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Torn Light Records
Chicago, IL 60647
513-873-6995




Roky Erickson – The Evil One

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$31.00

“2LP housed in deluxe gatefold ‘tip-on’ jacket with 20 page booklet, download card for full album, and etching by artist Travis Millard on side D. Originally released in the UK as the 10 song album Five Symbols in 1980 and as The Evil One in 1981 (with 5 songs replaced), this definitive LP gathers all 15 songs from the Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) late 1977-79 produced sessions. Released from the institution in 1974, Roky found his legend had grown while he’d been away — not least because ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ was included on 1972’s Nuggets compilation. He formed a band, the Aliens, and set about honing a hard rock sound that placed the psychedelic garage blues of the Elevators firmly in the last decade. Though it was produced at a time when Roky was struggling to cope with drugs and life on the outside, he hit form on his first post Elevators album-proper, 1981’s The Evil One. Produced over a period of two years by Stu Cook, from Creedence Clearwater Revival, it’s a masterful collection of songs about zombies, demons, vampires and, yes, even the ‘Creature with the Atom Brain.’ These tracks, inspired by schlock sci-fi and horror movies and colored by Roky’s distinctive, high-pitched vocal and squealing guitar, are among the maverick performer’s best…the B-movie demons he exorcised on this record gave us one of hard rock’s strangest, most inventive albums.”

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