October 2nd 2015 is forever Johnny Rivers day in my universe. He gets all my posts today. I came upon him yesterday thanks to Stephen King of all people who directed me towards Secret Agent Man at round about two o'clock yesterday afternoon on the radio. I went from there towards Realization, his 1968 album. Not an extraordinary record perhaps. No Astral Weeks of course. But a very interesting listen. Like Dion, Del Shannon and so many other of those early Rock and Rollers, towards the end of the sixties he was trying to find a space and time to belong in and here's the space and time he found. A great, small, almost classic. I think there's a copy of it with my name on it on Discogs in Croatia which is reasonably priced and may soon be winging its way my way. I'll let you know when and if it makes it here!
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