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

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...

yeah uncle charlie is good. my pic is nitty gritty's Symphonion Dream album.

Love that too, that's where they went wild with the ocean sounds and calliopes. For a few years in high school, between Uncle Charlie, All The Good Times (thats's a really solid record) and Will The Circle they were my absolute favorite band. Well, them and Roxy Music...

http://elrincondelosrecuerdos.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/mikelaure-large.jpg?w=400&h=392

http://elrincondelosrecuerdos.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/mikelaure-large.jpg?w=400&h=392

Paul Siebel gets played a lot in my house and that Jerry Jeff alum posted above is my favorite of his. I don't know why Steve Young isn't more popular?

― JacobSanders, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:33 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Pretty much hit what I was going to say. Siebel and Young are favorites of mine, as is Jerry Jeff.

Going a little more mainstream, I don't think Jerry Reed gets his due props.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g

seriously, if this album were some private press/edition of 200 release from 1972 it would be a revered/drooled-over 500 dollar album. right now, you can probably find it for five dollars or less. it's not fair! 3/4 of this album is some of the bestest dreamiest psychFOLK you'll ever hear. so how come you've never heard it?

http://img.over-blog.com/280x280/0/24/04/68/albums---15/MarkAlmond2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBhu5FKAhVk

Jimmie Walker was a Georgia swamp ranger in the Okefenokee and ended up making a soundtrack to a Swampsploitation movie called "Swamp Country". The soundtrack is produced by Chet Atkins and has some seriously awesome dirty south country stuff on it. One of my friends found a copy, but I think it's out of print at the moment. Listen to the awesome title track above!

I thought Swamp Country was produced by Joe South, another guy who deserves more love.

Why do they all have such ugly covers? WTF were people thinking back then.

someone asked me what they should buy today and i had them buy awesome dane donohue album and terry reid river album. i'm a tipster.

I really have grown to love that Dane Donohue record! I wasn't aware of it's all star line up until I read the credits on the back.

Mount Cleaners

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/6e4449d0d1a4bf6f5c3f3af210c9a19d/675181.jpg

Traditional singer doing his "crossover" album, from 1970. Could have gone on a folk thread but somehow belongs more here as it's more singer-songwriterish.