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

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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?

i'm fond of that 60,000,000 buffalo album. there is a lot of good stuff on that list. and a lot i want to hear. there is also some stuff that might fit this thread but i don't think i would bring it up here cuz i don't think its that great. stuff like bell+arc. stuff i have TRIED to like and just not gotten into for whatever reason. there is an album on there that my brother told me about that i really want. not telling which one. its a secret.

I've seen two copies of the John Braden record he lists in the last few weeks. thought it was really not good, due to his just-plain-bad vocals. good players on it though. byrds/burritos.

Happy and Artie Traum / Double-Back Happy and Artie Traum / Double-Back
渋ジャケのセピアバージョンと言えば、このTraum兄弟の2ndアルバムでしょう！ Speaking of cover versions of sepia astringency, this would Traum brothers 2nd album! 71年に Capitolからリリースされたこのアルバムは、ウッドストック系名盤としても名高い作品です。 In 71 Capitol album was released, the system works is also famous as masterpieces Woodstock. Amos Garrett、Bill Keith両名のスライドとペダルスティール、Eric Kaz氏のピアノ、Tracy Nelson嬢のバックヴォーカル等、お馴染みのメンツも顔を出して粋なプレイを聞かせてくれますが、Buddy Spicher氏のストリングス系やClark Pierson氏（Full -Tilt Boogie Band）等のパワフルなドラムスもこのアルバムを名盤へと導いています。 Amos Garrett, Bill Keith's pedal steel and slide the two names, Eric Kaz's piano, Tracy Nelson and Miss backing, but let us make an appearance too smart to play the familiar face, Buddy Spicher's Mr. Clark Pierson system and Strings (Full-Tilt Boogie Band) has led to this masterpiece album and powerful drums. Traum 兄弟の味わい深いヴォーカルと職人的なギタープレイは勿論、全10曲が五臓六腑に染み渡る名曲揃い！ Tasty vocals and guitar play an artisan Traum brothers of course, classic suit all 10 songs permeate the organs? ワシ的にはA面ラストの「The Seagull」やB-2の「Cross Examinator」が好みですネ～！ In the last Eagle A side "The Seagull" and the B-2 "Cross Examinator" I prefer Ne! フォークロック的なアレンジ＆インスト構成ですが、アルバム全体から何故か？ I & folk-rock arrangements of instrumental configurations, for some reason the whole album? 無骨な力強さを感じます。 I feel rugged strength. どちらかと言えば「秋」よりも「夏の終わり」に似合う作品かもネ。 If anything, "fall" rather than "late summer" maybe the suits work.

I've stumbled across that list before. If you push a few buttons you get his list of female artists:

http://www.mb.ccnw.ne.jp/swamp/female_list.htm

I feel rugged strength.

All 10 songs permeate the organs!

i like that japanese guy's lists cuz they actually make me feel like i have standards or something! cuz for every hipster classic on there he also throws in some helen reddy or some mirabai. mirabai! dollar bins ahoy. but, like i said about his other list, i like that its a nice good/bad/ugly mix.

Sepia Astringency!

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.

diggin the voice on this guy

that's pretty great

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

yeah, stoked on this.

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

WTF

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

I love it btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOkJ4Ybzf1M

pretty cool record by morning, finally picked up that reissue from 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFs2Cuxar7c

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

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.

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."

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

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/a/r/arthurgeewhizz328774.jpg

What an incredible album with a great cover as well.

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

oh cmon

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

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

dude. thank you

dope

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

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

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

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.

that would be awesome

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

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..

surfboards u should add anything u can think of

ian ill def check out the barefoot Jerry thread!

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.

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...

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

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

Thanks, max!

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