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

Stealin Home isn't that good, man. I'm pretty shocked you hadn't picked up a dollar bin copy ten years ago!

i waited until today. i can wait for most things. and i actually paid two dollars for it today!

I don't listen to much Iain/Ian after 1974's Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You.

I recently snagged a copy of If You Saw Thro' My Eyes from 1971. The title track is a duet w/Sandy Denny, and it's gorgeous.

I just finished reading Hotel California. When addressing the Eagles' major influences Hoskyns dropped the ball by not mentioning Iain. They took a lot from him.

i think i already went over what ian/southern comfort albums i like on this thread. so i won't repeat myself. for two bucks i don't mind listening to later lesser stuff.

okay, i can see you not liking stealin' home, ian, but jaxon would really dig it! totally smoooooove el-lay loverman stuff. i like this kind of thing.

I'm listening to Amelia Earhart album by Plainsong as I type this...

Although I don't know if somebody who rocks as hard as Fogerty would be right for this thread. Talking about him on a thread devoted to Poco soundalikes is like being the token greaser in the Haight-Ashbury. But then again, that's kinda what Fogerty was about!

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Also, the home of all those coked-up canyon rats, Asylum, released two of Fogerty's records in the '70s.

They only put out one John Fogerty album. The followup, Hoodoo, remains mostly unreleased (although a single came out).

Asylum also had the Dictators, who are as far from the Eagles and Jackson Browne as one can get.

Still, my only point is that Fogerty and CCR totally fit here. They were from California and very much reflected that fact. Although they weren't part of the Haight-Ashbury scene, the way their music created this Bayou myth is just like the Charlatans creating their neo-Victorian image and the Eagles whipping up their desperado thing. What's more, CCR/Fogerty were very much helping invent roots rock/Americana/country along with the Burritos, Poco, Dead, Little Feat, etc.

Hell, even "the dude" listens to CCR.

You can listen to the Bobby and the Dorks recordings here: http://www.jerryradio.com/downloads/DD-70-12-20-MP3/

Bobby and the Dorks was Crosby, Garcia, Lesh and Hart playing some club gigs around the Bay Area in 1970. They do an awesome version of "Cowboy Movie," off Crosby's debut solo album.

Seeing Scott's comments about "el-lay loverman stuff" reminded me that I've never followed up my post from way the hell upthread about Emitt Rhodes. A few months back I finally happened into a vinyl copy of Farewell To Paradise, his last set for Dunhill. Dude was definitely heading in that direction. Is it just me, or was he actually getting better as he went on? I know most people (including the manager of the shop I got it from) swear by the self titled debut, but I feel his playing on FTP is tighter and more varied than on his previous "one man band" efforts, giving off the illusion that other people were in on the session. Not to mention that his songwriting was more eclectic then it had been since the Merry-Go-Round era. Too bad there wasn't an immediate follow-up, altough though Rhodes may have been too far gone by that point. His liner notes are painfully earnest about "how hard it is to do this" and so on.

I've not investigated anything by Emitt Rhodes beyond the Merry-Go-Round cd that Rev-Ola issued a few years ago, and I loved that. Are any of his Dunhill LPs on CD at all?

Farewell To Paradise is, I've got a copy...prolly hard to find, though...certainly worth it, less Macca-esque than his earlier stuff...

The Rhodes Dunhill albums were out on CD from One-Way, but are long OOP. Both Varese Sarabande and Edsel have done best of's (the edsel one even has all the tracks from the s/t album), but whaddaya know, they are also OOP.

*Paging Hip-O Select*

No not Hip-0 Select, Emmit Rhodes should be in print longer than a month... (I only have the s/t plus a single of "Really Wanted You," myself.)

...maybe Sundazed should be the ones reissuing Emitt Rhodes, not some label like Hip-O Select or Rhino Handmade who will only have it around for a day.

"His liner notes are painfully earnest about "how hard it is to do this" and so on."

those were rough years for him!

Not a lot of competition in the one-man-band field those days, I would imagine. Rundgren & McCartney and who else?

Wasn't he contracted to produce a new album of materia every six months, or something ridiculous like that? Hard to do on your own.

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http://www.onemanband.org/omb-photo/one_man_band-aeroclube-stage.jpg

Er, that should have been 'material'. Obviously.

Not a lot of competition in the one-man-band field those days, I would imagine. Rundgren & McCartney and who else?

Stevie Wonder and John Fogerty (Blue Ridge Rangers).

Well, Fogerty was still a year or two away from making "solo" records, wasn't he? (And Stevie needed somebody to play bass, or at least program his Moog to do so.)

Isn't Emmit's Farewell LP from '73? Well, so was Fogerty's Blue Ridge Rangers record, which he played and sang everything on, so he was definitely in the one-man band competition.

Hmmm, you're probably right - I'm only familiar with the self-titled album. Maybe I've got the chronology wrong.

Your're both right. There's overlap, but Rhodes started his one-man band in 1970, if I'm not mistaken.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/393407.jpg

Does anybody know if the Longbranch Pennywhistle record has ever been reissued? I've never heard it.

Okay, they weren't from the West Coast, they were from the UK, but if Christie's "Yellow River" ain't a country rock classic, then Linda Ronstadt has hair on her teeth. The album of the same name wasn't much, but the song itself is what 1970-era Byrds SHOULD have sounded like.

I don't get the Hip-O Select hate. Haven't they only sold out of, what, like one title so far during their existence? Although yes it probably would be better if Sundazed or Rev-Ola handled the Rhodes solo joints.

I don't hate Hip-O Select (or Rhino Handmade) per se, I guess it's just the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't aspect that fucks with me. But if you say Hip-O has only sold out of one title, then I believe you. I just figured both of these labels' catalogs were only available for a short period of time.

A few months back I finally happened into a vinyl copy of Farewell To Paradise... Is it just me, or was he actually getting better as he went on?

Hmmmmmm, the more rocking stuff on that album is kinda boring to me, the ballads are nice, some of his best songs are definitely on that album tho

I listened to Emitt Rhodes and Mirror again this afternoon. Both solid, with some good rockers on the latter ("Really Wanted You" just screams 'hit single')

Now Playing:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/315F1A2TR4L._SS500_.jpg

So great. It's like mash-up of Astral Weeks and Histoire de Melody Nelson coated with nice dash of LA grime.

RFI: any suggestions of stuff in the vein of the L.A. Getaway album? next time i DJ i want to build a set around that particular sound. i know about some of the more well known artists but i'm looking to add in some more obscure (run, surmounter!) music from that same style.

this thread makes me angry coz i still can't find that d@mn corbett & hirsh album! I suspect I'll be posting the same thing every three months until 2011...

well, according to amazon, the tags associated with that LA Getaway album are:

classic rock (95)
john mayer (66)
taylor hicks (65)
definitive 200 (62)
white stripes (62)
david gilmour (47)
american idol (46)
pink floyd (45)
rock (42)
squeeze (1)

the gospel, blues rock immediately makes me think of the Band although they don't really sound all that much alike. and maybe a bit of the Terry Melcher s/t album

man i just love that john phillips album mentioned in the original post
been listening to that and the first crosby album over and over, perfect for the warm weather

i still can't find that d@mn corbett & hirsh album!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mike-Corbett-Jay-Hirsh-Rock-Vinyl-LP-Record_W0QQitemZ260224098283QQihZ016QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

Thanks. I was really hoping to get it digitally and not pay this much, but I think it's probably worth the hassle for me by now.

Anyway, about LA Getaway, haven't thought it through, but what about Bobby Whitlock's self-titled album? Maybe a little too southern fried.

Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard

^^^^^is this good? i love the cover art haha

gonna pick up that Country Funk re-issue, sounds very buffalo springfield

i have the album. it's just ok. pretty Byrds-y. need to rescreen it

Other Music has a couple of samples up, totally hits my sweet spot

As above, what comes to mind re L.A. Getaway is like Grin & Crazy Horse & such. The Carp album with Gary Busey gets into that territory a little bit, too.

fyi: very good album that you can probably find cheap and that belongs on this thread (and i can't remember if i mentioned it here before):

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

redeye (1971 - pentagram records)

hadn't played it in a while and put it on the other day and if anything i like it more than ever. great guitars. great harmonies. cool poppy tunes with a western/cali vibe.

sorry, 1970.

and i REALLY need their second album. that one came out in 1971. i figure i'll find one eventually.

the one lone rateyourmusic review pretty much says it all:

"Stoned cowboy music similar to the Bead Game or a more psychedelic America, this one is a minor classic. They must've pressed a shitload of these, as factory sealed copies still show up for 10 bucks or so. Heads'll approve of the grass related subject matter on many of the tunes, and squares'll dig the CSN inspired harmonies, so really, for 5 or 10 you can't go wrong, can you?"

That one just plain *looks* like a winner. Potheadedness is generally a plus with this kind of music.

Do you guys know THE MUSKRATS "Progressive Country" LP? That one rules. I have a UK press, not sure if the band was Brtiish or not.. Good stuff. Nice harmonies.