folk, jazzy, slightly funky, sorta smoothed out Singer Songwriter stuff (sort of a post Steely Dan thread)

this is a lil different than just "yacht rock" (blech). it's way jazzier. lotsa rhodes. i was gonna say it's usually white dudes, but then there's peeps like terry callier and sorta gil scott and John Lucien that i fit into this whole thing

(breakdown at 1:49 is insane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZt7ggnuL4

uh, weird vid. gino vannelli "gettin high"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2U_h0GvX20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ePTkBqBNIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYLv9lfEq-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4iKagsHD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z926YUjUePo

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

love that ben sidran album! a crate-digger's delight.

jax, are you a bobby caldwell fan? you must be.

fans of this kinda thing would probably like this jeff eubank record drag city is reissuing http://www.dragcity.com/products/a-street-called-straight

scott, just this morn i told my friend it was about time i got some bobby caldwell. that severin browne sounds great. it kept coming up in related links on these songs i was finding.

i've never actually been able to find that sidran album. i love it dearly though. i've got a few others of his

xxx-post

These all sound good, though I'm not in the right mood for any of it right at the moment (but I'll probably be back).

severin is jackson's brother. signed to motown.

that jeff eubank record sounds amazing. thanks

the first 3 everything but the girl albums have that sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UbSQQU9Ic

paul simon's 'one trick pony' album pretty much feels like this kinda music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfv3kBzJZgU

Simon's the king of this isn't he?

A lot of Stevie Wonder stuff could fit into this category - some of the more mellow album cuts from the mid-70s albums.

Maybe more jazzy and less smoothed out, but some Mose Allison stuff is reminiscent of this approach.

Hesitant to mention it, but I consider some Tokyo Jihen more or less in this territory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-PymUKtBM

more japanesey, if you pleasey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh8UUPmGEg0

I love this music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4Z8NdYa0E

Downloaded the first Michael Franks (the one before 'The Art Of Tea')...it owns this thread...folky,funky with a slight Country twist it sounds like the last Iron and Wine album in places...really great

ricky lee jones count?

Here's a subdued Joni Mitchell for you

Yumi Matsutoya- Kumorizora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5Qd8U4L48&feature=PlayList&p=E46F3BF2F193054D&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=1

JAXON, can't remember if you are a Robert Byrne fan. Blame It On The Night is SUCH a great album. check this first song out. so amazing.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIhN0aTrOw

my hero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvV34c0PSQE

now playing:

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/r/u/rupertholmes412164.jpg

that first robert byrne song was nice. haven't heard of him before. second was a bit too sweet. danny o'keefe is pretty great too. this stuff is getting into a bit of countrypolitain terrain (not that i'm complaining).

love this one. jazz guy going pop instead of the other way around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJ3fERSS1Q

and someone kuhn's worked with. i wish this album wasn't $100. it's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6mt9rsCeY

i love youtube related links. nice japanese cover of a bill wither's song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1pDm0-BQcI

omg @ that Rupert Holmes cover (dude is banging 4 different chicks around the globe, is that the message?)

xpost . she also does great covers of herbie hancock's "i thought it was you" and stevie wonder's "as"

Is Rupert Holmes the long lost twin of BOC's Eric Bloom, or did everybody just look like that in the 70s?

Holmes cover totally looks like it was drawn by Mike Grell

killin me rite now
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fukk dikk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lEhIbEcU68

that first robert byrne song was nice. haven't heard of him before. second was a bit too sweet. danny o'keefe is pretty great too. this stuff is getting into a bit of countrypolitain terrain (not that i'm complaining).

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cant believe u havent heard this -- classic lp (thnx scott obv)

Wow, sorry I've missed this thread. Fantastic stuff.

Maybe a *bit* uptempo for this thread, but:

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

Much Astrud Gilberto & Stanley Turrentine's 1971 collab fails at either being Samba and Jazz, and pretty much lands fairly near this ground (although the youtube clips available aren't the clearest examples).

well thanks for at least getting me to listen to armatrading since i still haven't. that was a nice song

I was dissappointed in hearing her albums after hearing that song.

another favorite album of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3679ql_v56U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSeAem7PDw

casablanca so steely dan it hurts. but it hurts in a good way.

sorry, jaxon, know you were saying things were getting too countryish, but this is my jam! the beardo chillwave dudes WISH!

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

i could listen to that song all day long. the BEAT in that song!

has anyone ever done a beardo edit of boomerang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcVC4GTmrY&feature=related

now we're totally offtrack, but that reminds me of bob welch's "outskirts"
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Bob+Welch:Outskirts:1450328:s34611471.9649622.15478018.0.2.12%2Cstd_12fc8f2e2ab641edbee45fec17895742

but i can bring it right back by giving you welch's "don't let me fall"
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Bob+Welch:Don't+Let+Me+Fall:73163499:s34538257.9639915.15478018.0.2.109%2Cstd_2e751e6b6b454ccb990da3b49184fee0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWdnX3XlaI4

(not the disco/boogie band)

omg i'm so into this. lp just sold for over 300$ :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjw0rR7yYc

damn that is sweeeeeeet!

i just sold that odyssey album to a japanese dude on an east coast buying spree.

Dunno if this fits exactly, maybe not jazz/funky enough, but I listened to Tom Jans' "Dark Blonde" last night (no youtube clips available.) Starts in a very Boz Scaggs groove, (same producer and many of the same band as "Silk Degrees") but I also hear Garland Jeffries, Jackson Browne, and Texas singer-songwriter stuff.

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drm100/m153/m15372ucv1e.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnzyTP9wGJM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOfl-PAwRc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0lV5qs1Qw

i want this real bad
http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Americana-Rock-Your-Soul

(can listen to clips here) http://www.amazon.de/Americana-Rock-Your-Soul-Sounds/dp/B00535JP8U

This recent Chee mix to some degree belongs here: http://thegrowingbin.blogspot.com/2011/10/guest-mix-chee-sunlight-moonlight.html

Even if not, if you're here, you'll probably dig it.

Jim Messina - Oasis = 5STARS!

http://youtu.be/bgMpH4W-g9Q

I've never heard Dion's folk club stuff, from when he started over in the mid-60s, but in terms of a cool soulful guy, maybe with a denim jacket and sharkskin suit pants, I'd rec Garland Jeffreys' s/t debut, and his Ghost Writer, with a bit more variety of arrangements. Also something I posted on the Can We Talk About West Coast etc, a
J.D.Souther released a darned decent album, somewhat stylistically surprising album recently (surprising via varying from and veering back through expected approach) mentioned in my show preview:
In the late 60s, J.D. Souther and Glen Frey performed as LongBranch PennyWhistle; their lone, self-titled album was backed by the likes of primo Ry Cooder. After playing laidback studio wizard amidst the peaking mists of L.A. country-rock, Souther astutely relocated to Nashville, as country-rock became mainstream pop country. "Rain," Souther's new live album, sinuously illuminates the Latin jazz facets of his ancient gems. Compatible new ballads extend JDS's mix of romance and sharp-eyed attitude, implicitly including his own cool tourism in "That golden cup of style/On your journey down the Nile." It's just a beardier bit like a late-70s Steely Dan, minus too-smooth self-pity. Souther's well-preserved voice and guitar will be accompanied tonight by pianist Chris Walters, a key player on "Rain."
He's since re-recorded an album's-worth of early hits, dunno if it's in his current vein, though should think it would be the point, unless he's financially desperate, which seems unlikely.

i finally found a copy of that longbranch pennywhistle album a few months back and i like it but...i should listen again. i mean its pretty minor as westcoast-style stuff goes, but i should give it another shot. i'd always wanted to hear it. i got a nice copy of the first souther album and i think i might keep that, but the later 70's stuff of his never thrilled me like it does some people.

Never heard anything he was involved with (except Eagles' versions of his songs) before this nice sorta-Steely set, apparently pretty dif from his 70s, but pretty struck by the Nashville afterhours jazzy aspects he brought out of the 70s L.A. FM denim hits, with no trouble t'all. He was one I avoided back in the Creem days, but now, I think I might listen to one of these live Souther-Hillman-Furay live sets unearthed by http://bbchron.blogspot.com

SHF stuff is good!

this thread is kinda glitchy for me right now re searches, but surely someone has mentioned Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey? Also maybe pre-Silk Degrees Boz? Been a long time since I heard it, but somebody (prob xgau) called make-out music for hippies. The only track from that era I really recall is his version of "Loan Me A Dime," and when Duane Allman picks up the tempo about half-way through (it's long),does not mess with, only intensifies the mood Scaggs has created, the cut-loose blue pathos and strength. So if he could do that in a luv ballad, yow. on a similar thread, Matos picked Hall & Oates' Abandoned Luncheonette, produced by Todd Rundgren, right? Think "Sara Smile" comes from that, though they may have re-recorded it later.

Rundgren produced War Babies, not Luncheonette. That was Arif Mardin.

And Sara Smile is on that silver self-titled. She's Gone is the hit from Luncheonette, and that is truly a beautiful piece of folk, jazzy, slightly funky, sorta smoothed out Singer Songwriter stuff.

The whole album, you mean?

Song in particular, but that whole album is super nice.

Only album I've heard (a long time ago) is Voices, which I liked. We used to sell a lot their collection Rock & Soul Part 1, no complaints/ Always wondered about Sacred Songs, the one Hall did w Fripp. Could work, I really liked Fripp's production of the Roches' debut. Mostly an almost er subliminal use of electronics, although on "Hammond Song" he has the Synergy guy, Larry Fast, just enough. They might've invented folktronica, though not the name, fortunately.

(xpost) Or at least side one is teh awesomeness; I used to play that way more than the flip.

When The Morning Comes/Had I Known You Better Then/Las Vegas Turnaround/She's Gone/I'm Just A Kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpNKsiljK8

ah yeah. Need to check out more of their early stuff (ditto Rundgren), Nilsson Schmillson might pertain to this thread also.

"Only album I've heard (a long time ago) is Voices, which I liked."

!!!! you've got some listening to do!

luckily, their entire catalog will only set you back about 15 bucks and change.

This late 70s Mark-Almond track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42ajhd5Rvk

great record! all 70's mark-almond albums are worth owning.

I've only hear the one they did with John Mayall, somehow his weird Scots creaky door voice went w their moonlight

from 1970, maybe. More Jacuzzi or Esalen than yacht? Don't think they would have refused a ride, though.

this seems like as good a thread as any, what's everyone's favorite jazzy folk records? inspired by listening to court and spark for the zillionth time.

i'm thinking some tim buckley might hit this jones, vocal-wise he's got that simiarly blusesy croon that just seals everything

i wish mark-almond had made thousands of albums

Do people like Terry Callier in here, suppose I should check

one of those names i just never checked out, thanks!

I need to do the same!

so this is where Michael Franks fits!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S3HkAEQlVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhH69D67DA

Franks' singing style sounds a lot like Blossom Dearie to me

Vince Martin one time Fred Neil collaborator, solo lp called If the Jasmine Don't Get You The Bay Breeze Will