where are you bonnie koloc fans?
where did you go wendy waldman lovers?
libby titus is waiting for your fan mail devendra!
chi (pronounced "shy") coltrane revival starts....NOW!
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean jeez just cuz they were on normal labels and can be found in any dollar bin doesn't mean they don't deserve a shout-out.
let's hear about some dollar bin faves here. C/D/S/D!
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Never heard of any of them.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 18 February 2008 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
it's never too late...
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"hipster kisses"? sometimes I wonder about you, dude.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Kathi McDonald's "Insane Asylum" album count? Cause I love that one.
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes i wonder about me too...
x-post
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"Does Kathi McDonald's "Insane Asylum" album count?"
everything counts. let me know about common easily found records that i can get for cheap that i might have passed up that are great. there are only thousands of them.
for instance:
now playing: bonnie koloc - hold on to me (nice record! on ovation. 1972. if i had a quad system i would be able to play it in quad, but i don't. still sounds nice.)
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
thunder 'n lightenen/i tell u it's frightenen/and yr in control
well it's not "i am woman/here me roar" but chi coltranee's hit ws pretty enjoyable on radio. how's the LP?
― m coleman, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Rita Coolidge get hipster kisses? She deserves many. She's def. a dollar bin staple, though i'm having trouble finding those Kristofferson/Coolidge albums ...
― tylerw, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
her first record with thunder & lightning on it is really good. VERY melodramatic. which could be translated as "cheesy" to some people, but i like Chi's sense of high drama in everything she sang. plus, i just really dig her voice.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
No, Rita Coolidge doesn't get hipster kisses! she deserves them just for her fashion sense.
http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/rita3rd.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i need more rita in my life.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
and maria muldaur too
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p030/p03089n40g0.jpg
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/09/ciu/9a/c0/e34c83d28fa03a39aab24110.L.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Was turned on to this by Waxidermy website, but anyhow, Carol Kleyn is pretty great.
http://waxidermy.com/images/kleyn.jpg
Also, Bobby Brown (the other one, not the New Edition guy) gave her a harp!
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
geoff & maria records would probably be hipper than maria solo. i LOVE pottery pie:
http://www.richardandmimi.com/potterypie.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Maria Muldaur seems to turn up Zelig-like in all variety of music biographies, but all I know is Midnight at the Oasis.
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this young lady really had it going on circa 1973
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/RSPOD/RS170.jpg
― m coleman, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
am i gonna be able to find that carol kleyn record at my local record store for cheap? something tells me no. looks cool though.
forget about my hipster comments. just looking for overlooked/underrated/right-there-in-front-of-me-the-whole-time-and-i-never-knew-how-cool-it-was kinda stuff.
for INSTANCE: right now I'm listening to Cris Williamson's debut on Ampex and it's lovely!
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
was she singing about being gay then? (later on Olivia)
― m coleman, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Catherine Howe Her first record (in a Beautiful Place) gets rated, but the second one, Harry (1975?), is cool too...
Also Rosalie Sorrells (though by no means winsome a la Muldaur and Coolidge, and probably wouldn't want your Hipster Kisses)
― sonofstan, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Doesn't quite fit the dollar bin fodder criteria (i.e. I've never actually seen a copy) but I'm still dying to hear this:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/445896.jpg
Any mp3s floating around?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
That's Kay Huntington: What's Happening to Our World? for googlers.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm guessing that it was pressed too limitedly to be easily found at a thrift store, or in some hallelujah cheapie vinyl bins...but everytime the song I downloaded of hers comes up on m'iTunes, I'm like "wow, what's this, again? This is pretty great!"
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Essra Mohawk get hipster kisses? I kinda dig her.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Check out The Time Has Come by Anne Briggs (name checked by Destroyer but don't hold that against her!)
― iago g., Monday, 18 February 2008 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"Also Rosalie Sorrells (though by no means winsome a la Muldaur and Coolidge, and probably wouldn't want your Hipster Kisses)"
i've made my case:
Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
how about some love for the ladies of 2007 who largely missed out compared to amy lily nash? last year was great for tracey thorn, roisin murphy, kathy diamond, feist, siobhan donaghy and prolly some others i forgot.
― or something, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Gale Garnett should get kisster hisses. Seconds on Catherine Howe.
That's Kay Huntington: What's Happening to Our World? for googlers
I found a copy of this for a buck--easily one of the most disturbing album covers (and bizarre records) of all time.
― whisperineddhurt, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Kipster hisses.
― whisperineddhurt, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
On the subject of Rita C. - aparently her sister, Priscilla, made a great record called Gypsy Queen on Sussex; anyone heard it? She was married to Booker T. and they made a record together which is better than OK, but not mindblowing....
― sonofstan, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
they made, like, 3 records together. i have two of them. i love their version of maggie's farm.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Buffy St Marie count? That song "Codeine" is so heavy.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to scott
my bad - the one I have is a double S/T; must dig it out
― sonofstan, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"Does Buffy St Marie count? That song "Codeine" is so heavy."
well, buffy did make one hipster fave record (Illuminations), but she put out a ton of great stuff in the 60's and early 70's that hardly anyone listens to. if you buy vinyl pick up a cheap copy of the vanguard twofer best of for a lot of her best music. i love her records.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
listening now to Dory Previn's Mythical Kings and Iguanas record and I can't believe I passed up her records for so many years. Saw them all the time in thrift stores. i love this kinda stuff. has dory been featured in mojo yet?
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Rita Coolidge and Maria Muldaur really rub me the wrong way, as does Jennifer Warnes. They all sounds so hopelessly bored with everything I've ever heard them sing; I just don't get it. Instead I'll recommend Karla Bonoff and Joan Armatrading.
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
you gonna start bashing yvonne elliman next? go ahead, i dare you!
i can get behind karla and joan. definitely.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
major dud, just in case anyone was curious:
http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lotti2.gif
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so dudly, i actually own this album and still haven't listened to it:
http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lotti1.gif
though it couldn't be worse. and who knows maybe i'll end up liking it.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
mark needs this one:
http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lesb.gif
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay you've given me hope, edd. I'll start hunting for it this week.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is now number one in a google search for kay huntington. just so you know.
xgau review:
KAY HUNTINGTON: What’s Happening To Our World? (United Artists) This is either a hilarious takeoff on sensitive circa-1964 folk music or (more likely, unbelievable as it seems) one of the most atrocious records ever made. Perfectly awful, right down to the cover art and liner notes. Listen to "Right to Poverty." E MINUS/A PLUS [Later: E]
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
buy it now for 7 bucks!
http://cgi.ebay.com/KAY-HUNTINGTON-WHATS-HAPPENING-TO-OUR-WORLD-LP-dj_W0QQitemZ4809737217QQcmdZViewItem
(plus P&H)
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never seen another copy of that awful Huntington record--which I regaled my "hipster" friends with recently, we all needed a drink after that experience. I also made them listen to Carly Simon's Hotcakes just 'cause I think she looked kinda cute pregnant. But the Huntington record is competently done, is the frightening thing about it.
Muldaur I like in small doses, Rita Coolidge was a striking woman but her music I never much liked. I'm sure Karen Dalton has gotten enough kipster -on-toast to disqualify her.
― whisperineddhurt, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is actually kinda good - in parts - if you like italian protest folk:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/800905.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.wirz.de/music/langhorn/grafik/avatar4.jpg
This is a kick-ass mix of earthy folk-blues from the Lyman Family featuring Lisa Kindred. She sounds tough as nails. This record has gone up in price. Plus, its cult backstory gives it some hipster points. But you can still find it in dollar bins every now and then.
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Joy of Cooking!
― sonofstan, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
THESE LESBIANS SLAY STEEL GUITAR BREAKS FOR DAYS
http://www.guitaristka.ru/zapad/deadly_nightshade/dead_lp1.jpg
― sanskrit, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Rita Coolidge and Maria Muldaur really rub me the wrong way, as does Jennifer Warnes. They all sounds so hopelessly bored with everything I've ever heard them sing; I just don't get it.
That's crazy talk! Admittedly, I don't know anything of Muldaur's catalog other than "Midnight at the Oasis", but that is a great song! She sounds like she wants to slip Rudi Valentino's camel a quaalude and get down to snorting lines and being mischeivous with the sheik.
― dell, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i underrated the 2nd Risa Potters record. it's really quite lovely. now debating whether i need to buy a cheap copy of her first album from 1970 online or just wait to happen upon one someday in an out of way place on the side of the road far from where i dwell.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:34 (six years ago) link
Just listened to that anonymous "help me find the singer" youtube upthread; that's kinda fascinating!
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:20 (six years ago) link
Over on Rolling Reissues, I posted info about and comments on the forthcoming (first legit, remastered from actual masters) reissue of Judy Henske & Jerry Yester's Farewell Aldebaran. Gotta find her pre- and non-Jerry albums, also the one they did as co-leaders of Rosebud.
― dow, Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:42 (six years ago) link
Pre- and *post-Jerry albums, that is, if she did any.
― dow, Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:44 (six years ago) link
Rosebud is not great. High Flying Bird is her best solo album. Though "Wade In The Water" on her 1963 self-titled Elektra album is one of her knockouts and her epic "Betty and Dupree" on her 1966 Reprise album is, uh, epic. and the funny stories she tells on stage are funny on those albums. I always felt like her 1965 album on Mercury was a little flat. But it's worth hearing.
Everything except for Farewell Aldebaran sells for peanuts now so you could probably buy everything except that for about 40 bucks total.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:03 (six years ago) link
(there are two later dawn of the 21st century albums that nobody listens to because they are later dawn of the 21st century albums.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:05 (six years ago) link
the dave guard & the whiskeyhill singers album on capitol that judy was on is fun too.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHw0fbZHPE
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:19 (six years ago) link
i think Fanny actually do get some love. if not from hipsters. Birtha need more love. they rocked so hard.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 June 2016 02:45 (six years ago) link
And thanx for the Judy et al tips too---reminded me that one of Richie Unterberger's books incl. pre-Modern Folk Quartet Cyrus Faryar's account of feeling like he and other musos were little peasants in the valley, caught between the warring gods, Guard and Henske. But that maybe just an exaggerated memory of what Cyrus says here, in Unterberger's (still lively!) liner notes for the Whiskeyhill reissue (his site also has his appealing notes for MFQ reissues, or at least one of 'em):http://www.richieunterberger.com/guard.html
― dow, Thursday, 16 June 2016 23:01 (six years ago) link
Probably some good lesser known stuff in herehttps://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/milk-of-the-tree-an-anthology/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 June 2017 02:36 (five years ago) link
good stuff on there. i gotta play that susan pillsbury album again soon. so great.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 June 2017 04:06 (five years ago) link
did i mention risa potters on here? those two albums are really nice. was listening to the second one the other day.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 June 2017 04:07 (five years ago) link
So I keep getting YouTube recommendations for a Japanese singer-songwriter I'd never heard of called Hako Yamasaki, and it turns out she's great! Strangely enough she turns up on the recs list of a couple of other people I know, plus many more according to the comments sections. Seems to be some strange algorithmic spasm that's shoved her up to the front of the queue. Most of the English-language info to be gleaned about her is buried in said comments sections too, although there is a Japanese-language Wikipedia page.
Anyway, she's released about 30 albums, most of them sounding of their time - but since the mid-70s was the best time for this kinda thing those records are the winners, the odd enka vocal inflection notwithstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xYdkMiV6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w71N7MX9HcQ
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 11 January 2018 23:23 (four years ago) link
Wow---intriguing, thanks! Reminds me a little of Murakami's Kafka On The Shore, which is also the title of an out-of-nowhere 60s hit by a young Japanese female singer-songwriter: one and she's done, vanishes, a lost legend. Good lyrics too, but unfortunately it's mostly nit about her, except as a magnet for this sometimes tedious teenboy horndog, the main character. Um, anyway, the aforementioned s/t one-and done Rosebud album got legit reissued and expanded, like the aforementionedFarewell Aldebaran, which I found uneven enough that I haven't gotten around to checking Rosebud yet, though with Henske & Yester it can't sound too bad; anyway here's the press sheet I pasted onto Rolling Reissues:
ROSEBUDROSEBUDFILE UNDER: R/ROCKCD: DIGIPAKSRLP: 16.98 / BOX LOT: 305% DISCOUNT THROUGH 6/23/2017AVAILABLE JUNE 16, 2017WWW.OMNIVORERECORDINGS.COMWWW.FACEBOOK.COM/OMNIVORERECORDINGSWWW.TWITTER.COM/OMNIVORERECORDSKEY SELLING POINTS• Remastered and expanded reissue of the1971 classic.• Contains 10 bonus tracks—7 previouslyunissued .• Packaging contains rare ephemera andnew interviews with band members JudyHenske, Jerry Yester, and Craig Doerge.The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!When Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s (now revered) Farewell Aldebaran sadly disappeared into legend,they decided to take a different approach for their next release—becoming a “band.” Adding songwriterand multi-instrumentalist Craig Doerge (pronounced “Durgee”) and John Seiter (known for his workwith Spanky & Our Gang and The Turtles), Rosebud was born. After recording was done and the album“fi nished”—the band added Bassist David Vaught. Additional songs were laid down, and others re-moved in lieu of the new material. Finally, in 1971—Rosebud the album appeared.In his liner notes, Barry Alfonso (acclaimed author and songwriter) says “French choral numbers, gospelrockers, nostalgic ballads, angelic lullabies—it sounds like the contents of a greatest hits collection.In fact, the above tracks are all found on the sole album by Rosebud, an L.A.-based quintet that barelylasted a year.”Rosebud, is indeed, all of that and much more. While inching Henske & Yester closer to the main-stream, Rosebud is just as daring as Aldebaran, as its songs have the same studio sophistication,hook-laden material, and wit.To make this reissue even more special, 10 bonus tracks have been added, 7 of which are previouslyunissued. The packaging contains photos and ephemera, tracing the changing history in the makingof the album, as well as new interviews with Henske, Yester and Doerge in Alfonso’s essay. Producedfor release by Grammy ® -winning Producer Cheryl Pawelski, and new mastering and restoration byMichael Graves (who also has won a few Grammys ® himself), Rosebud is ready to take the uninitiatedon a journey, and adds nearly another album’s worth of rare singles and unheard tracks for those wholoved the original.Named after the sled in Orson Welles’ iconic Citizen Kane, Rosebud is a secret no more.JERRY YESTER, JUDY HENSKE, CRAIG DOERGE, JOHN SEITERORIGINAL ALBUMPanamaLe SoleilRenoWestern WisconsinLoreleiSalvationLullabye II(Summer Carol)The Yum Yum ManRoll Home CheyenneFlying To MorningBONUS TRACKSLazyReno (MONO SINGLE VERSION)Mercury Of Fools *Hey Old Friend (JUDY VOCAL) *Le Soleil (DEMO) *What’s The MatterWith Sam *Easy On Me, Easy *Father Of SoulsMercury Of Fools (DEMO) *Hey Old Friend(JERRY VOCAL) (DEMO) ** PREVIOUSLY UNISSUEDRosebudKEY SELLING POINTSThe iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!Photo: Henry Diltz
― dow, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:28 (four years ago) link
And this first volume of Light In The Attic's projected Japanese reissue series has some thread-relevance, audio samples, info here (the non-ltd. ed 2-LP will be back in stock later this month, they've also got CD, but not digital) https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3178-even-a-tree-can-shed-tears-japanese-folk-rock-1969-1973
― dow, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BpZGRIl5s
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:42 (four years ago) link
Hey I have an early 70s California singer songwriter query.theres a really good early 70s album by a woman,who I think maybe had drug problems and died young, plus was kinda obscure. Definite hipster kisses in the 00s and on tho. Multitracked vocals,a song called "x rain" where x is the name of a small town in CA or the PNW. Any ideas? 😔
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:02 (three years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb59WCJTs_Q
?
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:04 (three years ago) link
Yeeeeees
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:06 (three years ago) link
A million thank yous
I've def conflated someone else's bio with Linda's, glad shes still around
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:08 (three years ago) link
me too and yr v welcome
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:10 (three years ago) link
Faun Fables vibes there
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:13 (three years ago) link
Think the bio you've conflated with Linda's is Judee Sill. They were both kind of rediscovered in the early 00s
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:21 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah,that's definitely it
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:23 (three years ago) link
Also: Kath Bloom is new to me, but she started recording in the 70s with Loren MazzaCane Connors, and check the link to older and new tracks on her MySpace page here--this new PTW-posted title track is not her best performance, the other one described is more typical, but it's all well worth checking out: http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1668
― dow, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Kath Bloom/Loren Connors 1981-1984 CD that I have is a-fucking-mazing. Dunno anything else she has done, but that one thing is an absolute treasure of simple cracked and beautiful otherness.
― NickB, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
Thee Whiney-edited Paper Thin Walls is long gone, but Kath Bloom review-interview (re her return and the CD reissue comps) is archived here: https://papercomet.blogspot.com/2017/03/maybe-not-earlies-but-might-as-well.html
― dow, Monday, 15 April 2019 23:04 (three years ago) link
i listened to lots of linda perhacs and judee sill last weekend
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 23:05 (three years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, February 18, 2008 3:51 PM
As you may have seen on the stock up/stock down thread, I was checking all the new classic album compilation releases and Wendy Waldman's first 3 albums were released in a compilation last year. I thought she looked like the type for this thread. Never heard of her before.
I bought the Bridget St John box a while ago but that was from 2015. Surprised she's not mentioned onthread.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 20:14 (three years ago) link
I think i need more fanny in my lifehttps://youtu.be/imZUqkPlUaQ
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:05 (three years ago) link
Excited for this - https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2952-sachiko-kanenobu
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:36 (three years ago) link
Jean Millington, Fanny's bass player needs your help.
https://www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go
― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 20 July 2019 18:02 (three years ago) link
strangely enough, last night at the port washington public library i saw nancy nevins and two other original members of sweetwater, who were the second act to perform at woodstock '69. nancy's solo album definitely belongs on this thread:
https://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Nevins-Nancy-Nevins/release/2126684
the whole evening of discussion & performance should be up on the port washington public library's youtube channel soon if it isn't yet.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 20 July 2019 18:22 (three years ago) link
Elyse Weinberg - Greasepaint Smile is one of my fav discoveries but I guess she did get hipster kisses?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 July 2019 18:38 (three years ago) link
I think i need more fanny in my life
This podcast about them was pretty interesting
https://www.kcrw.com/music/articles/lost-notes-fanny-the-all-girl-rock-band-david-bowie-loved
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 22 July 2019 13:57 (three years ago) link
Some good songs on that comp. Checked it out when The Cure started covering "Pirate Ships"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:12 (three years ago) link
Talk of Kath Bloom and updated link to archived review of her then-new '08 alb upthread a little ways, and here come a couple more Chapter Music reissues of her work a Loren Connors (EP tracks now added)---streams, pix, details here:https://mailchi.mp/73f3e03f5d89/smcqueen2-2808941?e=32e64a6326
― dow, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:09 (two years ago) link
What the hell, that press release may go away
KATH BLOOM & LOREN CONNORS ULTRA RARE SAND IN MY SHOE & MOONLIGHT ALBUMS FINALLY TO BE RE-ISSUED BY CHAPTER MUSICOUT OCTOBER 4TH, 2019
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/197dfa45-9150-4f07-afab-d1f60ef5a847.jp
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/8cac3f67-e9be-4b92-9454-ae0b9b853bf5.jpg
The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, CT duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted psych-folk fans since the early 80s. Kath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Loren’s free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the late 60s. Between 1981 and 1984, the duo recorded two live and four studio albums, mostly self-released in tiny quantities.
Early on, their music mixed folk and blues traditionals with a handful of Kath’s vulnerable, moving originals. By the later albums the songs were all Kath’s - her fragile voice and subdued finger-picking set against Loren’s abstract but always supportive playing. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting.
Kath & Loren’s first two albums in 1981-82 were live recordings, released via Loren’s Daggett Records label. Next came 1982’s Sing The Children Over on Massachusetts label Ambiguous Records. Then Sand In My Shoe emerged in 1983 as the first release on Loren’s new St. Joan label, in an edition of 200-300 copies with handmade sleeves.
Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight followed in 1983-84, before the prodigious duo parted ways. Moonlight was released in an edition of 200-300 copies. As her creativity accelerated, Kath’s songs became looser and more intuitive, but Moonlight contains an early version of one of Kath’s most beloved songs, "Come Here". Loren’s longterm collaborator Robert Crotty contributes electric guitar to a couple of tracks.
By 1984, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. Kath did not release anything again until a 1993 solo cassette Love Explosion, but then developed a devoted cult following through the pivotal use of a new recording of "Come Here" in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise.
Kath has since released three solo albums on Chapter Music (Finally in 2005, Terror in 2008 and Pass Through Here in 2015), as well as the Bloom tribute album Loving Takes This Course, featuring covers by the likes of Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster and many more.
Loren also retreated from music for a period until re-emerging in the late 1980s. He is now recognised as a pioneering guitar explorer, and has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and many more.
After reissuing four of Kath & Loren’s landmark albums on CD in the late 2000s, Chapter has now embarked on the first ever vinyl reissues for these remarkable records. Another 1984 album Restless Faithful Desperate was reissued in 2018, while 1983’s Sand In My Shoe & 1984's Moonlight will be released on October 4, 2019.
Sand In My Shoe includes five digital-only bonus tracks, from 1982 live EP Pushin’ Up Daisies, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.Moonlight includes five digital-only bonus tracks of rare 1984 live recordings, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.
Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'I'm As Good As I Want To Be'https://youtu.be/Tr5wEY-zsZM
Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'Come Here'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WVBPTke6w&feature=youtu.be
― dow, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:20 (two years ago) link
Well crap--prob some more of their music (& pix) posted somewhere. So do try the press release link.
― dow, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:23 (two years ago) link
On first spin of the Bridget St John debut album I was afraid it was going to be boring (having got the box set) but it's very good. "Broken Faith" is a stunner.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 December 2019 17:00 (two years ago) link
Bridget St John is fabulous. Ask Me No Questions and Songs for the Gentle Man are both A+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQSsn2TYBs
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:10 (two years ago) link
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In 1967, the folk-pop group The Association had a massive hit with a song called “Windy” penned by an unknown young woman named Ruthann Friedman. Two years later, she released her own album Constant Companion on Warner/Reprise Records that sounded nothing like “Windy” – it had more in common with her labelmate Joni Mitchell or cult-hero Linda Perhacs. Decades later, Ruthann would be declared an “astral folk goddess” and championed by the likes of Devendra Banhart.
Around that time, reissue producer Pat Thomas compiled a collection of previously unreleased demos, home recordings, and lost songs circa 1965-1971 from Ruthann's personal archive including the original version of "Windy."
Titled Hurried Life, Ruthann recently declared, “That’s the one that I really like - that was the first time going back into the archives to find songs that might be reissued. I think those were representative of me.”creditsreleased September 3, 2021Stream, order LP (or digital) here:https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/hurried-life-lost-recordings-1965-1971
― dow, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:36 (eleven months ago) link
Very much a rediscovered obscurity, rather than unfashionable $1 bin mainstay, but I think this thread needs mention of Kathy Heideman and her 1976 LP Move With Love, which is available these days on Spotify et al (might want to skip the song Daddy-Do, though). https://i.imgur.com/PfEHHy6.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:14 (eleven months ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/1650/7846/products/cathowe_400x.jpg?v=1634057682
Is this good??
from Numero:CATHERINE HOWE - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)This recorded autobiography of Catherine Howe, age 20, briefly appeared in 1971. Too young for memoirs, most artists have barely established any sort of musical competence by the age of legal adulthood, let alone compositions matching the maturity and complexity of Howe’s. What A Beautiful Place, however, is a prodigious effort wrought from the melancholy ruminations of post-adolescence. The album’s twelve songs unfold like a classic bildungsroman, beginning in the smoke-stained industrial county of Yorkshire, transformed by the electrified creative landscape of mid-century London, and retiring to the warm pastoral bliss of the county of Dorset on England’s southern coast. Produced by noted jazz pianist Bobby Scott, the LP—oft-mistaken for a concept album—was available for only a month in the summer of 1971, disappearing after Reflection Records’ shuttering in 1971.More details, backstory etc.https://numerogroup.com/products/catherine-howe-a-place-of-beauty?mc_cid=50a30a300a&mc_eid=348950ba0d
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 01:22 (nine months ago) link
Karen Dalton's In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition)is out now, remastered with bonus tracks--- all streaming here, with the KD backstory and overview: https://karendalton.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-own-time-50th-anniversary-edition
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― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 00:55 (four months ago) link
Speak of thee devil:
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Karen Dalton’s live recordings released for the first timeA new collection of American folk singer and guitarist Karen Dalton’s archival live performances — called Shuckin’ Sugar — is being released via Delmore Recording Society, this April on Record Store Day 2022.The 12-track album features a collection of her previously unreleased live performances with her then-husband and guitarist Richard Tucker, as well as her solo compositions.Shuckin’ Sugar was recorded between 1963 to 1964.The album is accompanied by archival photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Dalton, and an essay by journalist and author Kris Needs.Shuckin’ Sugar follows the 50th anniversary reissue of her In My Own Time album, in March.Head here for more info in advance of Shuckin’ Sugar’s 23rd April release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.
A new collection of American folk singer and guitarist Karen Dalton’s archival live performances — called Shuckin’ Sugar — is being released via Delmore Recording Society, this April on Record Store Day 2022.
The 12-track album features a collection of her previously unreleased live performances with her then-husband and guitarist Richard Tucker, as well as her solo compositions.
Shuckin’ Sugar was recorded between 1963 to 1964.
The album is accompanied by archival photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Dalton, and an essay by journalist and author Kris Needs.
Shuckin’ Sugar follows the 50th anniversary reissue of her In My Own Time album, in March.
Head here for more info in advance of Shuckin’ Sugar’s 23rd April release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/karen-dalton-live-recordings-vinyl-release/
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― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:07 (four months ago) link
Linda Hoover. Very belated release mentioned on the Steely Dan thread but worth logging here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/07/linda-hoover-on-her-great-lost-lp-with-steely-dan-i-mean-to-shine
― Alba, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:00 (one month ago) link
Great to know, thanks! Omnivore is a good label for that, maybe the best.
― dow, Friday, 8 July 2022 22:58 (one month ago) link
Not thee kind of thing we usually consider on here, but a friend recently sent me a link to The Poppy Family feat. Susan Jacks---yep, "Which Way You Goin', Billy?": "Ode To Billy Joe" it def. ain't, but her sound got me curious.She (b. Susan Pesklevits) was a late-teen regular on a Canadian music show, where she met Terry Jacks, whom she later married, and they formed The Poppy Family, then started their own solo careers, his kicking off with "Goodbye Pa-pa it's hard to die," aaaghh, "Seasons in the Sun." They broke up, she continued solo in Canada mainly, died a few months ago--fervent following, tons of stuff on YouTube!http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=susan+jacks+poppy+family+playlist
I remain not crazy about some of the material, but really nice voice x vibe, sunlight-shadow
― dow, Saturday, 30 July 2022 21:34 (two weeks ago) link
You didn’t notice recent revive over here ? poppy family - s/d - what should i get?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2022 21:59 (two weeks ago) link