Hi everyone

I have this 45 described as rare doo wop 1st press - rare oddball 45 not in price guide.

Eddie Kirkland & Falcons - Train Done Gone/I Tried (Lu Pine 801).

It certainly appears on Lu Pine listings I have seen.

Can anyone comment on whether this is an original, has ever been pressed, or could be a later repro release please?

Cheers

Richard

Hi Richard

I've got one too............and my thought has always been it's a pressing, but I've never really been sure.

Train Done Gone was released on Tru-Sound but with a different flip side,

If anyone else has any info on this..........I'd be interested too!!!

Caz

Edited April 23, 201114 yr by jobbo

Hi Richard

The Guardian had an obituary for Eddie Kikland yesterday (Friday 22nd April) and mentioned he recorded for Fortune and says he had an LP on Tru Sound in 1962 which was quite successful so the single on Lupine may be a latter issue that was done as it was still selling. Sorry I don't know how to put a link up for the obituary but I'm sure its not too hard to find.

Rick

https://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/21/eddie-kirkland-obituary

A blues musician with raw energy who was always on the road

• Tony Russell
• Thursday 21 April 2011 18.22
• 
• Eddie Kirkland playing at the Koh Samui music festival in 2005 Photograph: Leon Schadeberg / Rex Features
• Journalists called him "the gypsy of the blues" and his website titled him "road warrior", testimony to the fact that the blues singer and guitarist Eddie Kirkland, who has died aged 87, doggedly took his music wherever he could find an audience. His friend Pete Lowry, who recorded Kirkland for his Trix label in the 1970s, said that Kirkland was "still trying to conquer the world one saloon or pub at a time. This will be the first time in his life that he has stopped moving forward at full speed."

• 
  Kirkland came to the attention of blues enthusiasts as an occasional partner, both on the road and in the studio, of John Lee Hooker, his clanging guitar, and occasionally voice, adding to the excitement of Louise, Let's Talk It Over and others of Hooker's early-50s recordings for the Chess and Modern labels. He made a few singles himself around that time, for the King and Fortune labels, but established his credentials with the 1962 LP It's the Blues Man! (Tru-Sound), an album still remarkable for its originality and raw power. One of its strongest tracks, Man of Stone, was covered by John Mayall on his album Crusade.
  
  Kirkland was born in Kingston, Jamaica, from a brief liaison between a Cuban fisherman and a Jamaican girl not yet in her teens. A year later, his mother brought him to New Orleans and soon afterwards to Alabama, where she worked on sugarcane farms owned by the Kirkland family, who looked after her son and gave him their name.
  
  He learned to play the guitar, and picked up songs from local and transient musicians, and from records. In his early teens he ran away with the Silas Green medicine show. After belatedly getting some schooling in Indiana, he spent two years in the army during the second world war, but in 1945 was dishonourably discharged after getting into a fight with a racist officer. He then rejoined his mother, who had moved to Detroit, where he met Hooker.
  
  In the early 60s he toured with Otis Redding, and in 1965 he had a regional hit on Volt, the Stax subsidiary for which Redding recorded, with a harmonica instrumental, The Hawg, on which he was accompanied by the famous Stax session team of Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and Al Jackson. By the end of the decade, however, now living in Macon, Georgia, he was finding work hard to come by.
  
  A couple of albums for Trix, the acoustic Front and Center (1973) and the more progressive The Devil and Other Blues Demons (1974), and one for JSP, Pick Up the Pieces (1981), confirmed his creativity as a songwriter, but it was in person that he was most completely himself - "the most intense performer I've ever had the pleasure of seeing," said Lowry, a judgment the blues writer Elijah Wald echoed 25 years later. "For pure raw energy and emotion, he may be the greatest blues artist alive."
  
  There are those who expect blues musicians to have a life that mirrors the hard times they sing about, and Kirkland's cannot have disappointed them. In the mid-70s, in a club in Georgia, he was injured in a random shooting, after which he was blind in his left eye and deaf in his left ear. Later, a heart-bypass operation left him with permanent leg problems and massive medical bills. It was easy to believe him when he said, "I had a pretty tough life". It was less easy when he added, "but I never worry about it".
  
  He continued to work, his performances still noteworthy for his hyperactive stage presence, customised guitars and garish accessories, such as bejewelled turbans. He made further albums of his own soul-blues compositions and novel rhythms and tunings on the Evidence, Deluge, Telarc and, again, JSP labels. He died after being injured in a road accident in Homosassa, Florida, returning home to Macon after a gig.
  
  - Eddie Kirkland, blues musician, born 16 August 1923; died 27 February 2011

It's a 70s/ 80s boot on Lu Pine

Original issue was on Tru Sound 

I'm guessing that that is NOT a bootleg, but a legal re-issue by Robert West from the late 1970s or early '80s, when he re-issued it on a LuPine Detroit oldies album.  He had moved to Las Vegas, and was re-issuing songs from his original masters at that time (i.e. "Anna" by Wilson Pickett").   He probably paid some money to Tru-Sound's owner for the rights to release it on his LP, and then also decided to release a companion 45 to plug the LP.