I luvs me some Lee Hazelwood. What else should I be listening to? (aka, the 60s & 70s country thread)

IMHO, the countrypolitan sound really took off in the late 60's when the LA country scene was picking up steam. the Nashville people tried to respond the the new hippie country music insurgents like Poco or other proto-country rock sounds with modern production techniques and psychedelic instrumental flourishes like fuzz guitar, bongos or sitars... good stuff!

does anyone else listen to this type of music?

Countrypolitan.... Guilty Pleasure or Blight on the Cosmos?

kenny rogers first edition.

micky newbury

richard dean taylor's- Indiana Wants Me LP is good.

John Buck Wilkin's LP food, shelter, clothing and sex. He wrote a lot of songs that people covered. He's from the nashville scene..hippy crossover.

classic countrypolitan is like, chet atkins. Mimmics the wall of sound phil spector.

LA bands like the byrds and guys like mike nesmith, linda rhonstadt with the Stone Poneys, buffallo springfield, flying burrito bros, etc. they influenced the nashville guys. Pretty much every major country musician by the early 70's had a fuzz guitar on a couple tracks. kinda like in the late 70's when every country musician had a disco crossover track. but in the late 60's LA pedal steel player Red Rhodes, was recording with every hippie country act on the west coast.

Search: "Birds of a Feather", "Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home", "Rose Garden" (Lynn Anderson had the big crossover hit with it), "These Are Not My People", "All My Hard Times", "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" and his biggest smash "Games People Play". He also has versions of "Hush" and "Down in the Boondocks", which were big hits for Deep Purple and Billy Joe Royal, respectively.

freddy weller does a bunch of those songs, they are good too, but more in the bakersfield style. "listen to the young folks" is a great song, and he does a great cover of "sunday morning coming down" -(kristofferson )

Merrilee Rush does an amazing version of "Hush" recorded at American Studios in Memphis with the house band, on the same LP containing "Angel of the Morning." It is: "Angel of the Morning/That Kind of Woman," Bell 6020. Contains two Penn/Oldham tunes, couple of Mark Lindsay songs, etc. Produced by Chips Moman and Tommy Cogbill. Exemplary spare American-style backing...I'd guess it was recorded about '69.

i take it you weren't talking about Miss Bobbie Gentry?

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i picked up the 2cd collection These Boots are Made for Walking - Complete MGM Recordings last night and am so happy. the first cd, The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood (1966) and Lee Hazlewood-ism: Its Cause and Cure (1967) are so fucking great. so many songs i've never heard and just the best arrangements ever. so fun. some really great mariachi moments. and some weird swirly psychedelic strings. the second cd, Something Special isn't that great. it's pretty much just guitar, piano, bass and drums and it's pretty standard blues songwriting. but the purchase was soooo worth it.

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Also check out stuff by:

Gene Clark
Gram Parsons
Townes Van Zandt
Michael Nesmith
Emmylou Harris

Why are the LPs from this era so spottily available on CD? I actually enjoy the albums more than the comps because you get all the weird throwaways, the cover tunes, etc., that you don't get on the best-ofs (although the best-ofs are probably a better starting place for most artists). But so many of these LPs have never been on CD, are out-of-print on CD, or are only available in Europe.

happens? yeah, that is a good one.

if it was original, how much did you get it for? i just saw it listed on a website for $75!

Really????

that's actually why a huge part of my collection is instrumental, jazz or foreign

one of the owners of Amoeba (Joe Goldsmark) put out a few records in the 70s of instrumental pedal steel. they're surprisingly kinda funky as a bunch of the songs are covers of soul tunes. they're always free in the sale country racks at the store. i've got like 3 sealed copies in case i meet anyone i think would like it (haven't met them yet!)

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no one talkin about "Redheaded Stranger." That's a good album, i dun care what you say. I also listened to some Hank Williams today at work! That guy could sing!

it's honestly kinda silly. i was downloading it when i posted that. it's all old timey music. Summer Wine's melody is played with a Kazoo!! i haven't gotten through the whole thing yet. hopefully it's not all so silly

Y'reckon? I don't know if it's the classic that some people are making it out to be (it's pretty syrupy, and the vocals are pretty underwhelming), but there's definitely some worthwhile stuff on there. Plenty o'xylophone, and you know that's a good thing...

Tony Joe White -- country-soul hipster, great lyrics

Charlie Rich: Boss Man, Set Me Free, The Fabulous Charlie Rich and for LUSH sound Behind Closed Doors

Tom T Hall: In Search of A Song if you like Roger Miller...

And believe it or not, Conway Twitty. Try a comp like 25 #1's He's got a million ways to feel guilty about getting laid.

I second this — it's like George Jones as produced by Gary Usher.

also, sorry for spelling his name wrong so many times.

Hazlewood Hazlewood Hazlewood Hazlewood Hazlewood Hazlewood

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not alone anymore at night
me the wine and the city lights