Various Artists - Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan

 

Various Artists — Like Somone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan

Collection of reimagined songs from Margo Guryan's classic album!

Limited edition opaque red vinyl pressing

This 12-song compilation features additional reinterpretations by contemporary artists such as Margo Price, TOPS, Clairo, Rahill, June McDoom, MUNYA + Kainalu, Frankie Cosmos + Good Morning, Kate Bollinger, Pearl & The Oysters, Bedouine + Sylvie, Barrie, and Empress Of. The release of Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan also coincides with the third anniversary of Margo's passing. A portion of proceeds from this album will be donated to providing and advocating for affordable reproductive health services.

Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan was produced by Izzy Fradin and Jonathan Rosner.

About Margo Guryan

Most of our stories about cult musicians who make an album or two and then seem to vanish are framed by grief, despair, and frayed ambition. Not so with Margo Guryan, an ardent jazz anomaly who disdained pop music until hearing "God Only Knows" in 1966, opening a window onto the wonders that form could contain. Only two years later, she released her own set of little pop symphonies, Take a Picture, to great praise and expectation. But having already divorced the hard-gigging valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, she declined to tour or even talk about it all that much, content even if her reticence meant Take a Picture was soon consigned to discount racks and cutout bins. She wrote and recorded for years to come, even collaborating with Neil Diamond's band, but mostly she seemed satisfied by her relatively private life-raising her stepson, Jonathan; carousing with a small clutch of pals; talking politics with whoever was game. Rather than a tragedy, Guryan was an ornate pop architect who also drew and lived by her boundaries.

But as befits music so stunning and subtle, Guryan, who died in 2021, has enjoyed several renaissances over the last few decades-multiple reissues and international intrigue, faithful champions who introduced her tender work to successive generations.

1. Tops - Sunday Morning

2. Rahill - Sun

3. Clairo - Love Songs

4. June McDoom - Thoughts

5. Munya and Kainalu - Don't Go Away

6. Frankie Cosmos and Good Morning - Take a Picture

7. Kate Bollinger - What Can I Give You

8. Pearl & the Oysters - Think of Rain

9. Bedouine and Sylvie - Can You Tell

10. Empress of - Someone I Know

11. Barrie - Love

12. Margo Price - California Shake

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