Melanie Stoneground Words Vinyl LP Dusky Pink Colour 2024

Tracklist:

Side 1

Here I Am
My Rainbow Race
Wild Horses
Summer Weaving
Between The Road Signs

Side 2

Together Alone
Maybe Not For A Lifetime
I Am Being Guided
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
The Actress

Side 3

Pretty Boy Floyd
Lovers Cross
Maybe I Was A (Golf Ball)
Song Of The South
I Am Not A Poet
Pine and a Feather

Side 4

Stoneground Words
Do You Believe
Holding Out
Love to Lose Again
Here I Am - alt Version

Woodstock and Glastonbury Fayre icon Melanie had been working with Easy Action on the deluxe vinyl and CD rerelease of one of the most legendary albums in her long catalogue prior to her very sad passing.

In 1972, Melanie and her producer and husband Peter Schekeryk began work on what she intended to be her most ambitious album yet. Stoneground Words was to be a double album - the first such statement from any female rock artist. It would also be the first worldwide release on Neighborhood Records, the label she and Schekeryk established in 1971 - another first, as she entered territory into which only the Beatles, the Stones and the Moody Blues had previously stepped. Even more crucially, however, it was her personal response to the enormous success, earlier in the year, of the hit “Brand New Key” - “the bicycle song,” as so many people recall it. Stoneground Words returned to the drawing board. Ten songs were selected; the remainder were placed to one side; and the album was released to generally positive reviews which included Melody Maker’s assertion that it was “the most sophisticated she's made. The naiveté of [the past has] been replaced by deeper, more comprehensive methods of expression.” She is the first to admit that the new edition of Stoneground Words is not a true facsimile of the original. The paperwork for all three projects, after all, disappeared long ago, as did the tapes (“who knows where?”)

Stoneground Words will be released in March 2024 by Easy Action/ Neighbourhood Records.