Can we give some love to the unsung/underrated MEN of the 60s/70s?

That Midlake guy has been repping for Jimmie Spheeris something fierce.

People who remember Andy Kim at all know him for a couple of mediocre '70s hits. He had a string of bubblegum hits in 1968 that I still love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39YrqDogMc

http://i51.tinypic.com/aw2irp.jpg

I've never heard a whole album by Henson "Skip a Rope" Cargill, but the Omni Group put out a good compilation a few years ago. I unabashedly love his fuzzy, organ-drenched country-rock anti-conformity anthem "Reprints (Plastic People)" which appears on the album pictured above. the lyrics alone make it one of the unlikeliest things to come out of Nashville:

It's dawn
and the sun is rising over modern cities
baptist steeple
it's dawn
representing another routine day for modern cities
plastic people

all on the same road the same hour of the day
all tote the same road and head the same way
all wear the same suit and sing the same song
hear the merry piper's flute leading them along

carbon copies of uniformity
reprints, reprints are all I see
all from one line of assembly
plastic people surrounding me

It's night
and the moon is floating just above modern cities
bapist steeple
it's night
at 12:00 each dollhouse will go dark for modern cities' plastic people

at the stroke of midnight when they're all alone
they'll wonder if they've been right to think all on their own
all fear the same thing, mustn't go too far
yet all have same dream of changing what they are

also search "What's My Name", a Luke The Drifter-esque spoken word piece that might be the only song to namecheck both James Brown and Adolf Eichmann.

i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here? probably pete 69 too. i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

i should listen to that clifford ward album again. i know i have it somewhere.

the album with skip a rope on it is really good!

i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

I guess Midlake duder's plugging isn't working.

best andy kim album BY FAR:

http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/steed/steed37002.jpg

soooooo cool! if you ever see it buy it. first steed album is pretty cool too but rainbow ride is a fuzzpop feast.

Can we talk about these obscure 70s singer-songwriters featured in the newest Record Collector Magazine (and others if you wish)

The trilogy: "How'd We Ever Get This Way?," "Shoot 'Em Up Baby," and "Rainbow Ride." Almost as good as Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61/BOB.

'Resurrection' the last song on 'How'd We Ever Get This Way' is really beautiful, unlike any of the others songs from the record.

mebbe Hoyt Axton

I dunno, sure thought that several that have been mentioned get plenty of hipster kisses (Jesse Winchester, Jesse Colin Young, Tim Hardin, Jake Holmes, Tom Rush, maybe a few others). If not, they deserve them. Especially Tim and Jake.

yeah with those early elton records, it's nice to imagine that you're listening to some random 70s singer-songwriter rather than the circle of life guy.

S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???

I used to love Alone Together too - isn't that the one where you have to be careful cuz the record falls out the bottom? It's Like You Never Left is almost as good.

I'll nominate Richie Furay. Not familiar with his later solo albums, but he wrote some *great* songs for Buffalo Springfield and the early Poco albums that seem to have been largely ignored.

when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?

Shit, I'll rep for Billy Joel. And Neil Diamond. And fuckin, I dunno, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

I'd rather hear hipster douchebands ripping off The Nylon Curtain than fucking Graceland. That's indefensible.

How about Johnny Rivers? Trini Lopez? Tommy James and the Shondells, Flo & Eddie, JD Loudermilk, Keith West, Richie Havens? I don't actually know who does or doesn't get hipster kisses. Justin Heathcliff? Kan Mikami?

Neil Diamond's early stuff excellent, before he became a schlocky showman.

I thought hipsters loved Billy Joel's work in Attila

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

I'm not a hipster or anything but I do enjoy that Hassles comp.

long overdue:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d5hL26F0d5s/TTNTKUw7MpI/AAAAAAAAM8M/PqcM5aDDZt8/s1600/NedDoheny1973.jpeg

Yeah the first Ned Doheny record needs as much love as hip one!!

CHRIS fuckin DARROW.
His s/t album on UA and his LP "Artist Proof" on Fantasy are full of great stuff. He was also involved in the Maxfield Parrish LP, along with Leadon..

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6228/41f3hyj623l.jpg

Pre-beard Waylon Jennings. (Hipsters love 70s "outlaw" stuff, but not the truly great 60s stuff.)

http://991.com/newGallery/Freddy-Fender-Before-The-Next-T-447745.jpg

christ that terry allen album cover is badazz

the freddy fender story was featured quite a lot during a Latin Music USA tv docu on BBC4 (now iplayer).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qpm4c/Latin_Music_USA_Borderlands/

that Freddy Fender album is wonderful, Tex-Mex honky-tonk

i will also vouch for Ned Doheny's S/T tho his later stuff isn't as sweet. same w/Dave Mason. Alone Together is classic 1970 rock, really love that album but the guy totally wimped out as the decade progressed.

"i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here?"

I love him too - and Cyrus Faryar too. Islands is such a great album.

"S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???"

i haven't heard it! i haven't actually heard every record. i only hear stuff when i come across it in real life for the most part. sometimes it can take years. just heard vibracathedral orchestra for the first time last week cuz someone brought one of their records into the store. pretty good!

anyway, i know some people have a hard time with the word hipster. its half tongue in cheek. but the idea is kinda simple. tim buckley and leonard cohen exist in a world of critical esteem and have some sort of cool cachet that al stewart doesn't have. but there are still positive things to say about al stewart and his records are very easily found for peanuts. and the purpose of the other thread for the ladies was to give credit to people who are easily found in dollar bins or their records are five dollars or less and they are everywhere but they don't get the kind of critical re-appraisal or excitement that other people get. there is sandy denny and linda perhacs on the one hand, and there is karla bonoff and rita coolidge on the other hand. granted, sandy was a genius and linda made a very singular and beautiful artistic statement that has survived obscurity, but we have all read plenty of ink and raving about their stuff and probably don't read comprehensive overviews of cris williamson's career that often. but then that thread got into more obscure territory and that was fine and its fine here too. i just like reading what people have to say about stuff like this.

freddy fender an excellent example, by the way! his records are everywhere and hardly anyone buys them and there is great stuff to be found on them. who wants to say nice things about ronnie milsap?

Great thread Scott - so much good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLHeaCxy1aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SeQB-FYE3k

This great thread is about to get better because you are all in for a musical treat.

Please take the next four minutes and 31 seconds to listen to the Murray Head's immortal alltime classic Say It Ain't So Joe. Don't be scared by One Night in Bangkok. This is going to blow your musical minds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZzjVCGFo4

I love Ronnie Milsap, esp this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVc8TtnZrE

which oddly enough resembles this also great song from a dollar record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwKawAZk7f4

Robbie Dupree is a yacht rock icon. Hipsters bow to him.

seriously?

Dude, they're thinking of changing Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg to Dupree Way

All these album cover are great

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4582/quatemanjpg.jpg

Been rolling through the big deluxe reissue of Layla and assorted love songs. Hipsters love this album right? The only good Clapton, right?

Layla on the surface seems like too much of a Classic Rock staple, but honestly that description only applies to the title track. Do hipsters still like Delaney & Bonnie? Motel Shot--oh man. I'm interested in hearing the Bobby Whitlock lp that followed Layla. That one sounds like hipster bait.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2484534635_3fe43e9bab.jpg

has anyone ever heard of this guy? he's a news anchor in FLA these days i guess, cut this album in '72 with some nashville folks. it's not bad! found it for $1.

http://www.tunecore.com/images/artwork/complete/web/14/33/04/143304.jpg

I used to own that Bill Quateman, can't recall a note of it. Wasn't he tipped to be a pretty big thing?

Love the early Commander Cody recs so much, they're pretty far removed from hipster kisses.

you know, new riders might be a tad hipper but i still think lots of people have never heard those records and they are so great. so, i would tell people to start with new riders of the purple sage and then poco and then move on to commander cody. actually, buy every cowboy record before you go for commander cody. there is no end though...

is that john hambrick an updated cover? pretty sure they didn't have shitty photoshop bevels and drop shadows in 72

Thing about Cody for me is that although Bill Kirchen penned a few good songs, they were essentially a really great cover band. Their mix of honky-tonk country, rockabilly, Texas swing and 50s R&B opened my ears to Buck Owens, Bob Wills, Gene Vincent, Lieber & Stoller. I have played the hell out of "Live At Armadillo World Headuaters."

Headquarters, not headwaters.

this is the actual hambrick cover:

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/26865/48864bb274129_26865n.jpg

"Their mix of honky-tonk country, rockabilly, Texas swing and 50s R&B opened my ears"

speaking of which, you can't give dan hicks & the hot licks records away. and they aren't bad at all. um, not that i play them...

speaking of stylistic americana melting pots, this is one of my favorite records of the 70s:

http://image.kazaa.com/images/57/724358052657/The_Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band/Symphonion_Dream_World/The_Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band-Symphonion_Dre_3.jpg

I can't see your pic there, Scott. My alltime favorite Americana rock melting pot LP has got to be Uncle Charlie and his Dog Teddy by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I wore a couple of those out.

I love the first two Dan Hicks records so much it's surprising I never picked up any of the other ones. I do have Original Recordings too, so three...