Drag City is excited to present the first ever vinyl pressing of guitarist Lee Underwood's under-sung 1988 acoustic guitar opus, California Sigh. Lee Underwood had been Tim Buckley's stalwart, inspiring, accompanying and being inspired by Buckley as they both navigated a heady set of changes in the late 60s and early 70s. Then, he abruptly stopped working as a professional musician, leaving behind a body of work, that, as noted by Eugene Chadbourne, was the work of "a loner, who didnt quite march under any one flag... whose improvisations involved the level of sophisticated harmonic development one finds in jazz... floating as freely as Ornette Coleman." If, like us, you ever wondered, "whatever became of that trippy picker from those Buckley records", then you too missed California Sigh when it first appeared in 1988. Then again, it was easy to miss a cassette-only private press release in the late 80s - and highly likely that Lees acoustic guitar-based instrumentals were filed without proper distinction among the avalanche of New Age cassettes in that era.