View basket “The Velvet Rope” has been added to your basket. Fragments Of A Rainy Season John Cale SKU: REWIGLP107 Barcode: 887830010719 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino Released Date: 9th December 2016 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Domino Records reissue John Cale’s classic live album ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’, featuring his revered interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ amongst many solo versions from his enduring catalogue and previously unreleased outtakes. ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ was the first live John Cale album to feature him performing solo and ‘unplugged’ – before that term became a mid 1990s buzzword. In contrast to the jaundiced punk truculence of ‘Sabotage/Live’ (1979) or ‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’ (1986), ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ gives us Cale at his most melodic and moving, a mellowed and certainly a soberer man in a Yamamoto jacket and a lopsided haircut running through a selection of his prettiest songs. It’s a Cale many love deeply, a man alone at a concert-hall Steinway revisiting the pop-rock of ‘Paris 1919’ and ‘A Child’s Christmas In Wales’, as wistful and whimsical as any 70s singer songwriter holding court at LA’s Troubadour club. It’s the Cale who disavowed the spiky nihilism and decadence of the Velvets, inspired instead by melodicism of Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson (to whom he’d paid haunting homage on ‘Slow Dazzle’s brilliant Beach Boys pastiche ‘Mr. Wilson’). It’s the Cale who improbably took a staff job at Warner-Reprise in LA and – for an all-too-brief moment – became part of the Burbank producers’ mafia alongside Lenny Waronker and his laidback chums. (Lest we forget, 1973’s ‘Paris 1919’ featured members of Little Feat and The Crusaders among the backing musicians.) Cale being Cale, ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ isn’t all rueful tenderness. The deceptively jaunty ‘Darling I Need You’ is flippantly introduced as a song about “religious awakening in the southern part of the United States,” while Elvis’ ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ is no less gothic in the solo version here than it is in the Grand Guignol horror show of the original on ‘Slow Dazzle’. ‘Guts’ is as close as Cale ever came to Lou Reed at his most withering. It’s easy to forget that – years before Jeff Buckley and The X-Factor – he was the first artist to recognize the hymnal majesty of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, or that it was his original 1991 reading of the song that popped up on the soundtrack of ‘Shrek’. Double LP pressed on heavyweight vinyl and includes digital download code (digital download also includes the eight bonus tracks). Artist John Cale Genre Rock And Pop Label Domino Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings On A Wedding Anniversary Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Cordoba Buffalo Ballet A Child’s Christmas In Wales Darling I Need You Guts Ship Of Fools Leaving It Up To You The Ballad of Cable Hogue Chinese Envoy Dying On The Vine Fear (Is A Man’s Best Friend) Heartbreak Hotel Style It Takes Paris 1919 (I Keep A) Close Watch Thoughtless Kind Hallelujah Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from John Cale View Product Quick View John Cale Words For The Dying Rock And Pop | All Saints Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 4th August 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Cale Words For The Dying £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: All Saints Records SKU: WAST006LPC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Cale MERCY Rock And Pop | Domino | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th January 2023 £23.00 - 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