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

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.

1967. same year as scott walker's solo debut. the whole album is really good. no love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s-cgs5_4eg

Never saw this thread before! Since you started with Loudie (didn't know about the Shout! Factory fourset, but do have a twofer CD of the first two albums) here's how I started Rolling Reissues this year:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81rkaWi%2B-ZL._SL1425_.jpg

If image don't show, it's Loudon Wainwright III's Late Night Calls, live broadcast Nov. '72. Should be good: Loudie's usually quite the solo showman, and back then the former preppie acting student was already making his mark w twisted manic-smirky humor/bursts of drama, flying sobs, via that tenor and guitar (never just a word guy). Some orginal rarities, and covers of Isleys, Temps, Ernest Tubb (also originals he was already known for, like "Motel Room Blues," soon to be covered well by Big Star live). Mid-Dec '15 release, it says here, but just now getting the memo, so what the heck:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012FQNVZC/ref=pe_339110_162232230_em_lm

― dow, Sunday, January 3, 2016

Has anybody mentioned Andy Fairweather Low? Hipster appeal via twists of imagery and fate in some tracks on some 70s albums; fave raves incl. Spider Jiving and one of my most-played by anybody in the 70s, La Booga Rooga. Originally from teeny bopper pin-up combo Amen Corner, and not too surprising that li'l mod chirper-screamers should be artistically ambitious later on too, given competition w Small Faces-->Faces and even Peter Frampton and the Herd (Framp later in early Humble Pie w Small Faces' Steve Marriott, with some art school cool before turning full-time English blooze & boogie)(mynd you, the earliest example I've seen of the term "heavy metal" applied to music was in a Humble Pie review by Metal Mike Saunders). Slightly raspy, justifiably wry and certainly tuneful, without ever showboating: some of the Marriott-Rod Stewart appeal, long after those worthies peaked creatively.
Low later shown at that ARMS concert, think that's the acronym, trying to raise funds for Ronnie Lane's medical bills: introduced by Eric Clapton as "the wonderful Andy Fairweather Low", did a solo set and later sang with Steve Winwood (that show should be around somewhere). May have participated in the Clapton-Windwood tour, and def was Clapton's guitarists for a while. yadda-yadda, check the 60s-70s stuff anyway.

Posted this on Rolling Country and Can We Talk About West Coast Country Rock? a while back:
Charles EstenVerified account ‏@CharlesEsten
So honored to sing the beautiful "The Rivers Between Us Are Deep" by our friend, Hall of Fame songwriter @JDSouther & Erik Kaz. #ThanksWatty
Watty, Souther's character, was Rayna's mom's secret musical lover, may have gotten her killed by jealous dad or "dad," since on Nashville the immortal series, musical biologicals are not uncommon. Blah-blah, but note the co-write with Eric Kaz, once known as Eric Justin Kaz. Never as well-known as Souther, I guess, but he's written or co-written a bunch of hits, ones most relevant to this thread are "Love Has No Pride," and several others recorded by Raitt and Ronstadt, maybe especially the former. He released several solo LPs before and after teaming up with Pure Prairie League's Craig Fuller in American Flyer, they also did a duo album. Think he was not considered such a good singer, but he can write good melodramatic vehicles, especially for denim divas. Anybody heard him on records?

I have since heard Kaz solo tracks a little bit: seems def sub-James Taylor-y vox-wise, but does have some songs, and anybody looking to cover and/or just jonesing for romantic buckskin ballads should check him out; ditto Souther, but more about him later.

Also I still need to look for this guy:
http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Bat+McGrath

Dow mentions Andy Fairweather Low--I think he's great and regard his '70s (and early-'80s) albums very highly indeed. Xgau (and prolly others) gave him props back in the day, but he's kinda forgotten now, though he did put out an album back in 2006, Sweet Soulful Music, I reviewed for the VV. I even interviewed him--what a thrill for me.
Don't think anyone has mentioned John Stewart, who I got into a couple years ago. Yeah, he's a commercial folkie with that familiar catch in his voice, but I think he was good--Signals Through the Glass (with longtime squeeze/wife Buffy Ford), California Bloodlines (cut in Nashville with A-list pickers, likely his career record, contains the great "Never Goin' Back" [to Nashville]), Willard and Sunspot are all excellent records. Kinda in the virile-yet-sensitive mode of Tom Rush, whom I also really like.
A guy who's pretty obscure but definitely fits in here is Bill Wilson, whom you may know from a somewhat critically lauded (or at least somewhat written about) 1973 record that Tompkins Square reissued about 4 years ago, Ever Changing Minstrel, cut with producer Bob Johnston in Nashville after Wilson showed up at Johnston's door one night. Came out on the Columbia imprint Windfall and vanished. I think it's fascinating record--sort of slightly more folk-rock Waylon Jennings, but with tantalizing glimpses of future-indie-country-Americana in the songwriting. Wilson was part of the Bloomington, Indiana Bar-B-Q Records scene and did the 1977 Talking to Stars there, a kind of woozy and slightly psychedelic thing. Made in the U.S.A., from '82, is worth tracking down, as is his Traction in the Rain, from 1992, the year before he died in Nashville. He claimed to have written "Sultans of Swing" for Dire Straits, but Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square told me that wasn't true (Wilson claimed to have helped Knopfler write lyrics during a session in Nashville). Good piece on Wilson here.