Recommend for me records from the early '70s that sound similar to NEW MORNING

Co-produced by Rick Danko and John Simon, Bobby Charles was the perfect marriage between the good-time Danko side of the Band and Bobby Charles Guidry's own swampy cajun roots. On the opening "Street People", Bobby sounded like a Bowery version of Randy Newman; on "Long Face", he was a bayou Lee Dorsey. Behind him Rick put together a wonderfully loose sound somewhere between the Muscle Shoals Swampers and the band Allen Toussaint had used for his great Minit productions in the '60s. With guest appearances by Garth, Levon, and Richard, as well as Mac Rebennack and Woodstock guitar maestro Amos Garret, it was certainly a far more enjoyable record than Cahoots.
-- Barney Hoskyns, Across the Great Divide

Similar sound, hmm... Flying Burrito Brothers?

Seems like there are a couple threads on the "Country Got Soul" compilation that might be useful to you, I'd search for that.

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Yeah that's the one. I've even got an orphaned little post at the end of it. Was I the only one that was massivley disappointed with that Dirty Laundry comp? Still a great cover though.

Fuckin-A-right. I have been listening to Little Feat's debut non-stop. As with New Morning, buy the vinyl instead of that crappy CD, which has yet to be remastered. The viny sounds great. It's like a West Coast fusion of Burritos, the Band, and Exile on Main Street.

The original Flatlanders disc is classic if a bit on the old timey, string band side of things.

It's funny this thread has popped up because I've been in this mood lately. I want to hear modern underground music that channels the kind of stuff we've been talking about instead of the Incredible String Band and Vashti, which I love. But man, the stuff we are talking about here has been sounding just great. I have listened to that Prine record all week, which hasn't left my record stacks in years.

On a different note, if you dig some country then jump on over to the Haggard thread because the Hag was a pivotal inspiration on the West Coast rural/country rock sound. He influenced the Byrds, Burritos, Dead, Everlys, etc. His take on the Bakersfield sound is minimal and really quite expansive capturing that wide open feeling of California.

The Dylan album isn't as distinctly 'country' as a lot of these other bands. It feels descendent of a kind of cosmopolitan blues/honky tonk. Again, I don't know if I'm making any sense but the feel of the Dylan record as opposed to the West Coast stuff is different, less spacey. Don't get me wrong, I put American Beauty in the first post and I love the Byrds and all this, kindred spirits, just felt it necessary to make a distinction. Maybe putting too fine a point on it.

OTM. The Dylan New Morning sound has more Chicago blues in it, more Paul Butterfield Blues Band, more of a roadside juke-joint sound, than those spacey West Coast country albums do.

Anyway, probably goes without saying that Greetings From Asbury Park fits the bill

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Artist:
GOLGOTHA
Title:
Old Seeds Bootleg
Label:
RADIOACTIVE RECORDS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00

Catalog #:
RR 126CD

"An album that's just about as home-made a you can get. The original LP, although recorded for the Jubilee label, never saw the light of day and when the album did finally appear, it was as a private pressing limited to a paltry 100 copies with no record labels and a paste-on cover! The band, which was formed by guitarist Bruce Scofield in 1969, gigged around the New York and New Jersey areas off and on for a couple of years. Their almost transcendental approach to music won them many (mostly male!) devotees, and their bizarre stage show (typically,involving vocalist Ray Bartkowech littering the stage with mandolins, percussion instruments, teddy bears and Raggedy Ann dolls!) became somewhat of a novelty. When Jubilee finally got them into the studio, the band laid down a more conventional and more accessible album reminiscent of the sound of Little Feat and early '70s Grateful Dead and the twelve self-penned guitar-led tracks, all of which are brilliantly played, tend to get pretty heavy at times."

I just started spinning the Mother Earth/Tracy Nelson LP from '72. It features three of Bobby Charles' tunes, and has a nice, woody feel like New Morning.

The self-titled album by the band Relatively Clean Rivers. Jeff Tweedy has talked them up in recent interviews, it's right in line with the other records on this thread.

I picked up that Bobby Charles a few weeks ago but haven't really given it time to sink in. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did after the first spin.

I was in the Music and Video Exchange in Camden the other day, and they were playing this record which I was darned sure was Souled American, except no Souled American record I'd ever heard. so then some dude went up and asked what it was, and it was that Bobby Charles record! I couldn't believe it. It really did sound alike. Vocals and instrumentation and rhythms and everything. I gotta hear it again...

I picked up that Bobby Charles a few weeks ago but haven't really given it time to sink in. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did after the first spin.

Give it some time. It will pay off. The Souled American comparison is dead on. Beneath Charles' New Orleans roots music is a lite-psych haze. The instruments amble and stutter like town drunkards. Some of the horn parts blur the line between dixieland and avant-roots weirdness.

Yeah, I was also thinking they had a drunken-ness to 'em too.

Also, is anyone familiar with that Head Hands and Feet album? Albert Lee plays on it, and I've been curious about it since stumbling across it in the shop. Only thing that puts me off is that one of Chas & Dave plays on it too, which might not mean much to non-Brits/non-Viz readers.

I stumbled across the perfect record for this thread: Geoff and Maria Muldaur's Pottery Pie LP. It's either from 1967 or 1970. Joe Boyd produced it. It surprisingly hard to find. It has that soulful, Woodstock-home-recording vibe. But the arrangements are woozy and well spaced, kind of like Bobby Charles or early Ry Cooder. It's roots music, yet there's a kind of dreaminess to the whole thing. Great album! Interesting note: The version of "Brazil" used in Gilliam's movie is the one on this album. Dude has great taste.

Self (muthafuckin) Portrait.

I'm frontin' for it, one side at a time.