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Intervention will soon release an all-analog edition of Gene Clark's 1971 A&M classic album (SP 4292) that unfortunately suffered a rare A&M art department screw-up. It was Clark's first solo album after leaving The Byrds (not counting Gene Clark With the Gosdin Brothers from 1967 or Clark's two short but essential albums with Doug Dillard) and while the album was supposed to be called White Light and it's called that on the label, the jacket makes no mention of it and so it's just Gene Clark. There's probably an interesting back story here but I don't know it.

In any case, the album, produced by Jesse Davis and recorded at The Village in West L.A. features some of Clark's finest, most tender-hearted songwriting including "Spanish Guitar", "Because of You" and "With Tomorrow". It's an album of originals other than a cover of Richard Manuel and Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage", which sounds as if it was recorded elsewhere at a different session.

The test pressing I got to hear after playing the original for 47 years was a shocker. The reissue cut by Kevin Gray from a 1/2" safety master completely smokes the A&M original. Not even close. Intervention IR-028 is due out September 2018. It's a "must have" IMO, whether you call it White Light or Gene Clark.