“I was aware I would be poison when I made the album, I wasn’t silly. “I was poison for a very long time,” says Haggerty, in an interview with Postmedia from his home in Bremerton, Wash. He assumed the band and his music career were dead on arrival. Haggerty and Lavender Country quickly disappeared from the spotlight. It came out in 1973 and initially had a short shelf life. He decided to write, record and release what became the self-titled debut of his band Lavender Country, an record that was political, uncompromising and generally considered the first country album made by an openly gay artist. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
