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

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How's that American Flyer LP, anyone?

I don't know if this is the thread where I expressed by lack of enthusiasm for I Wish I Could Remember My Name, but I've come around a bit. I listened to it on a car trip recently, and it was a great, not-too-mellow antidote to driving boredom.

'Garcia' - Jerry Garcia

i really couldn't hang with the american flyer deal (there's a 2fer cd, right?) i returned it, waaaaaaaaaaay to MOR, and not in the good way (i really disliked the voices of the guys who aren't doug yule)

Fair enough. I thought the line up looked kinda interesting, but because of Yule mostly...

I just printed out this thread and added it to my binders full of suggested discogs of genres/styles I'll get to later in life. Thanks guys.

ha, that american flyer album is one i pull out at least once a year and say "'cmon, it's gotta be GOOD. How can it not be good?" And yet ...

It was a couple Dave Mason records I was surprised I liked that got me to reopen this thread in the first place, by the way. Does he fit in here?

Haven't heard his solo albums, but his work with Traffic fits a couple of streams of association with others mentioned on this thread. All that about Cowboy, and even Grinderswitch, because when I saw them on the same bill (Wha? That's the mid-70s for you), people were saying, "H'mm. Those boys sound lak Traffic." That's what they were saying about Cowboy; about Grinderswitch, they were saying, "YEEEEEEHAAAA!" (Soon after,Cowboy's Tommy Talton toured with Johnny Sandlin and Bill Stewart, mentioned in that bio Scott pasted upthread, and they did a week at a club not far from where I live. With local keyboardist Jabbo Stokes, they sounded like Jeff Beck with Stevie Wonder's band, though Jabbo wisely didn't try to sing like Stevie. I posted about this [and the recent all-star benefit for Scott Boyer, who also still has a band, the Decoys, in North Alabama] on Rolling Country, so will shut up about it now). The other stream of association is that Dave Mason also did an album with Cass Elliot, Alone Together, one of the best/most pertinent titles ever, ever, and Cass is also one mighty baby on the finally reissued proto-folk-rock Mugwumps album (Collector's Choice, but doesn't sound like poop this time, Scott!) This is true folk times rock, despite and yet somehow in part because of Cass's Tin Pan Alley fixations (she wanted to be Streisand? Anyway, she's taught herself to belt in tune, without overdoing that, like Ronstadt can)(But where are the *Stone Poneys* on this thread? "You and meee, we're marching to the beat of a *different* drum.") Southern children of this thread: Tift Merritt's Bramble Rose (re Ronstadt-Raitt-Larsen and the writers they covered), and some of her former backup musos are most of Chatham County Line, a great song band, if you don't mind a little bluegrass. They know their Zevon (and his collaborators), and thier Hunter/Garcia, their Randy Newman. Ditto Jason Isbell, finally out of the Truckers, but with them playing his way on his album, Sirens Of The Ditch (out Tues., and my review will be in Voice d'rectly). Currently listening to Johnny Irion's Ex Tempore, also featuring Tift and members of CCL, but more like the kind of orchestrated granola, not Thos. Jefferson Kaye (upthread), so much as the sort thing he exploited (produced for others and took sly piss out of on his own)

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Chatham County Line's second album (blanking on title) is a bit stiff, compared to the first and third (start with the latter, Speed Of The Whipoorwill). Also, more on the psych side, Oakley Hall's Gypsum Strings (shock of the Wilderness! But they're hardy folk); Howe Gelb's 'Sno Angel But You (good, despite the title)isn't orchestrated, but has a small choir, swooping like the wind across the plain and plane(but not too much), plus The Arcade Fire's drummer (and Howe's guitar and keyboards, and that's 'bout all they need).

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-- delta88, Saturday, July 7, 2007 5:24 AM

have you heard meg baird's (one of the espers gals) version of the waltze of the tennis players??? awesome stuff

also, never saw this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYQr8meeog&mode=related&search=

I finally picked up a copy of the Charley D and Milo record that Scott always talks about and yeah so blissful and pretty. I wasn't expecting it to be *that* pretty. What a super, super, album. Thanks Scott for the recommendation!

Listening to the Eagles "On The Border" right now. so awesome.

listening to this right now:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/48267.jpg

which, as far as i know, is just matthews southern comfort without matthew. someone tell me if i'm wrong. they apparently put out three albums on their own. and it's good too. no real decline in quality. lotsa nice harmonies.

i can't see the cover. I want to. I've never heard of or hear Southern Comfort without Iain. I want to, though.

whoops, sorry! i can't see it either. try this:

u.s./canada cover:

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/southerncomfort_frogcity_jefflp_may2006.jpg

u.k. cover:

http://991.com/newgallery/Southern-Comfort-Frog-City-380144.jpg

Frog City! what year did it come out?

I just spent the afternoon sunning & swimming w/my son, came home and put on Garden Party by Rick Nelson and am totally feeling that early-mid 70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock.

"what's up my mellow"

garden party is such a genius album. just jaw-dropping to me.

frog city came out in 71. so did later that same year. which was the last matthews southern comfort album.

i bought garden party not really knowing what to expect other than i liked the actual song garden party. god it just sounded so amazing and beautiful.