·       RARELY REISSUED ON VINYL since its original 1972 Cadet release

·       ALL-ANALOG PRESSING sourced from the ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPE

·       Lacquers cut by KEVIN GRAY

·       Pressed at RECORD TECHNOLOGY, INC. (RTI)

·       Premium vintage-style Tip-On jacket - keeping it true to the original record

·       ★★★★½ - AllMusic Guide

·       Produced by legendary arranger/producer CHARLES STEPNEY

·       Backing vocals by MINNIE RIPERTON, KITTY HAYWOOD & SHIRLEY WAHLS

·       Featuring the Terry Callier classic "Ordinary Joe"

·       First chapter of Callier's celebrated Stepney-produced Cadet trilogy

·       A landmark fusion of soul, jazz, folk, gospel & psychedelia

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The Story

Slow Down Sounds is proud to bring "Occasional Rain" back to vinyl as an all-analog pressing sourced from the original analog tape, with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray and pressing by Record Technology, Inc. Those production details are especially meaningful for an album whose sound - the space around Callier's voice, Stepney's keyboards, the backing vocals and the texture of the ensemble - is such an important part of the experience.

More than fifty years after it was recorded, Occasional Rain remains a singular Chicago record, a Charles Stepney production at the height of his powers, and one of Terry Callier's defining works. The 1972 masterpiece opened Callier's extraordinary Cadet period, blending folk storytelling, jazz, soul, gospel, blues and psychedelia into a musical language that still refuses easy classification.

Behind Callier are Minnie Riperton, Kitty Haywood and Shirley Wahls, their harmonies essential to the album's atmosphere. Recorded at Chicago's Ter-Mar Studios, the album moves from "Ordinary Joe" through "Trance on Sedgewick Street," "Do You Finally Need a Friend," "Sweet Edie-D" and the title track like interconnected scenes from Callier's Chicago. Decades later, its rediscovery by rare-groove and acid-jazz audiences helped cement the album's reputation as an enduring soul-jazz classic.