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Featuring Jonathan Richman, two versions of his ‘tribute’ to Velvet Underground’s\u00a0‘Sister Ray’ released on a 7″ single after the original band had split up, on California’s Berserkley Records.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Richman went to New York as a youngster to soak up the vibes at Warhol’s Factory Club and to witness the house band the Velvet Underground. He stayed in New York for a couple of years. Sufficiently inspired he went back home near Boston, and formed a band that did very little until 1972 when they did some demo’s for John Cale from the Velvet Underground. During these sessions the track ‘Roadrunner’ was recorded.<\/p>\n
It must have been quite a compliment for John Cale to\u00a0work on\u00a0this track amongst the others produced that session, sounding so much like ‘Sister Ray’ but in so many ways different…not just a cover version, a completely new composition with the respectful influence of Cale’s old band.<\/p>\n
This version and the other tracks from the Cale sessions were released on one side of the debut LP\u00a0during the punk boom in the U.S. in 1976, a while since the band had actually split up. This single uploaded here from 1977 has that one Cale produced ‘Roadrunner’ track on the B side from 1972, and a more recent recording from 1975, with a different band, on the A side, produced by\u00a0Kaufman and Koloktin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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