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

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

?

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

Think the bio you've conflated with Linda's is Judee Sill. They were both kind of rediscovered in the early 00s

Oh yeah,that's definitely it

Also: Kath Bloom is new to me, but she started recording in the 70s with Loren MazzaCane Connors, and check the link to older and new tracks on her MySpace page here--this new PTW-posted title track is not her best performance, the other one described is more typical, but it's all well worth checking out:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1668

― dow, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:58 (ten years ago) Permalink

The Kath Bloom/Loren Connors 1981-1984 CD that I have is a-fucking-mazing. Dunno anything else she has done, but that one thing is an absolute treasure of simple cracked and beautiful otherness.

― NickB, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:12 (ten years ago) Permalink

Thee Whiney-edited Paper Thin Walls is long gone, but Kath Bloom review-interview (re her return and the CD reissue comps) is archived here:
https://papercomet.blogspot.com/2017/03/maybe-not-earlies-but-might-as-well.html

i listened to lots of linda perhacs and judee sill last weekend

where did you go wendy waldman lovers?

― scott seward, Monday, February 18, 2008 3:51 PM

As you may have seen on the stock up/stock down thread, I was checking all the new classic album compilation releases and Wendy Waldman's first 3 albums were released in a compilation last year. I thought she looked like the type for this thread. Never heard of her before.

I bought the Bridget St John box a while ago but that was from 2015. Surprised she's not mentioned onthread.

I think i need more fanny in my life

https://youtu.be/imZUqkPlUaQ

Excited for this - https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2952-sachiko-kanenobu

Jean Millington, Fanny's bass player needs your help.

https://www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go

strangely enough, last night at the port washington public library i saw nancy nevins and two other original members of sweetwater, who were the second act to perform at woodstock '69. nancy's solo album definitely belongs on this thread:

https://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Nevins-Nancy-Nevins/release/2126684

the whole evening of discussion & performance should be up on the port washington public library's youtube channel soon if it isn't yet.

Elyse Weinberg - Greasepaint Smile is one of my fav discoveries but I guess she did get hipster kisses?

I think i need more fanny in my life

This podcast about them was pretty interesting

https://www.kcrw.com/music/articles/lost-notes-fanny-the-all-girl-rock-band-david-bowie-loved

As you may have seen on the stock up/stock down thread, I was checking all the new classic album compilation releases and Wendy Waldman's first 3 albums were released in a compilation last year. I thought she looked like the type for this thread. Never heard of her before.

Some good songs on that comp. Checked it out when The Cure started covering "Pirate Ships"

Talk of Kath Bloom and updated link to archived review of her then-new '08 alb upthread a little ways, and here come a couple more Chapter Music reissues of her work a Loren Connors (EP tracks now added)---streams, pix, details here:
https://mailchi.mp/73f3e03f5d89/smcqueen2-2808941?e=32e64a6326

What the hell, that press release may go away

KATH BLOOM & LOREN CONNORS ULTRA RARE SAND IN MY SHOE
& MOONLIGHT ALBUMS FINALLY TO BE RE-ISSUED BY CHAPTER MUSIC
OUT OCTOBER 4TH, 2019

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/197dfa45-9150-4f07-afab-d1f60ef5a847.jp

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/8cac3f67-e9be-4b92-9454-ae0b9b853bf5.jpg

The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, CT duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted psych-folk fans since the early 80s. Kath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Loren’s free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the late 60s. Between 1981 and 1984, the duo recorded two live and four studio albums, mostly self-released in tiny quantities.

Early on, their music mixed folk and blues traditionals with a handful of Kath’s vulnerable, moving originals. By the later albums the songs were all Kath’s - her fragile voice and subdued finger-picking set against Loren’s abstract but always supportive playing. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting.

Kath & Loren’s first two albums in 1981-82 were live recordings, released via Loren’s Daggett Records label. Next came 1982’s Sing The Children Over on Massachusetts label Ambiguous Records. Then Sand In My Shoe emerged in 1983 as the first release on Loren’s new St. Joan label, in an edition of 200-300 copies with handmade sleeves.

Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight followed in 1983-84, before the prodigious duo parted ways. Moonlight was released in an edition of 200-300 copies. As her creativity accelerated, Kath’s songs became looser and more intuitive, but Moonlight contains an early version of one of Kath’s most beloved songs, "Come Here". Loren’s longterm collaborator Robert Crotty contributes electric guitar to a couple of tracks.

By 1984, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. Kath did not release anything again until a 1993 solo cassette Love Explosion, but then developed a devoted cult following through the pivotal use of a new recording of "Come Here" in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise.

Kath has since released three solo albums on Chapter Music (Finally in 2005, Terror in 2008 and Pass Through Here in 2015), as well as the Bloom tribute album Loving Takes This Course, featuring covers by the likes of Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster and many more.

Loren also retreated from music for a period until re-emerging in the late 1980s. He is now recognised as a pioneering guitar explorer, and has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and many more.

After reissuing four of Kath & Loren’s landmark albums on CD in the late 2000s, Chapter has now embarked on the first ever vinyl reissues for these remarkable records. Another 1984 album Restless Faithful Desperate was reissued in 2018, while 1983’s Sand In My Shoe & 1984's Moonlight will be released on October 4, 2019.

Sand In My Shoe includes five digital-only bonus tracks, from 1982 live EP Pushin’ Up Daisies, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.
Moonlight includes five digital-only bonus tracks of rare 1984 live recordings, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.

Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'I'm As Good As I Want To Be'
https://youtu.be/Tr5wEY-zsZM

Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'Come Here'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WVBPTke6w&feature=youtu.be

Well crap--prob some more of their music (& pix) posted somewhere. So do try the press release link.

On first spin of the Bridget St John debut album I was afraid it was going to be boring (having got the box set) but it's very good. "Broken Faith" is a stunner.

Bridget St John is fabulous. Ask Me No Questions and Songs for the Gentle Man are both A+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQSsn2TYBs

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1658258050_16.jpg

In 1967, the folk-pop group The Association had a massive hit with a song called “Windy” penned by an unknown young woman named Ruthann Friedman. Two years later, she released her own album Constant Companion on Warner/Reprise Records that sounded nothing like “Windy” – it had more in common with her labelmate Joni Mitchell or cult-hero Linda Perhacs. Decades later, Ruthann would be declared an “astral folk goddess” and championed by the likes of Devendra Banhart.

Around that time, reissue producer Pat Thomas compiled a collection of previously unreleased demos, home recordings, and lost songs circa 1965-1971 from Ruthann's personal archive including the original version of "Windy."

Titled Hurried Life, Ruthann recently declared, “That’s the one that I really like - that was the first time going back into the archives to find songs that might be reissued. I think those were representative of me.”
credits
released September 3, 2021
Stream, order LP (or digital) here:
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/hurried-life-lost-recordings-1965-1971

Very much a rediscovered obscurity, rather than unfashionable $1 bin mainstay, but I think this thread needs mention of Kathy Heideman and her 1976 LP Move With Love, which is available these days on Spotify et al (might want to skip the song Daddy-Do, though).

https://i.imgur.com/PfEHHy6.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/1650/7846/products/cathowe_400x.jpg?v=1634057682

Is this good??

from Numero:
CATHERINE HOWE - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
This recorded autobiography of Catherine Howe, age 20, briefly appeared in 1971. Too young for memoirs, most artists have barely established any sort of musical competence by the age of legal adulthood, let alone compositions matching the maturity and complexity of Howe’s. What A Beautiful Place, however, is a prodigious effort wrought from the melancholy ruminations of post-adolescence. The album’s twelve songs unfold like a classic bildungsroman, beginning in the smoke-stained industrial county of Yorkshire, transformed by the electrified creative landscape of mid-century London, and retiring to the warm pastoral bliss of the county of Dorset on England’s southern coast. Produced by noted jazz pianist Bobby Scott, the LP—oft-mistaken for a concept album—was available for only a month in the summer of 1971, disappearing after Reflection Records’ shuttering in 1971.
More details, backstory etc.
https://numerogroup.com/products/catherine-howe-a-place-of-beauty?mc_cid=50a30a300a&mc_eid=348950ba0d

Karen Dalton's In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition)is out now, remastered with bonus tracks--- all streaming here, with the KD backstory and overview: https://karendalton.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-own-time-50th-anniversary-edition

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3292896630_10.jpg

Speak of thee devil:

https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/karen-dalton.jpg

Karen Dalton’s live recordings released for the first time

A new collection of American folk singer and guitarist Karen Dalton’s archival live performances — called Shuckin’ Sugar — is being released via Delmore Recording Society, this April on Record Store Day 2022.

The 12-track album features a collection of her previously unreleased live performances with her then-husband and guitarist Richard Tucker, as well as her solo compositions.

Shuckin’ Sugar was recorded between 1963 to 1964.

The album is accompanied by archival photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Dalton, and an essay by journalist and author Kris Needs.

Shuckin’ Sugar follows the 50th anniversary reissue of her In My Own Time album, in March.

Head here for more info in advance of Shuckin’ Sugar’s 23rd April release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/karen-dalton-live-recordings-vinyl-release/

https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dalton.jpeg

Linda Hoover. Very belated release mentioned on the Steely Dan thread but worth logging here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/07/linda-hoover-on-her-great-lost-lp-with-steely-dan-i-mean-to-shine

Great to know, thanks! Omnivore is a good label for that, maybe the best.

Not thee kind of thing we usually consider on here, but a friend recently sent me a link to The Poppy Family feat. Susan Jacks---yep, "Which Way You Goin', Billy?": "Ode To Billy Joe" it def. ain't, but her sound got me curious.
She (b. Susan Pesklevits) was a late-teen regular on a Canadian music show, where she met Terry Jacks, whom she later married, and they formed The Poppy Family, then started their own solo careers, his kicking off with "Goodbye Pa-pa it's hard to die," aaaghh, "Seasons in the Sun." They broke up, she continued solo in Canada mainly, died a few months ago--fervent following, tons of stuff on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=susan+jacks+poppy+family+playlist

I remain not crazy about some of the material, but really nice voice x vibe, sunlight-shadow

You didn’t notice recent revive over here ?

poppy family - s/d - what should i get?

This Kicks Hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7JgOY1ff5A

I put one of my favorite Rosalie Sorrels songs on youtube recently!

Karen Brooks may have hipster kisses (I'm not sure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iia6BX6bVXQ

@karenbrooks1292
1 month ago (edited)
I was able to get the studio to transfer the original tapes and am re-releasing this as a vinyl record with a "B" side of unreleased material. I'm hoping to get it finished in the next couple months-- life has been confusing and got in the way for a while. I appreciate the patience of those who have asked me for a copy.

Rita revival when? dig the vibes here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9sjvEZSxI