Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?

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one of the funnest things about having a music addiction is getting bored with everything i've ever listened to before and forcing myself to open up and listen to music that i thought i'd never listen to (country, commercial hip hop & pop, disco, soft rock) or stuff that i've always known about but skimmed over. so now i'm in one of those later phases.

lately i've been totally addicted to stuff like the byrds, fleetwood mac, csn&y and related solo projects. i'd love to hear what everyone's favorite albums are in this genre, and don't skip over the obvious ones because i did in the past and now i'm regretting it. there's something so amazing about this stuff. it's sweet, but super dark (the drugs got harder?) and the record companies were putting in more money into these recordings, so they're so lush and beautiful

some things i've been listening to a lot lately:
Gene Clark - No Other & White Light
Fleetwood Mac - s/t, Rumours, Tusk
Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Notorious Byrd Brothers
Neil Young - Harvest
David Crosby - I Wish I could Remember My Name
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Beau Brummels - Triangle
obviously tons of Beach Boys & Dennis Wilson

i also got Stephen Stills first record but haven't heard it yet and i love the Band's "Music from Big Pink" & the Dillards "Wheatstra Suite" but I don't think they qualify as west coast even though they sound like it.

some things i want to buy:
John Phillips - John the Wolf King of LA
Manassas
Dillard & Clark
Chris Hillman

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, and i even bought an Eagles record (Desperado) and am able to listen to it without puking for the first time since highschool

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Have you heard the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, JaXoN? Cuz if you haven't you MUST!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

they're on my list but i've never picked any up

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

well YO mama thinks you a jazz boy, jXn fyi.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

i was last time she asked

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

JaX0n is pop-curious.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Emmylou Harris' first albums through Quarter Moon in Ten-Cent Town
Linda Ronstadt -- Don't Cry Now, Heart Like a Wheel, and side two of Hasten Down the Wind
Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

the first Dillard and Clark record is as good as it comes...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

This strecthes the timeframe and genre a bit, but you should also check out Lindsey Buckingham's first two solo releases: Law & Order and Go Insane. Talk about the drugs getting harder....

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm on a roll -- sorry:

All of Randy Newman up to and including Good Old Boys.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

JAX0N DO YOU LIKE TEH BAND?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

she's not "west coast" per se, but i'd recommend linda perhacs.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think the first album I ever revered was Emmylou's Elite Hotel.

If you care about Xmas kitsch, Light in the Stable or whatever it's called is her covering some nice holiday tunes (Drummer Boy, a couple I never heard before, etc) and the album cover will break yr heart.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh God, yes, Emmylou on the cover of Light is sublime. Perhaps the coolest thing about her is that unlike most celebrities, she's had the good sense to age gracefully. And boy has she!

Also, the critics did not "get" her at the time. I think they thought she was ersatz country, but her first records have help up so beautifully.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

gygax, mentioned the band in the first post

subquestion: why is lindsay buckingham so revered. is it as a guitarist? songwriter? arranger? i'm not asking because i don't think he deserves it but because i don't know.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

also, i love this period of music because either my parents have the records or because they are cheap!!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah, seconded. Thanks Dad.

But there must've been so many other, more obscure bands in LA etc. emulating this sound. Who was playing at the Whisky and the Troubadour while the Outlaws played the Coliseum, or whatever? I want to hear that stuff... maybe there're some compilations out there

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

this might fit in too. it's the self-titled album by hoover, from 1969. mellow comedown folk stuff.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

(the full album cover does say "hoover" on it -- but "hoove" was all i could scan)

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

godamn jody, i have to show all details to tell who's talking to me anymore. thanks for the recommendations.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

One of my favorite albums this year is The Homestead and Wolfe album just reissued on Anopheles Records. Sounds like the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, but more sincere, better songs on the whole, and with Wrecking Crew backing.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Buffalo Springfield's LAST TIME AROUND. HARVEST MOON is good folkie-Neil, also COMES A TIME. (DECADE's the best early collection). Eagles' ON THE BORDER is my fave of theirs.The Australian label Raven has good 2-LPs-on-1-CD, like Roseanne Cash, Rodney Crowell. Also, before the Byrds SWEETHEART got remixed so you could hear Gram, Raven had several of those tracks on what I guess is still the best overview of Gram's career, WARM EVENINGS, PALE MORNINGS, BOTTLED BLUES (the line in his song was actually "bottle of blues.")The first couple of Flying Burritos (a fairly recent collection too, I think).GP and GRIEVOUS ANGEL are still on a single disc, aren't theyANGEL's the *one*, so CD gets better as it goes along. And the live album's good too (tracks from GP sound better here). Moby Grape, but look for the LPs; the CDs I've heard are kinda messed up. Little Feat up through DIXIE CHICKEN or FEATS DON'T FAIL ME NOW.Ry Cooder's INTO THE PURPLE VALLEY. Van Dyke Parks' SONG CYCLE for the orchestra. Bonnie Raitt's 70s albums. Warren Zevon's GENIUS. Yeah Rodney and Roseanne aren't West Coast, but some of their albums and/or musos are, and they fit in various other ways.Semi-mellow beardos: Giant Sand's CHORE OF ENCHANTMENT, Dead's RECKONING and WORKINGMAN'S DEAD

― Don, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Euphoria - s/t is rather swell

― xian (xian), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

i absolutely adore that Euphoria Record

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

Check out the Skip Battin self titled release from 72 or 73, also Jackson Browne from that period.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 01:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm just discovering I like Kris Kristoffersen. You might too. First album is great.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 02:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is this sound kind of trendy in Brooklyn right now, or has it just been cool for a while.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 02:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

it's trendy in my brooklyn apartment. but it has been for a while.

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 02:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's a good sound. And it's not so surprising, as was pointed out above, because it's the stuff many of our parents listened to and is usually readily available in cheap vinyl form.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 02:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Hurting, are you from Brooklyn? Are you implying I'm from brooklyn and trendy?

I picked up that Kris Kristofferson record a few months ago and totally dig it.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

I live in Jersey City, but for about the last year I've been picking up a lot of this stuff from certain Brooklynite friends, including that Kristofferson (pardon my previous misspelling). Usually when these particular Brooklyn friends start pushing something it's no accident. Their other big thing in the last year or two has been Bert Jansch, Fairport Convention, etc.

I don't mean anything pejorative by the word trendy in this case. This is all good music. It's not like they started listening to electroclash or something.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

i was just teasing. i had a long post before but cut it just to make you feel funny. anyways, if this stuff was gonna get all big, it would have because of Beachwood Sparks. are they big? i don't know too much of the indie anymore. i heard a few tracks and it was just like listening to byrds covers. i'm just trying to listen to shit i've never listened to before.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah Beachwood Sparks seemed like they were blowin' up for a minute but now it seems like they kinda fell off. I'm not sure what explains the phenomenon. I think everything old that's any good is bound to experience this kind of comeback at some point, but I don't know why it's now for outlaw country, 70s singer/songwriter and lighter psych stuff.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh my, no-one's mentioned SPIRIT's 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus yet. I reckon that's a must have... so many great moments, but I keep coming back to 'Nature's Way'. I think you'll definitely love that song given the other stuff on your list.

If we're going to be a bit free and easy with the 70s part of the question, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE's Volunteers came out on the very cusp of the new decade (November '69) and barring the hippy rhetoric, it sounds a lot like a 70s record. SKIP SPENCE'S Oar from a bit earlier definitely does not, but then again it doesn't really sound like a record from any specific era.

Maybe try and pick up the BYRDS (Untitled), just about their last really decent record. I guess it might be a bit of a sloppy package in sum total, and it's absolutely nowhere near as good as the *great* albums, but it's still got some of my favourite Byrds moments on it, mostly courtesy of Clarence White.

Given the general thrust of this thing, you'd probably like IAN MATTHEWS' Journeys From Gospel Oak too. Covers of Gene Clark and Tim Hardin in a very West Coast style. He was originally in Fairport Convention, then Matthews Southern Comfort before doing his solo thing of which Gospel Oak is the most solid effort. Think he moved out to California round about the time of that album too.

Anyone want to recommend me any specific HOT TUNA album?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Michael Nesmith's early '70s records with the First National Band deserve a mention. Very consistent body of work, though nothing's as catchy as his Monkees work.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

mom has Spirit and Hot Tuna records at home. to be stolen in a few weeks when i go down there.

i've been meaning to figure out which Jefferson Airplane record i wanted to get next (only have a really dirty copy of Surrealistic Pillow that my mom wrote boyfriends' names in pen on).

i've had that Skip Spence album for years and never thought it was all that amazing. i don't know if it's a "oh, he's crazy, so this makes the album more amazing" type thing [i've always felt the same way about Syd], but i'll pull out my copy and listen to it again.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

JaX0n,

Try the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's first album. JaX0n, all the DJs at KXLU were totally into this stuff! That's why they're all in likeminded bands these days (aside from The Postal Service).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

This is a good thread idea. I've wanted to start one on a similar theme but could never think of the right question.

Personally, my interest is in the west coast stuff 1974-77, when session musicians began to rule the studio and production values got super slick, rather than the early 70s Byrds/CSNY/Grateful Dead axis. Stuff like Joni Mitchell, Buckingham-Nicks, Jackson Browne and ... Al Stewart maybe? Steely Dan? The Eagles definitely.

But it's kind of difficult to pin down the sound/genre any more definitely than that. And I'm a bit loathe to try for fear of unfairly pigeonholing certain albums.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh yes, and I have the Manassas album, JaXoN, which is partly country or country-rock but is quite diverse, with latin inflections and even some moog.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

Lindsay Buckingham has great technique and has a very minimalist touch with regard to rhythm and melody.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

Jeff, I've started a bunch of other threads like this in the past few months. check these out.

Soft Rock Hits of the 70s - search
I found $41 on the ground today, so let's talk about Psychedelic Country!
Ricki Lee Jones c/d s/d
I luvs me some Lee Hazelwood. What else should I be listening to? (aka, the 60s & 70s country thread) (maybe a little less so...)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Check out this group Relatively Clean Rivers. Radioactive reissued a record a few months back. It is great mild psych that you'll dig if you dig the first C,S & N.

How about Spirit, The Family, and Kaleidescope?

However, I must voice my disagreement with the original post about the Band's Music From Big Pink sounding like the West Coast. Yes, they filmed The Last Waltz in SF, but they sound more like Virginia to Memphis, to me.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

This may be a good place to mention Starry Eyed and Laughing, an early 70's band from London (granted, east coast ;-), heavily influenced by the Byrds. Rickenbacker, harmonies, the works. Their two albums have been compiled on a 2-cd set that was released last year, That was now and this is then, at long last. I don't have this one (actually, I found out about this compilation two minutes ago) but I downloaded a vinyl rip of the first album off soulseek on impulse. Great find!

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

apparently Beachwood Sparks are trying to get (it) back together for another album...some were in All Night Radio I think and that fizzled and they need something to do to keep their minds off substance abuse. Stay tuned

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

harry nilsson, nilsson sings newman and nilsson schmillson. the former is breathtakingly gorgeous pop, the latter a sweet smorgasbord of perfectly sung and produced popness and rockness.

colin blunstone, one year and ennismore. ok, he's not exactly from the west coast, but his first two solo albums could've been. zombines fans consider one year his peak, but ennismore features "i don't believe in miracles," one of my fave pop songs of the era.

and i'll second don's nomination of west-coast-in-spirit rosanne cash, especially for seven year ache and its amazing title track, even if it did come out a bit later (1981) than most of the stuff being talked about here.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

zombines = zombies.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

How is that book about LA? i forget the name but i wanna say it's taken from a doors song? i haven't read more than a magazine in a long, long time. is it a page turner?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, it's called Waiting For the Sun by Barney Hoskyns

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 21 October 2004 01:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Come to think of it, Roseanne is *from* California. She told an interviewer that she and her mother and sisters lived on the side of a mountain and Johnny would helicopter in between tours. Later they moved to town and lived in a house Johnny bought from Johnny Carson. Oh yeah, the Byrds: YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY, don't think anybody's mentioened that yet. Kaleidescope (not the British one though, the cali one had David Lindley, who played on a lotta big country-rock albums) were really good, kind of folk-rock, but also blues and Middle Eastern (like Turkish elements, for inst.) Speaking of Limdley he and Ry Cooder have a track on that new Zevon trib; so does Dylan, Springsteen, Billy Bob Thornton (?), Adam Sandler ("Werewolves of London"!). See bn.com.

― Don, Thursday, 21 October 2004 04:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

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Sepia Astringency!

― sonofstan, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

list is helpful too. like, i know i have that donna rhodes album but i can't remember why i kept it. i should play it.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

diggin the voice on this guy

― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

that's pretty great

― jaxon, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

dang, that does sound good. other sample here sounds great too: http://therisingstorm.net/ted-lucas-the-om-album/

― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, stoked on this.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 19:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

(Lucas played uncredited sitar on the Tempations’ “Psychedelic Shack”)

WTF

― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'd be interested to see what the consensus is on this album^

I love it btw

― yuoowemeone, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

― yuoowemeone, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

pretty cool record by morning, finally picked up that reissue from 2009

― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh yeah, that ted lucas mentioned above is v nice too

― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

this is a great thread -- so much cool stuff. just came across this bootleg of the souther/hillman/furay band (with al perkins, too!) http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2011/01/souther-hillman-furay-band-1974-07-07.html
haven't listened but i dig the one album i have by these guys.

― tylerw, Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

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."

― dow, Saturday, 29 January 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Came across Arthur Gee-Whizz Band - City Cowboy (Thanks scott seward!) on the What are you listening to? 2011 thread.

What an incredible album with a great cover as well.

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 18:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i made a spotify playlist with as many albums from this thread i could find... kind of all over the place, but such is this thread

http://open.spotify.com/user/max_read/playlist/723m865Y296VHKnFOT4Jw6 early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh cmon

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://open.spotify.com/user/max_read/playlist/723m865Y296VHKnFOT4Jw6

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

well whatever that should work. its collaborative too so feel free to add stuff i missed.

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

dude. thank you

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

dope

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

don't have spotify, but i am curious what is on that playlist!

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

id say like 85% of the stuff from this thread, actually! missing l.a. getaway, redeye, truckaway, some other things mentioned...

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

for some reason only a couple tracks from john the wolfking of la

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

i might make a smaller playlist of stuff more in this vein later:

Personally, my interest is in the west coast stuff 1974-77, when session musicians began to rule the studio and production values got super slick, rather than the early 70s Byrds/CSNY/Grateful Dead axis. Stuff like Joni Mitchell, Buckingham-Nicks, Jackson Browne and ... Al Stewart maybe? Steely Dan? The Eagles definitely.

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

that would be awesome

also i think the fantastic expedition of dillard & clark is missing

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

max have you read the Barefoot Jerry thread? i find the southern 'studio guy' stuff continues to be a deep well, for me. jubal, barefoot jerry, muscle shoals, cinderalla studio, area code 615..

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

surfboards u should add anything u can think of

ian ill def check out the barefoot Jerry thread!

― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

This is the thread that brought me here, so you have it to blame! This stuff is incredible, imo, thanks max for the playlist. Have added a few more things of a general LA sound, some soft pop like Jim Webb/Fifth Dimension, late 60's/early 70's Beach Boys, some James Taylor, more Nilsson, stuff like that. 1846 Tracks!

http://open.spotify.com/user/hyp3hat/playlist/7otuw5nXVfipBurdcgg4JZ

At least two things I've discovered - That Lambert & Nuttycombe album is like some lost Nick Drake shit, and it's a crime that Nils Lofgren/Grin somehow wasn't stratospheric in the early 70's.

― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Thursday, 6 October 2011 08:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow alot of good stuff on that playlist that doesn't get enough love (Ned Doheny! the Beau Brummels! early Poco!).

but also alot that's glaring in its absense: the entirety of NL/Grin's "2+2", the first Buffalo Springfield album, Fleetwood Mac's "Bare Trees" (and assorted other tracks from the post-Peter Green, pre-Buckingham/Nicks transitional era), John Stewart's "Bombs Away Dream Babies", Moby Grape s/t, Dave Mason's "It's Like You Never Left".

Barely heard of Judee Sill but like alot of what's on that playlist...

― Lee626, Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Early Poco gets lotsa love on ILM... well, compared to most places!

― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

Judee Sill's incredible - What a voice!

Feel free to add shit to that playlist, btw :)But max did most of the legwork of finding stuff on this thread, so thank him

― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thanks, max!

― Lee626, Thursday, 6 October 2011 11:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

some of the albums you mention arent on spotify, or werent when i made the list--please, please add, i like to just go in and throw on shuffle

― max, Thursday, 6 October 2011 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok will do as soon as i figure out how to add to other people's Spotify playlists - i've only been on it since it launched in the US recently and haven't had much time to experiment yet.

Also that Grin album of course is "1+1" not "2+2"

― Lee626, Friday, 7 October 2011 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

hypehat

― buzza, Friday, 7 October 2011 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Came across Arthur Gee-Whizz Band - City Cowboy (Thanks scott seward!) on the What are you listening to? 2011 thread.

What an incredible album with a great cover as well.

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 4:55 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

^this is terrific

― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

hypehat

― buzza, Friday, 7 October 2011 03:31 (2 days ago) Bookmark

yes?

― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Sunday, 9 October 2011 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

BBChron, linked by tylerw earlier on this thread, has started re-posting motherlode of mostly West Coast country rock, lots of the best and/or most popular at top of this page; see a bit more variety, like Kinks, at bottom (with Ritchie Furay Band, for inst, in the middle). He's good about describing, incl candor re tape quality (he tries to optimize, not just slap 'em up there)
http://bbchron.blogspot.com/

― dow, Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Alao, I may not have mentioned this guy before, gradually re-posting (see left rail for link to re-posts). Here's one I haven't seen before: New Riders of the Purple Sage live, w Garcia, Lesh & Hart.
http://smadacounty.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-riders-of-purple-sage-1969-09-18.html

― dow, Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Who are the Mellow Mafia? is that just the name for LA studio cats?
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, October 22, 2004 4:25 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just saw this referred to as "Avocado Mafia".

― how's life, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Speaking of Chris Darrow, as I did upthread in '09, here's another Darrow reissue: Artist Proof, from 1972. Out on Drag City 1/22/2013, so I won't say much yet (so far so good, though)

1. Beware Of Time 3:00
2. Lovers Sleep Abed Tonight 2:57
3. Shawnee Moon 3:32
4. Move On Down The Line 2:47
5. Song For Steven 2:42
6. Cocaine Lil 1:39
7. Alligator Man 2:22
8. Keep On Trying 2:50
9. New Zoot 2:26
10. The Show Must Go On 2:48
11. The Sky Is Not Blue Today 3:51
12. We Can Both Learn To Say
I Love You 2:42
Bonus Tracks
13. Beware Of Time 2:54*
14. Song For Steven 2:28**
15. Keep On Trying 2:15**
16. Move On Down The Line 1:54 †
17. The Sky Is Not Blue Today 2:23 †
* Pre-album studio demo
** Home demo
† Demo for publishing, Sergio Mendes studio
Chris Darrow Guitar, Electric Guitar,
Mandolin, Fiddle, Dobro, Slide Guitar,
Marimba, Kalimba, Triangle, Vocals
Ed Black Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar
Loren Newkirk Piano, Accordion, Organ
Arnie Moore Bass
Mickey McGee Drums, Steel Drums
Steve Cahill Guitar, Autoharp, Vocals
John Ware Congas, Percussive Textures
John Stewart Rhythm Guitar on
“Alligator Man”
(Courtesy Warner Brothers Records)
Background Singers
Claudia Lennear
Jennifer Warren
(Courtesy Warner Brothers Records)
Russel Brooker
Earl Shackleford

― dow, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:00 (6 months ago) Permalink

No, sorry - I am only really familiar with Big Star and Neil Young. I have also heard Judee Sill and the Incredible String Band - but really my knowledge is only kind of surface level so I won't be able to take part. Sorry posters.

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:09 (6 months ago) Permalink

i love that chris darrow record.
it is almost as good as his s/t record.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 2 November 2012 21:10 (6 months ago) Permalink

S[eaking of New Riders, here's a show preview I wrote last summer ("swamp grooveologists" 'cause the rhythm section and one of the geezers are also in a "swamp groove" band, blanking on the name)
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jerry Garcia and singer/picker David Nelson’s pre-Dead cosmic country reveries evolved into New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Nelson, with Garcia’s steel guitar successor, Buddy Cage, reformed New Riders in 2005, recruiting Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano, plus two swamp grooveologists, bassist Ronnie Penque and drummer Johnny Markowski. NRPS roll deft jams and tight tunes, many recently written with Garcia collaborator Robert Hunter, who keeps Riders swirling around a “Barracuda Moon,” and curtly invokes the “difference between a bad loan/And a debt.” Naturally, expect NRPS classics, including their aromatic outlaw hit, “Panama Red.”

― dow, Friday, 2 November 2012 22:27 (6 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Kinda long-ass, and no Rusty, I never thot you might be Neil's bro, but this doesn't happen every day:

LEGENDARY COUNTRY ROCK BAND POCO TO RELEASE FIRST STUDIO ALBUM SINCE 2002
All Fired Up Displays Evolution of Band While Staying True to Classic Sound

Nashville, TN—For 45 years, Poco has been making music in the realm of the classic country rock sound that they helped found in the late ‘60’s, one that inspired other acts to follow suit – bands such as The Eagles, Firefall, The Little River Band and Pure Prairie League. But to persist across six decades, you need to have a rabid fan base that considers your music to be a soundtrack to their lives, or continue to evolve and refine your sound while staying true to your roots. Poco does both and it’s why their new studio album -- their first in eleven years -- All Fired Up (official release date March 5), is a celebration of longevity and unparalleled songwriting.

Still led by singer and songwriter Rusty Young, the addition of two more excellent songwriters in bassist Jack Sundrud and keyboardist Michael Webb as well as drummer George Lawrence over the past decade, helped to re-shape Poco for another generation.

“The music has evolved over the years,” said Young. “Different band members bring different voices to the sound and in many ways keep the music fresh. History shows that Poco has always had great musicians in the band and it's no different today. We're growing musically, challenging ourselves and moving ahead to create the best music we've ever made.”

All Fired Up, which was self-produced and recorded at several studios including Sixteen Tons in Nashville, the home studios of Sundrud and Webb, Wildwood Lodge in Missouri and Sound Emporium in Nashville, shows a band that has no problem celebrating its storied past while enjoying every minute of the present. And Young explains the diversity of the material that also manages to stay cohesive.

“Most of the songs were written in the last year or so,” he says. “It took me two years to get 'Regret' to the point I was happy with it and ’A Little Rain' is a song we've been doing in concert for the last three years. Jack's 'Hard Country' is a concert favorite we've been playing for a number of years too. The title track was a song that was written just for the CD. We wanted to give a nod to the classic Poco sound that everyone loves from the early days and we think 'All Fired Up' nails it. Michael (Webb) has Bobby Keys playing sax on one of his songs, 'That's What Rock 'n Roll Will Do,’ which is very cool. Jack's 'Hard Country' is destined to be a Poco classic. I'm especially excited about a song called 'Rockin' Horse' for a couple of reasons. I think it's unlike anything I've written before, and Poco IS a Rockin' horse!”

There is also the tongue-in-cheek “Neil Young,” which talks about Rusty not being Neil’s brother. “I don't think Neil has heard it yet,” Young joked. “I would hope he'd get a kick out of it and I wonder how many times people have asked him about his brother Rusty.”

Young is also celebrating his induction into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in St. Louis alongside other steel players that helped influence him. In addition, Young is in Guitar Player Magazine’s “Gallery of Greats” along with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn. In addition Poco boasts a Grammy nomination for ‘Instrumental of the Year’ and fans can find the band’s memorabilia on display at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Poco, which has never stopped touring over the years despite lineup changes, will tour a bit more vigorously in support of All Fired Up. “We're anxious to show everyone that we're excited about the future for Poco and we're fired up and ready to go,” said Young. “We're hoping to reintroduce Poco to the fans that may have drifted away over the years, and to remind them of why they were fans in the first place. And it would of course be great if the CD captures new fans. We're always trying to attract new Poconuts.”

Of course, it’s inevitable that the longer a band stays together, the more it often has to change in order to adapt and stick around—and also has to love what they do. That’s the takeaway from a poignant narrative written by Lawrence for the album. “There is no manual for a 45 year old rock band,” he said.

“Long time Poco fans will find plenty of nods to the earlier sound, while new-found fans will hear the new energy and direction,” said Sundrud. “All Fired Up is aptly titled, relevant to the band's musical roots and blazing a new trail into the future. The songs are rocking, thought-provoking, fun and most of all, pure Poco.”

To sample the tracks from All Fired Up, please visit
http://www.rickalter.com/afu.prerelease.html

About Poco

Pioneers of the country-rock sound that soared out of California in the late sixties and early seventies, Poco was founded by Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young, a trio whose lifetime musical journey began while working on the Buffalo Springfield’s final album, The Last Time Around. With the addition of George Grantham and Randy Meisner, the initial Poco lineup was set. Renowned music critic Robert Hilburn of The Los Angeles Times proclaimed the band as “the next big thing”, and Rolling Stone went so far as to call them “a country-tuned Derek and The Dominos,” giving the band’s 1969 debut, Pickin’ Up The Pieces, a perfect rating. After that, the band went through several personnel changes including the departure of Jim Messina and Richie Furay, as well as when bassist Randy Meisner left to join The Eagles.

Poco went on to chart several times with hits like “Crazy Love” and “Heart of the Night” (both from the critically acclaimed Legend album), as well as “Rose of Cimarron,” “Good Feeling To Know” and “You’d Better Think Twice.” In 1989, the band brought back Messina, Furay and Meisner to record Legacy, which spawned a few more of the band’s Top 40 hits, “Call It Love” and “Nothing To Hide.” Poco’s new milennium releases – 2002’s Running Horse, 2005’s Bareback At Big Sky. the 2004 live CD/DVD Keeping The Legend Alive and now 2013’s All Fired Up – are among the best of their career. With 45 years, more than 25 albums and thousands of fans behind them, Poco was, is and forever will be the defining voice of country/rock.

For more information, please visit www.poconut.org

― dow, Monday, 4 February 2013 16:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock buzza is my fav buzza

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 4 February 2013 17:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

"Solo" coz mostly poat-Monkees; he will have a band, though no new material, apperently(maybe a live album after this?)

MICHAEL NESMITH’S “NEZ SOLO” SPRING 2013 TOUR
TO CROSS U.S. MARCH 23–APRIL 17

In first U.S solo tour since 1992, Monkees and First National Band veteran
to perform songs from 50 years of writing and recording.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — Michael Nesmith will launch the month-long Nez Solo Spring 2013 Tour on March 21 outside of Nashville as Nez’s Solo Spring 2013 Tour prepares to take him to the metro areas of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

Nesmith’s kick-off show at the Franklin Theater sold out an hour after tickets were available.

Nez’s Solo Spring 2013 Tour followed an invitation from a British promoter/agent to play the British Isles last year. The solo tour sold out immediately after it was announced, causing American concert promoters to take notice and make offers for the Nez Solo Spring Tour.

“The songs I’ll play are a touch chronological and a touch thematic. I picked my favorites to play, the ones I have come to love over the years, and the ones that are most requested by fans of my solo work,” Nesmith says.

The focus of the show will be on his latter-day song writing and recordings, but Nesmith did select one song he wrote for the Monkees’ — “Papa Gene’s Blues” — as the opening of the concert. “I hope Monkees fans are not disappointed but my solo recorded music is extensive and the songs that were part of the Monkees era comprise only a tiny part of it.”

Fans of Nesmith’s ground-breaking First National Band and later work will find much to look forward to, including “Joanne,” “Silver Moon,” “Propinquity,” “Grand Ennui” and “Thanx for the Ride.” This last song will include specially programmed software so the original pedal steel solo by Red Rhodes plays along with Nesmith and the band as they play the song live. Also look for songs from the albums And the Hits Just Keep On Coming, Photon Wing and Infinite Rider, as well as Elephant Parts, Tropical Campfires, The Prison and Rays — approximately 90 to 100 minutes of live Nez music in all.

In the Nez Solo Spring Tour the songs will be presented with short introductions that include a cinematic setting. According to Nesmith, “The songs live in my mind like mini-movies— vignettes — that associate themselves with the emotions of the song. I want the audience to share that.”

Michael Nesmith tours may be few and far between, but he greatly enjoys the onstage connection. “I have found nothing like a live performance in any other expression of the arts,” he says. “When it is done right, it is a most joyful and happy event — like a good meal, a fine conversation or a lover’s kiss.”

“A word sung is worth a thousand pictures,” he concludes.

Nesmith is a musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist, well known for his start as the singing, wool-capped, Gretsch guitar-slinging co-star of the Monkees television series (1966-68).

His songs were recorded not only by the Monkees (“Papa Gene’s Blues,” “The Girl I Knew Somewhere,” “Mary, Mary,” and “Listen to the Band” among others) but also by Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys (“Different Drum”), the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (“Some of Shelley’s Blues”) the Butterfield Blues Band and Run-DMC (“Mary Mary”).

He executive-produced the movies Repo Man (1984), Timerider, and Tapeheads and founded Pacific Arts, a record, film and video production house and book publisher. He was the first and only winner of the Grammy Award for Video of the Year for his 1981 long-form video Elephant Parts. He is also the inventor and founder of Videoranch3D, for which he holds a patent.

In addition to the regular concert tickets there will be a very limited number of tickets sold for after show receptions where Nesmith will sign autographs, talk with fans, and pose for pictures with them.

NEZ SOLO SPRING 2013 TOUR
Thurs., March 21 FRANKLIN, TN Franklin Theater – SOLD OUT
Sun., March 24 AGOURA HILLS, CA Canyon Club
Tues., March 26 SANTA CRUZ, CA Rio Theater
Wed., March 27 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Palace of Fine Arts
Fri., March 29 PORTLAND, OR Aladdin Theater
Sat., March 30 SEATTLE, WA Neptune Theater
Wed., April 3 BOULDER, CO Boulder Theater
Fri., April 5 ST. PAUL, MN Fitzgerald Theater (Sue McLean & Assoc.?)
Sat., April 6 CHICAGO, IL Old Town School of Folk Music – SOLD OUT
Sun., April 7 FERNDALE, MI The Magic Bag - SOLD OUT
Tues., April 9 MUNHALL, PA Carnegie Music Hall of Holmstead
Thurs., April 11 NORTHAMPTON, MA Iron Horse - SOLD OUT
Fri., April 12 RAHWAY, NJ Union County Performing Arts Center
Sat., April 13 SOMERVILLE, MA Somerville Theater
Mon., April 15 PHILADELPHIA, PA World Café Live - SOLD OUT
Tues., April 16 NEW YORK, NY Town Hall
Wed., April 17 WASHINGTON, DC Birchmere

― dow, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:07 (2 months ago) Permalink

oh man i wanna go

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:59 (2 months ago) Permalink

rad, going

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 04:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Show review and video in this too:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-review-michael-nesmith-monkees-solo-tour-canyon-club-20130325,0,3065721.story

― dow, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:34 (1 month ago) Permalink

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