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

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/

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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