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

Heads up for Doug Sahm/SDQ fans, Bear Family is fixing to drop a new Louie & The Lovers set, featuring their great Doug-produced album from '70 (which Evangeline put on cd some years back) plus their lost Atlantic lp from '72!

that William Truckaway LP arrived in the mail today--really enjoy it. Second side a bit more than the first, which has a mellow "LA session guy" sound, but totally well played and pleasant.

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has this been mentioned? Basically Jansch's early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock record. And pretty great! Drag City just reissued ....

I have a rapidshare link for that William Truckaway album, if anyone's interested.

Friend of mine just recommended that Jansch record. I haven't heard it but I'm curious.

finally hearing this for the first time. what a fine record. definitely for fans of epic bucolic tom rapp/bradleys barn-era beau brummels. really dig it.

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finally heard the 1977 album that Billy Nicholls did for Capitol too. White Horse. Lots of lovely moments. Billy goes from The Small Faces and a 60's psych masterpiece to epic western ballads with half of Little Feat backing him up. some seriously DREAMY balladry going on here. it's no wonder that Leo Sayer and the Marshall Tucker Band covered a song from this album. they were dreamers too. okay, phil collins covered it too, but what can i do, it's a good song.

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John Parker Compton's solo album To Luna is light years ahead of the Appaloosa record.

http://psychspaniolos.blogspot.com/2008/07/john-parker-compton-to-luna-1971.html

i believe it. dude was talented. he was only 19 when he made the appaloosa record and he already seems fully formed as a songwriter.

Never was a huge fan of the Appaloosa record, but thanks for the tip Hatch.

really? what's not to like about it? too many strings for you or something? i think its dreamy.

yeah a bit too produced iirc. i haven't heard it in a few years at least. i'll give it another spin next time it comes around.

I saw some mention The Dude upthread. Last weekend I went to a midnight showing of The Big Lebowski at the Belcourt here in Nashville and all these stoned kids were yelling at the screen & singing all the songs along with the movie. I have been on a post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock kick since then... although I call this genre "Cosmic American Music"
Has anyone mentioned ...

The Everly Brothers - Roots

Great LP if you like Sweetheart of the Rodeo etc

by the way am I the only guy who digs the first Crosby Stills & Nash LP? I found it used and have worn it out. I assume it's not hip to like... but then again the Fleet Foxes are pitchfork darlings and that is not that far removed from CSN in many ways

I don't know anything about Fleet Foxes but there are many people here who dig the other albums you've mentioned in your two posts (I do, for one). Check the archives and you'll find talk about both albums on other threads, e.g.

The Everly Brothers' Warner Bros. output: S/D, C/D

and

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: C/D, S/D

thanks euler. that was my first post. i'll try to make use of the search function. anyway, so much great music in this tread

Welcome!

Steve Young's "Rock, Salt & Nails" just came to my attention. Here's from an AMG review: "Rock Salt and Nails is a highly regarded cult country-rock-folk record, in part because some of the supporting musicians are highly regarded pioneers of the form: Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark all appear on the album."

I think his follow-up "Seven Bridges Road" may be more well-known.

Still on my archives (and finally getting around to reading Shakey)-induced Neil Young kick. Picked up the Rockets (pre-NY Crazy Horse) album this week, pretty much jamming it every chance I get. Terrific soul/garage sludge--and that's not just the Danny Whitten songs! The Whitsell Bros. stuff on the second half is just as essential. "Stretch You Skin" sounds like early Roxy Music relocated to '68.

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I just found 2 Cowboy albums, Boyer & Talton and 5'll Getcha Ten. Can't wait to get home and listen to them.

hope you like them as much as i do.

The first song off 5'll Getcha Ten, She Carries A Child is beautiful. Why isn't this group more well known? Duane Allman played guitar.

jacob, feel free to poat here too:

IAN, WHEN WILL YOU KNOW THE JOYS OF CAPRICORN RECORDING ARTISTS *COWBOY*????

just cuz not a lot of ilx people have heard them and its nice to get testimonials on that thread. they SHOULD be more well known.

The Quiver song Cool Evening off their self titled is sublime. They aren't the greatest band, yet that song is going on my next mix.

Freaking out on this Anonymous album "Inside the Shadow."
Incredible private press folk rock with male/female harmonies and some great lead guitar. ILM thread search didn't turn anything up, this thread seems like a natural home for these guys. Haven't heard the follow up yet (J. Rider's "No Longer Anonymous") but I will remedy that soon.
I guess they are from Indiana, but it sound like some straight up California sunshine to me.

Actually, these guys may be a little too psych and not enough country for this thread, soz.

I don't know if these are west coast bands, but a recent trip to austin turned up,
Barefoot Jerry 'Southern Delight'
Travis Wammack 'Travis Wammack'
Dickey Betts 'Highway Call'
Fallenrock 'Watch For Fallenrock'

Zevon's been mentioned here a couple of times, but you should definitely check out his self-titled album on Asylum. (Technically not his debut, but he considered it as such, having disowned the much earlier 'Wanted Dead or Alive.') One of the very best albums ever to come out of California, and to my mind the best thing the label ever put out. The reason I miss him most.

big time OTM. what an album.

"Take Good Care of Yourself" by Chris Darrow kind of destroys me sometimes tbh.

"One of the very best albums ever to come out of California, and to my mind the best thing the label ever put out."

nah, best is no other. followed by albert brooks' a star is bought. and then manifest destiny by the dictators. and then, like, judee sill or joni or essra or something girly like that. then warren zevon.

just kidding. kinda. no other is definitely my fave though. and i need a copy of that zevon album. i've gotten rid of a bunch of them but always forget to keep one. (and i need to play the albert brooks album at work tomorrow. it never gets old.)

crossposting from mix tape thread, this is the tape i made for my pal Cory:

d charles speer & the helix - fossilized
jerry jeff walker - i'm gonna tell on you
marlin greene - forest ranger
euphoria - did you get the letter?
brinsley schwarz - silver pistol
keith jarrett - all right
chris darrow - take good care of yourself
michael hurley - indian chiefs & hula girls
townes van zandt - tecumseh valley (live)
rosalie sorrels - feather ben
moby grape - changes, circles spinning
eggs over easy - arkansas

gordon lightfoot - watchman's gone
flying burrito brothers - hand to mouth
waylon jennings - six white horses
willie nelson - shotgun willie
rio grande - end of the bottle
kris kristofferson - the pilgrim chapter 33
john hartford - first girl i loved
keith sykes - daddy raised hell
f.j. mcmahon - five year kansas blue
gene clark - full circle song
happy & artie traum - scavengers
the wildweeds - when she smiles
graham nash - military madness

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i still can't believe that we both put forest ranger and arkansas on a tape like this. what are the odds?

it's very funny!

they are two of my faves of the genre.

anyone have a mix that could find its way here or the noise board? ive heard some of this stuff, but i'm lazy.

Collector's Choice issues unreleased Poco concert from 1971

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how ya'll feel about this ^^ record? highs are high & the lows are seldom imo.

i've never heard it. like the cover though.

okay, it doesn't look like i'm ever gonna get my act together to digitize my tapes, so here's my track-listing for the tape i made inspired by this thread. i made this on marthas vineyard! that's how old it is already. tape still sounds good to me.

side one

marlin greene - forest ranger

eggs over easy - arkansas

sam signaoff - you brought my beginning

jerry corbitt - delight in your love

david wagner - mobile blue

link wray - god out west

cowboy - pat's song

mcguinness flint - friends of mine

horald griffiths - watching pigeons chasing shadows on the ground

david blue - outlaw man

thomas jefferson kaye - thanks for nothing

southwind - same sad old song

rick nelson - gypsy pilot

west - you only think you've come home

side two

george gerdes - peas porridge hot

mike seeger - hello stranger

bread - what a change

the unspoken word - sleepy mountain ecstacy

gallagher & lyle - to david, charlie, and ian

mike corbett & jay hirsh (with high mccracken) - fly with me

gypsy - dead and gone

the uniques - i sure feel more (like i do than i did when i got here)

mickey newbury - how many times must the piper be paid for his song

orphan - what goes on

southern comfort - roses

west - new england winter

scott, you'll like the swamp water record. it's a unipack. and each plank of wood unfolds separately.

liner notes on the back by arlo guthrie indicate that swampwater was linda ronstadt's backing band circa '70.

Really interesting!! I've got five of Steve Haggard's albums, I've seen him play live once in Nashville and I've reviewed him for an English music zine, but never even heard of 'Slain By An Angel'. Can't find it online, is it available somewhere?? amyanne

welcome

hello AmyAnne! Welcome to ILM.
I don't know if Slain By An Angel is available online at all, but I'd be happy to tape you a copy of it. You can e-mail me at dr.carl.sagan at gmail dot com.

i really fucking love john hartford btw. i found a copy of Aereoplain in the 2/$5 bin today at a shop in manhattan. that's a $30 record! i got it for my friend Dave. "First Girl I Ever Loved" is an incredible song.

Anybody a fan of Ron Elliott's The Candlestickmaker? I picked up the reissue recently, but haven't quite digested it yet.

It looks like you can buy that Steve Haggard for $26 on ebay, which might be a bit much....

That Ron Elliot record is very listenable.

I picked up the Elliott a couple years back along with the Brummels reunion set and a bunch of other stuff. Both got lost in the shuffle, but I need to dig 'em out again. I recall both being a step down from the prime Brummels material, but so are a lot of things.