NIKI AUKAME - Nothing Free (Paramount Records – PAS 6055) USA 1973 1st pressing LP (Folk Rock) | vinyl: NM (mint-) | cover: VG++ (excellent). --> Folk Rock

Anna Niki Aukema first came to prominence as a member of the touring American version of Superstar from mid 1970 to ’71 . Whilst on the road, Aukema met up future E street band member Roy Brittan and was approached by Paramount to cut an album, that featured  label mates Milkwood (more on them later), as well as Astral Weeks flautist John Payne on saxophone.  The album veers from good natured country to pop. The breakout track is the compiled ‘Lucky Lost Sin’ (tentatively called ‘Folk Funk’). Aukema appeared on a compilation of the Massachusetts music venue Jacks in 1973 -- She sadly passed in 1992.