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

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I was gonna look for a 'California rock' thread yesterday and this pops up! While placed on hold I heard Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love" for probably the 1,000,000th time and it just clicked all of a sudden, great song, and I LOVE this sound(i've worn out Suzi Quatro's "Stumblin In" for a few years now). Or is this too soft for the thread? ILM has barely mentioned her, I'm looking for her first album in any case.

― tremendoid, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard for the first time this week and getting all mellow with the Linda Perhacs' record Parallelograms - seek this out for Cali mellow pop psych - fo sur'

― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

what's the deal with this?! http://www.lindaperhacs.com/pages/press.html

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.

― jaxon, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN IS EVERYONE GONNA GET ON THE GODDAMN POCO BANDWAGON WITH ME!!!??? JEEZUS, *A GOOD FEELIN' TO KNOW* FRIGGIN' PWNZ HALF THE SHIT MENTIONED ON THIS THREAD. okay, i'll stop shouting.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

the best group on this thread is SPIRIT, whose best album is FEEDBACK.

linda perhacs is OK, but carole king / joni mitchell are better!!!

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Perhacs nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

― admrl, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so fucking down with Poco, especially after I recently heard the first record blasted over a club PA. In fact the first three or four have some really great tunes. but you know what i like even better? the first two pure prairie league records. yes, they're from ohio. but man, that's some great country-rock.

― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

ILM IS ALL LIKE HMMMM I RILLY LIKE NEIL YOUNG AND I RILLY LIKE COUNTRY ROCK HMMM WHAT SHOULD I LISTEN TO??? POCO MOTHERFUCKER POCO!!!

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

quantum noise is on the chuckwagon. good to hear. YER EITHER ON THE CHUCKWAGON OR YER OFF OF IT!

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

poco-wise, i can vouch for everything up to and including crazy eyes:

# 1969 Pickin' Up the Pieces
# 1970 Poco
# 1971 Deliverin'
# 1971 From The Inside
# 1972 A Good Feelin’ To Know
# 1973 Crazy Eyes

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

but Almost Famous made me think I would hate them

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

next mix i post on ilm i'll do a countryrock/stonedcowboy/countryfolkrockpop mix.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

ooooh bring it

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes, a mix!

i've picked up some gems recently:

charley d and mile LP (i learned about it on one of ilm's country-rock/west coast threads): country jangle, with red rhodes on pedal steel.

also, the first three, four, five (i can't remember) nitty gritty dirt albums are pretty damn good, especially the one with "mr. bojangles." their version of buddy holly's "rave on" is like west coast, country-glam. great guitar sound.

muleskinner CD: holy crap. it's like the amped-up, stoner-future bluegrass SHOULD have had back in the early 70s. furious playing. massive production. clarence white picking. sweet.

― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are so unbelievably great

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

*Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy* and *Symphonion Dream* are my fave Nitty Gritty Dirt Band albums. Both from the early 70's. I like the 60's stuff too though.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I lean towards the 70s stuff, as my intro to them was "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

There's a restaurant in my town called Firefall Grill. Sadly, their commercials feature no Firefall music.

That's a shame because hearing "Goddamn, girl, can't you see? I sure do love this roasted beef..." on the radio would make my day.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I've been digging the two West albums I bought recently. country/folk/pop produced by Bob Johnston. But I think they are both late-60's so forget i mentioned them on this thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/dantiques/38000b/38839.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I bumped another thread recently to tell everyone that the Willis Alan Ramsey album is pretty damn righteous. please search ASAP.

Any love for Jonathan Edwards..."honky tonk stardust cowboy"? not bad!

― Johnny Hotcox, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

When did the first Nashville West album come out? It's maybe outside your time frame but you still need to hear it. Clarence White's guitar playing is so good on that record. One of my favorite performances ever.

― leavethecapital, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

i keep forgetting about the west coast angle of this thread. i don't know what this thread is about anymore. it has made me put on lots of country/goodtime/boogie/folk-rock albums tonight though.

now playing:

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jaxon, wherever he is, DEFINITELY needs that first Thomas Jefferson Kaye record on Dunhill. It's basically a country-rock Steely Dan album. Becker & Fagen are all over it. Gary Katz produced. really good. Even Xgau liked it and he hates everything I like. Mostly:

"Like the Triumvirate album he produced for John Hammond, Mike Bloomfield, and Dr. John, Kaye's debut was sensually laid-back, with a sly intelligence he hoped to pass off as an active relationship with his environment. But this one stands beside Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard as a critique of the laid-back mode. The secret is the covers, which I bet producer Gary Katz (also of Steely Dan) had something to do with--especially since the whole album centers around Fagen & Becker's bitter, poignant farewell to the counterculture, "American Lovers." Together with Loudon Wainwright's painful "Say That You Love Me" and natural boogies from Link Wray and Dr. John, it puts such Kaye titles as "Northern California" and "Easy Kind of Feeling" into the ironic perspective the artist intends. Maybe this is Katz rather than Kaye--but when you hear Kaye describe a "new religion/Called everything's gonna be all right," you won't think so. A"

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

What about nirvana? Althought they were more active during the 60s but I still think most of their stuff is very psychadelic....

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

io just to ttjat randy california alnbum caprtian kozxmic or whatevr its really good

― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

rawk!

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s45058.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

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classic album

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

it wouldn't have much to do with early to mid-70's west coast post-psych pop rock folk-rock country-rock though.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

being an example of 60's brit fairytale psych chamber-pop.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

but, yeah, it's great.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is more about Chris Hillman flying a kite.

http://www.woundedbird.com/hillman/1104.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I have been trying to get some of there more rarer albums that haven' been reprinted but they go for insane amounts on ebay and there are deffinetly not any digital copies to be had. Even trying to wade throught the more popular nirvanas stuff to find any of the originals is hard enought.

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm Gene Parsons and I approve this thread."

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/44707.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

"fuck that west coast shit, man. our fuckin' promo photo has seen more hard road than them dudes."

http://www.grantslounge.com/WallOfFame/albums/upload/agrinderswitch.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah, man, I'll tape you the fuck up you don't give me some 'switch to listen to."

http://www.grantslounge.com/WallOfFame/albums/upload/grinders.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

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― QuantumNoise, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love this thread.

i've been listening to the first sutherland brothers album a lot lately; i don't know where they were from geographically though. also the Hoover LP on Epic is very good for this kind of thing--I know Jaxon has heard it, cuz we talked about it on another thread. Better than the Yanoska LP, also on Epic. The Yanoska record has a funny song about prostitution though.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

and my fave New Riders of the Purple Sage is just NRPS.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

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