Water
2006
Hurried Life - Lost Recordings 1965-1971
About This Album
When Water Records -- that venerable San Francisco label that is as unpredictable as it is funky -- reissued Ruthann Friedman's only album, 1968's Constant Companion in March of 2006, it was reasonable to assume that was that. Wrong. Instead, they went about repeating a process they had done so successfully with Patty Waters in 2004 on You Thrill Me: A Musical Odyssey 1962-1979 where they rounded up everything from beer commercials to rare demos, home tapes and club recordings, and released a stunning little compendium of a very enigmatic artist, and in 2005 they issued Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe, a live recording from a club in San Francisco in 2002 on their DBK Works imprint. Hurried Life is just what it says it s, a collection of home and studio recordings done between 1965 and 1971. They are "lost" because nothing was ever done with them. Pat Thomas and Nathaniel Russell have assembled a true series of lost gems in these 15 cuts. They are raw, utterly unpolished songs written by the woman who wrote "Windy" for the Association. On first hearing, and rightly so, these are songs that seem to come from a time and place far away. They are full of a seemingly naïve innocence: check the "Sky Is Moving South," and "That's All Right," for starters.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,9 and 13)

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