Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

"i just got her first lp on th fake folkways label from sharon ct"

my brother's wrong by the way. this was her fifth album. seek out rosalie's songbag on Prestige's international label. so great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalie_Sorrels_discography

I think I bought that record from Dan! Or another copy of his, anyway. It is very good.

That Folk Legacy LP >>>> the other Sorrels I picked up, which was a full band affair for the most part with really... shiny production. I think there were synths involved.

(there is the Sorrels cut i mentioned above going on my forthcoming CD-R comp of american underground folk obscurities, stay tuned.)

*Whatever Happened To The Girl That Was* is excellent. From 1973.

this can't be easy to find. i want one:

Somewhere Between

* Release Date: 1964
* Record Label: Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (TAD 3080)
* Studio album
* Notes: Rosalie Sorrels, vocals and guitar ; with accompanying musicians. Recorded at Don Cederstrom Custom Recording, Boise, Idaho.
* Songs: Magic penny (1:52) -- It could be a wonderful world (1:16) -- My father's mansion (3:03) -- Mighty river (2:43) -- Ain't you got a right (2:28) -- Pale green disease (2:04) -- Pig hollow (2:36) -- I saw my country's flag go down (3:14) -- Simple gifts (1:42) -- If I were free (2:28) -- Death of Ellenton (2:15) -- Judas ram (2:08) -- Enola Gay (3:31) -- Killing ground (2:13) -- The miracle (1:46) -- Somewhere between (2:47).

I think the one I didn't like was "Travellin Lady Rids Again." I'm not at my apartment so I can't go double check. I'd love to hear the Songs of the Mormon Pioneers record!

RidEs.

ian, search Always A Lady and the one scott just said. I need to relisten to Traveling Lady and Moment Of Happiness, can't remember them well enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBaL2FNHIA&feature=player_embedded

i am obsessed with this song.
the first version i heard was the sorrels. this is nearly as good as that.
are there more?
i've come around on "traveling lady rides again" btw--her version of "feather ben" is on that record and i don't think i could live w/o it atm.

i like what little i've heard of her. (her voice actually reminds me a little of one of my aunts, who has a sort of flat but deceptively pretty singing voice.) anyway, which if any of these available on emusic is worth the while?

I don't know ANY of those. But I bet the Folk Songs of Utaha and Idaho might have some Mormon folk song content if that's yer bag.

bump cuz i need to get more of these rekkerds. i offered some guy $4.99 for something he had at $5.99 or best offer & he declined :( do i suck it up? i don't even know if the lp is still up.

ian which ones are u looking 4? my local store has some.

uhm, pretty much anything from the early-mid seventies if they're cheap!

yeah they are all under $7 for sure, I will check and PM you

you the man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA3XahdnaAA&feature=related

love this. the beginning.

her parody of "My Favorite Things" is hilarious send-up of hippie/leftist pretensions (although I take issue with some of the inclusions). too bad it's so hard to find a decent recording. there's a snippet of it here, but I got the lyrics from a live version Hedy West recorded in 1968:

wretched excesses of wine and spaghetti
Ginsberg and Corso, Genet, Ferlingheti
marijuana and yoga and strange happenings
these are a few of my favorite things

hashish and opium, all you can find
psilocybin and methedrine blowing my mind
and that expanded feeling LSD brings
these are a few of my favorite things

when the fuzz comes and I'm busted
and I'm feeling oh so sad
I'll just swallow a few of my favorite things
and then I won't feel so bad

mandrake root salad, food strange and mad
Hieronymus Bosch and the Marquis de Sade
erotica fancy, erotica straight
these are the things that just make me feel great

blue scaly monsters clawing with black nails
absinthe and Spanish fly in my cocktails
Zen Buddhist monks with their yings and their yangs
these are a few of my favorite thangs

Timothy Leary and his holy work
Ken Kesey, John Cage, and the great Roland Kirk
and wild-eyed mystics reading I Chings
these are a few of my favorite things

when the fuzz comes and I'm busted
and me and the [cling clay swing?]
I'll just swallow a few of my favorite things
and then I won't know a thing

I think i found an early 70s lp in a 60p box in front of a record shop I frequented about 20yrs ago. Not sure if I brought it over here or not. I need to check it out.

yeah it was 'What Ever Happened to the Girl That Was' that I bought but I can't see if it is in my lps here. Have to tidy up to get to where they are on the shelf and go through them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72Aj6-2fjk

rest easy, rosalie. i'll always be listening!