Canadian John Palmer's Shorelines, 1971

 

Isn't that inside photo of him on the beach with the dog amazing??

Here's a really lovely find, out of left field, unexpected, but wonderful for me.

Artist info here, release info here:

John Lonsdale Montgomery Palmer

Profile: Canadian musician (guitar, bass, keyboards), singer, and songwriter born in 1950.

Sites: lonpalmer.wordpress.com , citizenfreak.com 

This reminds me a lot of my old favourite folky acoustic master of 12-string guitar, Gene Hood, if you remember his beautiful masterpiece of earnest and heartbreaking guitarwork from way back when. It won't be as good as that one, obviously, you wouldn't expect the unforgettable stuff to keep popping up at this late stage in the game: perhaps terminal or palliative.  

Nonetheless this is quite good and is much better than the average offering here. His haunting voice, in particular, really gets to me.

The track called Cloud opens it up with some nice graceful modulation and chord changes, youtubed here albeit misspelled. You can see the youtuber posted the entire album there, here's Such a long time.

Get it, it's good, if you like earnest folky ssw stuff blessed with fresh and welcome originality.