Gene Clark (aka "thursday ear candy #2")

I've been looking for an excuse to post about Gene Clark for a couple months now.  I wanted to write about how he was a founding member of the Byrds and how he wrote "Eight Miles High" and how he left the group because he was afraid to fly (and because Roger McGuinn is a jerk) and how he made some beautiful, underappreciated music with the Gosdin Brothers and Doug Dillard and then spent the 70s releasing album after album of music that topped most everything Gram Parson's overrated ass ever thought about recording and how Bob Dylan said he wished he'd written "For a Spanish Guitar" and how nobody cared and how Gene Clark drank too much and how he bought drugs with the royalties he received when Tom Petty covered "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" and how Yo La Tengo covered his "Tried So Hard" on Fakebook and how he eventually died in 1991 of a bleeding ulcer. 

I'm not going to write any of that, though.  Instead, I'm just going to say that the cover of Re-Arrange Us by Mates of State looks an awful lot like a combination of the covers of Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers and the Gene Clark compilation Flying High.  The guy from Mates of State even looks a bit like Gene Clark.

Thanks to Homebody for giving me an excuse to write about one of my favorites.  I swiped the Mates of State cover art from her.