11/24/69 LP Straight STS-1058 ??/??/69 8-Track Straight STS-1058 02/09/70 LP Straight/W.B. WS 1841
Side One 1. Scarlet Women 2:25 2. Nite Train Home 3:45 3. Nothing At All 4:20 5. Little Boy Blue 2:15 6. Junkie John 7:20 Side Two 7. Sometimes Alone 4:10 8. No Exit (Cafe and Gallery) 5:20 9. I'm Comin' 3:45 10. Some Other Time 3:48 11. Didn't We Love 4:46 Tim Dawe- Guitar, Vocals Arnie Goodman- Keyboards Chris Kebeck- Guitar Claude Mathis- Drums Don Parrish- Bass Jerry Yester- Producer All songs written by Tim Dawe Produced and Arranged by Jerry Yester. Album design by John Williams Photography by Ed Caraefff and John Williams Cover Illustrations by Gordon Grant, from PENROD by Booth Tarkington Copyright 1914 by Doubleday & Co., reprinted by permission of publisher All songs copyrighted 1969 by Third Story Music, Inc. & Bizarre Music, BMI.
From: Stephane Rebeschini (source: Borderline's Psychedelic Archive)
Tim Dawe appeared on the scene in 1969 with an album on Frank Zappa's Straight
label. Penrod was a superb debut, full of psychedelic folk rock with lots of
organ, harpsichord and brilliant acid guitar. Four masterpieces are included:-
Nite Train Home, Junkie John, Sometimes Alone (with strong percussion) and
Didn't We Love. The result stands comparison to another more well known Straight
artist, Tim Buckley. Quite surprisingly, however, the backing group doesn't seem
to have played on other albums (unless they were using pseudonyms).
Dawe then wrote songs for Rod Taylor and It's A Beautiful Day (Places Of Dreams
and Bitter Wine, on Choice Quality Stuff/Anytime).
In 1976 he returned with an interesting west-coast album produced by the ex-
It's A Beautiful Day member Mitchell Holman, who also played bass on it.
Another ex-It's A Beautiful Day, member Hal Wagenet, also played guitar, whilst
Patricia Pickens, was an excellent vocalist. On this album Dawe included
versions of Bitter Wine and Junkie John together with nine new songs. It was
recorded in Coos Bay, Oregon.
In 1978, he produced A Night On The Wine Cellar (Cabernet GWC 101), a live folk/
blues album on which he sang three new songs, along with Billy Roberts and other
Californian local artists.
From: TIAKYALU[at]cs.com
Zappa was my mentor. My first album, PENROD, was released on Straight
Records in late 1969. Those were heady times. We were going to change the
world. Herb Cohen managed my band, Zappa executive produced. Read Zappa's
last interview in Playboy. Straight Records was going to be the first of
many great independant labels that would change the music business forever.
As we know, that didn't happen. But Zappa tried. Visions of Nirvana. His
vision was smothered by the mega record companies and a paranoid government.
One song from my album, Junkie John was getting nationwide airplay until the
FCC sent around its infamous notice to radio stations essentially banning all
songs dealing with drugs. But I had a great fifteen minutes while it lasted.
Thanks to Frank. Later I did other things, musical and otherwise.(It's A
Beautiful Day et. al., theoretical nuclear physics). Help keep Frank alive;
Tim Dawe
From: TIAKYALU[at]cs.com
I'm currently working on a (book, article, memoir, monograph...?)
tentatively titled "An unauthorized autobiography of an unknown superstar".
About a year ago a Japanese disc jockey walked into a club I was playing with
a copy of PENROD under his arm. He had apparently been looking for it for
some time and he asked me to autograph it for him. He was a Zappa fan but
also a "It's A Beautiful Day" fan with whom I worked with and wrote songs for
in the early 70's. He said he paid 50 bucks for the album so I guess it's a
collector's item. Subsequently, he sent me a tape of a show he did on his
radio station in Kobe, Japan called "an evening with Tim Dawe." What a grin!
Talk later.
Tim
1970 Tim Dawe- Penrod (Straight STS 1058/Warner WS-1841) 1976 Tim Dawe- Timothy and Ms. Pickens with Natural Act (Half Moon Bay Records HMB 01) Informants: Sknoof[at]aol.com
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