Scott Fagan South Atlantic Blues

Scott Fagan South Atlantic Blues

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The long lost 1968 debut album by singer-songwriter, Scott Fagan, once tipped to be bigger than Elvis, is set for release on 9th February 2024 via Earth Recordings. South Atlantic Blues will be reissued for the first time in its original artwork, with an iconic portrait of Fagan by famed rock photographer, Joel Brodsky, following a widely celebrated 2015 release. Revisiting his mystical, mythical, and deeply soulful masterpiece, this psych-folk gem doffs a Tropicalia hat direct from downtown New York. His songs embrace a broad sonic fantasia, swirling in 60s New York R&B and 40s jazz, as well as the Caribbean rhythms of calypso, meringue and Pachanga. New York Times Scott Fagans story is worthy of a movie in itself. A swinging hipster who landed in 60s Greenwich folk scene, escaping the abject poverty of his U.S. Virgin Islands upbringing, Fagan found himself mentored by the Brill Buildings Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, and feted as the next big thing. Forget Rodriguez, forget S

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