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

colin blunstone, one year and ennismore. ok, he's not exactly from the west coast, but his first two solo albums could've been. zombines fans consider one year his peak, but ennismore features "i don't believe in miracles," one of my fave pop songs of the era.

and i'll second don's nomination of west-coast-in-spirit rosanne cash, especially for seven year ache and its amazing title track, even if it did come out a bit later (1981) than most of the stuff being talked about here.

personally, i find him to be one of the best guitarists to walk the face of the earth, equally for his skill as his non-showiness. some of his fingerpicking work blows my mind six ways from sunday. also he is hott, writes amazing songs, and his crazy production work never fails to impress my small brane.

thomas jefferson kaye's "first grade" is this album on dunhill, about '73 i think. "american lovers" is a great song, written by becker and fagen. kaye wrote "one man band" covered by three dog night, and he does a version on this album, which is pretty obscure. xgau liked it a lot--that's where i learned about it. worth finding.

moby grape's "21 granite creek" and "truly fine citizen" are worth tracking down on LP; "truly fine" is not avail. on cd; "21" is only avail. on one of those lousy matthew katz san fran sound reissues. they're both somewhat underrated examples of this sound.

I found this book absolutely fascinating. Hoskyns sets himself up as something of an outsider to it all (no surprise that) but accumulated enough first-hand info that it reads in many places almost as an oral history. I was gripped by it, but my tastes don't sync well with most ILMers, so YMMV.

Bizarre but true, this is Linda Perhacs's story. And it's a story that keeps getting better. She's writing again and finding "floods of new material" coming forth. There's a new album to come later this year, 35 years after her first, Parallelograms, and among the contributors will be Devendra Banhart, one of the much-celebrated young alternative folkies who claim Perhacs as inspiration and have been singing her praises in interviews for several years.

I finally listened to New Riders' xpost Lyceum '72 all the way through last night---72 minutes, I think---after a couple of interrupted but already mostly pleasurable attempts, and Marmaduke nowhere on here sounds like xpost defective Garcia clone, although he can sound Garcia-like, not quite pulling off some of the extended ballads of pathos like JG could, and there are a few too many of these in this set---but then he pushes against the bounds of the song, the bounds of discretion, as a cowtown survivor had better not do, in "Dirty Business," which goes on and builds for eight minutes, led by him and Buddy Cage, whose steel guitar is always a treat---whole band is ready for all the uptempo stuff too, "I Don't Need No Doctor," "Willie and the Hand Jive," "Hello Mary Lou"---though I wish that lead guitarist David Nelson had sung a few leads, considering his crisp vocals in the post-Marmaduke etc, line-up I heard*.

Anyroad, today Omnivore announced a flash sale on all three of their live NR sets:

Tuesday, June 20 through Thursday, June 22, Field Trip (CD / 2-LP), Thanksgiving In New York (2-CD / 3-LP), and Lyceum ’72 (CD) will be available for 50% off.
...Titles are limited to stock on hand, so there are no rain checks, but you can order as many copies as fit in your cart. Speaking of carts, please don’t add any preorders of new titles in there, as that will delay your order and you’ll miss out on the sale pricing.

So, Ride on and add some classic New Riders Of The Purple Sage to your collection.

Please note, the prices you'll see in the webstore will have the discount already applied to them.

*My preview when they played Columbus oh in '09:

New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jerry Garcia and singer/picker David Nelson’s pre-Dead country adventures morphed into New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Nelson, with Garcia’s steel guitar successor, Buddy Cage (survivor of Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks) reformed New Riders in 2005, recruiting Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano, plus two from self-stamped “swamp groove“ unit Stir Fry, bassist Ronnie Penque and drummer Johnny Markowski. NRPS roll deft jams and tight tunes, many recently written with Garcia collaborator Robert Hunter, who keeps Riders swirling around a “Barracuda Moon,” and curtly invokes the difference between a bad loan/And a debt.” Nelson’s subtly Dylanesque delivery underscores such lines with dry wit. Expect their aromatic hit, “Panama Red.”
07/27 @ Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W Third Ave. ,8 p.m

Here's a playlist I made that's a replica of a 2006 Ace / Big Beat CD comp:

Country & West Coast: The Birth of Country Rock

some of the tracks weren't available, so i had to improvise, but it's 95% the same.

Thanks!! Outlaws and Armadillos is another that could do with playlist tweak, not nec. re availability issues, but as xgau said, some of it is right artists, wrong tracks.

i haven't listened to this one in a long time. there is good stuff on it. sounds way better on vinyl. i mean, it would sound better than rando youtube upload. but if you see a cheap copy maybe pick it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-W142qnsk

Will check, thanks. I once went out with a girl who said that her mother dated noted rock musician "Donnie" Preston---dunno if she meant this guy or the one who worked with Zappa (back then I thought there was just the latter, so Donnie was him, farm out!)
Numero is having a Pre-Father's Day Sale, including the xxxxxxxxxpost comp Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music, which is what Gram Parsons called his approach, scorning the tag "country rock," AKA "plastic dry-fuck," in his taxonomy. These early adopters are complete unknowns to me, and I haven't listened yet, but what the hell, it's all here on Bandcamp, where vinyl and CD are Sold Out, though Numero site may have more, unless sold out since sale announcement,which I just got today)(also note links to other Wayfaring and Seafaring releases on here)
https://wayfaringstrangers.bandcamp.com/album/wayfaring-strangers-cosmic-american-music