico Manfredi (R.I.P.), Alicia Manfredi, Barbra Manfredi, to the Manfredi and Castano family tree, Gwen

Dageford, Jan Tomlinson, Paul Waroff, Rob Branigin, Richard Deuel, Dan Nowicki, Jim and John Jeffers, Susan Bainbridge (R.I.P.) and to all students my Father taught at Al Manfredi Guitar and Drum Studio and Star Factory. I am so very thankful for you being a part of his journey."
-Exile

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Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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