Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities (Remastered) Laurie Styvers

• 1Gemini Girl (Alternate Version)03:13
• 2Let Me Comfort You03:57
• 3God Knows The Reason02:06
• 4White Flower (Alternate Vocal)02:58
• 5All I Ever Had (Demo Version)03:42
• 6If You Don't Write Me Soon04:04
• 7Oh Colorado (Alternate Version)04:26
• 8The Way It Should Stay05:12
• 9Part Time Lover02:05
• 10Crazy Rainy Spring04:11
• 11Now That The Rain's Stopped04:03
• Total Runtime39:57

Info for Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities (Remastered)

Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities collects the bonus tracks from High Moon Records’ critically lauded album Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings. Appearing on vinyl for the first time, these 11 alternate takes, demos and previously unissued songs hail from the sessions for Laurie Styvers’ two unjustifiably obscure LPs Spilt Milk and The Colorado Kid, recorded in early 1970s London, and recently tagged by Pitchfork as “a sharp and idiosyncratic snapshot of how it feels to try growing up.” Akin to a “lost” third album, this remarkably well-rounded package is a further showcase for the honey-voiced intimacy of this youthful Texas singer-songwriter, with a program of lovelorn gems doused in splendid orchestration. RIYL Carole King, Judee Sill, Weyes Blood. Packaged with a four page lyric insert.

Laurie Styvers

Digitally remastered

Laurie Styvers
may be amongst the lesser-known names within the milieu of 1970s cult singer-songwriters, but anyone who experiences the bewitching innocence on display within her two deeply moving solo albums, Spilt Milk (1971) and The Colorado Kid (1973), will surely fall in love with this enigmatic figure. Born in Texas, Styvers was a student at the American School in London when she joined the legendary 1960s psych-folk outfit Justine, guesting on their eponymous 1970 debut LP before heading back to the US to attend college in Colorado. She soon returned to the UK, embarking upon a solo career after signing with Hush Productions, founded by legendary producers Shel Talmy (The Kinks, The Who, David Bowie) and Hugh Murphy.

Despite the airplay and good reviews, Styvers ended her music career and returned to the United States for good. She eventually moved back to Texas and started an animal rescue center with her father. She sadly died as a result of hepatitis on February 18, 1998. "Gemini Girl", a Laurie Styvers retrospective containing both of her albums and additional unreleased material was released by High Moon in February 2023. Reviewing the set for Pitchfork, Grayson Currin describes Styvers music as "a piano-driven wonderland that invoked the buoyant pop side of Laurel Canyon vogue to frame a complicated internal portrait."

"Although Laurie’s modern echoes are an undeniable delight, it is her reverberations in the music of the early ’70s that proves uncanny. Gemini Girl sets out to broaden Laurie’s fanbase and right her wrongful obfuscation." - Shindig! Magazine

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