SIGUNICK & BEAGLE ACOUSTIC: THE LOST '62 TAPE — AVAILABLE NOW!

Price $6.00

1962 live dual-guitar acoustic recording of Philip Sigunick and Peter S. Beagle performing French, Spanish, and American songs. 25-minute running time. Packaged in a slimline CD case with lengthy track notes by Peter S. Beagle. Available now.

Tracklist:

01. Intro: Bob Jacobs
02. Comme Hier (Fort/Brassens)
03. Crawdad (American trad.)
04. La Femme d’Hector (Brassens)
05. L’Orage (Brassens)
06. La Ballade des Cimetieres (Brassens)
07. I See By My Outfit
08. Coplas (Mexican trad.)
09. Dans L’Eau de la Claire Fontaine (Brassens)
10. Les Lilas (Brassens)
11. Chanson Pour L’Auvergnat (Brassens)

Recorded by Bob Jacobs in a bedroom in the Bronx on June 14th, 1962. Digital transfer & processing in 2007 by GT Recording and Jim Lively. Cover painting of Phil and Peter, age 23, by Peter's famous artist uncle, Moses Soyer.

Please note: The audio quality of this restored recording is limited by inherent problems in the source material.

Click here to listen to Track 2, "Comme Hier".

Click here to listen to Track 4, "La Femme d'Hector".

"Phil Sigunick and I grew up across the street from each other, and played our guitars together from the day we started to learn the instrument. The Piedmont blues guitarist Josh White was by far our major influence, both in repertoire and in style, but we picked up songs from Richard Dyer-Bennet, Burl Ives, Jean Ritchie, Theodore Bikel, and anyone else we could steal from in the age preceding the folk-music boom of the early 1960s. Then I discovered the songs of the great French poet/musician Georges Brassens, literally learning the language from him, and with his Mediterranean accent to boot. (I’ve said often that it the equivalent of learning English from a Cajun with a classical education.) Phil, who has as quick an ear as anyone I’ve ever known, picked the songs up from me, as well as the legend of Uncle Georges himself. Brassens remains family and inspiration to both of us to this day.

"All these tracks were recorded — with the microphone balanced precariously on a metal folding chair — by the Third Man, Robert C. Jacobs, who grew up with Phil and me, and who, with his son Michael, recently salvaged an aging cassette transfer from the original reel-to-reel tape, which had long since crumbled to dust. Everybody involved was 23 at the time, and it was all very far away and long ago, in another country. I miss it still."

— Peter S. Beagle

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