Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?

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*Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy* and *Symphonion Dream* are my fave Nitty Gritty Dirt Band albums. Both from the early 70's. I like the 60's stuff too though.

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I lean towards the 70s stuff, as my intro to them was "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a restaurant in my town called Firefall Grill. Sadly, their commercials feature no Firefall music.

That's a shame because hearing "Goddamn, girl, can't you see? I sure do love this roasted beef..." on the radio would make my day.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been digging the two West albums I bought recently. country/folk/pop produced by Bob Johnston. But I think they are both late-60's so forget i mentioned them on this thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/dantiques/38000b/38839.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I bumped another thread recently to tell everyone that the Willis Alan Ramsey album is pretty damn righteous. please search ASAP.

Any love for Jonathan Edwards..."honky tonk stardust cowboy"? not bad!

― Johnny Hotcox, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

When did the first Nashville West album come out? It's maybe outside your time frame but you still need to hear it. Clarence White's guitar playing is so good on that record. One of my favorite performances ever.

― leavethecapital, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i keep forgetting about the west coast angle of this thread. i don't know what this thread is about anymore. it has made me put on lots of country/goodtime/boogie/folk-rock albums tonight though.

now playing:

http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/quiver72.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaxon, wherever he is, DEFINITELY needs that first Thomas Jefferson Kaye record on Dunhill. It's basically a country-rock Steely Dan album. Becker & Fagen are all over it. Gary Katz produced. really good. Even Xgau liked it and he hates everything I like. Mostly:

"Like the Triumvirate album he produced for John Hammond, Mike Bloomfield, and Dr. John, Kaye's debut was sensually laid-back, with a sly intelligence he hoped to pass off as an active relationship with his environment. But this one stands beside Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard as a critique of the laid-back mode. The secret is the covers, which I bet producer Gary Katz (also of Steely Dan) had something to do with--especially since the whole album centers around Fagen & Becker's bitter, poignant farewell to the counterculture, "American Lovers." Together with Loudon Wainwright's painful "Say That You Love Me" and natural boogies from Link Wray and Dr. John, it puts such Kaye titles as "Northern California" and "Easy Kind of Feeling" into the ironic perspective the artist intends. Maybe this is Katz rather than Kaye--but when you hear Kaye describe a "new religion/Called everything's gonna be all right," you won't think so. A"

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What about nirvana? Althought they were more active during the 60s but I still think most of their stuff is very psychadelic....

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

io just to ttjat randy california alnbum caprtian kozxmic or whatevr its really good

― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

rawk!

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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classic album

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

it wouldn't have much to do with early to mid-70's west coast post-psych pop rock folk-rock country-rock though.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

being an example of 60's brit fairytale psych chamber-pop.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

but, yeah, it's great.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is more about Chris Hillman flying a kite.

http://www.woundedbird.com/hillman/1104.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah I have been trying to get some of there more rarer albums that haven' been reprinted but they go for insane amounts on ebay and there are deffinetly not any digital copies to be had. Even trying to wade throught the more popular nirvanas stuff to find any of the originals is hard enought.

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm Gene Parsons and I approve this thread."

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"fuck that west coast shit, man. our fuckin' promo photo has seen more hard road than them dudes."

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"Yeah, man, I'll tape you the fuck up you don't give me some 'switch to listen to."

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― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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― QuantumNoise, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this thread.

i've been listening to the first sutherland brothers album a lot lately; i don't know where they were from geographically though. also the Hoover LP on Epic is very good for this kind of thing--I know Jaxon has heard it, cuz we talked about it on another thread. Better than the Yanoska LP, also on Epic. The Yanoska record has a funny song about prostitution though.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

and my fave New Riders of the Purple Sage is just NRPS.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

also!! am i the only Happy & Artie Traum fan on ILM? Their Double Back album on Capitol is great. The other one on Capitol is good too, but doesn't have a jam to compete with "Scavengers." The records on Rounder aren't as hot, though. More in an old-timey nostalgia vein, rather than sincere contemporary country rockin.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

another thing i've mentioned elsewhere: late period moby grape ain't all bad--check out "changes, circles spinning" from Truly Fine Citizen. That song rules.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, sutherland brothers are connected to the band Quiver that I was listening to last night. i posted their 2nd album cover up above:

http://www.mathie.demon.co.uk/sbq/biograph.html

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i would definitely buy the first couple of happy and artie albums if i saw them. but i never see them.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the japanese like happy & artie:
http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/happy.html

also, i see quiver records all the time but never gave them much of a chance. that's kinda my story with poco, too. i'm gonna make a point to listen to some poco today though.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the first two on CD, a great bargain!!!
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― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

nu ilm jaxon threads are extremely reliable

― deej, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

my country-rock want list is expanding with each new post. chuckwagon indeed.

here's anoher good one, the Wildweeds LP from '70: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3vfyxqr5ld0e

It's on Vanguard so, it has a NYC/coffeehouse vibe. However, it is a definite stab at country-rock, folk-rock, country-folk, etc. Iain/Ian Matthews would go on to record the 'Weeds tune, "And When She Smiles." Speaking of Matthews, he just rules. I recently found the Tigers Will Survive LP from '71; that's the last one of his early records I was missing. Dream of a Fairport/CSN&Y hybrid; that's Matthews early stuff. Awesome.

― QuantumNoise, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the only matthews records i have are later that same year and uhh.. valley hi. i listen to the former a lot more frequently, partially cuz of "and when she smiles;" i'll have to try to dig up that wildweeds LP; i know i've seen the name mentioned around a bit here.

― ian, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i had that ian matthews Tigers Will Survive album. wasn't too much a fan. prolly picked it up because it was on Vertigo. wasn't he part of Pentangle or something?

― jaxon, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

currently listening to Don Cooper on Andy Votel's Delay 68 label (luv luv luv). i started a thread on the dude a while back but no responses. reading up on him, looks like he got a bit of fame, but had a shitty label and couldn't get proper distrobution/marketing.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/delay68/discography_03_notes.html
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gzftxqu5ld6e~T1

― jaxon, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got lots of ian matthews rekkerds. i dig them.

the quiver records aren't that great, ian. they're okay. not Poco great though.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Matthews records I would definitely recommend:

matthews southern comfort - s/t (debut)

matthews southern comfort - second spring

matthews southern comfort - later that same year

plainsong - in search of amelia earhart

solo records:

journeys from gospel oak

stealin' home

valley hi

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never heard those vertigo records though! i'm sure i would like them.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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