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

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

her records are almost impossible to sell. so good pick for this thead!

Will have to check more Wilma, among others here. Thread revival also reminds me that I always meant to post about the Women Blue comp, which incl. tracks by several artists already mentioned, like Michele, whose Saturns Rings I described upthread in '08 (without ever getting to the eventual paranoid starflowerchild vibe, quite: Laurel Canyon in Manson times). A few of them are relatively well-known, at least to folkies: Sorrels, Koloc, McCaslin---but most not, although almost all of 'em were still on YouTube and/or Spotify the last tyme I checked (not recently).
And as the following review points out, this is a bit more varied in arrangements etc. than Ladies From The Canyon---a few audio samples here too:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/women-blue-16-lost-us-femvox-classics-mw0000825913

huh never heard of Wilma - nice stuff

did she record those tracks before or after she married fred flinstone?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_wilma_burgess_country_musics_first_openly_lesbian_singer

https://www.discogs.com/Rachel-Faro-Refugees/release/5569643

^impressive credit list on this one! the whole album is on youtube (can't find it anywhere else) and it's pretty good, like Carole King meets Court and Spark-era Joni. I love the organ and treated keyboard on 'Time Passes Slowly':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmAd-vU7qA

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.

Just listened to that anonymous "help me find the singer" youtube upthread; that's kinda fascinating!

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.

Pre- and *post-Jerry albums, that is, if she did any.

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.

(there are two later dawn of the 21st century albums that nobody listens to because they are later dawn of the 21st century albums.)

the dave guard & the whiskeyhill singers album on capitol that judy was on is fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHw0fbZHPE

i think Fanny actually do get some love. if not from hipsters. Birtha need more love. they rocked so hard.

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

Probably some good lesser known stuff in here
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/milk-of-the-tree-an-anthology/

good stuff on there. i gotta play that susan pillsbury album again soon. so great.

did i mention risa potters on here? those two albums are really nice. was listening to the second one the other day.

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

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:

ROSEBUD
ROSEBUD
FILE UNDER: R/ROCK
CD: DIGIPAK
SRLP: 16.98 / BOX LOT: 30
5% DISCOUNT THROUGH 6/23/2017
AVAILABLE JUNE 16, 2017
WWW.OMNIVORERECORDINGS.COM
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/OMNIVORERECORDINGS
WWW.TWITTER.COM/OMNIVORERECORDS
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Remastered and expanded reissue of the
1971 classic.
• Contains 10 bonus tracks—7 previously
unissued .
• Packaging contains rare ephemera and
new interviews with band members Judy
Henske, 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 songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Craig Doerge (pronounced “Durgee”) and John Seiter (known for his work
with 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, gospel
rockers, 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 barely
lasted 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 previously
unissued. The packaging contains photos and ephemera, tracing the changing history in the making
of the album, as well as new interviews with Henske, Yester and Doerge in Alfonso’s essay. Produced
for release by Grammy ® -winning Producer Cheryl Pawelski, and new mastering and restoration by
Michael Graves (who also has won a few Grammys ® himself), Rosebud is ready to take the uninitiated
on a journey, and adds nearly another album’s worth of rare singles and unheard tracks for those who
loved 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 SEITER
ORIGINAL ALBUM
Panama
Le Soleil
Reno
Western Wisconsin
Lorelei
Salvation
Lullabye II
(Summer Carol)
The Yum Yum Man
Roll Home Cheyenne
Flying To Morning
BONUS TRACKS
Lazy
Reno (MONO SINGLE VERSION)
Mercury Of Fools *
Hey Old Friend (JUDY VOCAL) *
Le Soleil (DEMO) *
What’s The Matter
With Sam *
Easy On Me, Easy *
Father Of Souls
Mercury Of Fools (DEMO) *
Hey Old Friend
(JERRY VOCAL) (DEMO) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED
Rosebud
KEY SELLING POINTS
The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!
Photo: Henry Diltz

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BpZGRIl5s

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? 😔

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb59WCJTs_Q

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Yeeeeees

A million thank yous

I've def conflated someone else's bio with Linda's, glad shes still around

me too and yr v welcome

Faun Fables vibes there