Strange how much music can alter in value for a person given time, not through tonal remake of any kind but by changes in zeitgeist leading to both new concepts and revaluations of the old ones. Lena Andersson (born 1955) is a Swedish pop singer who at age 15 was spotted by upcoming ABBA manager/producer Stickan Andersson (1931-97) and brought to his Polar label. She immediately got a huge domestic hit with "Är Det Konstigt Att Man Längtar Bort Nån Gång?" - a cover of the Buffy Sainte-Marie song "I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again" - and soon became a household name frequently exposed in the medias. The rock/psych/prog loving gang I hang out with back then truly hated both that song and this debute LP since we saw it as meaningless mindnumming pop and in a Sweden that only had two channels on TV and three on radio it was everywhere - like melodic stalking. Now after not hearing it for over forty years I'm receiving a totally different message. From a very young debuting female singer that in a couple of days recorded a cover album, mainly consisting of country and folky tunes. Ranging over originals by Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Paxton and Malvina Reynolds coupled with one from an early Björn & Benny collaboration and own interpretations of traditional folk tunes. Six sung in English and six in Swedish. Though in her mid-teens the vocals sounds surprisingly mature, spiced by just a few girlish slips and a young vibrato. So in my world this has changed from being a pain in the butt to an album well worth having - and it only took me fortyseven years! To my knowledge this was the only original release. Never reissued on CD, but a couple of the songs were included on the 2003 20-track "Musik Vi Minns" (Polar 038539-2). A few also showed up on her 1972 Japan only album "Kawaisonako" (Seven Seas SR 806). Premiere Swedish had label as shown here and fully laminated cover. (FÄV*) (CCÖ*) (SCÄ*) (ÄBBÖ*) (PKÖL*)
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