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

Scott you HAVE to hear this I know you will love it

I was shocked at how great it is, honestly. Been playing it nonstop.

scott where are youuuuuuuuu

Has anybody else heard Pat Boone's Departure from '69? It's his "down w/the young people" baroque troubadour folk album (covers of Fred Neil, John Stewart, Biff Rose, Loudermilk and TIM BUCKLEY) produced by Jerry Yester (?) w/LA session cats all over the place. I found copy at a flea market recently and gave a listen yesterday. It's pretty good, albeit a little overproduced (particularly on one of the Stewarts--"Never Going Back"--but that's the track that skips on mine so hey.) The Buckley one--"Song of The Siren"--is great, aside from a little pirate talk from Pat at the beginning. AMG sez the sets never been on cd.

During the same trip I also picked up the two 70s efforts from Austin's Greezy Wheels (s/t aka "Juz loves dem ol' Greezy Wheels" & Radio Radials) which fit under this threads banner quite well in a jazzy sort of way.

i have a greezy wheels album, but i don't even remember what it sounds like. i'll try it again.

so, i made a tape sung to the tune of this thread, but i just gotta find it and put it on the interweb. a mix of stuff that i've ranted about on here.

please do!

Also, The Flame album (that Shakey posted above) is still available for d/l and it's definitely worth a listen.

^^^haha I was just about to ask...

i will get to it. i've been busy!

what do you have a store to run or something

i think this is one of the best ever ILM threads. sentiment expressed in the OP sums it up basically wrt my interest in this stuff now. so weird how i know that i've been exposed to this stuff before but ignored/hated on/passed over it for all these years. fortunately here is this goldmine of a thread for me to search through

word i've been fishing around in this thread lately too

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.

^^kinda one of the truer things ever said on ilm

yup

what i like about jax and also ian is those dudes are so invaluable in their knowledge of music and so generous in their appreciation. the most positive music dudes on the board imo.

n/h

I've been getting into that Phil Sawyer album which is on teh blogs atm (i guess due to it being reissued)

May be that i'm more inclined to get into it coz it's AUSSIE, but there's some gorgeous stuff on it imo.

cool!

funny thing is i already have a whole lot of this stuff. couple years ago i went on a few trips w/ buddies to some library surplus stores and bought TONS of it, pretty much all of which has sat on my shelves until recently. love love love how so much of this stuff is widely available and cheap

listening to ned doheny debut on asylum. i guess they were hoping for another jackson browne. it's nice though. VERY light and mellow el lay southern/folk/jazz/rock. very california.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 January 2008 22:37 (1 year ago)

liking this lately.

have i talked about that Robert Byrne album on here? Blame It On The Night? doesn't exactly fit here, but I think people here would dig it. Byrne was a big country songwriter (who died not that long ago i think of an OD or something) and this album was his one solo shot. Came out in 1979 and was almost immediately pulled by Mercury. unfortunately, the only cd issue of it is a pricy japanese version. their westcoast love knows no bounds. and the byrne album is big in their canon. it skirts/invades yacht rock territory, but it's just such a smooth El Lay blend of great songwriting/production. and it was recorded in muscle shoals, cuz that's where byrne did his work. so, El Lay by way of Alabama. and it's not country at all. despite byrne being a highly paid and highly successful country writer. you can probably find it on a blog or something. yer gonna have to be a smooooooth 70's fan to dig it though. just so you know.

http://rs442.rapidshare.com/files/148571954/Robert_Byrne___1979__Blame_it_on_the_night.Cult_AOR.mp3.rar

sorry:

http://rs442.rapidshare.com/files/148571954/Robert_Byrne_-__1979__Blame_it_on_the_night.Cult_AOR.mp3.rar

i've been digging the Jamme album this week. merseybeat cowboy hat pop produced by john phillips (and terry melcher) mostly in 1968, but only released by dunhill in 1972! so, someone buying it in 1972 might have suffered some small flashbacks. sounds really good to me now though. they were an actual band, but the album ends up being a mishmash of band members and people like larry knechtel and jim gordon. you can read the convoluted story here:

http://www.myspace.com/jammeclassics

oh, and Rockin' Foo, i've been playing them this week. Rockin' Foo definitely belong here. i got there 2nd album on Uni. both Rockin' Foo albums are self-titled, i think. the one on Hobbit and the one on Uni. anyway, they were cool. and rural and all that.

and, i've been playing Marrying Maiden by It's A Beautiful Day. that one has Jerry all over it. playing pedal steel and banjo.

and, i've been playing two records on the Evolution label. one by Game and the other by Steel River. I was gonna sell the Steel River album, but i dig it.

david crosby solo album is fantastic. jerry's on that one a little too. wish there'd been another one during that era

i got a copy of the Rockin' Foo LP on Hobbit a couple years back but it didn't do much for me. In fact i found it kinda painful to listen to. Certainly no Plain Jane! but, I always did wonder why there was an album on Uni that was also self-titled. Wasn't sure if it was a second issue of the Hobbit album or what..

found a sealed copy of the Mike Corbitt & Jay Hirsch lp at the record fair on Saturday. 10 bucks, not that bad. still holding out for a reasonably priced Mr. Flood's Party sometime in my lifetime.

haven't seen any mention of sixto rodriguez here. totally worth people's time
http://www.myspace.com/rodriguezsugarman
he's from detroit via mexico, so doesn't really count, but sort of does, too

here's a case of me underrating something that i now really dig: the Farquahr album on elektra. or maybe it just fits my mood right now. i like jerry ragovoy's big booming production, and the harmonies are great. "hanging on by a thread" is a killer song too. plus, how can you not enjoy a well-crafted folk/country rock album made by four guys named Barnswallow, Hummingbird, Condor, and Flamingo Farquahr?

it makes me want to hear the 60's Fabulous Farquahr album on Verve. anyone have that? same dudes, i think. less country, as far as i can tell from descriptions.

imported from Rolling Country (our discussion of early frontrunners ofr Top Ten:
Chris Darrow's twofer, s/t with Under My Own Disguise. from the early 70s, post- or late-psychedelic folk/country rock I'd say: he reaps the whirlwind, under inpenterable cloud cover, but re-orientation is no prob: dense but clear, as xgau said of Meltzer's best writing, And no up-in-lights oh wow factor, cause no lights. Lots of stuff going on, but mainly what gets me is voice-keyboards-bass-drums in the pocket, like on Fotheringay 2, Jessi Colter's Out Of The Ashes, Tell Tale Signs (and some other Dylan tracks, much older than Tell Tale Signs' outtakes, like "Ballad of a Thin Man"/"Dear Landlord"/"Down Along The Cove"/"If Dogs Run Free"/"Dirge") Vocally, a bit like Michael Nesmith, but this guy can hold a note as long as he wants to, and flex it too (might be some of that Middle Eastern in his alma mater, Kaleidoscope, but he always sounds like a cowboy, incl in UK with maybe some of the same people on Fotheringay 2, come to think of it-- although some of the "UK" vibe turns out to be from the L.A. sessions, and vice versa)
-dow

for some reason it really bothers me that jason doesn't like manassas

thread definitely needs more love for manassas

ooh, i LOVE the s/t Chris Darrow record. I haven't heard the other one though, so maybe this twofer will be a rare CD i will buy.

got this recently, it's really good:

http://users.skynet.be/fa388247/windmills.jpg

The Darrow reissue is on vinyl too, but it is $$$.

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7166/32447762.jpg

has Morning been mentioned yet on this thread? it's sort of a side project of Jay Donnellan, who played guitar with Love's second lineup, and Jim Hobson, who played keyboards on Love's Out Here album. I've only listened to the s/t album a couple times, but at its best the band comes across as a very drowsy CSNY, or a hipster honky-tonk act along the lines of the Flying Burrito Bros. (circa their third album) & some of Chris Hillman's other extra-Byrds projects. afaik the s/t (and the follow-up, which I haven't heard) has never been reissued, and it seems to only exist on a couple obscuro mp3 blogs.

i'd like to apologize to the new riders of the purple sage for not mentioning them more on this thread. or maybe they are too well known and obvious? listening to Gypsy Cowboy just now...man, is there a song as cool as "death and destruction"?

i like the two rick roberts albums i have. they are good and he also had a hand - like ned doheney - in making other cali people's records cool.

and speaking of rick roberts, other than the burrito brothers he's best known for starting firefall. but i don't think i own any firefall albums. you'd think i would have, like, five of them.

i bid on that Morning album once on ebay. got outbid.

i kinda wish there were some japanese people on this thread so i could talk to them about david riordan albums and ask them what the deal is with that warehouse sound company & friends album that he had a hand in.

no offense to the people already here of course you are all lovely...

oh but i do like some of the dfa/lcd stuff. and that is rocker dance, no? mostly i fell in love with the yeah single. that thing was just undeniable.

whoops wrong thread.

Any love for Chip Taylor's Last Chance? does it even belong here? Very cool country-rock record......

Christgau on Frummox:

FRUMMOX: Here to There (Probe) Pretentious cowboy music? Yes, pretentious cowboy music. C MINUS

This record is fine imho and would probably be enjoyed by many of you.

i think only christgau stans, all 53 of them, should ever listen to what that dude says

christgau is my reliable bizarro critic. kinda like david denby. if they don't like it, chances are, i will. and if they really like it, i stay away.

the dude pioneered the negative snark style of writing about music & even shit he likes he's gotta zing. it's pretty weak and cowardly imo. i don't want to turn this thread into talking about that, though.

Yeah, let's continue to talk about entertaining stoner cowboys:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/itsaboutmusic/early-poco.jpg

yer right, proceed.

i found the tape mix i made for this thread! now i just gotta upload it to da web.

(x-post)

And like how I finally broke down and bought that Illinois Speed Press album (the first one) that had been taunting me for months on end at the used record store, then filed it and forgot about it cause I was tired when I got home that day, eventually getting around to playing it and after all that not really feeling it at all.

yes! i was just going to ask about that mix!