LOU BOND - LOU BOND - VINYL LP DAVID GIFFELS

LOU BOND - LOU BOND - VINYL LP DAVID GIFFELSLou Bond only made one album but what an album it was. Politically charged, deeply introspective, and wonderfully lyrical, 1974s Lou Bond is reminiscent of the Eugene McDaniels releases Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse and Outlaw (both out previously on Real Gone) in its outspoken, idiosyncratic social commentary. But there is a sensitivity here thats devastating; Bonds falsetto soaring over his strummed acoustic guitar brings to mind Bill Withers

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