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Saturday, May 30, 2020

The Doors-L.A.Woman (1971)

By the time The Doors' album "L.A. Woman" was released, its leader and charismatic singer Jim Morrison had just said goodbye to his peers to pursue his role as a poet in Paris.
The rest of the band had stayed in Los Angeles hoping that Morrison would soon get bored of writing poems along the Seine and return to start rehearsing and recording a new album.
However, he didn't even have time to get bored, Morrison was found dead on July 3, a victim of a heart attack.
Some time later the rest of the group decided to continue their career with an album significantly titled "Other Voices" (1971), for a time after finishing it in full failure and without the voice of their leader with another mediocre album titled "Full Circle" (1972) .
"L.A. Woman" was released just a month before the tragedy and like the previous studio work "Morrison Hotel" (1970) the quartet forgot the elaborate productions of their first albums to drift towards sounds closer to the rough and rhythmic Blues and rudimentary.
In addition to the fantastic song that gave the album its title, the splendid "Riders of the Storm" stands out, which would become a posthumous success of the ill-fated vocalist, becoming one of the most representative songs of this fantastic North American band.

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