s/d VANGUARD RECORDS

im listening to peter walker's RAINY DAY RAGA, and curious about which vanguard records are worth tracking down -- i guess i have an initial focus on longer-form acoustic stuff like PW, sandy bull, robbie basho, and even hamza el din or other ethno-acoustic stuff, but we dont need to restrict the recommendations to that stuff alone...

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Country Joe and the Fish "Electric Music for the Mind and Body"
All of the Richard and Mimi Farina records
I like some of Larry Coryell's stuff.

search:

erik darling

jim kweskin

sandy bull

buffy sainte-marie

richard & mimi farina

eric anderson

patrick sky

doc watson

hamza el din

siegel-schwall band

junior wells

country joe & the fish

circus maximus

john fahey

perrey-kingsley

notes from the underground

boa constrictor and natural vine

skip james

buddy guy

jeff monn

larry coryell

the frost

jerry jeff walker

the 31st of february

the free band

the open window

train

the third power

the wildweeds

oregon

i'm probably missing some stuff, but that'll get you started.

Bob Frank! get his album too.

get. you. started.

anyone ever hear the ellen warshaw album on vanguard? curious about it.

Carol Williams "Can't Get Away (From Your Love)" (Special Club "Dub" mix) 10"

awesome, this rules.

Oregon album with Elvin Jones is really good.

ooh, also the first Flying Island album. from the 70's. If you like nutty prog/fusion records, that's a good one.

and of course everyone needs this:

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you know i get new vanguard stuff in the mail. you don't want any of it. although the linda ronstadt/ann savoy record i got a few years back was lovely. really pretty cajun tunes.

I need that Mike Seeger record on Vanguard.

i have a really nice copy, J. i think. i'll have to check. i'd trade you something for it.

shit, now i can't find it. i don't remember selling it. hmmmm, i'll have to look harder.

i'll let you know if i find it.

sounds good -- thanks for looking!

found it. you can e-mail me and lemme know if you want it.

oops, almost forgot:

search: Mike Seeger

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soooo good. get me drunk enough and I'll argue for this being the best record of the 1960s.

yeah love it! i picked up the new reissues of the first three SB albums -- thats part of what got me thinking about this.

peter walker's RAINY DAY RAGA

THIS HAS BEEN REISSUED ON VINYL, EVERYONE GO BUY IT!

also, one of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet:

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I forgot the Elizabeth album too! great philly band. and a great psych record. my pal linda cohen was their original drummer!

and i forgot the Serpent Power album too. that's a good one.

And if anyone has a spare copy of the Listening album, I want that. Very pricey and hard to find though.

two other albums that i want to here that i've never heard: the Erik album and the Far Cry album.

i wrote this about the Jeff Monn album once:

Jeff Monn – “She Is There For Me” – Jeff leaves his fiery garage band The Third Bardo and creates a record that is STILL ahead of its time. He doesn’t actually leave the garage. He just makes the first garage rock album for acoustic guitar and full orchestra. And he is just too cool. Biker snarl cool that mixes with horns and strings in ways that an evil flower sniffer like Scott Walker would never have thought to combine them. Jeff also sounds uncannily like Johnny Thunders at times. Or, I guess that should be, Johnny Thunders often sounded uncannily like Jeff Monn. However you slice it, they both had a lazy feline allure that can make a dirty look from one of them feel like a compliment.

xp: the erik record is pretty cool, as i recall, psych-folk-songwriter-y stuff, maybe too many strings or something. i downloaded far cry at the same time as boa constrictor & a natural vine and can't keep them straight in my mind.

180 degrees from most of what's being discussed here but this is a great electro / vocoder breakdance jam:

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Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom

my other favorite Vanguard is the Best of John Fahey twofer that has real nice acoustic fingerpickin stuff alongside some weird cut-ups and tape pieces.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDj54ZdJw_w

I love that 31st of February album. I scored a copy on eBay that the seller had kinda underrated the condition. I think he listed it as VG so I was able to get it for like 20 bucks, but it sounds great! actually quite clean!

i'll be more specific about the siegel-schwall band. Shake! is such a cool record. definitely one of the best white blues rock albums of that era. their 70's stuff on wooden nickel is kinda so-so, but get a clean copy of shake! and turn it up. sounds amazing!

does Ian have the Circus Maximus albums? he's the big Jerry Jeff Walker fan. I like both those records a bunch.

stormy, old pal, you know where to find us, don't you:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=290040365

oh yeah s/t circus maximus with "travellin around" is a good one. wish I had a better copy

yeah I just found the ILV. x amount of niceness! the dream has become a reality.

man, Circus Maximus "The Wind" clearly one of thee key tracks of the psych era...

so what's the early patrick sky stuff like? i saw the s/t and "harvest of gentle clang" today, they were like $7 each. which may be fair, but not knowing anything about the dude i passed.

i would pass too. he was okay and worth a listen which is why i put him on my search list, but he was a pretty trad folkster early on. if you see something really cheap pick it up. he wrote some pretty tunes.

if you see THIS for sale though, pay ten dollars or more for it cuz it's crazy:

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best amazon review ever:

83 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Patrick Sky speaks, September 12, 2002
By Patrick Sky (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews

For those of you interested I want you to know that I recorded this album over 30 years ago and in spite of selling thousands, I have never received a penny in royalties. I wish to thank all of my fans that have enjoyed the record over the years. If you decide to purchase it I want you to enjoy it.
However I want you to know that the recording industry are a bunch a of criminals and have been stealing from the artists for a hundred years. This record is a fine example and is the rule and not the exception. This is why I support "Free" download music because, regardless of how much the recording industry complains, they get 99.9% of the money and the artist never gets a fair shake.

All the best,
Patrick Sky
pl✧✧✧@int✧✧✧.n✧✧

you gotta hear luang prabang. it's kinda like a frogs album. except made in, like, 1970.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/patrick-sky/tracks/luang-prabang--1334267

That is greatxpost

"our baby die" might be my fave:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/patrick-sky/tracks/our-baby-die--1334256

anyway, since patrick doesn't seem to mind, you can find the whole album on the internet really easily. it's a hoot.

holy shit, going to have to look for that one.

I've been letting these Patrick Sky songs just play and they are pretty damn good.

yeah, when i say don't buy the early stuff for seven bucks its just cuz i'm cheap. and i've seen them for less. i like them though.

this wildweeds record is fucking right up my rural sike alley tbh.

anyone up in this bitch like Keith Sykes? really diggin on this "1-2-3" record.

yeah so uh, anyone have the first Keith Sykes LP on Vanguard?

"well that's the psychedelic part" lol

did skot outbid me on the wildweeds lp?

no. i'm broke.

serpent power LP sounding really good tbh.

ilxor herb albert has the listening album at his house! i'm gonna rob him!

yeah, serpent power album is great! i hardly ever rep for CDs but if you find it used there is a nice twofer cd that has the serpent power album and tina and david meltzer poet song album on one disc. well worth owning.

so I see where Vanguard is doing a bunch of LP reissues for "record store day" this year. only not really any of the ones that are really desirable. weird.

i need that Listening album too

well, yellow princess is kinda desirable i guess. but yeah, the reissue isn't gonna cost much less than a nice original...

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oops
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beautiful cover ^

this is a good intro to folk

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double vinyl set coming out for record store day. pretty cool :

LP 1
Side A
1. The Third Power: Getting Together
2. Erik: You Said/But I’ve Got My Way
3. Listening: Stoned Is
4. The 31st of February: A Nickel’s Worth of Benny’s Help

Side B
1. Elizabeth: You Should Be More Careful
2. Jeff Monn: I Can Understand Your Problem
3. Listening: See You Again
4. Circus Maximus: Travelin’ Around
5. The Frost: Take My Hand

LP 2
Side C
1. Notes From The Underground: Where I’m At
2. The Vagrants: I Can’t Make a Friend
3. Serpent Power: The Endless Tunnel
4. The Family of Apostolic: Saigon Girls

Side D
1. The Third Power: Persecution
2. Notes From The Underground: Why Did You Put Me On
3. The Hi-Five: Did You Have To Rub It In?
4. The Far Cry: Hellhound
5. The Frost: Big Time Spender

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course a double cd could fit, like, 50 tracks... but i'm greedy like that.

ha, that looks rad

really diggin the TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS LP.
also enjoying but in a diff bag THE FAMILY OF APOSTOLIC double LP.

trials & tribulations did not have much sticking power with me.

never seen this one before-Darling & Street "The Possible Dream"
Sunshine folk-pop, too sweet for me... just weird that i'd never noticed it before. your hippie girlfriend might like it..

japanese review:
Uivazu the 1950s, Erik Darling, who played in folk groups such as the rooftop singers, men and women formed the folk duo Patricia Street "and Darling Street." Today to introduce the debut and only work released in 1975, more than 10 years after they formed, "Impossible Dream".

Recently learned of this fine album, but for the first time I saw being sold at cost of nearly $ 40 in stores. Hey but I end up nowhere interested in price and the feeling of the moment I saw the CD jacket to name two people standing on the sand was placed in a glass of wine and acoustic guitar, Yafuoku while he was forgotten after a few months You'll look at the list price at the amount of about.

Speaking of content, folky pop album hitting great feeling.
The basis of folk, Good Times also felt swinging jazzy music, vocals and the overall atmosphere is quaint and soft rock. Although not the flashy, I will be healed by listening to this - it is good

No mention of my new favorites Gary and Randy Scruggs, Man that first record, that first side, I keep playing it over and over, so good. The second record is good too! They only have one song on youtube which is sad. Once I figure out how to make and image go along with a song I'm making a youtube playlist with these guys.

Also the Brothers play on their dad's records, The Earl Scruggs Revue, they aren't aren't vanguard but has anyone heard any of them? Which should I buy?

there is no mention cuz i didn't mention them! but now you did. i can't remember where i talked about them on ilm.

i'm telling you, hardly anyone remembers those records. and younger people just haven't heard them.

They really reinvent the covers and I never find myself thinking this is a cover. If I Were A Carpenter, Road To nowhere, and I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. Maybe the best covers record I've heard.

or rather I think This is how this song was suppose to sound like!

i had a really nerdy chat w a store dude last year when i bought the 2nd scruggs bros rec (on scott's rec on ILV)

their if i were a carpenter is sooooooooooooooooooooooo great.

i need the scruggs bros record... the second one i guess? i have the one with 'if anyone calls' which is my jam

It's the first one that you Need Ian! Called All The Way Home!

A record store near me has all of the Oregon records on Vanguard for 4.99, are those guys jazz and worth buying? I almost bought them all, but with a baby on the way I've restricted my record buying, help me out guys.

get the one with elvin jones.

congrats on the baby!

Thanks! Together, the one with Elvin Jones is the only one they don't have.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/business/media/concord-music-group-buys-vanguard-and-sugar-hill.html?ref=arts&_r=0

excerpt:

In an expansion of one of the world’s largest independent music companies, the Concord Music Group — home to Paul McCartney, Paul Simon and a catalog of classic jazz and soul recordings — announced Wednesday that it had acquired two record labels, Vanguard and Sugar Hill.

The labels, being sold by the Welk Music Group, will add to Concord’s already significant collections of folk and country music. Vanguard has long been one of the world’s leading folk labels. In its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, it released albums by the Weavers, Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie; its current roster includes the Indigo Girls and Chris Isaak. Sugar Hill was started in 1978 and has a catalog that includes Dolly Parton and Sarah Jarosz, an acclaimed young folk singer.

The deal will give Concord control of most of Welk’s catalog. Terms were not disclosed, but Concord said in a statement that Kevin Welk, the company’s president, would remain associated with Vanguard and Sugar Hill as their “chief creative.”

Please tell me about the Oregon records.

I've only heard their debut Music Of Another Present Era, it's sort of folk/world/jazz, warmer than the contemporary ECM records I've heard. There's a certain amount of free improv too. They avoid the pitfall of being corny, but it's not exactly inviting either - more of an "interesting" record.