Trevor, Ryan / Introducing

Drag City

Wow...we can't seem to figure out the true story of RYAN TREVOR—we're not sure he even knows it! Is he an industry guy who pitched songs to Barry Manilow, wrote songs for Sesame Street, and roadied for infamous germaphobe Robin Trower? Is he a sensitive loner-folker who lived in England and all over the globe? Is he an ex-’60s Indiana garage band kid who rocked in "The Blue Glue?" Or did he simply replace his friend Paul McCartney when he "died" in 1968? It just might be all of the above, though working closely with Trevor has shed remarkably little light on the man—even his exhaustive autobiography ends in the early ‘70s, just before he started recording music! The usually in-depth Acid Archives has a mere one sentence listed about the man. Is this a conspiracy? What we do know is that he produced one incredibly rare and homespun pop LP in 1977, Introducing: Ryan Trevor. It may have been merely a demo for a never-materialized Warner Brothers album, or a definitive concept album statement. A privately-pressed bit of psych-pop perfection, Introducing: Ryan Trevor at last answers the question on ALL of our minds: "What if R. Stevie Moore and Emitt Rhodes recorded an album with Joe Meek's ghost in the late ‘70s?" Whatever the case, what you have in your hands is a near-exact repro of an insanely catchy song cycle of Macca-melodies, subverted by copious amounts of phase, fuzz, and a bedroom production ambience that would certainly make Bob Pollard, Ariel Pink or The Godz jealous. (STREET DATE - 11/17/2009)

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