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

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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

would die for her Boz Scaggs cover

i like rita a lot. i like her sister too. her sister made three(?) albums with Booker T. in the 70s but i like this one best. after she was married to Booker T. she was murdered in a murder/suicide by her 2nd husband.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFL15KatmGA

there is a nice long "hummingbird" on that album. i love that song.

the reissues of Gypsy Queen have been Japan-only naturally thus hard to find. though the album on vinyl isn't hard to find.

Not yet mentioned here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQz4SsPiDis

Too obv?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQeGh6AU1o

that's a nice one. although, it should be mentioned, her second album is supreme hipster bait.

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and then!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33U8Ca3ktK0

i love linda lewis. some would say she's the poor man's minnie riperton but i wouldn't say that!

nancy priddy definitely gets the kisses from people she would never kiss. who live in brooklyn.

and why can't THIS hipster ever find a reasonably-priced copy of nancy's album?

I will dare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBVeR8Rau0

Linda Lewis was also in the poor man's Rotary Connection, Ferris Wheel. i love that stuff. also records nobody cares about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkkFAEja0v4

i have that marsha malamet album but i never play it. i should.

reissued by sunbeam once but still inexplicably a ten dollar and under record that rules really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2QQw4WuFsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5FU0Ac0ZM

just a beautiful album. surprised someone like LITA hasn't done a vinyl reissue.

just leaving this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xt5a9CwK0

you can always leave that here. #alltime

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