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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 December 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
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
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
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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.”creditsreleased September 3, 2021Stream, order LP (or digital) here:https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/hurried-life-lost-recordings-1965-1971
― dow, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
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
― Alba, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
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
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
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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― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
Speak of thee devil:
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Karen Dalton’s live recordings released for the first timeA 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.
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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― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
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
― Alba, Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Great to know, thanks! Omnivore is a good label for that, maybe the best.
― dow, Friday, 8 July 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Saturday, 30 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
You didn’t notice recent revive over here ? poppy family - s/d - what should i get?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
This Kicks Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7JgOY1ff5A
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:44 (seven months ago) link
I put one of my favorite Rosalie Sorrels songs on youtube recently!
― ian, Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:59 (seven months ago) link
Karen Brooks may have hipster kisses (I'm not sure)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iia6BX6bVXQ
@karenbrooks12921 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.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:28 (two months ago) link
Rita revival when? dig the vibes here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9sjvEZSxI
― buzza, Thursday, 4 April 2024 08:00 (two weeks ago) link
would die for her Boz Scaggs cover
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 4 April 2024 09:46 (two weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:30 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:34 (two weeks ago) link
Not yet mentioned here?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQz4SsPiDis
― henry s, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:46 (two weeks ago) link
Too obv?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQeGh6AU1o
― henry s, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:48 (two weeks ago) link
that's a nice one. although, it should be mentioned, her second album is supreme hipster bait.
x-post
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:49 (two weeks ago) link
and then!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33U8Ca3ktK0
― henry s, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:49 (two weeks ago) link
i love linda lewis. some would say she's the poor man's minnie riperton but i wouldn't say that!
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:50 (two weeks ago) link
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?
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:51 (two weeks ago) link
I will dare:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBVeR8Rau0
― henry s, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:52 (two weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:54 (two weeks ago) link
i have that marsha malamet album but i never play it. i should.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:55 (two weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:58 (two weeks ago) link
just a beautiful album. surprised someone like LITA hasn't done a vinyl reissue.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:59 (two weeks ago) link
just leaving this here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xt5a9CwK0
― henry s, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:00 (two weeks ago) link
you can always leave that here. #alltime
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:12 (two weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:48 (two weeks ago) link
i mean krissy probably has a copy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL536kZx-1Q
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:49 (two weeks ago) link
more rita with paul williams upping the hipster factor maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Dsrz2FM08
― buzza, Sunday, 14 April 2024 08:24 (four days ago) link