Fully Qualified Survivor

*FULL PAGE 'UNSUNG HEROES' FEATURE IN UNCUT WITH 5-STAR REVIEW : "HOW THE YORKSHIRE JOHN FAHEY BECAME ACID-FOLK'S LATEST UNLIKELY PIN-UP....JOHN PEEL'S FAVOURITE ALBUM FROM 1970; MICK RONSON'S PLAYING ON 'STRANGER IN THE ROOM' SIGNPOSTS BOWIE'S 'HUNKY DORY' SOUND."
*5 STAR REVIEW IN MOJO: "CHAPMAN'S IMMACULATELY SLURRED, DREAMLIKE MEANDERINGS AND RONSON'S ELECTRIC INTERJECTIONS PROVIDING A DIRECT LINE TO THE REBORN DAME OF 'THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD' AND 'HUNKY DORY' . STUNNING."
* 1970 British folk rock classic re-issued in deluxe metallic foil digipak.
* First vinyl reissue in decades
* Features a pre-Bowie Mick Ronson on lead guitar and Rick Kemp of Steeleye Span on bass
* Produced by Gus Dudgeon (right after Gus did Bowie's "Space Oddity" single)
* Includes Chapman's "Postcards of Scarborough" - a psychedelic guitar masterwork
* Liner notes by Mick Houghton (Uncut)
*Although not as well known as his peers (Roy Harper, John Marytn, and Bert Jansch), the name Michael Chapman is an important one in the linage of English folk rock guitarists and singer/songwriters of the late 60's/early 70's. For those unfamiliar with Chapman's work, Roy Harper might be his closest musical cousin (and both artists were signed to EMI's seminal stoner record label Harvest also home to Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett).
*Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a slightly drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Chapman recorded 4 albums for Harvest between 1968 and 1972, of which 1970's Fully Qualified Survivor is hands down considered the classic amongst the whole highly coveted bunch.
*What makes Fully Qualified Survivor such a special album (besides being a vehicle for a young Mick Ronson's mind-blowing guitar heroics) are the layers of beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums, and the cello of one Paul Buckmaster the same man who provided the intense strings on Elton John's dark masterpiece "Mad Man Across The Water."