Label: Tompkins Square

1967年、当時無名でありながらアソシエイションに提供した[Windy]が大ヒットを記録した事で知られるSSWルーサン・フリードマン。その2年後にワーナー／リプライズ・レコードから自身のアルバム[Constant Companion]を発表、[Windy]とは異なるサウンドながら現在はアシッドフォークの名盤として語り継がれている作品であり、本作はその期間を跨ぐ1965~1971年頃の個人アーカイブより厳選された、未発表デモ、ホームレコーディングを集めた珠玉のコレクション。[Windy]のオリジナルバージョンも収録、美しい水色ヴァイナル仕様。









In 1967, the folk-pop group The Association had a massive hit with a song called “Windy” penned by an unknown young woman named Ruthann Friedman. Two years later, she released her own album Constant Companion on Warner/Reprise Records that sounded nothing like “Windy” – it had more in common with her labelmate Joni Mitchell or cult-hero Linda Perhacs. Decades later, Ruthann would be declared an “astral folk goddess” and championed by the likes of Devendra Banhart.

Around that time, reissue producer Pat Thomas compiled a collection of previously unreleased demos, home recordings, and lost songs circa 1965-1971 from Ruthann's personal archive including the original version of "Windy."

Titled Hurried Life, Ruthann recently declared, “That’s the one that I really like - that was the first time going back into the archives to find songs that might be reissued. I think those were representative of me.”