David Blue: These 23 Days In September / Stories / Nice Baby And The Angel / Cupid’s Arrow
David Blue

• Four albums from singer-songwriter and Dylan-contemporary David Blue.
• Spanning his time at Reprise and Asylum from 1968-1973.

David Blue moved to Greenwich Village in the early 60s and one day saw Bob Dylan writing the song that would become the great folk anthem ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’. Bob asked David to play the chords while he would create the verses. It was performed that night at Gerde’s Folk City.

Once Bob Dylan made it record companies came looking around Greenwich Village for potential artists. And shifting from David Cohen to David Blue at the suggestion of Eric Anderson, he signed first to Elektra, Then Reprise.

The Reprise album, ‘These 23 Days In September’ was released in 1968. It was produced by Gabriel Mekler who was producing Steppenwolf Gabriel played piano and Bob Rafkin, guitar.

His first album for the newly-formed Asylum label ‘Stories’ (1972) followed and featured some magical slide guitar from Ry Cooder. The musicians on the album include Rita Coolidge, Chris Ethridge, Milt Holland and Russ Kunkel , which is pretty much an A-Team.

Graham Nash, then a superstar with Crosby, Stills And Nash, produced the album ‘Nice Baby And The Angel’ in 1973. Background vocals included Nash, Dave Mason, Glenn Frey and Jennifer Warren. Glenn Frey was so taken with the track ‘Outlaw Man’ that he took it to The Eagles and it was featured on their album ‘Desperado’.

‘Cupid’s Arrow’, released in 1976, was produced by Barry Goldberg and featured Jesse Ed Davis and the Liverpool musician Jackie Lomax. The title track was written about protest singer Phil Ochs and it was sung at his memorial concert.

TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE: THESE 23 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
1. THESE 23 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
2. AMBITIOUS ANNA
3. YOU NEED A CHANGE
4. THE GRAND HOTEL
5. THE SAILOR’S LAMENT
6. YOU WILL COME BACK AGAIN
7. SCALES FOR A WINDOW THIEF
8. SLOW AND EASY
9. THE FIFTH ONE
STORIES
10. LOOKING FOR A FRIEND
11. SISTER ROSE
12. ANOTHER ONE LIKE ME
13. HOUSE OF CHANGING FACES
14. MARIANNE
15. FIRE IN THE MORNING
16. COME ON JOHN
17. THE BLUES (ALL NIGHT LONG)

DISC TWO: NICE BABY AND THE ANGEL
1. OUTLAW MAN
2. LADY O’LADY
3. TRUE TO YOU
4. ON SUNDAY, ANY SUNDAY
5. DARLIN’ JENNY
6. DANCING GIRL
7. YESTERDAYS LADY
8. NICE BABY AND THE ANGEL
9. TROUBADOUR SONG
10. TRAIN TO ANAHEIM
CUPID’S ARROW
11. RUN, RUN, RUN
12. THE BALLAD OF JENNIFER LEE
13. TOM’S SONG
14. I FEEL BAD
15. CORDELIA
16. MARIA, MARIA
17. CUPID’S ARROW
18. PRIMEVAL TUNE