― willem (willem), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
colin blunstone, one year and ennismore. ok, he's not exactly from the west coast, but his first two solo albums could've been. zombines fans consider one year his peak, but ennismore features "i don't believe in miracles," one of my fave pop songs of the era.
and i'll second don's nomination of west-coast-in-spirit rosanne cash, especially for seven year ache and its amazing title track, even if it did come out a bit later (1981) than most of the stuff being talked about here.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Don, Thursday, 21 October 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
personally, i find him to be one of the best guitarists to walk the face of the earth, equally for his skill as his non-showiness. some of his fingerpicking work blows my mind six ways from sunday. also he is hott, writes amazing songs, and his crazy production work never fails to impress my small brane.
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 21 October 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 21 October 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link
thomas jefferson kaye's "first grade" is this album on dunhill, about '73 i think. "american lovers" is a great song, written by becker and fagen. kaye wrote "one man band" covered by three dog night, and he does a version on this album, which is pretty obscure. xgau liked it a lot--that's where i learned about it. worth finding.
moby grape's "21 granite creek" and "truly fine citizen" are worth tracking down on LP; "truly fine" is not avail. on cd; "21" is only avail. on one of those lousy matthew katz san fran sound reissues. they're both somewhat underrated examples of this sound.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I found this book absolutely fascinating. Hoskyns sets himself up as something of an outsider to it all (no surprise that) but accumulated enough first-hand info that it reads in many places almost as an oral history. I was gripped by it, but my tastes don't sync well with most ILMers, so YMMV.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 21 October 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 21 October 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
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― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Bizarre but true, this is Linda Perhacs's story. And it's a story that keeps getting better. She's writing again and finding "floods of new material" coming forth. There's a new album to come later this year, 35 years after her first, Parallelograms, and among the contributors will be Devendra Banhart, one of the much-celebrated young alternative folkies who claim Perhacs as inspiration and have been singing her praises in interviews for several years.
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xpost Byron Berline RIP--also played on Stones' "Country Honk," still sweet. As mentioned upthread, he and Country Gazette got hired to fill out touring Burritos, then the previous members left and BB & CG were the Burritos, for contract purposes (there's a site, which I may have linked way upthread, that lists all permutations of the Flying Burritos up to whatever point---I once received a promo of the Walter Egan-led line-up: pretty good! Dognose who's been in there since, prob some post-quarantine regrouping being rethought now) Once again, the links to Berline's crew a Ronstadt (sounds like it), also their own set:If this is her show w Byron Berline and Country Gazette I heard (could have sworn it was a live broadcast from a studio), it's amazing---she mentions how much better this is than her tour (the early one w Neil Young, I think), where the audiences were more interested in tossing beach balls around. Digs deep into the olde roots and lets fire----scroll down for link to original post of whole show (variously labelled '72, '74, maybe others, on YouTube posts, as you can tell by their having the same setlists). Also see links to songs from a '75 set w Byron & CG, which poster says has better sound than the first show---haven't listened to much of it yet, but most of the links still work: https://ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1431/ronstadts-bluegrass-country
― dow, Monday, October 18, 2021
― dow, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Marmaduke's voice sounded like that of a defective Garcia clone, but think I can listen around him again, and this should be worth the effort:
New Riders of the Purple Sage’s Lyceum ‘72 was recorded on a 16-track machine by notable Grateful Dead engineers Betty Cantor, Janet Furman, Bob Matthews, Rosie McGee and Wizard–the team which also recorded the Grateful Dead’s EU ‘72 Performance. https://t.co/2LFrEsVVnK— Omnivore Recordings (@OmnivoreRecords) August 8, 2022
― dow, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
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Michael Nesmith – Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash7A Records are proud to announce the 50th Anniversary Edition of Michael Nesmith’s “Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash” album. Released on CD & Vinyl on April 7, the album includes a bonus track, extensive liner notes and session details by Andrew Sandoval, as well as lyrics to all of the songs.The AlbumNesmith’s time with the Monkees was well and truly in the rear-view mirror and he needed a new place to live and work. He caught the ear of Jac Holzman, head of Elektra Records, and a path forward miraculously appeared. Realising that most of the record companies at the time didn’t understand Country Rock, Nesmith convinced Holzman to start a new label, Countryside. Nesmith would run the label, put together a ‘house band’ and produce albums by various up and coming country artists. Unfortunately, most of the new label’s releases didn’t make much of an impression and Nesmith soon started to contemplate his own music again. Aided by the power of his Countryside house band, he quickly crafted Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash, a full and final RCA album. Despite its commercial sheen, Ranch Stash wasn’t a success sales-wise and it became the closing remark to a heavy chapter in Nesmith’s life, a final “adios” to Monkee Mike, to the cosmic cowboy, and to his family, as he moved further on up the trail.Included on our 50th Anniversary Edition is the 1973 alternate version of “Marie’s Theme”. The Vinyl version is in a gatefold sleeve and printed on 180g grey vinyl and includes extensive liner notes and session info by Andrew Sandoval.50th Anniversary Edition• Includes Bonus Track• Extensive Liner Notes• Lyrics To All Songs
7A Records are proud to announce the 50th Anniversary Edition of Michael Nesmith’s “Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash” album. Released on CD & Vinyl on April 7, the album includes a bonus track, extensive liner notes and session details by Andrew Sandoval, as well as lyrics to all of the songs.
The Album
Nesmith’s time with the Monkees was well and truly in the rear-view mirror and he needed a new place to live and work. He caught the ear of Jac Holzman, head of Elektra Records, and a path forward miraculously appeared. Realising that most of the record companies at the time didn’t understand Country Rock, Nesmith convinced Holzman to start a new label, Countryside. Nesmith would run the label, put together a ‘house band’ and produce albums by various up and coming country artists. Unfortunately, most of the new label’s releases didn’t make much of an impression and Nesmith soon started to contemplate his own music again. Aided by the power of his Countryside house band, he quickly crafted Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash, a full and final RCA album. Despite its commercial sheen, Ranch Stash wasn’t a success sales-wise and it became the closing remark to a heavy chapter in Nesmith’s life, a final “adios” to Monkee Mike, to the cosmic cowboy, and to his family, as he moved further on up the trail.
Included on our 50th Anniversary Edition is the 1973 alternate version of “Marie’s Theme”. The Vinyl version is in a gatefold sleeve and printed on 180g grey vinyl and includes extensive liner notes and session info by Andrew Sandoval.
50th Anniversary Edition• Includes Bonus Track• Extensive Liner Notes• Lyrics To All Songs
― dow, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
I finally listened to New Riders' xpost Lyceum '72 all the way through last night---72 minutes, I think---after a couple of interrupted but already mostly pleasurable attempts, and Marmaduke nowhere on here sounds like xpost defective Garcia clone, although he can sound Garcia-like, not quite pulling off some of the extended ballads of pathos like JG could, and there are a few too many of these in this set---but then he pushes against the bounds of the song, the bounds of discretion, as a cowtown survivor had better not do, in "Dirty Business," which goes on and builds for eight minutes, led by him and Buddy Cage, whose steel guitar is always a treat---whole band is ready for all the uptempo stuff too, "I Don't Need No Doctor," "Willie and the Hand Jive," "Hello Mary Lou"---though I wish that lead guitarist David Nelson had sung a few leads, considering his crisp vocals in the post-Marmaduke etc, line-up I heard*.
Anyroad, today Omnivore announced a flash sale on all three of their live NR sets:
Tuesday, June 20 through Thursday, June 22, Field Trip (CD / 2-LP), Thanksgiving In New York (2-CD / 3-LP), and Lyceum ’72 (CD) will be available for 50% off....Titles are limited to stock on hand, so there are no rain checks, but you can order as many copies as fit in your cart. Speaking of carts, please don’t add any preorders of new titles in there, as that will delay your order and you’ll miss out on the sale pricing.So, Ride on and add some classic New Riders Of The Purple Sage to your collection. Please note, the prices you'll see in the webstore will have the discount already applied to them.
So, Ride on and add some classic New Riders Of The Purple Sage to your collection.
Please note, the prices you'll see in the webstore will have the discount already applied to them.
*My preview when they played Columbus oh in '09:
New Riders of the Purple SageJerry Garcia and singer/picker David Nelson’s pre-Dead country adventures morphed into New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Nelson, with Garcia’s steel guitar successor, Buddy Cage (survivor of Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks) reformed New Riders in 2005, recruiting Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano, plus two from self-stamped “swamp groove“ unit Stir Fry, bassist Ronnie Penque and drummer Johnny Markowski. NRPS roll deft jams and tight tunes, many recently written with Garcia collaborator Robert Hunter, who keeps Riders swirling around a “Barracuda Moon,” and curtly invokes the difference between a bad loan/And a debt.” Nelson’s subtly Dylanesque delivery underscores such lines with dry wit. Expect their aromatic hit, “Panama Red.”07/27 @ Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W Third Ave. ,8 p.m
― dow, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
Here's a playlist I made that's a replica of a 2006 Ace / Big Beat CD comp:
Country & West Coast: The Birth of Country Rock
some of the tracks weren't available, so i had to improvise, but it's 95% the same.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 17:56 (ten months ago) link
Thanks!! Outlaws and Armadillos is another that could do with playlist tweak, not nec. re availability issues, but as xgau said, some of it is right artists, wrong tracks.
― dow, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:47 (ten months ago) link
i haven't listened to this one in a long time. there is good stuff on it. sounds way better on vinyl. i mean, it would sound better than rando youtube upload. but if you see a cheap copy maybe pick it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-W142qnsk
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:46 (five months ago) link