P.G. Six: Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (2023 Expanded Edition) CREAM Exclusive!!

We’ve uncovered a handful of the color edition of the Amish Records repress. And that’s it, folks.

From the one-sheet:

“For the uninitiated, Pat Gubler/P.G. Six’s Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (2001) opens windows on to many worlds, both new and old: a range of folk music, most notably Irish and British traditions; harp music; solo guitar; intimations of Indian classical; miniature etudes; Progressive rock.

Lyrically the songs sound traditional, familiar, intimate, and timeless.

Classic originals like ‘The Shepard’ and ‘When I was a Young Man’ exist alongside covers (re: Anne Briggs ‘Go Your Way’).

Mournful and elegiac, the album’s sequencing functions as a through line between genres and generations. A genuine student of music (Gubler studied Music Composition at SUNY Purchase under the direction of Dary John Mizelle), traditions lean on one another throughout this album and P.G. Six’s wider artistic vision.

Fully remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, artist Meredyth Sparks reimagines the beauful Chris Krol cover art in an evocative gatefold design.

An eight-song bonus LP entitled Live Cuts and Radio Favorites is included. Documenting performances from the calendar year just before and after the release of Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, the bonus album gathers radio and live shows:

Pearls Before Swine’s “I Saw the World” (1968) becomes minimalist, approaching modern classical in his repetitive and percussive piano work;

X’s “Drunk in My Past” (1983) feels refracted beyond the horizons of Los Angeles punk;

Gubler even looks back to his more recent past with “Cover Art,” from the debut album of Tower Recordings;

Looking forward, the bonus LP also includes versions of songs that would later appear on the album The Well of Memory (2004), which Amish will release in an forthcoming expanded edition.”