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

jacob, feel free to poat here too:

IAN, WHEN WILL YOU KNOW THE JOYS OF CAPRICORN RECORDING ARTISTS *COWBOY*????

just cuz not a lot of ilx people have heard them and its nice to get testimonials on that thread. they SHOULD be more well known.

The Quiver song Cool Evening off their self titled is sublime. They aren't the greatest band, yet that song is going on my next mix.

Freaking out on this Anonymous album "Inside the Shadow."
Incredible private press folk rock with male/female harmonies and some great lead guitar. ILM thread search didn't turn anything up, this thread seems like a natural home for these guys. Haven't heard the follow up yet (J. Rider's "No Longer Anonymous") but I will remedy that soon.
I guess they are from Indiana, but it sound like some straight up California sunshine to me.

Actually, these guys may be a little too psych and not enough country for this thread, soz.

I don't know if these are west coast bands, but a recent trip to austin turned up,
Barefoot Jerry 'Southern Delight'
Travis Wammack 'Travis Wammack'
Dickey Betts 'Highway Call'
Fallenrock 'Watch For Fallenrock'

Zevon's been mentioned here a couple of times, but you should definitely check out his self-titled album on Asylum. (Technically not his debut, but he considered it as such, having disowned the much earlier 'Wanted Dead or Alive.') One of the very best albums ever to come out of California, and to my mind the best thing the label ever put out. The reason I miss him most.

big time OTM. what an album.

"Take Good Care of Yourself" by Chris Darrow kind of destroys me sometimes tbh.

"One of the very best albums ever to come out of California, and to my mind the best thing the label ever put out."

nah, best is no other. followed by albert brooks' a star is bought. and then manifest destiny by the dictators. and then, like, judee sill or joni or essra or something girly like that. then warren zevon.

just kidding. kinda. no other is definitely my fave though. and i need a copy of that zevon album. i've gotten rid of a bunch of them but always forget to keep one. (and i need to play the albert brooks album at work tomorrow. it never gets old.)

crossposting from mix tape thread, this is the tape i made for my pal Cory:

d charles speer & the helix - fossilized
jerry jeff walker - i'm gonna tell on you
marlin greene - forest ranger
euphoria - did you get the letter?
brinsley schwarz - silver pistol
keith jarrett - all right
chris darrow - take good care of yourself
michael hurley - indian chiefs & hula girls
townes van zandt - tecumseh valley (live)
rosalie sorrels - feather ben
moby grape - changes, circles spinning
eggs over easy - arkansas

gordon lightfoot - watchman's gone
flying burrito brothers - hand to mouth
waylon jennings - six white horses
willie nelson - shotgun willie
rio grande - end of the bottle
kris kristofferson - the pilgrim chapter 33
john hartford - first girl i loved
keith sykes - daddy raised hell
f.j. mcmahon - five year kansas blue
gene clark - full circle song
happy & artie traum - scavengers
the wildweeds - when she smiles
graham nash - military madness

― Joint Custody (ian), Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:37 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

i still can't believe that we both put forest ranger and arkansas on a tape like this. what are the odds?

it's very funny!

they are two of my faves of the genre.

anyone have a mix that could find its way here or the noise board? ive heard some of this stuff, but i'm lazy.

Collector's Choice issues unreleased Poco concert from 1971

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/swampwater2.jpg

how ya'll feel about this ^^ record? highs are high & the lows are seldom imo.

i've never heard it. like the cover though.

okay, it doesn't look like i'm ever gonna get my act together to digitize my tapes, so here's my track-listing for the tape i made inspired by this thread. i made this on marthas vineyard! that's how old it is already. tape still sounds good to me.

side one

marlin greene - forest ranger

eggs over easy - arkansas

sam signaoff - you brought my beginning

jerry corbitt - delight in your love

david wagner - mobile blue

link wray - god out west

cowboy - pat's song

mcguinness flint - friends of mine

horald griffiths - watching pigeons chasing shadows on the ground

david blue - outlaw man

thomas jefferson kaye - thanks for nothing

southwind - same sad old song

rick nelson - gypsy pilot

west - you only think you've come home

side two

george gerdes - peas porridge hot

mike seeger - hello stranger

bread - what a change

the unspoken word - sleepy mountain ecstacy

gallagher & lyle - to david, charlie, and ian

mike corbett & jay hirsh (with high mccracken) - fly with me

gypsy - dead and gone

the uniques - i sure feel more (like i do than i did when i got here)

mickey newbury - how many times must the piper be paid for his song

orphan - what goes on

southern comfort - roses

west - new england winter

scott, you'll like the swamp water record. it's a unipack. and each plank of wood unfolds separately.

liner notes on the back by arlo guthrie indicate that swampwater was linda ronstadt's backing band circa '70.

Really interesting!! I've got five of Steve Haggard's albums, I've seen him play live once in Nashville and I've reviewed him for an English music zine, but never even heard of 'Slain By An Angel'. Can't find it online, is it available somewhere?? amyanne

welcome

hello AmyAnne! Welcome to ILM.
I don't know if Slain By An Angel is available online at all, but I'd be happy to tape you a copy of it. You can e-mail me at dr.carl.sagan at gmail dot com.

i really fucking love john hartford btw. i found a copy of Aereoplain in the 2/$5 bin today at a shop in manhattan. that's a $30 record! i got it for my friend Dave. "First Girl I Ever Loved" is an incredible song.

Anybody a fan of Ron Elliott's The Candlestickmaker? I picked up the reissue recently, but haven't quite digested it yet.

It looks like you can buy that Steve Haggard for $26 on ebay, which might be a bit much....

That Ron Elliot record is very listenable.

I picked up the Elliott a couple years back along with the Brummels reunion set and a bunch of other stuff. Both got lost in the shuffle, but I need to dig 'em out again. I recall both being a step down from the prime Brummels material, but so are a lot of things.

it just sounds that bit smoother than Bradley's Barn and Triangle. and i only heard Laugh, Laugh for the first time a few weeks back, and that's become an instant favourite, so i think i need to travel the opposite way in the catalogue.

album with laugh, laugh on it is seriously one of the greatest albums of the 60's.

ian, i think you would like this album if you don't already have it. country + westcoast Airplane stuff. i dig it. some of it actually sounds like what i imagine richard & mimi would have sounded like if they had lived to go electric. for real!

http://www.balladyre.com/kotf/pics/s_Steelwind_2.jpg

http://www.proaudioinfo.com/disk-market/jk/3L-00631.jpg

oh hey i bought a cd! 17 dollars retail! well, i traded records for it, but still...

one of my fave xian psych records. so dreamy. and a very definite west coast vibe as well. god bless these kids. i forget who put it out on cd. probably a boot of some sort.

http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k464/gorillapads/NONSENSE_APRIL-1.jpg

lovin that Jack Taylor and Steelwind album cover

Just got Shuan Harris self titled record on Capitol. Totally great with psych'y moves and downer suicidal vibes. He used to be in the West Coast Pop Experimental Band.

ha, Craig Chaquico. the dude who played guitar for the pro AOR versh of Jefferson Starship. never heard of that Jack Taylor and Steelwind record before but will definitely seek that out to complete that part of the Airplane diaspora ...

heh jack taylor gave my grandfather guitar lessons back in the 60s. the steelwind record is pretty good, chaquico is the man

i think he was like 16 or something when he played on that record (chaq)

vox are definitely proto-Airplane

I've been on a hunt for Marlin Greene's records for the past month after finding an mp3 of the song "Fields of Clover" online. But I can't find them in any shops or dollar bins. I can't even find anything anywhere. I did find Eggs Over Easy's 'Good 'n' Cheap" which I haven't stopped listening to yet, and Loose Change's self titled. The Loose Change also really good.

I have for some time been toying with printing out this thread but I would never without a hot face walk into a record store to browse with a ream of paper. I wonder how long it'd be, though.

Not West Coast, but have you guys heard Richard Clapton's "Down the Road"? I love that song, and it reminds me of a lot of this stuff.

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so, Larry Jon Wilson? Much good? God a tip from a pal to look fer the records when I'm in TN next week.

really good!

look for New Beginnings. an album he did on Monument. really good. not the easiest record to find though. don't know if he really belongs on this thread though.

thanks :)

this is my pick hit of the month for this thread. so great.

http://www.cowboyjackclement.com/images/clement_alliwant400px.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW5VsGWdbp0

the Dandelions' 1971 s/t album is West Coast in spirit only, but it definitely fits in with the crate-digging sewardship mentality of this thread. there's scant info about them online, but their last.fm entry says...

recorded in 1970 by ‘The Children of Sunshine’, 10 year old 5th grade girls Tres (Therese) Williams and Kitsy Christner, grade-school friends in St. Louis, Missouri. They wrote all the songs themselves, both played guitar and sang all vocals. They hired two college students to play acoustic bass (Wendy Katz) and drum kit (Mike Kieffer). The album was released in 1971 when the girls were 11. Three hundred copies were pressed and released.

Their school was completely supportive of the girls allowing them to perform at the school as well as on local radio, television and live performances during the school day.

the album is a little over 20 minutes of cute, strummy folk-pop songs about peace, love, God, happiness, getting their music teacher to help them cut an album, asking a dog for permission to throw a party, and a couple tracks of studio chatter. buoyant stuff that suits the mild, post-rainstorm weather I've been seeing this afternoon.

i will check it out. i don't think i mentioned the numero group local customs album on here. just on the numero thread. but it totally belongs here. Lone Star Lowlands. i've been playing the hell out of my promo. it just sounds better the more you hear it and the songs (mostly originals) become more familiar to you. the vinyl has extra tracks too. so, i'd probably go for that. just a great mix of hippie hard rock. san fran style rock, some country-ish stuff. its all over the place.

http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01164#

this is may not QUITE right for this thread, but this guys list of rec'd records includes a number of personal favorites... http://www.mb.ccnw.ne.jp/swamp/70th_list.htm

anyone speak japanese?