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

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

scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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

that's not my post, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

jaxon, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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

jaxon, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe I should have used some semicolons in there.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link

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

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link

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

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link

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

gershy, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link

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!

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

tylerw, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Gale Garnett seconded!

Trip Maker, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link

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

C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Ruby BABY!

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

henry s, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.)

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link

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

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link

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

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

best gale garnett video:

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

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

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

C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

dorymania in full effect!

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

Tim, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link

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

outdoor_miner, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

the first, like, three roches albums are great.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link

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

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

actually, come to think of it, that would be four great albums. *seductive reasoning*, *roches*, *nurds*, and *keep on doing*.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link

even the later albums had some choice songs though. "face down at folk city", "big nuthin", etc.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Genya Ravan
Valerie Carter
Rachel Sweet

henry s, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.kandimart.co.uk/images/P8090010.JPG

Tom D., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link

such a great record:

http://www.genyaravan.com/meanit.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link

true dat:

and before I forget,

Maxine Nightingale
Nicolette Larson

henry s, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i have the first linda hargrove album *music is your mistress* but i never cared for it much. maybe i didn't give it enough of a chance. i'll play it again.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link

anybody familiar with the late 1960's Berkeley group Joy of Cooking that was led by two women, Toni Brown and Terry Garthwaite? their debut still holds up for me. Great tunes, and they rock but in a sort of relaxing way on account of piano being the lead instrument

outdoor_miner, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link

linda found god by the way:

http://lindahargrove.com/images/A%20NewSongHargrove.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link

I mentioned Joy of Cooking upthread......
Castles is a great record

sonofstan, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

toni brown still makes jam band records. as befits the former editor and publisher of relix magazine. i am not a huge joy of cooking fan, but they definitely had their moments.

http://cdbaby.name/t/o/tonibrown3.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost to outdoor miner obv.

also.....any Helen Reddy records worth the dollar/euro?

sonofstan, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

oops, missed that post, sorry....nice work sonof. and thanks scott, i had no idea

outdoor_miner, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416NP93HBQL._AA240_.jpg

I dig most of Tracy Nelson's early LPs, but I REALLY dig this one, which is more country than blues.

QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link

best gale garnett video

That clip is nutso even by Scopitone standards. I can't believe I've never seen it before. And check out the crotch on Lucy Fur.

Not sure if this fits the thread but my fave Scopitone starlet is Joi Lansing.

"Web of Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGnjuCwoW4

"The Silencer"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLZ4wdncE84

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link


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