can we give some love to the ladies of the 60's/70's that aren't receiving any hipster kisses?

Scott Seward seemingly knows more about Karen Alexander than anyone else in the world, including Karen Alexander herself.

at any rate, this thread of his convinced me a while back that Voyager is a remarkable album. I still haven't heard a note of her music though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GfpFV6snfc

she is the aunt of dumb Alaskan singer-songwriter Jewel!

No Way!!!!

biographical info on her is scarce, but I found this on a Jewel mailing list, ha:

Mossy Davidson (birth name Mairiis Kilcher) is Jewel's aunt -
one of her dad's sisters. "Northwind Calling" was a double album she
released back in 1977 and was an early musical influence on Jewel.
Jewel also lived with Mossy for awhile (in Homer, AK) which is when she
got into caring for horses. Vinyl copies of this album are extremely
rare as it was only released regionally. However, in 1997, I digitally
remastered the original recordings. Shortly afterwards, Mossy
rereleased it as a single CD that contained all the material on both
albums, as well as a booklet featuring many vintage Kilcher family
photos. The CD, like the original album, was issued under her
pre-married name, Mossy Kilcher. The CD used to be available from the
jeweljk.com store, but they sold out on them years ago. It's original
Alaskan folk music, so it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but like
everyone in that family, Mossy has a compelling voice and the album has
a lot of charm. The CD also sounds considerably better than the vinyl.
I'm not knowledgable about current availabilty, but a web search might
turn up info on that. A search through this list's archives, circa
late 1997/early 1998 will probably bring up additional info from around
the time of the CD release.

there's an interview with her here and some more info here, including the interesting detail that Jewel covered one of Mossy's songs on her latest album.

the Northwind Calling album is really spare, lonesome, backwoods, husky-voiced folk singer-songwriter stuff, kinda like if Kate Wolf moved to the Alaska wilderness and recorded herself in her living room with a reel-to-reel.

(Northwind Calling being Mossy Davidson's double album from 1977)

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6471/067cq.jpg
Elpida's self titled album from 73 is my recent favorite.

jansch cover, but man is this record lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmmWWOJMIY

Decided to promote the singer I asked about above. Finally listened to the whole album, the rest I don't like as much, but this cut really has stood the test of time. Thanks again jaxon for the link. (I even made/posted the video myself.)

Kthy Dalton - "Cannibal Forest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_t2oYeBKBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4ftWUMvzQ&feature=related
here's one I found on youtube of Elpida

That Kathy Dalton song is funky! I really love it.

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2229/33010.jpg

1978 self-titled album (confusingly referred to as either La sirène or Loguivy de la mer) by the one-time Gérard Manset collaborator Anne Vanderlove. it doesn't really sound the way the cover looks (darkwave?) but delivers plenty of haunting moments of reverb-heavy Breton/Celtic/American folk, with the occasional touch of Moog.

in lieu of a youtube clip, here's a download of her version of the Child Ballad "The Great Silkie".

wow. that cover is straight out of gaimans sandman comics.

alarming lack of Akiko Yano in this thread !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Zu4krWnBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSM711elho&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwIWjEw1GQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks2dH-jNIpI&feature=related

Speaking of Japanese ladies: Morita Doji.

Shusha (Guppy)

http://www.iranian.com/Music/Shusha/Images/photo.jpg

Picked this up today, nicely orchestrated straightforward folk-pop -anything I can find on youtube is from her Iranian *folkloric* records.

Anyone here heard any of her (many) other records?

I'll throw in a word for Barbara Mason. Here's one from the '60s (love the string arrangement on this, especially on the bridge)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36Qy0gHnMQ

...and one from the '70s, in which she berates her guy for using her for what the title suggests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lbA_by02M

BTW the aforementioned Bonnie Dobson gets plenty of hipster kisses, if only for writing the oft-covered "Morning Dew". (Yes, she wrote it, despite what Tim Rose would like to think. It's on her 1962 debut album IIRC).

Listening to Bonnie Koloc right now! I pulled this LP out of my grandpa's collection and expected it to sound like Melanie, based on the cover pic and that he had a couple of Melanie records. It's much better than that.

And one more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHlzcF9YkQA

Krysia from her S/T and only album from 1974. Features Mattacks/ Pegg/ Donahue and sound palette wise isn't to far from Sandy Denny/ R&L Thompson records of the same era. Lovely voice and some fine songs, though, typically, the only youtube i can find is of the only cover.

Judy Roderick - Woman Blue (killer trad folk/blues album)

what about Hedy West? she recorded eight albums between 1963 and 1976, specializing in old-timey ballads and labor songs, but she's mostly remembered for writing the folk standard "500 Miles". vocally she reminds me a bit of Rosalie Sorrels, but her style is much more traditional, tending toward solo banjo field recordings à la Roscoe Holcomb. her father was poet and labor organizer Don West, and she occasionally set his poems to music. she spent a lot of time in England (playing with guys like Martin Carthy and Danny Thompson & recording a few albums on Topic Records) and Germany (her last album, the brilliantly-titled Whores, Hell, and Biscuits, was one of Bear Family's first releases) but moved back to the US and had mostly retired from performing by 1980.

this is as powerful a performance as any:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjcgluPyJQ

Wolfgang's Vault is streaming three live sets of hers from 1967. most of her original records are pretty hard to come by, although Fellside Records released a compilation of her three Topic LPs just last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5JCGbq3Wk

total hipster bait, but can some ilx record collector please buy this Caroline Wolf album for $500 so I can hear it all the way through?

Maria Barton - "Rainful Days"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qIbRgdhoo

solo acoustic loner folk — also hipster bait, I guess. it's weird that this was recorded in 1980 by some Christian singer (this album is secular, though) and not in 1970 by some California folkie. it would have fit right in on Numero's Ladies from the Canyon comp.

this Tia Blake album has been getting some attention, and it just got reissued this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTwrtjILeo

Is Marlena Shaw hipster loved? Just had a track by her come on my walkman on the bus home and I love her voice.
Bought a Chess 2cd of her stuff after finding out it was her that did the vocal version of Wade In the Water that used to get played at mod clubs in my mid teens in the early 80s. Had wanted to get that track ever since and there are several other near divine tracks on the set. yum.

Jill Cislaghi ~Friend of Mine~ LP RARE OOP private press Massachusetts loner acid rural femme psych folk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pk0zv23lM

can someone please buy this for me?

been digging kate wolf lately. she needs more love.

what's the best album of hers to start with?

Saw Nanci Griffith in Oslo this tuesday, and she talked at lenght about Kate Wolf before doing her wonderful version of "Across the Great Divide". I knew the song, but had barerly heard about Kate Wolf. Please speak of her.

This seems to be the best thread for Rita Coolidge until/unless she gets her own. That being the case, hope she has a good pre-nup.

learn how to pretend

kate's voice can give me the shivers sometimes. i don't know what is out there on disc. probably lots of stuff. i just see her albums every once in a while and i play them. the two album retrospective is really good. gold in california, i think it's called. her voice is such a strong thing. a pure kind of instrument. she looks so normal and she was normal and i wonder if that's why more people - younger people - don't know her? she looks like she could have been my pottery teacher down at the craft center in the 70's. her songs could be REALLY great. like, anyone on earth could do them forever. country people, folk people, all kinds of people. and those people do cover them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXGzblg7Ws

anyway, gold in california is a good place to start. some of her strongest songs.

safe at anchor is a really good album. she'll do those songs where its just her at the piano that just kill me in a sandy denny way.

i bought a kate wolf lp on a whim a couple years back, her debut lp. it's autographed! only later did i find out she died in the mid '80s. but she's fantastic. was. and is.

Thanks, Scott! Will look into her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQOsaAbRclI&feature=youtu.be

HELP ME FIND THE SINGER!!! Sometime in 1967, during my first year at UCSC, a young woman came hitchiking through UCSC in Santa Cruz California. She stayed in our dorm for one night and played her guitar, sang and laughed and then left. I never knew her name. I heard her singing, grabbed my Sony model 350 Recorder and two cheap dynamic microphines and stood above her while she played and sang. My hands got a little tired after 25 minutes or so. The edits are just me turning the machine to pause mechanically. Occasionally people come in to the dorm room in the middle of the recording. I have had to reduce the bit rate to fit this to the time alloted by Youtube, but that will be remedied.Also, I have equalized just a litte because the mics had very bad high ends due to their mediocre design. For now, it is a stolen moment in time from an anonymous and very talented guitar player and singer. Recorded on the top floor of Parrington House. BEST LISTENED TO WITH HEADPHONES!!

You know, Caroline was in a Broadway musical with Bonnie Koloc. So I was able to call Bonnie on the phone last year, which was very cool. I found all but one of Koloc's old LPs here--the only one I don't have is her first Epic LP. Her second Epic, produced by Joel Dorn, is perhaps her most produced effort. I guess it's her last one on Ovation that was the one cut in Nashville w/ Bergen White and a bunch of people like that. Has "Roll Me on the Water," which Jody Miller (more of a Nashville-crossover-pop-country singer) cut. you guys may be interested to know that Caroline Peyton has recorded a brand-new record--her first real solo record ever, with Mark Nevers in Nashville, with William Tyler on guitar. She's mastering it soon, it's finished, and it's not much like her old '70s stuff, but real good.

the other artist on this thread I've been kind of obsessed with lately is Dory Previn. I now have all of her records from 1970 thru the end of the decade, and found her Carnegie Hall twofer recently for 99 cents. I enjoy her but recognize just how fucked-up her music and lyrics really are--way too wordy, but it's kind of charming actually. I suppose a woman whose most well-known song (outside of "Come Saturday Morning") is "Yadda Yadda La Scala," about how people just keep talking, would have to be quite possibly the most prolix singer-songwriter of all time. Which is charming, but so far I've run off several friends trying to play her shit for them.

Really very interested to hear Caroline's new recordings, Edd. Any idea when they'll be out and about?

Wilma Burgess is criminally underrated! as a young undiscovered Nashville singer, she waited patiently for Patsy Cline to doe, whereupon she bought Patsy's house and car and bunch of other personal effects, and Owen Bradley (Patsy's producer) promoted her as the new Patsy Cline for a few years until her career fizzled out. she later opened Nashville's first lesbian bar. she was the first singer to record 'Misty Blue', and her version is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-qBfdyxYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxnLX9zRl0

*waited patiently for Patsy Cline to die

I'm constantly surprised that pre-'At Seventeen' Janis Ian never seems to get any love. Her first few albums as a teen prodigy are amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYLU6JIqWtg

yeah, there's some great stuff on Janis's Verve Years compilation, although Shadow Morton wasn't the most sympathetic producer. she wasn't really a pop singer at that phase of her career, so those string sections and brass bands and organs sound like desperate attempts to commercialize her slightly old-fashioned coffeehouse folk sensibilities. the success of 'Society's Child' was largely a burden for her artistically, as she hints at in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8HQgoEq7A

Between the Lines is more consistent than any of her first few albums, although its tastefulness makes it less immediate/hard-hitting than her early material. I don't know if she ever came out with a song as boldly over-the-top as 'New Christ Cardiac Hero' once she went the adult contemporary route.

Baby Washington

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/455/19971539455_e5fbb1c291_z.jpg
This is a nice record I've been playing a lot.

my new favorite Wilma Burgess song. it's so lush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOO2JdWJQcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlXNBw6nzqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jfSFMOLUAA

lora Schultz 2 months ago

Wilma was THE best voice in Nashville,also my dearest friend, I spent many weekends in Patsy's house while she lived there, Wilma always said Patsy's spirit was there, and nearly all her furniture was left there by Charlie right down to her car and credit cards. Wilma wanted to give me her car, but I let my husband talk me out of it. Wilma worked many of my husband's shows he promoted , and her mom was a regular visitor in our home , staying for several months, which we enjoyed. They both are missed.
Widow of Ken Allen