{"product_id":"coming-from-reality","title":"Coming from Reality","description":"Recorded in 1971 as the second chapter in this legendarily under-the-radar Detroit bard's career, COMING FROM REALITY reads like the coda to a hippie dream the singer never got to have. Dylan, Donovan, and the Beatles remain the primary influences here, but the vision and approach is all his own: images are simultaneously psychedelic and stark, lyrical themes both sociopolitical and inner, and arrangements both embroidered and hard-hitting. Much like that of FOREVER CHANGES-era Arthur Lee, the \"reality\" of this title encompasses both a vivid romantic's sense of heaven and a nihilist's sense of hell.\u003cbr\u003eThe gentle suite \"Sandrevan Lullaby-Lifestyles\" finds nightmarish poetics (\"The generals hate holidays\/Others shoot-up to chase the sun blues away\/Another store-front church is open\") framed by rich strings while \"It Started Out So Nice\" repeats the same trick with sci-fi overtones. COMING FROM REALITY's emotional centerpiece happens with \"A Most Disgusting Song\"--a talking-blues\/country tune based on the Beatles' \"Rocky Raccoon\"--that chronicles in indelible detail a gig at a dive full of seriously hung-up characters and plays like an absurdist fusion of Dylan's \"Desolation Row\" and Billy Joel's \"Piano Man.\" Disturbing stuff but, all told, an album as unexpected and essential as COLD FACT.","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41986770272421,"sku":"602577077388","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/5ad86fb8138b545ffa32fdf7bdf93e3b_0583cfe1-c77f-4b9e-b4a9-cedca6f10d2f.jpg?v=1780845858","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/products\/coming-from-reality","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}