Can we give some love to the unsung/underrated MEN of the 60s/70s?

i enjoy eric anderson more than i used to. still not on board the tom rush train. john hartford still needs more love. kinda feel like loudon wainwright's first four albums deserve some sort of deluxe 4menwithbeard reissue love more than a lot of other supposedly great stuff.

anyway, this is the companion thread to the lady thread. all these college-y types come in my store looking for townes van zandt records and if i tried to sell them a john hartford record they would just laugh at me. and push me down. and kick me.

i'll think of more.

jj cale is probably kinda hip? i guess if the members of spacemen 3 liked you you must be a little hip. leon russell on the other hand, maybe not so hip.

JD SOUTHER!

al stewart springs to mind for me... his first 4 albums are pure gold.

I thought everyone was all about Leon again after the Elton tour.

kinda feel like loudon wainwright's first four albums deserve some sort of deluxe 4menwithbeard reissue love more than a lot of other supposedly great stuff.

FWIW, Loudon just got his own box set on Shout! Factory.

that's cool! i love those records. been listening to them lately after not hearing that stuff for years and it just sounds even more timely to me. plus, you know, a song about getting a little kid named rufus to sleep, i can relate.

i'll let jaxon make a case for kenny rankin. i'm not there yet.

everybody's all about giving the hipster kisses to parsons/clark/crosby but what about chris hillman?! dude put out records too!

i do enjoy chris hillman records. its true.

roy wood needs more love

http://bfibbb.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/475px-1973_roy_wood_large.jpg?w=237&h=300

i like this album

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/kindling.jpg

jesse winchester -vs- jesse colin young

another good one that townes van zandt fans would never buy:

http://991.com/NewGallery/Tom-Paxton-How-Come-The-Sun-394905.jpg

http://www.folkblues.com/goodman/wwcdt.jpg
i dig this record, don't have anything else by the guy though.

this album is all-time to me. where is the love?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MKPCNoZwg3E/TENTbjmhVnI/AAAAAAAAAa4/H1C8gPkCgdE/s1600/front.jpg

john hartford albums i enjoy:

the love album
s/t
iron mountain depot
aereo-plane
morning bugle
nobody knows what you do
all in the name of love

(there will be more once i hear them probably)

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/driftin.jpg

Steve Goodman's a, um, good one. What about John Prine, or Doug Sahm? They're popular, but never quite got to the Van Zandt/Browne/Cohen level of hipster love.

One problem w/Jerry Jeff is he was a prime inspiration behind the late 90s/early 00s school of "Texas Country" (Pat Green, Cory Morrow), which is very nearly hipster poison.

feel like sahm has some hipster cred...whatever that means! what does it mean?
i'd say dave bromberg, but i have never really been able to get into his records.

Sahm's got cred, but these days doesn't get as cited as much as peers like Townes, Roky, Fogerty etc...

Dave Mason! Alone Together

I can't say I know a lot of his music but Driving Wheel is an alltime classic.

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/t/artist-tom-rush/album-tom-rush/cd-cover.jpg

I've really enjoyed the late 60s "big band" Paul Butterfield records.

yeah russhhhhhh. he's got a couple classic records, and "no regrets" is all time.

"whatever that means! what does it mean?"

somebody name-checked by younger people a lot or who are considered "cool" for some reason or another. like with my townes example. it bugs me a little sometimes. its the sun ra syndrome. same thing basically. a young person will come in my store and ask me if i have any sun ra and if i don't they will leave without looking at any of my jazz records. i've had multiple people ask me if i have any townes records and then leave without looking at anything else. and i know what you're thinking: why the hell don't you just buy some friggin' sun ra and townes reissues already? and the answer is i'm lazy.

hartford gets a lot of hipster kisses in my household.
so does jerry jeff! they're some faves.

is paul siebel getting the kisses he deserves? i like all of the jesse winchester records i've heard too. bobby charles is getting some kisses lately, i think. mark spoelstra. mike auldridge. where are the legions of norman blake fans? i love a lot of those sixties/seventies bluegrass guys.

where is the love for patrick sky? i know skot's a fan.

ralph mctell!

conway twitty! his 60s/70s country hits rule

http://www.morethings.com/music/conway_twitty/hee_haw126-1974/never_been_this_far1974hee_haw24.jpg

happy & artie traum are my prime example of this i think. i fuckin love those two records on capitol so much, and nobody cares.

ian matthews and mickey newbury are gettin the reissue treatment now so i guess they can't count.
what about steve young?? his records are awesome.

rock, salt & nails!

and yeah, i dunno about hip per se but i love all the early leon records.

is early elton john in the hipster kisses canon? should be.

ian you gotta hear this one. very good. not hip cuz i don't think even a lot of hip people have heard it. maybe its on a blog for people who like blogs, i dunno:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20090818/180398341697.jpg

there is definite love for early elton.

yeah with those early elton records, it's nice to imagine that you're listening to some random 70s singer-songwriter rather than the circle of life guy. i've never been crazy about his voice, but the overall sound of those LPs is verrry nice.

but it's a slippery slope -- when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?

have never been able to get past the absolutely shit Bernie Taupin lyrics myself

well that red house painters guy got a couple of people to buy john denver albums so anything is possible.

x-post

you know who needs more hipster kisses (also some reissues)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-GerS3-kU

and to be fair i don't think i've ever listened to an entire john denver album so maybe i'm missing out.

al stewart springs to mind for me... his first 4 albums are pure gold

definitely agree he is unjustly ignored. when I ran a poll of his albums on ilm there was one vote and that was mine. but the mid-70s run of Past Present & Future, Modern Times and Year of the Cat has the edge over those early discs

i will go to bat for leo sayer. there is a great compilation to be made of some of his more ambitious numbers. he had some weird shit on his albums!

http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/656/786/61/lp-john-denver-seasons-of-the-heart-backup-cd-c73a7.jpg
just photoshop the name out and you'd have hipsters falling all over themselves to give this record kisses on the cover alone.

al stewart, gerry rafferty, and gary wright all had nice non-hit stuff that nobody listens to anymore. maybe beardo balearic people do though...

wtf what a creepy album cover!

right? it's his On The Beach. actually it was recorded in 1990, so ...

"where are the legions of norman blake fans? i love a lot of those sixties/seventies bluegrass guys."

95% of the rounder, fretless, and flying fish catalogs go unlistened to by anyone under 50.

but it's a slippery slope -- when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 9:04 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-_FFNYeR4

boom!

this Denver record is pretty tight.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S19QYk9pL._SS500_.jpg

i've never listened to kenny rankin. my mom has the "after the roses" record at home but it looked shitty.

after listening to a few songs this one sounds pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXTUk4TfSg

michael franks is a great example of this. i wouldn't have gotten into him if it weren't for skot's praises

i gotta listen to more of this dude's horse rock cuz i just know there is some poco-esque goodness in there somwhere

http://image.kazaa.com/images/15/602498628515/Michael_Martin_Murphey/Geronimos_Cadillac/Michael_Martin_Murphey_comp_Ray_Lewis-Ge_3.jpg

al stewart, gerry rafferty, and gary wright all had nice non-hit stuff that nobody listens to anymore. maybe beardo balearic people do though...

Some love for "The Owl" and "City to City"!

Paul Siebel gets played a lot in my house and that Jerry Jeff alum posted above is my favorite of his. I don't know why Steve Young isn't more popular?

i love jimmy spheeris, and shawn phillips, dion's 70s singer songwriter albums (!), jake holmes (maybe he is loved?), ben sidran, cyrus faryar is my fucking dog, dogs, jerry corbit, kevin coyne, paul parrish, tim hardin

so into bernie leadon from the eagles lately. that album he did w/ Michael Georgiades is fucking fantastic.

Who is reissuing Ian Matthews? And those first two JD Souther albums are nice, Rick Roberts too. and this guy I love
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2065/davidwiffen.jpg

so whaddaya think is the tipping point for these artists to become "hip"? does will oldham need to come out as a Steve Young fan? does light in the attic need to reissue some john denver?

Anyone ever heard the Steve Noonan album on Elektra? From '67 or '68. He was considered one of the "Orange Country three" along with Tim Buckley and Jackson Browne. The stuff on the album is probably a little closer in style to the early Browne songs (like the ones Nico and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did) than to Buckley.

hmm never heard noonan, sounds intriguing though.
how about this one (back on the byrds related tip)
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/TerryMelcher.jpg/220px-TerryMelcher.jpg

melcher solo album gets some mojo love and the like. terry is one of my heroes in life.

terry album and the boettcher solo album and john philips solo and dennis wilson album all in the same leaky boat. and the don agrati album.

don agrati ... you've stumped me.

he was on my three sons. made 60's sunshine pop records and made an early 70's brianwilson-esque album.

Clifford T. Ward. As an introverted, anglophile teen I loved him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJazTKgm_s8&feature=related

the Gosdin Brothers' album (Sounds of Goodbye) seems to get lots of love, but this traditional bluegrass album (recorded 1963-4, released 1969) is fairly overlooked given the names involved. it's reminiscent of the Dillards' early work, only with less focus on hot picking and more on mild, pretty vocal harmonies:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2500/18119.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2oze9Bfs4

their third reunion album, released in 1966. the performances and material are easily equal to the records that made them famous in the '30s and '40s, but this doesn't seem to get that much attention:

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2785/bsbcapitol.jpg

Also Pete Dello from Honeybus and Pete Dello and Friends, or maybe he does get more attention? Has anyone heard Honeybus' 'Recital' from 73?

That Midlake guy has been repping for Jimmie Spheeris something fierce.

People who remember Andy Kim at all know him for a couple of mediocre '70s hits. He had a string of bubblegum hits in 1968 that I still love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39YrqDogMc

http://i51.tinypic.com/aw2irp.jpg

I've never heard a whole album by Henson "Skip a Rope" Cargill, but the Omni Group put out a good compilation a few years ago. I unabashedly love his fuzzy, organ-drenched country-rock anti-conformity anthem "Reprints (Plastic People)" which appears on the album pictured above. the lyrics alone make it one of the unlikeliest things to come out of Nashville:

It's dawn
and the sun is rising over modern cities
baptist steeple
it's dawn
representing another routine day for modern cities
plastic people

all on the same road the same hour of the day
all tote the same road and head the same way
all wear the same suit and sing the same song
hear the merry piper's flute leading them along

carbon copies of uniformity
reprints, reprints are all I see
all from one line of assembly
plastic people surrounding me

It's night
and the moon is floating just above modern cities
bapist steeple
it's night
at 12:00 each dollhouse will go dark for modern cities' plastic people

at the stroke of midnight when they're all alone
they'll wonder if they've been right to think all on their own
all fear the same thing, mustn't go too far
yet all have same dream of changing what they are

also search "What's My Name", a Luke The Drifter-esque spoken word piece that might be the only song to namecheck both James Brown and Adolf Eichmann.

i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here? probably pete 69 too. i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

i should listen to that clifford ward album again. i know i have it somewhere.

the album with skip a rope on it is really good!

i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

I guess Midlake duder's plugging isn't working.

best andy kim album BY FAR:

http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/steed/steed37002.jpg

soooooo cool! if you ever see it buy it. first steed album is pretty cool too but rainbow ride is a fuzzpop feast.

Can we talk about these obscure 70s singer-songwriters featured in the newest Record Collector Magazine (and others if you wish)

The trilogy: "How'd We Ever Get This Way?," "Shoot 'Em Up Baby," and "Rainbow Ride." Almost as good as Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61/BOB.

'Resurrection' the last song on 'How'd We Ever Get This Way' is really beautiful, unlike any of the others songs from the record.

mebbe Hoyt Axton

I dunno, sure thought that several that have been mentioned get plenty of hipster kisses (Jesse Winchester, Jesse Colin Young, Tim Hardin, Jake Holmes, Tom Rush, maybe a few others). If not, they deserve them. Especially Tim and Jake.

yeah with those early elton records, it's nice to imagine that you're listening to some random 70s singer-songwriter rather than the circle of life guy.

S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???

I used to love Alone Together too - isn't that the one where you have to be careful cuz the record falls out the bottom? It's Like You Never Left is almost as good.

I'll nominate Richie Furay. Not familiar with his later solo albums, but he wrote some *great* songs for Buffalo Springfield and the early Poco albums that seem to have been largely ignored.

when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?

Shit, I'll rep for Billy Joel. And Neil Diamond. And fuckin, I dunno, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

I'd rather hear hipster douchebands ripping off The Nylon Curtain than fucking Graceland. That's indefensible.

How about Johnny Rivers? Trini Lopez? Tommy James and the Shondells, Flo & Eddie, JD Loudermilk, Keith West, Richie Havens? I don't actually know who does or doesn't get hipster kisses. Justin Heathcliff? Kan Mikami?

Neil Diamond's early stuff excellent, before he became a schlocky showman.

I thought hipsters loved Billy Joel's work in Attila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prFYOZIRcMM

I'm not a hipster or anything but I do enjoy that Hassles comp.

long overdue:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d5hL26F0d5s/TTNTKUw7MpI/AAAAAAAAM8M/PqcM5aDDZt8/s1600/NedDoheny1973.jpeg

Yeah the first Ned Doheny record needs as much love as hip one!!

CHRIS fuckin DARROW.
His s/t album on UA and his LP "Artist Proof" on Fantasy are full of great stuff. He was also involved in the Maxfield Parrish LP, along with Leadon..

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6228/41f3hyj623l.jpg

Pre-beard Waylon Jennings. (Hipsters love 70s "outlaw" stuff, but not the truly great 60s stuff.)

http://991.com/newGallery/Freddy-Fender-Before-The-Next-T-447745.jpg

christ that terry allen album cover is badazz

the freddy fender story was featured quite a lot during a Latin Music USA tv docu on BBC4 (now iplayer).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qpm4c/Latin_Music_USA_Borderlands/

that Freddy Fender album is wonderful, Tex-Mex honky-tonk

i will also vouch for Ned Doheny's S/T tho his later stuff isn't as sweet. same w/Dave Mason. Alone Together is classic 1970 rock, really love that album but the guy totally wimped out as the decade progressed.

"i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here?"

I love him too - and Cyrus Faryar too. Islands is such a great album.

"S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???"

i haven't heard it! i haven't actually heard every record. i only hear stuff when i come across it in real life for the most part. sometimes it can take years. just heard vibracathedral orchestra for the first time last week cuz someone brought one of their records into the store. pretty good!

anyway, i know some people have a hard time with the word hipster. its half tongue in cheek. but the idea is kinda simple. tim buckley and leonard cohen exist in a world of critical esteem and have some sort of cool cachet that al stewart doesn't have. but there are still positive things to say about al stewart and his records are very easily found for peanuts. and the purpose of the other thread for the ladies was to give credit to people who are easily found in dollar bins or their records are five dollars or less and they are everywhere but they don't get the kind of critical re-appraisal or excitement that other people get. there is sandy denny and linda perhacs on the one hand, and there is karla bonoff and rita coolidge on the other hand. granted, sandy was a genius and linda made a very singular and beautiful artistic statement that has survived obscurity, but we have all read plenty of ink and raving about their stuff and probably don't read comprehensive overviews of cris williamson's career that often. but then that thread got into more obscure territory and that was fine and its fine here too. i just like reading what people have to say about stuff like this.

freddy fender an excellent example, by the way! his records are everywhere and hardly anyone buys them and there is great stuff to be found on them. who wants to say nice things about ronnie milsap?

Great thread Scott - so much good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLHeaCxy1aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SeQB-FYE3k

This great thread is about to get better because you are all in for a musical treat.

Please take the next four minutes and 31 seconds to listen to the Murray Head's immortal alltime classic Say It Ain't So Joe. Don't be scared by One Night in Bangkok. This is going to blow your musical minds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZzjVCGFo4

I love Ronnie Milsap, esp this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVc8TtnZrE

which oddly enough resembles this also great song from a dollar record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKawAZk7f4

Robbie Dupree is a yacht rock icon. Hipsters bow to him.

seriously?

Dude, they're thinking of changing Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg to Dupree Way

All these album cover are great

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4582/quatemanjpg.jpg

Been rolling through the big deluxe reissue of Layla and assorted love songs. Hipsters love this album right? The only good Clapton, right?

Layla on the surface seems like too much of a Classic Rock staple, but honestly that description only applies to the title track. Do hipsters still like Delaney & Bonnie? Motel Shot--oh man. I'm interested in hearing the Bobby Whitlock lp that followed Layla. That one sounds like hipster bait.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2484534635_3fe43e9bab.jpg

has anyone ever heard of this guy? he's a news anchor in FLA these days i guess, cut this album in '72 with some nashville folks. it's not bad! found it for $1.

http://www.tunecore.com/images/artwork/complete/web/14/33/04/143304.jpg

I used to own that Bill Quateman, can't recall a note of it. Wasn't he tipped to be a pretty big thing?

Love the early Commander Cody recs so much, they're pretty far removed from hipster kisses.

you know, new riders might be a tad hipper but i still think lots of people have never heard those records and they are so great. so, i would tell people to start with new riders of the purple sage and then poco and then move on to commander cody. actually, buy every cowboy record before you go for commander cody. there is no end though...

is that john hambrick an updated cover? pretty sure they didn't have shitty photoshop bevels and drop shadows in 72

Thing about Cody for me is that although Bill Kirchen penned a few good songs, they were essentially a really great cover band. Their mix of honky-tonk country, rockabilly, Texas swing and 50s R&B opened my ears to Buck Owens, Bob Wills, Gene Vincent, Lieber & Stoller. I have played the hell out of "Live At Armadillo World Headuaters."

Headquarters, not headwaters.

this is the actual hambrick cover:

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/26865/48864bb274129_26865n.jpg

"Their mix of honky-tonk country, rockabilly, Texas swing and 50s R&B opened my ears"

speaking of which, you can't give dan hicks & the hot licks records away. and they aren't bad at all. um, not that i play them...

speaking of stylistic americana melting pots, this is one of my favorite records of the 70s:

http://image.kazaa.com/images/57/724358052657/The_Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band/Symphonion_Dream_World/The_Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band-Symphonion_Dre_3.jpg

I can't see your pic there, Scott. My alltime favorite Americana rock melting pot LP has got to be Uncle Charlie and his Dog Teddy by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I wore a couple of those out.

I love the first two Dan Hicks records so much it's surprising I never picked up any of the other ones. I do have Original Recordings too, so three...

yeah uncle charlie is good. my pic is nitty gritty's Symphonion Dream album.

Love that too, that's where they went wild with the ocean sounds and calliopes. For a few years in high school, between Uncle Charlie, All The Good Times (thats's a really solid record) and Will The Circle they were my absolute favorite band. Well, them and Roxy Music...

http://elrincondelosrecuerdos.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/mikelaure-large.jpg?w=400&h=392

http://elrincondelosrecuerdos.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/mikelaure-large.jpg?w=400&h=392

Paul Siebel gets played a lot in my house and that Jerry Jeff alum posted above is my favorite of his. I don't know why Steve Young isn't more popular?

― JacobSanders, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:33 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Pretty much hit what I was going to say. Siebel and Young are favorites of mine, as is Jerry Jeff.

Going a little more mainstream, I don't think Jerry Reed gets his due props.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g

seriously, if this album were some private press/edition of 200 release from 1972 it would be a revered/drooled-over 500 dollar album. right now, you can probably find it for five dollars or less. it's not fair! 3/4 of this album is some of the bestest dreamiest psychFOLK you'll ever hear. so how come you've never heard it?

http://img.over-blog.com/280x280/0/24/04/68/albums---15/MarkAlmond2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBhu5FKAhVk

Jimmie Walker was a Georgia swamp ranger in the Okefenokee and ended up making a soundtrack to a Swampsploitation movie called "Swamp Country". The soundtrack is produced by Chet Atkins and has some seriously awesome dirty south country stuff on it. One of my friends found a copy, but I think it's out of print at the moment. Listen to the awesome title track above!

I thought Swamp Country was produced by Joe South, another guy who deserves more love.

Why do they all have such ugly covers? WTF were people thinking back then.

someone asked me what they should buy today and i had them buy awesome dane donohue album and terry reid river album. i'm a tipster.

I really have grown to love that Dane Donohue record! I wasn't aware of it's all star line up until I read the credits on the back.

Mount Cleaners

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/6e4449d0d1a4bf6f5c3f3af210c9a19d/675181.jpg

Traditional singer doing his "crossover" album, from 1970. Could have gone on a folk thread but somehow belongs more here as it's more singer-songwriterish.

^ Oops, if you can't see the image (which I can't anymore!) the album is "Orfeo" by Archie Fisher

WHERE ARE THE HIPSTER KISSES FOR DAVID WIFFEN?

Tell me about Ian! I love both of his records, but man this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI7_BMGlqU

When will Jerry Williams get some love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKmQUeHT1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0N96d5QQ1k

His version of whiter shade of pale isn't the best song that record, but it's not the laughable cover I was afraid of.

Tim Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crvp8pxCt30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Moore_(singer,_songwriter)

!

He may have been a minor big deal long ago, but does anyone talk about him now? I don't know--I see on Wikipedia that he still regularly puts out albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLr_eN8KvaM

He's one of the recurring characters in the Paul Nelson biography.

What would be the best gateway JJ Cale album?

I have that Tim Moore record but only listened to it once, need to pull it out again. Don't remember being very impressed with it.

this guy (Bob Gibson) was huge in the late '50s and early '60s — I read that his duet album with Hamilton Camp was the best-selling folk album of its time (in 1961), but he never graduated beyond the hootenanny scene because he didn't go electric at the crucial moment and stopped putt out records during the second half of the '60s. search Where I'm Bound, Funky in the Country, Ski Songs, and Gibson & Camp At the Gate of Horn. he recorded an album in 1970 with folk-rock guys like Roger Mcguinn, but I've never heard it, and I think it was deleted shortly after its release. he collaborated a lot with Shel Silverstein later in his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPWE4atjLDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSotPykQSg

awesome rendition of a Bob Gibson song by Joe & Eddie. I should really hear more of these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBo-SSVNw-g

stopped putt out records

"stopping putting out records", I mean.

stopped putting out, even

all my townes van zandt talk and man does flyin' shoes sound good right this minute. got minty tomato pressings of s/t and flyin' shoes and you know what i think i'm keeping these. i always listen to them once when i get them and then sell them to hepcats because it takes one minute to sell one of his albums. these were dollar bin cut-outs once upon a time. couldn't gove townes away.

i actually like the more uptempo songs on this album like "Louise" and "On The Highway", but the ballads are nice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGYhI4B1XU

i am a recent convert to this album. holy toledo, so great! and ahead of its time for sure. can't believe its from 1975. even the album cover looks like its from 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inJPNVjUXY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdldvz9dVcE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXi79ur4BH0&feature=related

i think some people in the know know lewis though. but just in case some people here haven't heard it. can probably find it online for a dollar. i just love it.

i have to find his other albums now. wish me luck!

i already love these tracks from albums i don't have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPlfF4igw50&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZei0py_oA&feature=related

this is from 1980 so please excuse me but i can't get enough of this song lately. it was probably recorded in 1979...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7bfWxT9U0

such a dreamy powerpop anthem. *sigh*

even the album cover looks like its from 1982.

with that color scheme, it immediately made me think of Rain Dogs. he's like a sloppier, more bohemian (and basically more Tom Waits-y) Billy Joel. I like this.

1967. same year as scott walker's solo debut. the whole album is really good. no love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s-cgs5_4eg

Never saw this thread before! Since you started with Loudie (didn't know about the Shout! Factory fourset, but do have a twofer CD of the first two albums) here's how I started Rolling Reissues this year:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81rkaWi%2B-ZL._SL1425_.jpg

If image don't show, it's Loudon Wainwright III's Late Night Calls, live broadcast Nov. '72. Should be good: Loudie's usually quite the solo showman, and back then the former preppie acting student was already making his mark w twisted manic-smirky humor/bursts of drama, flying sobs, via that tenor and guitar (never just a word guy). Some orginal rarities, and covers of Isleys, Temps, Ernest Tubb (also originals he was already known for, like "Motel Room Blues," soon to be covered well by Big Star live). Mid-Dec '15 release, it says here, but just now getting the memo, so what the heck:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012FQNVZC/ref=pe_339110_162232230_em_lm

― dow, Sunday, January 3, 2016

Has anybody mentioned Andy Fairweather Low? Hipster appeal via twists of imagery and fate in some tracks on some 70s albums; fave raves incl. Spider Jiving and one of my most-played by anybody in the 70s, La Booga Rooga. Originally from teeny bopper pin-up combo Amen Corner, and not too surprising that li'l mod chirper-screamers should be artistically ambitious later on too, given competition w Small Faces-->Faces and even Peter Frampton and the Herd (Framp later in early Humble Pie w Small Faces' Steve Marriott, with some art school cool before turning full-time English blooze & boogie)(mynd you, the earliest example I've seen of the term "heavy metal" applied to music was in a Humble Pie review by Metal Mike Saunders). Slightly raspy, justifiably wry and certainly tuneful, without ever showboating: some of the Marriott-Rod Stewart appeal, long after those worthies peaked creatively.
Low later shown at that ARMS concert, think that's the acronym, trying to raise funds for Ronnie Lane's medical bills: introduced by Eric Clapton as "the wonderful Andy Fairweather Low", did a solo set and later sang with Steve Winwood (that show should be around somewhere). May have participated in the Clapton-Windwood tour, and def was Clapton's guitarists for a while. yadda-yadda, check the 60s-70s stuff anyway.

Posted this on Rolling Country and Can We Talk About West Coast Country Rock? a while back:
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So honored to sing the beautiful "The Rivers Between Us Are Deep" by our friend, Hall of Fame songwriter @JDSouther & Erik Kaz. #ThanksWatty
Watty, Souther's character, was Rayna's mom's secret musical lover, may have gotten her killed by jealous dad or "dad," since on Nashville the immortal series, musical biologicals are not uncommon. Blah-blah, but note the co-write with Eric Kaz, once known as Eric Justin Kaz. Never as well-known as Souther, I guess, but he's written or co-written a bunch of hits, ones most relevant to this thread are "Love Has No Pride," and several others recorded by Raitt and Ronstadt, maybe especially the former. He released several solo LPs before and after teaming up with Pure Prairie League's Craig Fuller in American Flyer, they also did a duo album. Think he was not considered such a good singer, but he can write good melodramatic vehicles, especially for denim divas. Anybody heard him on records?

I have since heard Kaz solo tracks a little bit: seems def sub-James Taylor-y vox-wise, but does have some songs, and anybody looking to cover and/or just jonesing for romantic buckskin ballads should check him out; ditto Souther, but more about him later.

Also I still need to look for this guy:
http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Bat+McGrath

Dow mentions Andy Fairweather Low--I think he's great and regard his '70s (and early-'80s) albums very highly indeed. Xgau (and prolly others) gave him props back in the day, but he's kinda forgotten now, though he did put out an album back in 2006, Sweet Soulful Music, I reviewed for the VV. I even interviewed him--what a thrill for me.
Don't think anyone has mentioned John Stewart, who I got into a couple years ago. Yeah, he's a commercial folkie with that familiar catch in his voice, but I think he was good--Signals Through the Glass (with longtime squeeze/wife Buffy Ford), California Bloodlines (cut in Nashville with A-list pickers, likely his career record, contains the great "Never Goin' Back" [to Nashville]), Willard and Sunspot are all excellent records. Kinda in the virile-yet-sensitive mode of Tom Rush, whom I also really like.
A guy who's pretty obscure but definitely fits in here is Bill Wilson, whom you may know from a somewhat critically lauded (or at least somewhat written about) 1973 record that Tompkins Square reissued about 4 years ago, Ever Changing Minstrel, cut with producer Bob Johnston in Nashville after Wilson showed up at Johnston's door one night. Came out on the Columbia imprint Windfall and vanished. I think it's fascinating record--sort of slightly more folk-rock Waylon Jennings, but with tantalizing glimpses of future-indie-country-Americana in the songwriting. Wilson was part of the Bloomington, Indiana Bar-B-Q Records scene and did the 1977 Talking to Stars there, a kind of woozy and slightly psychedelic thing. Made in the U.S.A., from '82, is worth tracking down, as is his Traction in the Rain, from 1992, the year before he died in Nashville. He claimed to have written "Sultans of Swing" for Dire Straits, but Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square told me that wasn't true (Wilson claimed to have helped Knopfler write lyrics during a session in Nashville). Good piece on Wilson here.

And Andy Fairwesther Low's 1980 Mega Shebang is one of the best white R&B records of that era--I like it better than, for ex., Jerry Lynn Williams' somewhat comparable work (Williams was mentioned above). Btw, Williams was in a group called High Mountain, whose 1970 Hoedown[ is a doleful, soulful record I need to track down. Here's the first 4 tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GsyJjVigc0

Hoedown and Canyon are both really good. FYI: Canyon was re-released in 1973 as Down Home Boy and credited to The Jerry Williams Group and that version is easier to find in dollar bins.

i can't say i'm a big andy fairweather low fan. i really don't like mega shebang! but what are ya gonna do? i'd rather listen to late 70's/early 80's chris spedding records.

i'd probably rather listen to whatever happened to benny santini than mega shebang...

or stevie wright's hard road album for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2KhDu__1Y

Yeah, Fairweather Low is probably an acquired taste. I like his barely controlled frantic-ness, I guess. Spedding is great, I really like his version of Garland Jeffreys' "Wild in the Streets." Come to think of it, Jeffreys probably doesn't get any hipster love these days, perhaps because he is so all over the place stylistically, but I love his '70s albums, esp. his first one, the Grinders Switch Featuring Garland Jeffreys LP and Ghost Writer. Scott, I finally bought a copy of Hard Road recently after hearing cuts from it on tapes and stuff and being an Easybeats fan. Fantastic album.

Hard Road really is fantastic and almost completely unknown in the 21st century. in the U.S. anyway.

A folkie private-press record from '71 I like, by Bob McAllen, McAllen, on a Michigan label, Spirit. Big Pink in Korea reissued the CD in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOnkvOMjfEk

Yeah, Scott, you'd think the passing of Stevie Wright would've gotten people onto Hard Road, to at least reissue it on CD. I've been a hard-core Easybeats fan for years and always knew about the record, and was so glad to finally spot a well-preserved (Atco) copy of it.

i've been listening to this album a lot lately. it is on some people's radars though. a la early 70's dion and tim hardin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYBb-HxKy8

(several more we might mention reissued by xpost Josh R.'s label, already on the Tompkins Square thread).

Haven't heard GJ with Grinders Switch (not to be confused w the 70s Southern Rock group), but his self-titled debut is totally cool, like an imaginary album from the real transition of Dion: acoustic guitar grooves and denin jacket above, sharkskin suitpants and pointy leathah toetapping below. And already one of the best ever North American reggae performers, way ahead of the pack, such as it was---but his tracks held up well next to what was then the best known reggae album around here, The Harder They Come soundtrack). (Michael Cuscana adds juicy details, as on Bonnie Raitt's early classic Give It Up, did he produce any other rock etc. albums?)
Yeah, xpost Ghost Writer maybe his peak overall, but Escape Artist, with heavy friends perking along, is excellent too (I've got the original LP + bonus 7" EP feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson).
The King of In Between, from 4-5 years ago, has some rock geezer looks-at-life lyrics, but as usual he's got the vox, tunes, musos cookin' along.
Oh yeah, Mega Shebang is not the place to start w Low; def check those 70s albums I mentioned, also another one, Be Bop N Holla---and (maybe after that, Amen Corner's Singles As and Bs [the original "Bend Me Shape Me" for one] and his own transition from mod teenbeat, fronting mainstream x art rockers Fairweather).

Good to hear some more Scott McKenzie, and looks like the whole album may be there on the same page, track by track.

Fairweather Low got a good one-disc comp, Wide-Eyed and Legless, which gets the good stuff from those 3 A&M LPs (which are all found for cheap these days in used record stores, at least around here). Mega is Low on the downside of that career arc, but I quite like it anyway, Jeffreys strikes me as a neglected near-major artist--the Grinders Switch[, which is on Vanguard and is hard to find (I only found it a couple years ago), is one of the best Band rips in history, and as such is notable for the way Jeffreys twists the vernacular of the first 2 Band albums into something that begins to hint at the urban amidst the somewhat vague imagery. First solo is his folk-rock record and really unique, Ghost Writer is like the missing link between singer-songwriterdom and new wave--I hear some Television in it, whether or not it hit before the first Television album or he even knew who they were (probably did, given his astute reading of the marketplace back then), and Escape Artist is his Elvis Costello move, with "Jump Jump," maybe his single greatest recording, getting into Willful but Necessary Escape Routes from Oppressive History. King of In Between is a great album, and 2013's Truth Serum contains some pretty convincing blues, proof that he is comfortable doing just about anything. He came to Nashville in 2013 and I damn sure made it a point to write about him and interview him at length, here. Caught the show--he could still sing great.

first garland i ever heard was his so retro it's new wave cover of 96 tears which i saw him do on the ABC show Fridays. first time i think i ever heard 96 tears.

i ALMOST bought the album at Caldor that next week but i chickened out.

a couple of years ago Garland played at this place about 50 feet from my store. he came in my store the next day and was devastated. he said it was the worst show he had EVER played. i spent about a half hour apologizing to him. even though i didn't have anything to do with it. i felt terrible.

(it was the venue owner's fault. he no longer owns/runs the place...)

Garland's show in Nashville wasn't hugely attended--seems like half the audience was writers old enough to have seen him when he last came thru town in the '80s, probably 1982. He's worked with Levon Helm sidemsn Larry Campbell a bit, and he's another guy the Americana crowd ought to give some kind of award to, because he helped invent the stuff.

Speaking of xpost Steve Marriott, early AF Low: James Hunter is another English guy who can get the raspy Brownian grooves just right, currently in a "Ooo-Poo-Pa-Dooh'' type thang (PJ Proby was an American expat, but still):
http://livestream.com/pickathon/events/5911922

ian matthews and mickey newbury are gettin the reissue treatment now so i guess they can't count.
what about steve young?? his records are awesome.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Steve Young definitely deserves some kind of reassessment. Renegade Picker, from '76, has to be one of the most underrated country-rock records ever made. Rock Salt & Nails, from '69, also pioneering 'Mericana-outlaw-alt. Dead Voices: I did a Guy Clark story a few years ago, a fairly long one, and after I finished, Guy Clark asked me to deliver the paper with the story to him at his house. I wrote about Steve Young in the piece, since he'd appeared in the Heartworn Highwaysmovie along with Clark. Clark was in poor health. I got the paper, knocked on the door, waited a few minutes until a guy dressed in turquoise blue, with white hair, answered the door. I told him why I was there, and asked him, "I don't believe I know you." He said, "I'm Steve Young." Now they're both gone.
Yup, P.J. Proby. A great parody artiste. Three Week Hero's title track, from '69, was written by...John Stewart.

Yeah, Young had the songs and a big voice, esp. for such a little guy. During a local stay, wrote "Montgomery In The Rain", "Seven Bridges Road"(AKA Woodley Rd., wise to use the older name), and others. Too overtly hip for mid-60s Alabama, too Southern to do without some cultural bemusement out West (Tosches said Young told him he was to perform at some Baez family event, the Farinas' wedding, I think, but Queen Joan nixed it, said she couldn't stand to look at a white Southerner just then)(however, she did record a good version of "Seven..." a few years later---fast tymes!).
Van Dykes Parks could prob relate, since his family was originally from Mississippi (though lived in Pittsburg before L.A.). Said he wrote "The All Golden" about Young ( I've never quite grokked that lyric, must listen again).

rock salt and nails by steve young is a serious hepcat totem. very hard to find a copy these days cuz people want it so much. a record that you could get for nothing for years and now it goes for $$$.

only ever seen that going for around about 30 (nz dollars) gene clark AND gram parsons are on it i believe!

This thread needs some Tony Joe White. Beyond the tunes and that lush low voice, his guitar playing is ace and he gets real funky with a wah wah on some tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVThMVjnTM

That Murray Head tune up thread is good.

that s/t tony joe white is hard to beat. i always listen to it 4 or 5 times in a row before i put it out in the store if i get a copy.

say it ain't so joe is all time

Willie and Laura Mae Jones is an amazing tune.

Here's Roger Daltrey doing "Say It Ain't So" with Andy Fairweather-Low on backing vocals (but not in the video) (and Moon's in the video, but not on the recording):
https://youtu.be/9bVGTVrQd6M

AF-W was also Townshend's stand-in while the Who started It's Hard, waiting for Pete to finish rehab. There's a couple songs on it without Pete/with A F-W.

Thanks---forgot about his involvement w The Who; he also sang on a bunch of Who Are You tracks, also toured with them I think, later backed some Townsend solo activities etc.

True about the Who Are You backing vocals, but AF-W didn't tour with the Who...are you thinking of Billy Nicholls (who also sang backup on Who Are You, and toured with them in 1989, 1996, and 1997) ?

Hadn't heard of Billy Nichols! Speaking of Garland J again, I was vaguely thinking this morning bout how he hung out with Reed and Cale way back, and have read that early VU sometimes covered his "Josephine", with Cale singing it---which cued up this GJ-written track in my headbox (if can't see it: "Fairweather Friend", as performed by Mr. JC on Vintage Violence)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1SkL8WsQo

ace sound, good video, even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RzBZsOeqOQ

Wild in the Streets is my pride and joy. I consider it my "first" Rock 'n' Roll record, written and released in 1973, and recorded with Dr. John and his band, with Alan Freedman, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, David Spinozza, David Peel, Produced by Roy Cicala..............
---Garland
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Single written and released in 1973. Also on the album "Ghost Writer" (A & M Records, 1977) and reissued on the album "I'm Alive" (Universal International, 2006).
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Garland Jeffreys: Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
John Boudreaux: Drums
Rick Marrotta: Drums
Johnny Ace: Bass
Alan Freedman: Acoustic electric guitar
Sugarbear: Electric guitar
Dr. John: Clavinet
Michael Brecker: Tenor sax
Randy Brecker: Trumpet
David Sanborn: Soprano sax
Phil Messina: Trombone
David Peel and Friends: Background vocals
Produced by Roy Cicala and Garland Jeffreys
Arranged by Garland Jeffreys and Dr. John
Recorded and mixed by Roy Cicala at Record Plant, 1973
Mastered at Atlantic
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Video compiled and edited by Doug Webb / Images by Webb (http://www.imagesbywebb.com).
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WILD IN THE STREETS (Music and Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8NQhn-ecI

"She plays a pure white slave"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_l81MljWI