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By Evan ~ November 5th, 2008. Filed under: collector scum.
I know very little about the life and career of Anna Black, and what I do know doesn’t help shape any idea of what drove her as an artist. I just know that I was told about her album a few years ago, and found her cover of “Eleanor Rigby” on an obscure blog last year. Since then I have made it one of my goals to find more of her songs. Seriously, her cover of the well-known Beatles tune is so haunting and beautiful it forced me to scour far and wide to find (what I believe is) her only full-length album, Meet Anna Black. It was released by Epic in 1968, and it exists as both a commercial (yellow label) and a promotional (white label) release. I know the white label promo is Monophonic, but I don’t know anything really about stock copies. The photograph above was heisted from another website.
The liner notes sure don’t clear up any information about Miss Black. She is from Oklahoma, her lineage traces back to the Chickasaw Indian tribe, and she cuts her own hair. Also, something about chilies and maybe…
Her style is somewhat jazzy, somewhat bluesy, somewhat psychedelic and somewhat folky. At times it sounds like all four. Of the few websites and eBay auctions I found that reference Meet Anna Black, there are references to a genre called “female fuzz,” and another called “femme folk psych.” You’ll have to listen for yourselves if you want to take a stab at it.
Anna Black
Meet Anna Black
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Tracklist:
01. Miss Otis Regrets
02. Little Annie Weed
03. You-All Come
04. Hey Now Now
05. The Tullys & The Tolphins
06. Jimmy Ben
07. Eleanor Rigby
08. Freedom Train
09. Gloomy Sunday
10. Muddy Hay
11. Drinkin’ Daddy
12. Billy Goat Run
November 6th, 2008 at 6:49 am
You had me at eleanor rigby. and her version of gloomy sunday is pretty good too. i look forward to previewing the rest of this lp. thanks holmes!
December 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Thank you for having my album on your website. I did do another album for Epic Records called Thinkin Bout My Man. It is also quite good I think. I quit the business for personal reasons but have continued to record original songs over the years. My latest CD will be out in March 2009 called House of BAM if you are interested in receiving one. I am alive and well. Anna Black BAM is my birth name – Barbra Anne McMillan.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
[...] early November, I posted an album called Meet Anna Black, which was released by Epic in 1968. One month later, I received an e-mail stating that Anna Black [...]
February 20th, 2009 at 11:33 am
[...] mentioned last night and Robert just mentioned to men ow that they are really enjoying the Anna Black record. In response to Hari, rather than saying, “Yeah — you’re welcome” and [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 11:24 am
A few months ago I downloaded the meet anna black album from internet and played it, I guess, a thousand times. It helps me via
my mp3player thru heavy working days and I like to listen to it at
night at home.
Why isn’t this album world famous? Anna Black’s voice and the accompanying musician are simply wonderfull !!!
I’m sad I couldn’t find Thinkin Bout My Man and House of BAM yet.
A fan from the Netherlands
October 31st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
When I first heard Billy Goat Run on Salt Lake City’s hippest FM station in 1968 I had to have a copy. I ordered the album from my local shop. It was a hit with all my friends. Someone took my copy of it years ago . I have not heard it since.
My god son currently has a webcast radio show on a college station. He plays all sorts of clever music, including music from the late 60s. I wanted to find a copy of Billy Goat Run for him to hear I was thriled to find it, along with a note from the fabulous Ms. Anna Black herself, Barbra Anne McMillion.
I’m going shopping for the new album. Thanks for everything!