Sealed 1971 Original With Plastic Hype Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. Features Ry Cooder On Slide Guitar. “Blue's Lyrical Reflections, Expressed In His Matter-Of-Fact Baritone, Touched On Experiences That Ranged From Temporary Romantic Contentment To Suicidal Urges. "It Wasn't Easy, When I Think About It/Living In The House Of Changing Faces," He Sang In The Chorus Of "House Of Changing Faces," "I Still Have The Tracks To Remind Me What Life Was Like, High And Wasted/When I Wanted To Die." That Wasn't The Only Song To Allude To Drug Use. The Most Explicit Was "Come On John" (Previously Recorded By Helen Reddy), A Cautionary Tale For A Friend That Left Little Doubt About Its Subject When It Began, "I've Got A Friend With A Habit/A Habit Of Runnin' Away/He Says He Can't Take It/But He Takes It Every Day." Musically, The Song Had The Feel Of Bob Dylan's "Ballad Of A Thin Man," But For Once Blue Didn't Sound So Much Like Dylan On Stories As He Did Like Leonard Cohen. In Fact, There Was One Song That Might Have Been A Direct Response To Cohen. It's Hard Not To At Least Speculate That "Marianne" May Share A Subject With Cohen's "So Long, Marianne," Particularly Because Of The Musical Similarity And Because Of The Lines "I Knew Her From Another Song Her Older Poet, He'd Wrote Before/We Played In The Morning, Laughing On The Floor/Till He Came A-Knocking On The Lower East Side Door." Although Blue, Too, Seemed Not Have Stayed With Her, He Made A Point Of Countering Cohen's Farewell, Singing In The Chorus, "Do Not Cry, You Have Helped Me, I Will Not Say Goodbye." Whether Or Not This Is The Same Marianne, However, She Is Another Friend Described By Blue In A Series Of Songs About A Community Of Companions Who Love And Lose Each Other, Yet Whatever Their Fates, He Seemed Grateful To Them All.” William Euhlmann, AMG.