Trippy Country-tinged Pop with AM radio hooks from the late sixties to mid-seventies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O40EeXjSPdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq2gfu_PuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBDbUjUH5So

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfklk4CU8MM

my favorite new thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyo_xZnvsA

bubblegum burrito bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV41SF8esXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbI8uVUFP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHg-b2hunVE

love the fuzz on that buck song

maybe more soul-tinged than country-tinged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WoD8yZkvuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj6bvtylW9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGufQ_TxB88

Very cool Dion song.

One that sort of fits yet is sadly not on youtube: Glen Campbell - Just Another Piece Of Paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglA54xvoGg

funny I was just thinking about Glenn Campbell for this - maybe trippy isn't exactly the right word but his hits from this era definitely have that vibe. will have to track down Just Another Piece of Paper.

not that hooky - but super trippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNB3UVAShZc

Hearts and Flowers - Ode to a Tin Angel

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

there really is a folk-rock group underneath all that orchestration! this was Bernie Leadon's band pre-Eagles

The Millennium - Some Sunny Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aPUuimLJo

(country tinge courtesy of Doug Dillard)

Henson Cargill - Reprints (Plastic People)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7AyVn6sNTw

Maybe a stretch, but Edward Bear, sort of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvWGgwFP7No

First-LP Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, definitely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnmV0Wh760

And to match the obscure Hearts and Flowers, the obscure Mason Proffit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoTm2gHBH1U

Sir Doug sorta owns this thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5RcQ9EZk0

"What About Tomorrow?"

As does Papa Nez...

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

"Silver Moon" EXTENDED QUAD MIX

Not trippy per se, but I looooove "Back Side of Dallas:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ugvPm9XA-k&feature=kp

More Box Tops

"I See Only Sunshine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0X0RZe1zhw

"Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_URK08Yee4

Opry favorites, Pink Floyd:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MegCevtmHY

throw your troubles to the moon trolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CKvRmsV4vA

love the bassline on that Mason Proffitt song

cool floyd song! never heard that before

Is Poco too obvious for this thread?

"Hurry Up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxL_O87MAs

maybe a little off-centre for this, but such a great song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFxoR4EVSXQ

The Archies: "Truck Driver"

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

Mark Lindsay: "Arizona"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBy07Qk7RTg

John Kongos: "Jubilee Cloud"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXX6K1IKIg

amazing stuff, thanks all throwing bullseyes on this kind of esoteric sub-sub-genre

good call on mark lindsay "arizona."

my favorite new thread

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^OTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c85-9cMg064

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGbTynr_zI4

The Charlie Rich is a bit more soul than trippy but this is about as trippy as he got on his mid-60s Smash sides and he needs to be here.

This thread is terrific. Good work . I had been meaning to start a thread asking for country tinged soul pop from the early 70s but this will do just fine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5Ap0FA

Bobby Gentry - Fancy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4

Minnie riperton les fleurs

I guess the Country funk thread has some parallels here and there with this thread so here's a few more if you're interested:

Country Funk?

Solo Phil Everly, arranged by Warren Zevon and produced by Duane Eddy, covering a song written by Albert Hammond that was later made famous by the Hollies.

A lot of heavy dudes with sideburns peripherally connected to this number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVA8YYpSMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_c8pO1aHPw

The Who go country!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86iyERpsZQ

(written by Daltrey)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkeFaq33bi4

"are you sure hank done it this way?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOKZq24u9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIdj5uFung4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzX7izPpDx4

I love this song, but it's so creepy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Vp5ejFbxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKWJJIEpX4c&list=RDwKWJJIEpX4c

Stephen Stills: "Change Partners"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bEs3kXKvw

Lulu: "Marley Purt Drive"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIP-Nxr4l9s

Amaaaaaaazing thread. Bravo everyone. Can't add much except to rep for additional Joe South tracks as I always do. Not as obscure as most of the stuff here, dude was a serious hitmaker, but still, he was the real deal - solid wooly-rock session man chops, hook-writing including "Rose Garden" and going back to "Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor," and his trippiness is that of a guy who's actually smoked some grass and shed a tear over Vietnam and our ruined rivers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVaKUX8gLg8

Down in the Boondocks (with "Hush" as there seems to be no separate Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-G3S49ty0

Walk A Mile In My Shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AirBbS4R7Z0

Don't It Make You Want To Go Home

Setting aside Joe, it's interesting how much of the stuff in this thread shows a really really clear debt to the Byrds or even to the Mamas and the Papas in folk-rock harmony terms. Guess those were pretty big groups, but man, if you squint you'd figure they were bigger than the Beatles in terms of sonic fingerprints all over everything. Pretty sure this whole lineage has a lot more to do with the sound of 70s mainstream rock (especially soft rock/AM gold) than the British Invasion or anything else.

I don't know if they would exactly fit in this thread because I don't know if they made it on any AM radio but it's an album I dearly love. I just wish I knew more about them. They're a trio of
There's really no information about Esperanza Encantata other that that they were a trio of Hispanic kids somewhere Out There who teamed up with a local folk rock band and made a great album in 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5rKgGtbiM

And a groovy cover of "Gimmie Shelter"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bsTRa5VK0

Man, Vern Gosdin had one of the all time great country rock voices. Clarence White also just absolutely ripping it up on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDUKKaRw9wE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGDUKKaRw9wE&app=desktop

and probably not within the thread's paramaters, neither AM-hooky nor trippy, but primo Doug Sahm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9p-_HYw830

Man, "Jubilee Cloud" is so fucking cool.

This is not Nancy's solo 1966 hit version, but having Lee up front def brings out the countryoid Lou Reed leatherette tendencies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jkccFwd7L8

Even more so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4

the Holy Mackerel : Scorpio red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmIvhcLAU4

love love this ..

country-folkoid love drug for thee Playboy Mansion West (Neubauten covered it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGfD2j9M1dA

More fun with sinister silver spurs sexizm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiISrw2GTXE

Honey LTD were a girl group who sang on Bob Seger System's "Ramblin; Gamblin' Man" as Wayne State co-eds, before getting on the bus to Hollywood, where they were signed to the musically awesome, biz-inept Lee Hazlewood Industries label. They were soon opening for the likes of Love, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield etc at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, and Sonny & Cher and Nancy & Lee in Vegas---you can hear why on their mindblowing The Complete Recordings finally out last year on Light In The Attic. Most relevant to this thread is their country-pop reincarnation as Eve---album w that moniker hasn't been reissued, but some tracks are on the 'Tube, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBzO8ifTflY

And this---the single mix, a little stripped down compared to the album, but like Ronnie Van Zant advises, TURN IT UP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-GQBmWa70

What the hell, here they are as Honey Ltd., with more voices and LITA remastering (album's also on Spotify)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tulk4O_Gg4

Speaking of Spotify, get yore ass over there and check out There's A Dream I've Been Saving, which is Lee, Honey Ltd/Eve, and all their totally compatible (thus idiosyncratic) labelmates, incl. Ann-Margret in leather and lace duets with Lee-Lou, and solo, at her Mojave Iggy Stoogest:

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

Prob a lotta Sir Doug Sahm y compadres on Spotify too, I need to check that (and of course more YouTube)

More Lee discussion here:
Best Lee Hazlewood LP
Lee Hazlewood -- Search and Destroy

Just a big ol hit off the doob and on the roadio, despite Agnew's druggie shit list (incl. "Puff The Magic Dragon"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejvcd-JeVCQ

Also: Jim Stafford's biggest, probly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKym33vK1cs

Recorded in Memphis? Check. Sitar? Check!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2lEO7vaozo