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

"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

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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.

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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.

So yet anotherJohn Phillips comp hit the racks a few weeks ago. The core of this one is original mixes of tracks from Pay, Pack, and Follow, his lost Stones-assisted set. I never got around to picking up the original reissue, so I have no grounds to base it on vs. the new /old mixes. Anybody heard it?

BTW, the British branch of Rhino Encore recently dropped new editions of Bobby Charles (his Band-assisted lp from '72) and the first JD Souther album. I got the Bobby Charles album online for about 10 bucks. It's pretty good, perhaps a tad bit too mellow. I need to listen to it some more before I make a final judgement.

Speaking of ex-Mamas & Papas, I just got turned on to this Denny Doherty LP called "Whatcha Gonna Do." It's some great country rock. Less of a wasted/decadent vibe than "Wolfking."

I'm loving all this Sutherland Bros stuff. Just bought Lifeboat on ebayy, I think I like Dream Kid more though.

be there or be square:

Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur
Katharine Cornell Theater
Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM

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special appearance by the ghost of mel lyman!

who says he's dead? ;)

no maria no credibility.

Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis is totally into this vibe on her fine new 2nd solo album, Acid Tongue

Anybody know anything about "Bill Dave & Mary" and their record Transition?

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bought Frog City today. it is fucking awesome!

meant to post a link to this mix here and forgot to:

Skot's Sexy 70's Mix For Sailors, Searchers, and Seers

just cuz i think there is some crossover and such with this thread. for instance, the Sand song i put on this mix. totally hard to pick one song from their album cuz they all rule. great mix of poco/countryrock and ruralprogjam/westcoastjam stuff a la gypsy/wishbone ash/etc. (sand album the only album i own that is a two album set with two one-sided records.)

(um, this sand not being the krautrock one or the cool krautelectrojazz one that with that great album on souljazz. this one being the hippie one with a picture of a sandy sandwich on the cover of their album.)

okay, "aereoplane" is growing on me serious style.

"he used to bring home from HIGH SCHOOL"

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.