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

http://www.wirz.de/music/langhorn/grafik/avatar4.jpg

This is a kick-ass mix of earthy folk-blues from the Lyman Family featuring Lisa Kindred. She sounds tough as nails. This record has gone up in price. Plus, its cult backstory gives it some hipster points. But you can still find it in dollar bins every now and then.

Joy of Cooking!

THESE LESBIANS SLAY
STEEL GUITAR BREAKS FOR DAYS

http://www.guitaristka.ru/zapad/deadly_nightshade/dead_lp1.jpg

Rita Coolidge and Maria Muldaur really rub me the wrong way, as does Jennifer Warnes. They all sounds so hopelessly bored with everything I've ever heard them sing; I just don't get it.

That's crazy talk! Admittedly, I don't know anything of Muldaur's catalog other than "Midnight at the Oasis", but that is a great song! She sounds like she wants to slip Rudi Valentino's camel a quaalude and get down to snorting lines and being mischeivous with the sheik.

I like Rita's version of "your love is lifting me higher" even better than the original.

this thread is now number one in a google search for kay huntington. just so you know.

Great! This could double as the de facto Kay Huntington thread.

buy it now for 7 bucks!

(Pouts) But I want it for a dollar like edd got it for.

Edd, tell us more about your Kay Huntington experiences. Why is the record so weird/frightening/drink needable?

i used to have that deadly nightshade album. i never played it. i want that lyman family thing. that gets major hipster points though. i'll find one here eventually. they had a cult house on the island. you can still find lyman cult TAPES on the island occasionally.

anyway, this thread inspired me to start yet another thread!

This Is The Thread Where I Tell The World How Much I Love *Karen Alexander* And Her Album *Voyager*.

Susan Pillsbury

There was a mini- rediscovery on Vinyl Vulture (now VG+) last year of her S/T and only album from '73
Great songs, and with Jay Berliner and Richard Davis - pretty much the Astral Weeks Band in fact

.i want that lyman family thing. that gets major hipster points though. i'll find one here eventually. they had a cult house on the island. you can still find lyman cult TAPES on the island occasionally.

Yes! That whole phenomenon is sorely neglected.

The lyman family thing is weird. You'd think it would've received more hipster props that it has. Jim Kweskin's America LP is a trippy ride.

Geoff and Maria Muldaur had strong ties to Lyman, although both bolted after it got too weird.

Paul Williams (the critic, not the muppet) as well!

There was a great article/history on mel lyman/jim kweskin in a recent issue of Ugly Things. VERY informative.

That article is really good. This i a HUGE resourse for all things Lyman. You can even download the original Rolling Stone feature.

Yeh, that website bloo my mind when I first happened upon it.

wow, yeah, great page. i have that kay boyle novel. never knew that was mel-induced.

Erma Franklin, Aretha's sister, deserves some love. She might have cut the definitive version of (Take A Little) Piece of My Heart.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmr3Br8B_PM

i've got 2 Bonnie Koloc albums. i'm actually gonna start my dj set at dan selzer's club w/one of her songs. it was featured in Andy Votel's first Folk is Not a Four Letter word, so yes, definitely some hipster love there.

what about Melanie? pretty popular, but also along these lines.

this style of music is easily my wife's least favorite style of music i can play around the house.

Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings's wife, has at least one song i LOVE ("New wine")

is it just me, or does that Midnight Special DVD set look kinda cool? Keep your eye out for photo.

'm actually gonna start my dj set at dan selzer's club w/one of her songs
When is this happening?

Libby Titus was married to Levon Helm at one point, wasn't she, and now is married to somebody else...Becker or Fagen maybe? Daughter helps Levon out with his "Rambles" I think.

Essra Mohawk briefly discussed here: Schoolhouse Rock C/D?

Maria Muldaur seems to turn up Zelig-like in all variety of music biographies, but all I know is Midnight at the Oasis.

-- dell
True dat. To my knowledge, she turns up in White Bicycles: Making Music In The 60s, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina & Richard Farina, Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story and Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson. I wouldn't be surprised if she is mentioned in the recent Moondog book and Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture as well.

Maybe I should have used some semicolons in there.

But what about that other MM Mistress of Midnight, Melissa Manchester?

Serge Gainsbourg could have written another song, "Initials M.M."

Essra Mohawk briefly discussed here: Schoolhouse Rock C/D?

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:30 AM

um and yeah here -

Essra Mohawk: "Primordial Man" - worth spending £21.99 on or not?

also -

Maria Muldaur - Classic or Dud?

i tried to start a revival! but it was a no-go

I can't say I am a big Bonnie Koloc fan, despite the fact that I AM a dutiful listener to The Midnight Special, every Saturday night. Well, I can't honestly say that I listen to the full three hours ... Rich can get pret-ty corny, so I usually have to disengage and pop on a Free album at some point. but the man has definitely turned me on to some nice folk stuffs

hows about ronee blakley? i like rita coolidge. any chance of an olivia newton john (pre-grease) hipster revival? if so i'm onboard.

"any chance of an olivia newton john (pre-grease) hipster revival?"

i tried this a while back. people weren't ready. but i'll definitely bring it up at my next hipster union local meeting. it would have to go to a vote.

Some make-or-break early ONJ:

"Banks of the Ohio"
"The River's Too Wide"
"Something Better to Do"
"Slow Down Jackson"
"Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying"
"Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)"
"I'll Bet You a Kangaroo"
"Making a Good Thing Better"

Plus a box set-full of covers/desecrations of rockist faves.

And one Grease-era track, the exquisite, vacuous, devastating "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" which kicked off the Totally Hot album and was featured mantra-like in the film(s) The Beaver Trilogy (you can see Crispin Glover sing it here). (Sean Penn got a shot at it too in one version.)
But the film(s) cut out the dénouement where she goes all Yoko. Check it out here.

i have a great euro best-of cd and it can't be beat as far as track-listing goes. i love it. and the sound is stellar. one of my favorite Cds that i own. and i love her covers!

i always see 70s bonnie raitt records in the dollar bins, but i never buy them ... are there any worth getting? they seem to have some primo session dudes playing on them.
as for muldaur, she's also a presence in the scorsese dylan doc from a few years back -- some great footage of her (probably as a teenager) singin' the blooze.

Gale Garnett seconded!

Have you guys seen that black-and-white Youtube Gale Garnett video with Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, I think? I'm assuming it's from Shindig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0yE9tjQMdM&feature=related

Someone who made the albums that Janis Joplin didn't live long enough to make:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51084T7YG5L._SS500_.jpg

Ruby BABY!

http://www.geocities.com/themods1966/rubystarr.jpg

"i always see 70s bonnie raitt records in the dollar bins, but i never buy them ... are there any worth getting?"

no offense to bonnie, she seems like a great gal, but her records bore the hell out of me. my dad is a big rory block fan. maybe try her stuff instead. or on the jazz tip, try some emily remler. (not that bonnie is known as some sort of guitar virtuoso. just throwing names out there. i'd rather listen to 70's era ellen McIlwaine records too.)

i have that maggie bell record. that's a good one!

i think i gave my dad all my latter-day tracy nelson records. i still have a couple mother earth records though.

i like gale garnett a ton. i like the early folk/pop stuff as much as her later more 60's/rock-oriented records. she has a bunch of records that i still need to get.

I have a Scopitone of Garnett doing "Small Potatoes." Didn't know she was so earthbound earlier on.

best gale garnett video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZL4_DahI3A

I'll disagree with Scott here and recommend Bonnie Raitt and Give It Up. Also, Scott, there was a Dory Previn feature in last month's Uncut.

There was also a brief interview w/Dory in a recent Mojo (the one w/Radiohead on the cover)

dorymania in full effect!

I have a couple of really very good Anne Murray LPs. I'm fairly sure she doesn't get hipster love, and it may be that she gets no love at all.

If I love the first Roches LP, will I love the other Roches LPs?

Joan Armatrading getting any love? she's up there with Bonnie in my book.
i believe if you like the Roches debut you ought to at least love A Dove, which i own and like lots

the first, like, three roches albums are great.

me and john d and some others were giving joan some love not that long ago. she had so many great songs. and she's way unhip! "show some emotion" alone, man. what a great song.

i dig anne murray. but then i'm pretty goth.

and when i say the first 3 roches albums i'm including *seductive reasoning* which was just maggie and terre as a duo.

as far as i know i'm the only person who owns a copy of this record. i contacted the guitar player once and HE didn't have a copy. its a good record. my friend rob from Sunburned Hand of the Man put it on Youtube for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLTZxnA8QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceu3S1_HW80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuj8nFkmTg

i mean krissy probably has a copy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL536kZx-1Q

more rita with paul williams upping the hipster factor maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Dsrz2FM08