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

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.

I also just got the 2nd P F Sloan LP. I wish his records were easier to find, though this one was QUITE affordable.

http://wanderer.spb.ru/images/wanderer.w5720.big.jpg

Cleaned and then jammed out to the first side of this before work this morning.

And this one did the trick last night:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J8MRZERFL._SS500_.jpg

Slightly weaker than his debut. Kind of Neil Youngesque. David Lindley, Ben Keith, and of course David Crosby assist.

I just picked up a 2nd copy of "Gypsy Cowboy"--this one is for my pal.

Also, I mentioned it on the vinyl thread, but this '79 private I picked up the other day is KILLER. "Slain By An Angel" by Steve Haggard. No relation to Merle, as far as I can tell. Dedicated to Gram Parsons, with a full band that actually play really well together. Some dope fuzz leads on a few tracks.

I also just got the 2nd P F Sloan LP. I wish his records were easier to find, though this one was QUITE affordable.

I was just looking at Ace records website, and they've got a "Best of The Dunhill Years 1965-1967" Sloan comp in the pipeline. Maybe individual titles to come?

can't remember if i or anyone else mentioned this one, but it was born to be here, marlin greene's one and only album (i think) *Tiptoe Past The Dragon*. playing it now, i'd forgotten how great it was. such a beautiful stoned cowboy vibe. recorded in L.A. and Muscle Shoals, and Memphis. 1972. Elektra. so breezy and nice. and varied too with lots of great production touches. you can probably find it cheap too.

http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/marlin-g.jpg

oh i also picked up the third burrito brothers album the other day, but i haven't played it yet. the first parsons-less one.

another good one i picked up the other day:

http://www.soundfinder.jp/image_item/529143_1_30229190.jpg

moon martin's old band! good rural rock with nice guitars.

From a recent post on Rolling Country:

Dwight Yoakam just finished a good bandshell(good band, too) version of "No One Else Can Make Me Do The Things You Do," which made my Nash Scene Top Ten last year. Is his Buck And Be Proud album good? Just got through my first listen to reissue of Yellow Hand's s/t from 1970.They do a bunch of Stills and Young songs from a Buffalo Springfield album that never did come out, it sez here (so they're on the bootleg of Stampede?) I think Neil did release a later version of "Down To The Wire." That's the one where the four-part close harmonies kinda crowd me, plus they sound particularly in there between the Grassroots and Three Dog Night, just this combination of by-the-numbers and overemphasis. But, if you've got any tolerance for Stills early solo and Manassas stuff, this is mostly like that (still chunky harmonies, but with a touch of plaintiveness/querulousness to balance the manliness, and allowing the lyrics to come through just enough, so personality simulated, but dumb complaints and inspiration not heard too clearly)(also get Neil's sufficently stylish, punky bitchy folk-rock putdowns on "Sell Out)." And Delaney Bramlett/Mac Davis "God Knows I Love You," which coulda maybe shoulda been a hit for somebody. Also, the lead singer, Jerry Tawney, steps up front on some okay self-writs, and "My World Needs You" would be good for Gary Puckett. (After our recent exchange, I saw G.P. in an ad for Biloxi's Hard Rock Casino, with David Allan Coe and Stevie Nicks! All on different nights, dang it). Yellow Hand's drummer keeps rushing and then almost stumbling over the beat, and mostly they do seem more singers than players, but overall seems okay.

Last night on Tonight Show, Kathleen Edwards was not only totally cute, but a live ringer for one of my best friends, but her song was longwinded/monotonous Petty knockoff (later learned her new album is co-produced by Petty-associate Jim Scott, who brought in Benmont Tench, Don Heffington, Bob Glaub--which could be good with the right songs o course, but could easliy get merely retro). Still haven't heard the album, but right now she's doing a very vibrant set of songs from it on World Cafe (might be *some* older ones, but anyway so far so good--gotten away from her early Lucinda imitations, but obviously learned from that, and was good even when imitating, least on the ones I heard)

Now she's got this cool gliding thing behind cowboy-surf guitar, oooweee--uh oh, here we go into the one she overdid last night--

I just got Shawn Phillips Contribution and I'm really loving it. It's like half Dylan/McCartney folk-pop collabo, half ornate Tim Buckley shit. I need to just start buying everything on A&M from the 70s cause I haven't heard a bad thing yet.

There's lots of Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach for you to enjoy there.

1978 Chuck Mangione Children of Sanchez

1978 Styx Pieces of Eight

awesome

srsly alpert was a charitable dude doing hippie commune shit like Sweetwater

children of sanchez is some crazy shit. double lp mangione concept stuff.

i still need some of those late 70's shawn phillips albums. not that i'm in any hurry...but i'm curious. and i'm kinda curious about his mid-60's trad folk stuff too.

i like contribution and second contribution, but "L Ballade" is so much better to me than any other song on those albums. it really stands out.

Seems like I always see Shawn Phillips stuff in teh used bins. I've still got an unheard pile of this stuff from my last dollar digging adventure. Solo Ritchie Furay anyone?

What I've really been digging lately is Spirit and the Beau Brummels.

Anyone here ever check out Gene Vincent's LPs on Kama Sutra at the end of the sixties? The one I heard -- a S/T -- would fit in nicely on this thread. I never knew Gene "turned on" before checking out that particular LP, but the dude could bust out some hippie-roots-country-psych-vibes with the best of 'em.

they are both good. i think he made two albums around then? they've reissued one or both, i think.

i was just listening to john kay's contribution to country rock on dunhill! solo album. i don't know...maybe i should check out the second side. there must be at least a decent break beat on the thing.

shawn phillips "contribution" is probably my all time favorite album cover. great record too. i've got probably 3-5 other records of his and they're all pretty listenable.

he's got one though - Spaced - which is so different. it's pretty much a really spaced electronic jazz funk album. heavy drums and a few breaks. check this track (i've been meaning to put together a funky folk mix for a while and this song will be on there) http://matthewafrica.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-dont-want-to-leave.html There's also a dj shadow sample on the album.

actually, that's second contribution that i love the cover of
http://www.modernguitars.com/imagefiles/shawnphillips/SPSecondContribution1970.gif

he also played guitar on two of my favorite psych folk albums by italian Armando Piazza.

What's the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band record like? Something about it gave me bad vibes.

I do want to check out the Chris Hillman solo LPs though. I passed on a mid-price copy of Slippin' Away at the weekend. Is that one of his better albums?

i was just listening to john kay's contribution to country rock on dunhill! solo album. i don't know...maybe i should check out the second side. there must be at least a decent break beat on the thing.

i like his cover of "bold marauder," it's like a grim drinking song and appropriately blustery (john kay after all). that record overall is pretty bland, though.

What's the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band record like? Something about it gave me bad vibes.

The first one is decent. It's a little less country-rock than you'd think. All three were definitely dabbling the kind of jazzy Latin coke jams that Stills was all about by the mid '70s. If you haven't already, I'd dig into the Poco discog first, as well as Souther's first album, which has some pretty darn good moments.

Jaxon, I LOVE Shawn Phillips. Man, what a talent. I recently discovered that Helios Creed of Chrome name dropped Phillips when someone asked him about his singing style. I thought that was pretty cool. I wrote a piece on Phillips for the Cleveland Scene. He's an interesting dude. He lives in South Africa, where's he an ocean paramedic/rescue type person. He does all kinds of dangerous stunts to save people. He's in great shape for his age. I would link to the piece, but alas, it was published before the recent sale of the paper, so the archive is no longer online.

"I passed on a mid-price copy of Slippin' Away at the weekend. Is that one of his better albums?"

slippin' away is good. so is clear sailin'.

the albums i never play are his desert rose band records. i've got a few of them.

i think i have the first souther-hillman-furay album. i think... can't remember much about it.

i don't have any of the mcguinn/clark.hillman albums either.

and no i don't own the hillmen record or the scottsdale squirrel barkers album either.

i do own a cool record on, i think, crown records, called *the 12 string story* featuring an instrumental by a young jim mcguinn though.

new Giant Sand, proVision, on Yep Roc (Sept.2), with Gelb's Danish friends from his Arizona Amp project, plus Neko Case, Isobell Campbell, M. Ward. Dancier than I'd ever expected of a Gelb thang, in a ghost town way. Not bad atall.

I meant to post about the family of apostolic earlier but then I got distracted tracking down that lambert & nuttycombe album.

christian psych-folk-rock from '68 that is pretty reet. the guy behind it put the whole thing up for download:
http://www.astrococktail.com/familyofapostolic.html

reading about it now I guess it was east coast not west coast? it sounded west coast to me tho.

the only howe gelb thing i own is the OP8 album with lisa germano. i like that album a lot. i've never even HEARD a giant sand record.

so many of scotts posts consist of him exclaiming how he has never heard anything by anybody.

nuh uh, i've heard lots of stuff.

who's that other neil young guy, doug whatshisname, i've never heard one of those either. i saw him live on HBO though.

henning.

doug marsch? (SP??)

kershaw?

i've never heard a sebadoh album either.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/mattlore/CP-10-DougHenningB.jpg

danny did i tell you that thurston and j mascis came into the record store here and all they bought were leon russell albums. they've been reading this thread and now they are trying to be all cool.

according to you you haven't heard anything..except what you have heard

they are goin backwards from obsxkuritysts to fanciers of piano men..it will never make them cool..bigger nerds yes..but not cool..i love leon tho

julia cafritz and kim came in and all they wanted was a caravan album.

"I'm gonna need a stepladder to reach that Leo Sayer record"
http://www.groundcontroltouring.com/CAT/thurstonmoore/gallery/Promo/thurston1.jpg

John Stewart! "Gold"!!

danny did i tell you that thurston and j mascis came into the record store here and all they bought were leon russell albums. they've been reading this thread and now they are trying to be all cool.

It's about time indie rock started giving Leon some hipster handshakes.