JACK DOWNING - A FORCE THAT CANNOT BE NAMED: THE JACK DOWNING ANTHOLOGY ON RPM INTERNATIONAL

Although American, Jack Downing was Sweden’s pioneer of roots rock. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, in his adopted country, he issued a string of singles and album compiled for the first time on A Force That Cannot Be Named: The Jack Downing Anthology.

The released recordings - including the first-ever reissue of Now And Then, Downing's sole album - are supplemented by unreleased studio demos and live radio appearances, taking in the full story from 1966 to 1974. With a liner note by leading Swedish music writer Per Magnusson, A Force That Cannot Be Named: The Jack Downing Anthology is the definitive statement on this important figure.

After arriving in Sweden in 1963, Downing formed The Other Side in 1965. Their debut single Like A Rollin´ Stone / Out My Light opens the anthology. Both the Bob Dylan classic and Out My Light are lacerating, garage-rocking Americana. Downing's musical calling card set him up as leading light of Sweden’s music.

Jack Downing was a force, sweeping everything along with him. A character that could have been in Jack Kerouac's On The Road, he had his own, rambunctious take on Dylan (he recorded Open the Door, Homer, from The Basement Tapes as Open the Door, Richard before they were issued), Hoyt Axton and Merle Haggard. Legendary Swedish guitarist Kenny Håkansson was along for the ride. So was ex-pat Brit Mac MacLeod (the inspiration for Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man).

Release date is 19 November.

DISC ONE

Singles And Unreleased

1. Like A Rolling Stone (The Other Side, Karusell KFF 664, 1966)

2. Out My Light (The Other Side, Karusell KFF 664, 1966)

3. Fast James (Jack Downing & The Other Side, unreleased demo, 1968)

4. Lonesome Hearted Archer (Jack Downing & The Other Side, unreleased session, 1968)

5. Open The Door, Richard (Jack Downing & The Other Side, RCA Victor FAS 818, 1969)                                

6. Greenback Dollar (Jack Downing & The Other Side, RCA Victor FAS 823, 1969)

7. No Man's Land (Jack Downing & The Other Side, RCA Victor FAS 823, 1969)

8. Pretty Miss Mike (Jack Downing, single version, RCA Victor FAS 854, 1970)

9. The Last Thing On My Mind (Jack Downing, single version, RCA Victor 74-16024,1970)

10. Wide River (Jack Downing, RCA Victor 74-16024,1970)         

11. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Jack Downing, RCA Victor FAS 860, 1971)

12. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (Jack Downing, single version, RCA Victor FAS 860, 1971)           

13. After Yesterday Ends (Jack Downing, CBS 8229, 1972)

14. Going To California (California Blues) (Jack Downing, CBS 8229, 1972)

15. Colinda (Jack Downing & The Other Side, CBS 1797, 1973)

16. Belshazzar (Jack Downing & The Other Side, CBS 1797, 1973)

17. Geronimo (Jack Downing & The Other Side, CBS 2081, 1973)

DISC TWO

The Album and Live

Now And Then (RCA Victor LSP 10321, 1970)

1. Branded Man (also single, RCA Victor FAS 845, 1970)

2. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line (also single, RCA Victor FAS 845, 1970)

3. The Kind Of Words

4. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive

5. Muddy Water (also single, RCA Victor FAS 818, 1969)

6. Pretty Miss Mike

7. Queen Jane Approximately (also single, RCA Victor FAS 854, 1970)

8. Martha (also single, RCA Victor FAS 863 1971)

9. The Last Thing On My Mind         

10. A Force I Cannot Name

11. Branded Man (reprise)

Live

12. Seventh Son(Sveriges Radio, 1971)

13. Greenback Dollar (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

14. Pretty Miss Mike (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

15. Queen Jane Approximately (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

16. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

17. Branded Man  (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

18. Going To California (Sveriges Radio, 1971)

19. The Easy Way (Jack Downing & The Other Side, Tonkraft, 1974)

20. Isn't That So (Jack Downing & The Other Side, Tonkraft, 1974)