The Dillards - Wheatstraw Suite

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no thread about this masterpiece?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRUN51zoDaM

nostormo, Saturday, 28 December 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago)

Always been super curious about the Dillards

the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 December 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago)

I love this record

Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 28 December 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago)

underrated is an understatement here.

deserve as much love as Burrito Brothers and Byrds' Rodeo

nostormo, Saturday, 28 December 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago)

this is a straight up masterpiece. up there with all the other early country-rock LPs you might care to name.

i passed on a chance to get this on LP the other day; it was a little scuffed. should i go back and buy it?

★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Sunday, 29 December 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago)

thx for the heads up on this bros

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 January 2014 18:01 (eleven years ago)

This reminded me to see if this was on Spotify (and it is). I've been meaning to hear this in full for a long time - it's terrific. Right up there with Dillard & Clark and Flying Burrito Brothers.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 2 January 2014 19:21 (eleven years ago)

great album thx for the reminder. more albums should be under 28 minutes.

tylerw, Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:22 (eleven years ago)

"Lemon Chimes" is one of my favourite songs ever

Number None, Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:45 (eleven years ago)

harmonies on "Hey Boys" holy shit

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:54 (eleven years ago)

one of those dudes is a dead ringer for Brian Wilson at the break

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 January 2014 20:56 (eleven years ago)

you welcome guys.

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nostormo, Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:28 (eleven years ago)

Will check this on Spotify, thanks---also, I heard some amazing harmonies from Byron Berline's Country Gazette on a Public Radio show from Nashville (think it's Bluegrass Block?) Country Gazette's early core members were Burritos for a while, then they kinda were the Burritos, after Hillman etc. left (for a while). Big ol' CG collection on Spotify too; will check it out. Anybody heard Breakfast Special? Rounder's digital of their apparently lone, eponymous album is still available, but not on Spotify. Worth buying?

dow, Friday, 3 January 2014 15:18 (eleven years ago)

the songwriting in this album is A+

nostormo, Monday, 6 January 2014 18:06 (eleven years ago)

btw, Copperfields is more of the same, which is good

nostormo, Monday, 6 January 2014 18:07 (eleven years ago)

^absolutely! anyone heard doug dillard's banjo album? been curious about that for years.

no lime tangier, Monday, 6 January 2014 18:14 (eleven years ago)

Weren't this and another couple of lps compiled on a 2cd a year or 2 ago?
It happened to be the one Dillards lp that turned up in my old local 2nd hand record shop which means its the only one I'm familiar with despite not having a physical copy since around '96. Do remember it having some great stuff on, notably Lemon Chimes.

Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2014 19:09 (eleven years ago)

just listening to the 1965 single of lemon chimes that was put out by capitol: much more folk-rockish & byrdsy than the album version (the wavering vocals on that always put me in mind of phil ochs' stuff from around the same time period)

no lime tangier, Monday, 6 January 2014 19:22 (eleven years ago)

Looks like the set I thought was a couple of years old is actually closer to 10 and subsequently possibly rising in price.
Had these lps on Pickin' And Fiddlin' / Wheatstraw Suite / Copperfields

Came out as part of that Elektra sequence that had the last pre-remaster ISB titles in as well as a number of other 2fer sets if I'm thinking right, Tim Buckley's 1st 2 and Fred Neil's were also in the series.

Stevolende, Monday, 6 January 2014 19:38 (eleven years ago)


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