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

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.

^ Oops, if you can't see the image (which I can't anymore!) the album is "Orfeo" by Archie Fisher

WHERE ARE THE HIPSTER KISSES FOR DAVID WIFFEN?

Tell me about Ian! I love both of his records, but man this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI7_BMGlqU

When will Jerry Williams get some love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKmQUeHT1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0N96d5QQ1k

His version of whiter shade of pale isn't the best song that record, but it's not the laughable cover I was afraid of.

Tim Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crvp8pxCt30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Moore_(singer,_songwriter)

!

He may have been a minor big deal long ago, but does anyone talk about him now? I don't know--I see on Wikipedia that he still regularly puts out albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLr_eN8KvaM

He's one of the recurring characters in the Paul Nelson biography.

What would be the best gateway JJ Cale album?

I have that Tim Moore record but only listened to it once, need to pull it out again. Don't remember being very impressed with it.

this guy (Bob Gibson) was huge in the late '50s and early '60s — I read that his duet album with Hamilton Camp was the best-selling folk album of its time (in 1961), but he never graduated beyond the hootenanny scene because he didn't go electric at the crucial moment and stopped putt out records during the second half of the '60s. search Where I'm Bound, Funky in the Country, Ski Songs, and Gibson & Camp At the Gate of Horn. he recorded an album in 1970 with folk-rock guys like Roger Mcguinn, but I've never heard it, and I think it was deleted shortly after its release. he collaborated a lot with Shel Silverstein later in his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPWE4atjLDg

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

awesome rendition of a Bob Gibson song by Joe & Eddie. I should really hear more of these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBo-SSVNw-g

stopped putt out records

"stopping putting out records", I mean.

stopped putting out, even

all my townes van zandt talk and man does flyin' shoes sound good right this minute. got minty tomato pressings of s/t and flyin' shoes and you know what i think i'm keeping these. i always listen to them once when i get them and then sell them to hepcats because it takes one minute to sell one of his albums. these were dollar bin cut-outs once upon a time. couldn't gove townes away.

i actually like the more uptempo songs on this album like "Louise" and "On The Highway", but the ballads are nice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGYhI4B1XU

i am a recent convert to this album. holy toledo, so great! and ahead of its time for sure. can't believe its from 1975. even the album cover looks like its from 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inJPNVjUXY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdldvz9dVcE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXi79ur4BH0&feature=related

i think some people in the know know lewis though. but just in case some people here haven't heard it. can probably find it online for a dollar. i just love it.

i have to find his other albums now. wish me luck!

i already love these tracks from albums i don't have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPlfF4igw50&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZei0py_oA&feature=related

this is from 1980 so please excuse me but i can't get enough of this song lately. it was probably recorded in 1979...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7bfWxT9U0

such a dreamy powerpop anthem. *sigh*

even the album cover looks like its from 1982.

with that color scheme, it immediately made me think of Rain Dogs. he's like a sloppier, more bohemian (and basically more Tom Waits-y) Billy Joel. I like this.