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

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.

Which Leon(s) did they get? I bet Kings Of Leon's name is a tribute to him. I never heard that Asylum Choir album with the logo on toilet paper, but the other one I liked at the time, esp. "Down On The Base," good song to hear in a trailer in a military town. Didn't like his Hank Wilson albums, he sounded like he was chewing his beard too much. Say, I don't think of Giant Sand and/or Howe Gelb as a "Neil Young guy," cos he might get sentimental, but no pathos. Neil is more like the gentle Chet Baker simpleton with a brane upload (yes, Charly on the upswing).

i recently heard leon's "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" and fell in love, then realized i'd just sold that LP because i never listened to it. sounds like a weirdo electro dr john with crazy gospel screaming in the background

What album was that?! (oh yeah, think the spelling is "Doug Martsch"? Anyway, te Built To Spill)

both he and leo sayer did "high wire"..it was on th soundtrack to my theatrical role in Ridgefields Theater production of Hot L Baltimore..the whole play was scored to Sayer.

http://digilander.libero.it/ciao.2001/images/manifesti/m_leon_russell.JPG

Leon as Hotty http://img.skitch.com/20080402-4p6nufcffyjgxxj9a8uerhsu.preview.jpg

don

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/drc600/c655/c65571av4p5.jpg

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/mcguinnessflint.jpg

This is a fun record, a cross between early Traffic, the Band and some Stephen Stills-type moves

okay, now i'm gonna sound like a total country rock nerd, but benny gallagher and graham lyle were in mcguinness flint with, um, mcguiness and flint, and i actually like their albums better. which they recorded under the name...wait for it...gallagher and lyle!

I always get them mixed up with McKendree Spring. I don't know why. I 've never heard either of them.

I've heard both bands! see, my brother is wrong about me not hearing things.

mckendree spring were more jazzyprog. plus: ELECTRIC VIOLA. but good too. the first album is really good.

I second the Michael Nesmith rec. from way above (from four years ago). I recently stumbled upon Nevada Fighter (from 1971). It's really shockingly great and, like everyone says, nothing at all like the Monkees. I didn't even know he went country. Per wikipedia he along with Gram Parsons "is considered one of the pioneers of country-rock." Is he actually considered this? I knows I don't believes everything I read on Wikipedia and I've never heard that before.

so have we really not talked about William Truckaway yet on this thread ?? His album has been in heavy rotation for the last year or so since I picked it up (thanks Neil.) It's fucking amazing , mebbe not so much country, but certainly some sort of 'post-psych' poppy folk, or maybe poppy 'post-folk' 70s Psych ,,, not sure .. but the album ("Breakaway") completely rules. Why is NMH the only champ at this point?? but as always he picks a winner

Mountain Bus? we never talked about 'em ? I *finally* got the Akarma 2lp .. the mofo went out of print a while back. Oh sure, I had that EVA cd for ages... but I wanted to hear the *unreleased* material for the best private Dead-fan band of the 60s. Cambridge would be the 70s, right? their album totally rules too, all thanks to Skot.

but god, this Mountain Bus album ..

Mountain Bus "Rider" >>>>>> Dead "Rider" ... **EXCEPT** for those early '67/'68 Riders before the stupid China Cat medley ... back when Jerry was a completely amphetamine fueled strafe-bomber .. THEN, yes, the Dead's "Rider" was of course better ...

i actually think the cambridge album is perfect. every song is great. is there a cambridge reissue?????? i was actually gonna put it up on this thread as an MP3, cuz i didn't think most people had heard it.

Hehe, I went bought two Shawn Phillips lps yesterday: Second Contribution and Furthermore. Haven't listened to 'em yet tho.

http://www.gregsgrooves.com/imagesm-r/russellleon_carney.jpg

Not from Cali, but since Leon was mentioned up thread I thought I'd throw this out there. This is one weird-ass album. It's got swampy rn'b stomps like Out in the Woods, cracked psych ramblings like Acid Annapolis, and some very classic songs such as This Masquerade, Tightrope, Roller Derby, Magic Mirror. Not all of the thing works, I find Acid Annapolis hard to sit thorough, but enough does click that you ought to check it out.

It's one of my favorite covers too.