This really is a proper deep cut from Gene Clark’s long-forgotten fourth album No Other from back in 1974. Long forgotten for many years, but now regarded as something of an underground classic.

The title track’s loose funky feel may be down to the appearance at recording sessions of Sly Stone, injecting yet another disparate element into the album’s sprawling mix of rock, country, folk, blues, jazz and much more besides.

At the time No Other was a monumental flop: the album received wildly mixed reviews, was virtually ignored by record buyers, and actually deleted a year later by the label that released it, Asylum.

Which is a sad fate for such a great record released by someone with such an impressive pedigree, as founder and writer of many of The Byrds’ best and best-known songs including Eight Miles High and I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better.

Especially since Clark died months after its well received re-release in 1991, suffering from throat cancer and struggling with addictions to drugs and alcohol, died at the age of just 46 from a heart attack brought on by a bleeding ulcer.

Re-released a second time in the early 2000s, it was belatedly acclaimed as a “lost masterpiece” and “one of the greatest albums ever made.”

And ten years ago Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House put together The Gene Clark No Other Band for a four-concert tour where they performed the entire album to bring it to a new audience.

The band consisted of fellow Baltimore musicians including members of Lower Dens, Wye Oak, Celebration, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and The Walkmen, along with Iain Matthews of Fairport Convention. That’s a gig I would love to have seen.

In the meantime, here is Gene singing and playing with The Byrds from back in 1965: