Good to hear some more Scott McKenzie, and looks like the whole album may be there on the same page, track by track.
― dow, Friday, 5 August 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Fairweather Low got a good one-disc comp, Wide-Eyed and Legless, which gets the good stuff from those 3 A&M LPs (which are all found for cheap these days in used record stores, at least around here). Mega is Low on the downside of that career arc, but I quite like it anyway, Jeffreys strikes me as a neglected near-major artist--the Grinders Switch[, which is on Vanguard and is hard to find (I only found it a couple years ago), is one of the best Band rips in history, and as such is notable for the way Jeffreys twists the vernacular of the first 2 Band albums into something that begins to hint at the urban amidst the somewhat vague imagery. First solo is his folk-rock record and really unique, Ghost Writer is like the missing link between singer-songwriterdom and new wave--I hear some Television in it, whether or not it hit before the first Television album or he even knew who they were (probably did, given his astute reading of the marketplace back then), and Escape Artist is his Elvis Costello move, with "Jump Jump," maybe his single greatest recording, getting into Willful but Necessary Escape Routes from Oppressive History. King of In Between is a great album, and 2013's Truth Serum contains some pretty convincing blues, proof that he is comfortable doing just about anything. He came to Nashville in 2013 and I damn sure made it a point to write about him and interview him at length, here. Caught the show--he could still sing great.
― Edd Hurt, Friday, 5 August 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
first garland i ever heard was his so retro it's new wave cover of 96 tears which i saw him do on the ABC show Fridays. first time i think i ever heard 96 tears.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
i ALMOST bought the album at Caldor that next week but i chickened out.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
a couple of years ago Garland played at this place about 50 feet from my store. he came in my store the next day and was devastated. he said it was the worst show he had EVER played. i spent about a half hour apologizing to him. even though i didn't have anything to do with it. i felt terrible.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
(it was the venue owner's fault. he no longer owns/runs the place...)
― scott seward, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
Garland's show in Nashville wasn't hugely attended--seems like half the audience was writers old enough to have seen him when he last came thru town in the '80s, probably 1982. He's worked with Levon Helm sidemsn Larry Campbell a bit, and he's another guy the Americana crowd ought to give some kind of award to, because he helped invent the stuff.
― Edd Hurt, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of xpost Steve Marriott, early AF Low: James Hunter is another English guy who can get the raspy Brownian grooves just right, currently in a "Ooo-Poo-Pa-Dooh'' type thang (PJ Proby was an American expat, but still):http://livestream.com/pickathon/events/5911922
― dow, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
ian matthews and mickey newbury are gettin the reissue treatment now so i guess they can't count.what about steve young?? his records are awesome.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Steve Young definitely deserves some kind of reassessment. Renegade Picker, from '76, has to be one of the most underrated country-rock records ever made. Rock Salt & Nails, from '69, also pioneering 'Mericana-outlaw-alt. Dead Voices: I did a Guy Clark story a few years ago, a fairly long one, and after I finished, Guy Clark asked me to deliver the paper with the story to him at his house. I wrote about Steve Young in the piece, since he'd appeared in the Heartworn Highwaysmovie along with Clark. Clark was in poor health. I got the paper, knocked on the door, waited a few minutes until a guy dressed in turquoise blue, with white hair, answered the door. I told him why I was there, and asked him, "I don't believe I know you." He said, "I'm Steve Young." Now they're both gone.Yup, P.J. Proby. A great parody artiste. Three Week Hero's title track, from '69, was written by...John Stewart.
― Edd Hurt, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Young had the songs and a big voice, esp. for such a little guy. During a local stay, wrote "Montgomery In The Rain", "Seven Bridges Road"(AKA Woodley Rd., wise to use the older name), and others. Too overtly hip for mid-60s Alabama, too Southern to do without some cultural bemusement out West (Tosches said Young told him he was to perform at some Baez family event, the Farinas' wedding, I think, but Queen Joan nixed it, said she couldn't stand to look at a white Southerner just then)(however, she did record a good version of "Seven..." a few years later---fast tymes!). Van Dykes Parks could prob relate, since his family was originally from Mississippi (though lived in Pittsburg before L.A.). Said he wrote "The All Golden" about Young ( I've never quite grokked that lyric, must listen again).
― dow, Friday, 5 August 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
rock salt and nails by steve young is a serious hepcat totem. very hard to find a copy these days cuz people want it so much. a record that you could get for nothing for years and now it goes for $$$.
― scott seward, Friday, 5 August 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
only ever seen that going for around about 30 (nz dollars) gene clark AND gram parsons are on it i believe!
― no lime tangier, Friday, 5 August 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
This thread needs some Tony Joe White. Beyond the tunes and that lush low voice, his guitar playing is ace and he gets real funky with a wah wah on some tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVThMVjnTM
That Murray Head tune up thread is good.
― earlnash, Saturday, 6 August 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
that s/t tony joe white is hard to beat. i always listen to it 4 or 5 times in a row before i put it out in the store if i get a copy.
― scott seward, Saturday, 6 August 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
say it ain't so joe is all time
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 6 August 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
Willie and Laura Mae Jones is an amazing tune.
― earlnash, Saturday, 6 August 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
Here's Roger Daltrey doing "Say It Ain't So" with Andy Fairweather-Low on backing vocals (but not in the video) (and Moon's in the video, but not on the recording):https://youtu.be/9bVGTVrQd6M
AF-W was also Townshend's stand-in while the Who started It's Hard, waiting for Pete to finish rehab. There's a couple songs on it without Pete/with A F-W.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 6 August 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
Thanks---forgot about his involvement w The Who; he also sang on a bunch of Who Are You tracks, also toured with them I think, later backed some Townsend solo activities etc.
― dow, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
True about the Who Are You backing vocals, but AF-W didn't tour with the Who...are you thinking of Billy Nicholls (who also sang backup on Who Are You, and toured with them in 1989, 1996, and 1997) ?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Hadn't heard of Billy Nichols! Speaking of Garland J again, I was vaguely thinking this morning bout how he hung out with Reed and Cale way back, and have read that early VU sometimes covered his "Josephine", with Cale singing it---which cued up this GJ-written track in my headbox (if can't see it: "Fairweather Friend", as performed by Mr. JC on Vintage Violence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1SkL8WsQo
― dow, Monday, 15 August 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
ace sound, good video, even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RzBZsOeqOQ
Wild in the Streets is my pride and joy. I consider it my "first" Rock 'n' Roll record, written and released in 1973, and recorded with Dr. John and his band, with Alan Freedman, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, David Spinozza, David Peel, Produced by Roy Cicala..............---Garland-----------------------------------Single written and released in 1973. Also on the album "Ghost Writer" (A & M Records, 1977) and reissued on the album "I'm Alive" (Universal International, 2006).-----------------------------------Garland Jeffreys: Lead vocal and acoustic guitarJohn Boudreaux: DrumsRick Marrotta: DrumsJohnny Ace: BassAlan Freedman: Acoustic electric guitarSugarbear: Electric guitarDr. John: ClavinetMichael Brecker: Tenor saxRandy Brecker: TrumpetDavid Sanborn: Soprano saxPhil Messina: TromboneDavid Peel and Friends: Background vocalsProduced by Roy Cicala and Garland JeffreysArranged by Garland Jeffreys and Dr. JohnRecorded and mixed by Roy Cicala at Record Plant, 1973Mastered at Atlantic-----------------------------------Video compiled and edited by Doug Webb / Images by Webb (http://www.imagesbywebb.com).-----------------------------------WILD IN THE STREETS (Music and Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys)
― dow, Monday, 15 August 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8NQhn-ecI
― dow, Monday, 15 August 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
"She plays a pure white slave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_l81MljWI
― dow, Monday, 15 August 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link