Nashville Studio Musicians a la Barefoot Jerry and crew!

Can we discuss and recommend albums these guys played on? Charlie McCoy, Mac Gayen, Wayne Moss, Kenny Buttrey, and basically anything recorded at Cinderella Sound Studios. These are a few of my favorites
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I think Marlin Greene's sole lp was recorded partly at Cinderella Sound with some of these guys? The first two Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615 records were my introduction with these guys. They were also a part of Dylan's backing band on Blonde On Blonde.

I'd like to hear The Steve Miller Band record recorded at Cinderella Sound, Number 5 I think? Also does anybody know which John Hartford records were recorded there?

i just dl'd that dennis linde s/t album last week. my best friend found a copy of 'under the eye' and told me i'd dig it. it's pretty awesome. everything has a 'weird' filter on it. like i could even listen to a standard blues track because the instrumentation was a lil off. and most of the songs have great synth on them.

jaxon, do you have this one? "diamond mandala" is the kosmik nashville jam.

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i do now ;)

Yeah I love all of Gayden's albums. I posted "diamond mandala" on my blog awhile back.

http://alleternalthings.blogspot.com/2010/12/diamond-mandala.html

Are Charlie McCoy's Solo records any good? I like instrumental country records so I've assumed I would, but I never find them.

I'm not a fan of the Charlie McCoy solo LPs :(

But... that Marlin Greene LP you mentioned upthread is one of my faves. "Forest Ranger"!! The Ken Lauber record is a favorite of mine. These guys get some shout outs on the West Coast Post-Psych Country Rock thread, and I think Area Code 615 have a dedicated thread too.

Yeah the west coast county rock thread is one of my favorites. What I love about these nashville guys is how as studio musicians they played many different genres, soul, r&b, country and how this plays out in their own recordings. The first two Barefoot Jerry records are unlike any country rock I've heard. Mickey Newbury's 3 albums recorded with most of these musicians are unique as well. I think there is more gospel and soul in this scene than the west cost sound.

Never 'met' anyone else before who like that Dennis Linde album. This is what's cool about ILM.

Oh man, I love Dennis Linde, esp the self titled record with most of Barefoot Jerry on it.

i like the barefoot jerry album i have too. um, forget the title. and, yeah, been a fan of that marlin greene album for years. i think i put diamond mandala on one of my ilx mixes a couple years back? can't remember. one of those 70's mixes.

okay, i looked it up. *you can't get off with your shoes on*. rateyourmusic lists 6 albums from the 70's. but i only have the one. will keep my eye out.

This one is my favorite http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5333/southerndelight.jpg

It's also the only one with Mac Gayen.

yeah, that's their first album. i want that. i want mac's first album too. don't have that.

speaking of the west coast thread, just got a copy of the stuffin' album. never heard it before. great long cover of "no expectations". jerry riopelle's old band. never really big on his solo stuff. (or the stuff i've heard anyway)

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Damn - I passed on that Mac Gayden LP a few weeks ago: bet it's still there, but the shop is 60 miles away

borrowed a couple mac gayden albums from a friend--listening to skyboat, and halfway through damn this is good.

ah, so i didn't put 2 + 2 together and realize all these dudes were in area code 615, which besides that one linde album i heard last week, are the only records from these people i've heard. always loved these ones.

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does most of this stuff sorta straddle all genres and get kinda funky?

Most of it does, aside from the Mickey Newbury records, which are like Leonard Cohen recording in nashville. The first two Barefoot Jerry records are like an extension of the area code 615 sound. I haven't heard their later records, but I imagine they became more country rock and less funky. Here's a less of who recorded at Cinderella Sound Studio with these guys as backing musicians
http://www.barefootjerry.com/studioguests.htm

fyi: one of my fave stoned country pop albums. you can find it cheap too. soooo dreamy. its up there with the bergen white album for me. and they were pals.

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bergen white album a perfect example of a record that 99.9% of the world would pass right by if they saw it in a dollar bin. the cover is almost designed to repel stoner record freaks.

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actually come to think of it the bobby russell cover does that too! and since good things come in threes, here is my third stoner pop in sheep's clothing offering of the day. so great. keep an eye out for it.

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That Shelby Flint record looks up my alley! Listening to records by these nashville guys, I'm surprised they haven't had a write up in Mojo or some other music canonizing publication. I know that the Prins Thomas used Area Code 615 in one of his mixes, but other than that I hardly hear about them. Is this just the lot of studio musicians making records?

lot meaning ones plight in life

stone fox chase was sampled by timbaland for a bubba sparxx track (and a few others, mantronix, kool g rap, etc), but ya, studio musicians get no love

Pearls Before Swine recorded two records at Cinderella Sound with Charlie McCoy, Buddy Spicher, David Briggs, Mac Gayden, Norbert Putnam and Kenneth Buttrey. Both The Use Of Ashes and City Of Gold feature most of Barefoot Jerry. I need to go back and listen to these two records again. I still haven't figure out which John Hartford records were recorded there. I only have Aereo-Plain and Mark Twang.

aero-plain is awesome. i just got The Love Album. late 60's album. My fave might be the self-titled one though. from 1969. i really like Nobody Knows What You Do. haven't heard them all.

wiki has lists of who played on what on his discography page.

wait, not every album has a list of who played what. so nevermind.

all in the name of love! that's another good one. maybe i just really like all the john hartford albums i have. all in the name of love personnel:

* John Hartford – vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar
* David Briggs – keyboards
* Sam Bush – mandolin, vocals
* Jim Colvard – guitar
* Buddy Emmons – steel guitar
* Roy Huskey, Jr. – bass
* Larrie Londin – drums
* Kenny Malone – drums
* Benny Martin – violin
* Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
* Curly Seckler – vocals
* Henry Strzelecki – bass

oh and cinderella studios-wise, this is a real fave of mine:

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ian you have that one yet? so good.

What does that Eric Anderson record sound like?

Aeroplain is so great! I need the Hartford album with the dillards!

I haven't gotten the Eric Anderson records.. saw it for $10, listened, didn't think it was worth the $10 at the time. It's probably still at the shop. I love those Pearls Before Swine records--but I'm a pretty huge Pearls fanboy. "The Jeweler" is such a killer.

"What does that Eric Anderson record sound like?"

you know, folkie gone country. every folkie made one.

whoever repped for that Marlin Greene, much obliged. such an odd one, freak-folk imagery rendered by crack country unit.
keeping an eye out for Bobby Russell and Shelby Flint, but can't seem to find a decent clip off any of these. or rather, the Russell YouTube clips i've heard all sound like jokey Ray Stevenson novelties.
and i'm also wondering about Dennis Linde's "Under the Eye." his stuff seems to vacillate between killer and kinda cheesy.

cool thread! i always like seeing dudes like charlie mccoy and kenny buttrey listed in album credits.
anyone heard this? i haven't, but all the blonde on blonde people are on it, i guess.
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This thread is fucking great. Keep it coming.

I've long been curious about that Johnston record. Greil Marcus included in the Stranded discog., saying it was "recorded after the BoB sessions, while (the musicians) were still glued to the ceiling."

yeah it's mentioned in the new Sean Wilentz Dylan book (which has a pretty detailed chapter on the Blonde on Blonde sessions). Sounds kooky.

oh hey http://playitagainmax.blogspot.com/2006/06/colonel-jubilation-b-johnston-and-his.html

haaa, this is sort of terrible, which is the point, i suppose.

so carol grimes was a part of the Canterbury scene and put out an album with the band Delivery that is prog/psych and i would really like a copy. 1970. sells for a ton. then she sang on an album with the group Uncle Dog. they made an album in 1972. that one sells for even more than a ton. i would like that album too! but THEN she made two albums with all THESE guys, Gayden , Buttrey, etc. kinda hybrid albums cuz they were half Nashville and half London. And Ron Cornelius was on both of them too. and i'm hoping i find HIS solo album cheap someday. anyway, both Grimes hybrid albums are worth getting if you can find them for a reasonable price. cool stuff. *Warm Blood* on Virgin/Caroline and a same titled album on Decca. I think they were both Euro releases. But I could be wrong about that. then she didn't make an album until 1979 and then it was with a group called Sweet F.A. and I like that one too, but i'll shut up about that for now. i will just say again for the record that Carol's Sweet F.A. wasn't the same as The Sweet, Fanny Adams, or the glam metal Sweet F.A., or the Love & Rockets album.

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oh and judging from this photo charly reissued the s/t album at some point. so maybe that pressing would be easier to track down.

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just picked up the 2xlp Barefoot Jerry's Groceries. didn't realize it was the first 2 albums. only listened to one side but super stoked so far. not really even into country rock lately, but this is really hitting the right buttons.

so i'm a pretty big pozo seco singers fan and i scored some of their stuff today that i didn't have including the album they did with the paupers (i'm a paupers fan as well) and i got THIS album and i'd never even seen it before. from 1970. on the nashville label CERTRON. and, you guessed it, mac gayden and others join in. david briggs too. this was recorded at jack clement studios in nashville. good stuff.

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speaking of jack clement, this solo album of his was such a jaw-dropper for me last year. loveloveLOVE it.

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and if you like stuff on this thread no doubt you would dig earlier pozo seco stuff. i sure do.

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another good one i forgot. really nice singer/songwriter stuff. produced by marlin greene and backed up by the usual suspects. briggs, buttrey, etc.

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand just in case that isn't enough for you, you might want to pick this up for a couple bucks. same people pretty much. singer/songwriter stuff. former singer of folk/psych legends Gentle Soul.

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both the polland album and the carol hall album partially recorded at Quadraphonic Sound Studios in Nashville.

i prefer the carol hall album when all is said and done. quirkier. more personal. the polland album going for more of a glossy chi (pronounced "shy") coltrane vibe overall. (and i love chi - or at least her debut - but i don't need a ton of it in my life.)

I'll add that Carol Hall record to my list. Not quite the sound of this thread, more a question, but, Kenny Buttrey is listed as a drummer on Jake Holmes's "Above Ground Sound", yet I don't hear hardly any drums on any of the songs.

not nearly as obscure as any of these people, but a lot of these nashville dudes are on some of gordon lightfoot's 70s stuff, right?

Yes there are! I love most of those records, esp "Summerside of Life" Has anyone heard any of Jake Holmes 70's records?

um they are, I meant.

yeah i think i like the overall sound of gord's records more than the songwriting itself. (not that i dislike lightfoot)

i used to (or maybe still do somewhere in a box) Jake Holmes' "So Close, So Very Far To Go" and it was not very good.

yeah, 70's jake not so hot. first two are all you really need.

I was looking on the back of my favorite John Stewart record tonight, and half of these guys were the backing band.
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I think I want the "The Pirates of Stone County Road" played at my funeral. My father died when I was eight, and I saved his records from being tossed in the trash. He had around 200 or so, and California Bloodlines was one of them. I never liked it much as a kid aside from the cover. But I found it a few years ago, and was amazed at how I had this gem for so many years and didn't know it.

you guys know anything about this LP? No musician credits listed on the back, sounds very much of a kind with a lot of the stuff on this thread. More straight ssw and less progressive, but there are some funky moments. Highly recommended. A friend of mine just hooked me up with a sealed cut out--really good!
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apparently a big nashville producer nowadays?

hmm, guess he played on the Jubal LP on Elektra, along with Dennis Linde.

i have that album. i dig it. the galbraith one. don't really know anything about it though. forgot that he was in jubal. i've had the jubal album a couple of times and never kept it. so that must mean something.

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Buttrey, partially engineered by Marlin Greene. Which other Mack albums do I need?

As with many early-'70s records -- including those of another early rock & roll guitar pioneer, Link Wray -- the influence of the Band's dignified Americana is substantial. At times it sounds a little like the Band crossed with some of early Elton John's most American-influenced material, perhaps with a pinch of John Fogerty. While this type of stuff might not be Mack's forte, actually it's quite respectable, if low-key, and sung with endearing, earnest conviction.

Unterberger's AMG review omt.

errr..... otm.

reposting from 'the best synthesis of blues/rock/country'

Lonnie Mack is my Cincinnati homeboy, synthesis of rock/blooze/country/soul exactly nails what he does.

I like his late 60s elektra LPs better - Glad I'm In The Band and especially Whatever's Right recorded at Jewel Records studio in scenic Mt Healthy, Ohio, about ten minutes away from my old house.

Lonnie Mack's best album, next to his debut Wham! is Roadhouses & Dancehalls from 1988, recorded in Nashville but not really sounding like it.

"Too Rock For Country, Too Country For Rock & Roll" - opening cut sums it up.

Mt. Healthy!!

no members of barefoot jerry participate afaik, but fans of this sound should def check out the new reissue of jim ford's 'harlan county' on light in the attic.

How does that differ from the 2007 Bear Family reissue, Ian?

Wow, love that Area Code 615.

Great thread. Someone mentioned the Rob Galbraith LP above--I met him recently here in Nashville. I was actually at the Ernest Tubb Record shop and was talking to my friend about the recently reissued Larry Jon Wilson albums, on Omni. (which feature the Memphis-Nashville guys like Reggie Young--originally on Monument), and this hippie-lookin' dude says, "Larry Jon Wilson?" and we're like, yeah, and turns out he produced the Wilson records. I also saw Charlie McCoy recently and he played "Orange Blossom Special" and an obscure Joe South tune with his vocalist, Laney Hicks. He played great, but his show is aimed at the middle of the road to the point you kinda tune out when he's not playing. I have listened to the Pamela Polland record pictured above--I couldn't really get into except for maybe one or two cuts.

The Col. Jubilation P. Johnston record is awesome--I think it's a far better album than either Nashville Skyline or Pin Ups, ha.

Ken -- I dunno how it differs! There are no bonus tracks added, at least on the LP, but there are about 4 full pages of liner notes.. i gots an original tbh.

My new favorite Dennis Linde and Rob Galbraith
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man how did I miss this thread before, thank you for this awesome thread!

Also really digging Eric Andersen's self titled recorded at Cinderella Sound with most of Barefoot Jerry.
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I see there was talk upthread about Jubal. I love it, not as good as Barefoot Jerry debut or Gayden's debut, but very nice.

finally getting around to are code 615's trip to the country this morning -- amazing! actually much better than the first album, maybe. some super-inventive things going on here.

got *Keyboard Sculpture* by David Briggs on Monument from 1969. pretty cool. all the usual suspects backing him up. bergen white arrangements.

Very interested in that David Briggs record! I'll keep an eye out for it.

Found Ken Lauber's Contemplation (View) with all of Area Code 615 backing him. One of the best records I've heard with these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ6EToQdt30

do you have the Rig album?

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such a great album, and i think i completely forgot until recently that it was connected to these guys.

apparently my old login works on ilx now.

That's a beautiful cover! If no one beats me I'll win it on ebay in 12 hours. 24.99 and no bids yet!

that seems kinda high, but i don't actually know what it goes for. probably not a lot of people looking for it. but i'm just guessing. probably also been out of print since the day it came out.

I also found both Eric Andersen records with these guys and both are very good. A Country Dream might be the better one, I think. I prefer the more overtly country songs, his voice with Weldon Wyrick's steel guitar are perfect together.

i never realized til this moring that the second George Gerdes record features a bunch of these dudes

dude, both george albums are equally good. inmyveryhumbleestimation. i wouldn't choose one over the other.

I wasn't able to bid on that Rig record, the auction ended at 6 in the morning, and I couldn't wake up.

if it didn't sell, msg the guy & offer 15 or 20.

will re-try the other gerdes record next time i see it, maybe it's around right now even.

Just wondering why Cherry Red have reissued 2 of the 2xlp sets by Barefoot Jerry and not the 3rd. & I thought the 3rd which is the 1st chronologically was the one most people would be going for.
Each set has 2 of their lps in, seems they started with the 3rd & 4th lps last month, so could be they are coming around to the 1st & 2nd in November. Just seems like an odd way to go around it.
If they finish off with the 2 Area Code 615 lps in one set it would be even more fantastic. Or at least if the live lp is included too.

'the recording level of this LP was high and can best be appreciated in the same manner'

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^ has anyone heard this one? couple of these dudes are involved

i just found out that george ("obituary"/"son of obituary") gerdes died earlier this year, bummer.
i only know the 1st one, it's a great record.

This thread is reminding me of a book bonus in my Nashville Scene ballot comments re 2019:
Despite the sharp profiles of ornery individualists, favorite parts of Michael Streissguth's Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville are the aerial views, especially the intriguing 60s mix of Vanderbilt's periphery dwellers with increasingly restive Music Rowers, especially after Mr. D. kicks off his Nashville visits with Blonde On Blonde. The saga of Exit Inn, a musical convergence point for various mainstream and counter-cultural and other factions (somewhut like Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters) is illuminating---I've got tapes from there, incl. one-night-stands of knowns and unknowns, but here we also get bands I'd never heard of, appealingly described as they live out most if not all of their line-ups' lifespans together at this joint.
He briefly mentions star studio rats/Nashville Cats-as-Outcats who got to make their own albums, mainly Barefoot Jerry and the sometimes audacious Area Code 615*. But I want a lot more of this, like we get re Memphis, in furious.com's Insect Trust archives and Robert Gordon's books. Yeah! Anybody know of sites specializing in/featuring/mentioning this natural overlap interface kind of thang?
*A couple of their albums made it to a twofer CD, def. worth looking for, prob thee wildest stuff mentioned on here.

Not sure where to put this, but Hargus "Pig" Robbins died. I don't know much piano but I figured out the intro to "Behind Closed Doors" awhile back and never realized it was him.