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Visions of the Country

by Robbie Basho

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $15 USD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

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      $143.50 USD or more (25% OFF)

     

  • Deluxe Vinyl Reissue
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    140-gram black vinyl with tip-on ("old style"), gatefold jackets. Includes original liner notes from Robbie Basho, and new liner notes by Gnome Life founder Fletcher Tucker. Beautifully restored from original masters.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Visions of the Country via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • 2013 Test Pressings – Special Letter-Pressed Edition
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is a strictly limited edition of 5 test pressings from our first reissue (2013) of this most extraordinary album. Your test pressing comes swathed in an unbleached cardboard, hand letter-pressed and hand numbered jacket created just for these ultra special test pressings.

    We are only selling 4 (of 5). A truly rare item, your chance to own a piece of history (Download included.)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Visions of the Country via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • 2020 Test Pressings – Special Letter-Pressed Edition
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is a strictly limited edition of 5 test pressings from our 2020 reissue of this most extraordinary album. Your test pressing comes swathed in an unbleached cardboard, hand letter-pressed and hand numbered jacket created just for these ultra special test pressings.

    We are only selling 5 (of 5). A truly rare item, your chance to own a piece of history (Download included.)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Visions of the Country via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Recorded in the height of Robbie Basho's creative career, "Visions of the Country" was originally released in 1978, and has been out of print for nearly 36 years. The album is comprised of technically superb instrumentation (6 & 12 string guitars and piano); majestic compositions; transcendent singing and whistling; and astonishing lyrical, emotional, and spiritual depths.

It is with a feeling of tremendous honor and joy that we offer this re-issue, which we hope will please existing Basho devotees, and create new acolytes, in equal measure. The feeling is akin to re-introducing an endangered species back into its native habitat, for this album is a precious, mighty, and wild thing. "Visions of the Country" should not stay couped up in expensive e-bay auctions and low quality vinyl-to-Mp3 rips, it needs to soar gloriously in high fidelity through our culture once more!

"Visions of the Country" is most simply a depiction of the expansive American West, and an ecstatic journey into Basho's equally expansive imagination and mystical approach to creativity... In Basho's own words: "My philosophy is quite simple: soul first, technique later, or 'Better to drink wine from the hands than water from a pretty cup'; of course the ultimate is wine from a pretty cup. Amen."

"Visions of the Country" is a shining example of what artistic heights can be attained when soul and technique meet on a deep level – in our opinion it is one of the finest albums ever recorded, wine from a very beautiful and magical cup indeed.

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released January 1, 2013

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Gnome Life Records California

Gnome Life Records is a vinyl and cassette label based on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Esselen in present day Big Sur, California. Established in 2005, Gnome Life produces a wide variety of musical and poetic releases expressing wild and mystical perspectives. ... more

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