I found $41 on the ground today, so let's talk about Psychedelic Country!

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i took my 41$ and walked right over to Aquarius and bought Euphoria "A Gift From Euphoria" and the self titled Space Opera. both are fucking amazing, psychedelic, orchestrated country pop from 69 and 72 respectively. tons of strings and fuzz and weirdness.

the only other song that i've heard so far that would fit into this category (and i haven't been searching long) is Michael Nesmith's "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" full of delay and studio trickery

anything else fit into this territory? am i gonna end up listening to the Dead?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

meat puppets

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

That sounds intriguing. It seems like something chuck eddy could give advice on.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Guilded Palace of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers
GP - Gram Parsons
Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Music From Big Pink - The Band
Doug Sahm and Band - Doug Sham
Groover's Paradise - Doug Sahm and the Tex Mex Trip
Lubbock (on everything) - Terry Allen
American Beauty/Working Man's Dead - The Grateful Dead (yeah, you'll listen to the dead)
Feast of Wire - Calexico
Southern Rock Opera/The Dirty South - The Drive By Truckers
Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
etc, etc...

Check out the Terry Allen (psychedelic cause it's so fucking brillant for it's time)

― Bryan Jennings, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Friends of Dean Martinez - Atardecer

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Doug Sahm records, hell yeah!! Especially the Sir Douglas Quintet albums Mendocino, Return of Doug Saldana, and Together after Five; and the above-mentioned Doug Sahm and Band. For something recent and fucking great, get the self-titled Oakley Hall record on Bulb.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

so a few weeks ago i got Music From the Big Pink and have totally fallen in love with it, so i figured, maybe i'd enjoy the Dead, since this is what i kinda think they sound like (country rock with two falsetto singers). so tonight i downloaded American Beauty (i've never heard a full Grateful Dead song before in my life besides maybe 'touch of grey' or whatever it's called) and it isn't the least bit psychedelic. the closest they get is the artwork. i've never seen their shows (which i imagined got a bit freaky), but are there any of their other albums that are weirder, trippier, use more effects, anything?

and i hate to say this, but i actually kinda liked it.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

the Dead was just a country-folk band that used the iconography of psychedelia when it was fashionable in the late-'60s and never dropped it, because it became their image.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

that's how I always saw it anyway

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard some Beachwood Sparks which was psychedlic country to a P and a C, don't know what song it was

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Notorious Byrd Brothers?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the Euphoria album is pretty good indeed.
Check also the first album from the New Riders of the Purple Sage - most of the lp is warm Americana, but _Dirty Business_ is a big freakout with country overtones. Jerry Garcia on the fuzzed-up steel guitar really owns this song.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link

so i just downloaded Blues For Allah, and i'm very pleasantly surprised. i've only skimmed the songs, but this album is pretty great. rhodes keys, tribal drumming, jazzy chords, chanted vocals,,,,,, but no country?! it's like a totally different band. i'm so surprised i like the dead!!

i'm totally wearing extra deodorant tomorrow

but this isn't a dead thread, this is a psychedelic country thread. get to it!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

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oh yeah, the guy at aquarius was mentioning the New Rider's first album. said one of the tracks was a big, messy tape experiment. hmmmmm...

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if Kaleidoscope count as "country", exactly, since they had so many different influences, but they're worth exploring whatever you want to call them. David Lindley is some kinda genius. Funny, too.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Freaky Dead shit I dig: 'Anthem of the Sun,' 'Live/Dead.' The 'Classic Albums' episode 'Anthem to Beauty' is on DVD -- good watching that explains, among other things, how they put together the mind-bending 'Anthem' from live and studio tapes.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually the Beachwood Sparks song is Sister Rose, very psychedlic country. The first time it was played to me we was fried.

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Man I love finding money. Don't tell anybody but anytime I have to make a wish, like when I blow out a candle or whatnot, I always wish I'll find a big-ass bag of unmarked bills on the ground.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Check out more Mike Nesmith AND Monkees!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

J.D. Blackfoot's The Ultimate Prophecy from 1970 is a great one.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

the new sadies record is pretty amazing.
if you need to listen to the dead, go for "american beauty".

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

The Dillards - Wheatstraw Suite

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Ditto on new Sadies record, also check out their side project with Rick White of Elevator/Eric's Trip, the Unintended. It's more psych, less country.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

does NoahJohn fall into this category?

― Peter Watts (peterw), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Beau Brummels "Triangle"
The Charlatans "s/t"
Gene Clark "Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers"

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

For something recent and fucking great, get the self-titled Oakley Hall record on Bulb.

jesus christ, yes.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

so i take back all that goodness i said about Blues For Allah. i listened to it walking to work today, and it's just too noodly. and jerry's not really a good guitarist. i figure the album would be better if listened to it like i did last night, just skimming each song, making them about a minute or two long. i thought it was gonna sound kinda like In a Silent Way, but it sounded more like Phish (duh). the last song is still kinda good, but the rest of it kinda sux.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm telling you "american beauty" is the only one you need to hear, though the first one is ok and "workingman's dead" is the most country one if that's what you're looking fo

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

But he already said he listened to American Beauty and didn't like it...so I recommend Anthem of the Sun! Although it's not country at all, it's the most psych of the studio records by a long shot.

I feel like the Dead were probably an incredible band, every bit as good as their legend, at least in the mid and late sixties, but never quite got it all down on record. Those early Acid Test bootlegs, shitty-sounding as they are, kind of make me think they must have been overwhelmingly powerful live when they were young and frantic.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't forget Giant Sand. The Selection comp has a tremendous cover of the Byrds' psych-country nugget, Change Is Now, not to mention tremendous Howe Gelb songs.

If it's baroque country yr after look no further than Gene Clark's magisterial No Other.

― Stewart S, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

if you don't think the Dead are about to come back and be the biggest hipster namedrop in the very near future, you have not been paying enough attention!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

im holding on to my favorite phish shirt for when the tides turn.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Indeed, the Monkees from Pisces, Aquarius through Monkees Present fit the bill nicely, if erratically.

Also surprised no one mentioned Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" and "Something's Burnin'."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, the Turtles' Battle of the Bands album has a surprising amount of twisted country on it (along with pop, novelty, and surf-guitar instrumental).

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

that turtles album is great. it's so off the wall, i'm sure it could find its way into almost every thread on the board

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Jefferson Airplane do psych and they do country, but I'm struggling to think of a song where they fuse the two properly.

Also, there should be more love for later live versions of 'Eight Miles High' on this thread.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Jefferson Airplane are definitely country on "A Song for All Seasons." Case could be made for "The Farm," too, I suppose. But psychedelic on those, not so much. Hmm.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Shotgun Willie and Phases & Stages by Mr. Nelson, if weed qualifies as psychedelic. Maybe Red Headed Stranger is about an acid trip?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Up In The Sun - Meat Puppets

a large bit of Meat Puppets II

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

If it's baroque country yr after look no further than Gene Clark's magisterial No Other.

i just picked this up and it is such an amazing album. perfectly fits into the psychedelic country mold. i listend to it three to four times in a row this weekend. beautiful production, great songs, wonderful arrangements.

i also picked up a Joe South twofer - "Introspect" & "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home?". super great, funky albums with lotsa trippy bits. even has a song called Mirror of Your Mind that has totally hippy dippy lyrics. the cover is even psychedelic

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/45rpm/kenta/rev/981112/joesouth.gif

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Saw the Beau Brummels mentioned above.

Don't forget "Bradley's Barn" & Ron Elliott's "Candlestick Maker".

Leon Russell's stuff seems pretty psychadelic to me.

Also Gene Clarks "White Light" though minimal could fall into this category.

Willie Nelson's "Yesteday's Wine".

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, anything with James Burton, Sleepy Pete Kleinlow or Clarence White. Check out Area Code 615 whose members includes Charlie McCoy, David Briggs, Wayne Moss and Kenny Buttrey with other Nashville session greats. They have a knack for using vibes, banjo's and pedal steal guitar.

Not normally associated with country but John Phillips of the Mamas & The Papas has a great solo album I believe is called "John the Wolfking" which had great songs and accompiament from many of the people listed from above (I swear Loius Armstrong is on it also though he's not listed in the credits).

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The Everley Brothers' Roots album.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Eugene Chadbourne - LSD C&W

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

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try Everly...the same (?) Ron Elliott does arrangements.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I recommend this compilation:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gykzikpabb89

And the Mekons of all people deserve a mention here.

(So do lots of other people, probably, but I can't think right now.)

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i listened to 5 byrds records in a row yesterday.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

'Eugene Chadbourne - LSD C&W'

when was this released? is it just solo stuff?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

so says Allmusic.com:

"Recorded in studio for the most part with Tom Cora, David Licht, and Michael Kramer forming the core of the LSD C&W band and a bunch of rock and country musicians (including John Zorn) filling in the gaps, LSD C&W: The History of the Chadbournes in America came out in 1987 as a two-LP set."

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Julio, it came out in the mid-to-late 80s. It was quite a sprawling double album with a really hideous orange sleeve. Can't quite remember what it was like though - frenzied electric rake manglings with a little yodelling perhaps? Dunno, got frisbeed a long time ago. It was probably good, but I knew *nothing* at the time.

whoops x-post. BTW anyone know if Chadbourne's writing for Forced Exposure has an online home? His memoirs of getting high as a kid were very fucking funny indeed.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I also think the beautiful recent Crystal Gayle song here (which I swear I guessed was It's a Beautiful Day -- who I may or may not have ever heard -- at first, and which gets played as the theme song to Art Bell's 4:30 am AM Radio show about flying saucers etc.) qualifies:

http://ocnsignal.com/radio-art.htm

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

So now I am wondering whether Crystal Gayle (who I've never much listened to, despite always liking "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") has any other music like that. Information would be welcome.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

porter wagoner's rubber room, is psychedelic, though maybe not in the way intended by this thread?

― the great doxology of heckmondwike town (gareth), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

(Also, if you know anything about It's A Beautiful Day, feel free to tell me that, too. I doubt I have any idea at all about what they actually sounded like, or whether they were actually ever any good.)

Terri Gibbs and John Conlee have used pysch-like spacey production techniques (seemingly filtered first through disco) on occasion. And David Allen Coe definitely had plenty of hippie in his mid-late-'70s music, though I'm not sure if I'd call any of it pyschedelic per se.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

thx for the info nick and nate.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

And oh yeah, I also feel somebody should mention Link Wray here.

And Ennio Morricone.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I asked abt link's country albums on his thread and someone dismissed them - I'd like to check one out.

Morricone could be virtually anything but which soundtracks are you thinking of in particurlar?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

er, ah, spaghetti western ones: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, like that. Fairly obvious links between Duane Eddy and "Wild West Show" by Big & Rich (or whatever).

I was actually thinking of Link Wray's "Rumble"/"Ace of Spades"-era stuff as being proto-psychedelic in the same way they're proto-metal, and country by virtue of coming out of rockabilly or whatever. Not sure if his later stuff qualifies at all; I useta own one early '70s LP by him, and it was okay, but beyond that I totally forget.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I also think James Blood Ulmer's *Oddysey* (which has a fiddle on it, right?) has some stuff that might qualify as both pyschedelic and country at the same time, come to think of it.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I got 'the good the bad and the ugly' and it didn't strike me as psych-country but lots of things collaged together...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, yeah. But it has psych-country PARTS among that cobble.

― chuck, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Sly Stone's 'Spaced Cowboy' fit in here somewhere? Psychedelic cowboy yodelling music?

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

chuck, i was about to buy that Yee-haw! comp and the guys told me it was more silly than anything and discouraged me from it. from the two clips on their site - and that amg review - it sounds great. i think with your recomendation i'll pick it up.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Chuck "Psychedelic" is a word used too often, but if you're into that Joe South, album for inst, you might wanta try THE LINK WRAY RUMBLE, from the mid-70s, on Epic (which I don't think exists anymore, and he's got others with RUMBLE in the title, that being where the rep as grandaddy of psych and metal comes from, the only instrumental I've ever head of being banned from the radio. Was thought to be the anthem of gang fights, as well it might have been). On this particular labum, he mixed his own rockabilly-blues-country-proto-psych-metal/psych thing with compatible approaches of mid-70s, with amzing results:"Country Boy", dedicated to Duane Allman, sounds like early/mid-70s Van Morrison, then at the top of his game, with solso by Duane; "Goodtime Joe" sounds kinda betwen Van and Joe South, the way Link sings the verses (riffs underbeath like mid-60s, Pete Townsend, who *did* write the liner notes, but not this song), then the solo kinda drones and keens and wraps its garrrison belt around my ankles, appropriately so(bout an old vet who needs some wine, real bad). "Backwoods Preacher Man" is I think written by Tony Joe White, and Link (acoustic, for once)and sings the shit out of it (he never just imitates, in fact he sings this album the way he sings 'em all, but always seesm to fit with younger people's stuff, so maybe he inspired 'em all). Doug Sahm did all styles with a non-standard mynd, and kind of erratic like some of Link's), but yeah MENDECINO, THE RETURN OF DOUG SALDANA TOGETHER AFTER FIVE, ROUGH EDGES, (and various more recent comps, like BEST OF THE ATLANTIC YEARS, which includes stuff, released and unreleased from his attempted supergroup LP, DOUG SAHM & BAND, but all that sounds a lot better here than before). Eddie Hinton has a wildass voice like Doug's, if not more so, but was a Muscle Shoals staff-writer-arranger-composer-muso, so more conssitently focussed than Doug, at least on DEAR YALL (THE SONGWRITING SESSIONS VOL.II)(blanking on VOL I's main title, but it's good too). Also got Tony Joe rhythm and, as he said himself, "Curtis Mayfield licks." Neko Case's albums are atmospheric as hell (listen on headphones), and got aforementioned Sadies, etc. backing her up. her frequent tour-partner Kelly Hogan's like that too, maybe not quite so cosmic (Neko can get a bit closer to Nico, enigmatic-lyrics-wise)If you don't like the noodly Dead, but I think you did like AMERICAN BEAUTY? Try the folkie-but-potent RECKONING and WORKING MAN'S DEAD, which does involve elctricity but sounds pretty ghost town (folkie in that sense)

― Don A, Monday, 4 October 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Just re-listended to my Ramblin Jack Elliott cd's. The two Reprise reissues Young Brigham and Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks are pretty out there with Jack's raps and crazy vocals plus great arrangements and studio trickery. At one moment I thought I was listening to the Mother's of Invention B side of Freak Out!.

Also check the Dillards (Wheatsaw Suite & Coperfields).

And isn't it also called "cosmic country"?

Sometimes it seems outlaw country and psychedelic country sort of merge. Also find myself drifting into the first two Taj Mahal albums with Ry Cooder and Jesse Ed Davis. Lot of country blues rag time type guitar stuff in there with great production values.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Not sure if they are psychedelic but they do qualify as wierd America.

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Motorpsycho have been considered kind of psychedelic at times, so I guess their current country album under the name International Tussler Society would be pretty obvious.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Corrections: I meant I don't think the Epic label exists anymore, but TTHE LINK WRAY RUMBLE is probably out there somewhere. "Backwoods Preacher Man" was entirely written by Tony Joe. For what was once called "cowpunk," the first and best I heard was on the first two albums by Rank & File, reissued on Rhino Handmade.Punk as hell in atttitude, but also stripped-down a la classic Johnny Cash. Southern Gothic-not-goth. Also in that vein, but more rocknrolly in a metal-blues, country-as-a-state-of-mind: Govt Mule, Drive-by Truckers (last couple albums, Jason Isbell's songs are fluidic enough even for Neko)

― Don, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Flatlanders:MORE A LEGEND THAN A BAND (later attempts, as Flatlanders, not so hot, but try Butch Hancock's own collections of his solo work, Joe Ely's LIVE SHOTS, Jimmie Dale Gilmore's SPIINING AROUND THE SUN, his ex-wife Jo Carol Pierce's BAD GIRLS UPSET BY THE TRUTH ["the Laurie Anderson of Texas," some call her, but no synth: all this is more words, tunes, singing, than effects, although there are some of those too, esp. Flatlander's musical saw, SPINNING's setting) Holy Modal Rounders, who used the word "psychedelic" in a too-hillbilly-for-folk song in '62: try holymodalrounders.com and allmusic (via bn.com is the way I usually hit allmusic; lots faster on bn). Good roundup of Rounders and their buddies Michael Hurley and J.Fredericks on HAVE MOICY. No orkystraws, tho'. Bill Frisell's guitar instrumentals have often seemed like modern jazz-country chamber music last few years, but I haven't heard a whole album. Emmy Lou Harris's WRECKING BALL, one of Daniel Lanois's better productions, is worth checking, re the chamber Americana, all dressed in black (denim), ditto ones she's done since. Bob Dylan's OH MERCY, also (I think, but some say "producer's record," like Dan'l took over, anyway it's good). Dyl's BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME, HIGHWAY 61, BLONDE ON BLONDE got their country aspects, working well with otherness.

― Don A, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got to get me some Link Wray.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

If you really like baroque pop, and don't mind its being non-country (but how country can baroque pop really be, anyway), check the ones who might well have invented it, the Left Banke (there was also an LP that's prob on CD, THE BAROQUE BEATLES BOOK, but haven't heard it. Some good baroquey touches on R.E.M's MURMUR, if listen on headphones). Somebody mentioned Giant Sand; yeah, for the desert pyschfolk powwow, I'd say CHORE OF ENCHANTMENT is up there with MEAT PUPPETS II. Buffalo Springfield did baroque-country-pop and other stuff you might like. All been re-re-mastered I think, but I'd start with AGAIN, the second album. And some of Neil Young's early stuff. DECADE's a good collection of his. John Fahey's collection RETURN OF THE REPRESSED has his pioneering solo psych-folk guitar and some of his orchestral experiments too.

― Don, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Fahey's a good choice. Some of the stuff on Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death for instance. It's not exactly psych or country though it evokes shades of both (along with folk, pop, raga, blues, etc.)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I suppose the Butthole Surfers have their psychedelic country moments.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

i found 60$ and a child's bus pass on the ground yesterday. i split it between myself and the two girls i was with. one of them is giving us guilt trips about feeling bad that we "stole the money".

fuck it. give me the money, i want more cds!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to move South of Market.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I was in the Mangia on Wall St getting lunch when this woman I work with found 80 euro on the ground. She kept it and she didn't share any of it with me.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the first 41 was found in the mission and the 60 was found on clement

my friend is feeling so guilty. she wants to write a sign saying we found money. call us and tell us how much and what denominations the bills were in and we'll give it back to you. just give it to a bum if you feel the karma weighing upon you.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

If you ever see it, pick up a copy of the self-titled album by Charley D. And Milo on Epic Records. Don't know if it's on cd. I picked up a vinyl copy for a couple bucks. 3 guitars, great C&W harmonies, and a warm acid breeze. Especially on the closer "Om Sweet Om". Must be late-60's/early 70's. anyway, byrds/parsons fans will love it. great cover of richard & mimi's "pack up your sorrows" too. (didn't go through the whole thread to see if anyone had mentioned it already.) Really pretty stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i was at a bar a week ago and found $20 on the ground. i left the bar and a bum asked me for money so i gave him a 5

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Seconding 'No Other' by Gene Clark. This track blew my mind: wah fuzz bass and wah fuzz guitar panned hard left and right, cowbell, soul background singers, and so melodic.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Jefferson Airplane's "A Song For All Seasons" makes me wish they'd tried country more often. Grace Slick's harmonies on this song are heavenly.

― Houston (Euler), Friday, 4 September 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://tothesublime.typepad.com/to_the_sublime/

Nov. 17th posting about Doug Sahm

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

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