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

whoa! i'll be there with bells on. and a baseball cap.

before i forget, you know what are pretty good? the two early 70's Gloria Loring albums on Evolution Records that I have. total hippie stoner folk pop. waaaaaay mellow. *sing a song for the mountain* and *...and now we come to distances*. buy them now cheap before espers namedrops them. some of the more rousing orchestral numbers/covers are a little dudly, but half of each album is mellow goodness. you can never have enough trippy covers of "dolphins" if you ask me.

jackie deshannon records from the 60's/70's and loving most of them. when is she gonna get her hipster reappraisal?

i've been trying to spread the news but i'm not hip. i think her poppy, raspy voice doesn't do it for the kids into more folkie stylings

i love the phrase "hipster kisses"

i love hipster kisses irl

cmere

love this album so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJIpWNEtwk&feature=related

love this album too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZxJ93QJ9s&feature=related

listened to some late-seventies libby titus album today. lotsa stars. carly simon, paul simon, members of the band, eric kaz, james taylor. it was alright when it wasn't too horn-y

this album is my jam::
http://place1.dyndns.org/music/files/images/detailed/1532788.jpg

wow never seen this before! crazy, man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5Qf-B9kVo&feature=related

barbara is majik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8HqSqGcns

i love hipster kisses irl

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cmere

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*smack*

dig that barbara keith tune scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmD2tAEmgyg

i mentioned dobson upthread. here are 3 amazing songs

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcaM-x1U6nA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8DdihnlNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AonhE1U-EL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQj-6FtpPg

blushing

"dig that barbara keith tune scott"

i've gotten to know barbara and her husband a little bit. they are awesome. they come in my store. and they have a seriously rocking power trio with their son. their band is big in texas for some reason! they go and do little tours down there. i love her album on reprise. and i have always been fond of her first band Kangaroo. they made one album in 1968. i still need a copy of that first solo album though. her husband tells great stories. he grew up with and was good friends with terry melcher. so, that was exciting to me, because i'm such a big terry fan. he used to party in that ill-fated house of terry's. and hang with dennis wilson, etc. he wrote for t.v. munsters episodes! but they both got their fill of the t.v. and record business and moved east long ago. everyone covered barbara's songs in the 70's. even streisand on stoney end ("free the people").

Just to say I love this thread....

More ladies in '11 please

milton, thank you so much for that emmanuelle parrenin. loving it, although i didn't hear any ladies singing.

just picked up a copy of Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes "Le Rat Débile Et L'homme Des Champs". so great. thought of you

she's playing hurdy gurdy on that track. whole album is a creeper, it starts off completely folky and then side 2 kicks off with that proto-techno track and then veers off into total cosmic music

side 1's more like this:

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

this ended up being more of a Veronique Chalot thread but she belongs on this thread too: Emanuelle Parrenin 'Maison Rose' 1977

<3 Ribeiro. that's one's the one with 'Un Regard Clair (Obscur)'.

this is for milton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KppaDz6oAYE&feature=related

Soviet videos really turn me on.

somewhat in the Parrenin/Chalot vein is the Kristen Noguès' 1976 album Marc'h Gouez. it's French Celtic harp music, but it isn't grand and progressive like Alan Stivell or medieval traditionalist like Chalot or trippy like Parrenin in her weirder moments. Parrenin's 'Plume Blanche, Plume Noire' is a good point of comparison for Noguès' rural-sounding, entrancingly repetitive folk that has just the right amount of understatedly odd touches in the arrangements to keep it from being merely pretty (not that "merely pretty" is always a bad thing). dig the abrasive electric keyboard bit that seems to interrupt the singer in mid-verse in the last 30 seconds of the first clip and the electronic whine bubbling under the surface of an otherwise tranquil harp solo in the last 30 seconds of the second clip (actually the very end of the album).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzSAXvsG1J4

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

I'm really liking the first Bonnie Dobson clip that jaxon posted upthread. somehow I had her pegged as a straight, old school folkie like Pete Seeger (I love Seeger, don't get me wrong) but she was a very formidable pop singer evidently.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/sonofstan/september%2026th%20finds/IMG_3743-1.jpg

Fantastic record by Rosemarie Taylor, an American woman living in Ireland in the '70s. So obscure, I can't find a pic, so you have to do with my crappy photo, never mind a youtube.

Has Susan Pillsbury been mentioned here yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88zkduPGhQ

really digging the first two Jennifer Warnes albums on Parrot when she was simply "Jennifer". mix of originals and covers and the production on them is awesome. both produced by Marty Cooper. just tons of cool little touches. atmosphere. double-tracked vocals. and her voice is likewise really cool on them.

http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/148/798/027/ZkRG.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Jennifer-Warnes-I-Can-Remember-Ev-488458.jpg

I believe I have four Dana Gillespie songs on my hard drive (including an excellent cover of "Pay You Back with Interest"), and three from Twiggy. I was especially surprised by how great Twiggy could be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUvVRea2wvY

found this jani hall by accident looking for annette peacock and it's just ridiculously beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Q5oMj1wlc

I've been listening to these ladies
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3186/voyagerfront.jpg
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2672/marielittle11uf0.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1623/cdone.jpg

All very folky and lovely, except Karen Alexander which has been a wtf record for me. Seriously who is she? I saw that she has another record, but the net gives little info on her.

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.