Gary Higgins: A Dream a While Back

"If a certain sliver of music fans ... want old obscure recordings, Connecticut singer and songwriter Gary Higgins is willing to oblige. Higgins, 63, got rediscovered ... in 2005, 30 years after he released Red Hash, a record of mellow and spacey acoustic songs, of which only a couple thousand vinyl copies were originally pressed. The Chicago label Drag City re-issued the recording, and Higgins, who grew up in western Connecticut and lives in Falls Village and had been playing music the whole time, was suddenly in demand, relearning and performing songs from three decades ago. Now Higgins is back with A Dream a While Back ... a collection of previously unreleased raw solo acoustic songs recorded in 1970 and '71, prior to Red Hash. The songs sway and swing around droned low-notes, with Higgins's careful fingerpicking mapping out the spare rhythms, and his subdued voice swooping and swooning, sliding in slow, vaguely Indian curves" (John Adamian, "Journey Through the Past," New Haven Advocate, 3/31/11).
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