deep thoughts new years eVe

i found a cache of unreleased eden ahbez material while trolling the digitalium-x-press-way last week and though half of it is googly synth stuff, with eden talking through a telephone to somebody, over nature boy chord changes on a casio, and rapping about the billboard he's gonna buy in LA to project his message about the environment to the youth of today... a few tracks really hit the lonely beach set we all know and love from this bearded master of time, space, and effortless tranquility. the track i uploaded, As The Wind gives you a nice taste of eden's flowing thoughts on the path humanity seems to walk down as we enter this further millenium etc... its got a psych-ish keyboard backing part that sets the tone kinda nicely for the spirally think-tank that unfolds into seemingly ANCIENT realms. to be dug on the cusp of 2007, baby. happy ano nuevo, CG

too much fun

too much fun. these are the first 3 words that come to my mind when it comes to the Holy Moses!! lp. this is pure gonzo rock'n'roll gyrations on the stereo set... unmitigated rock as rock, tho 70s set, kinda, i guess. has powerfully pop-ish moments but with an unhinged singer who likes talking and screaming as much as singing.... ratso rizzo armand schaubroeck moments too, like street snapshots flashed quick, with madcap style. i dig this lp. it is a stone cold blast. i dont know if it is COM-plex, or terribly difficult to decode, but the type of thing that sounds better than good after severals beers and the lights twinkle all nice and soft... and the music is LOUD. yeah that's better.

p.s. these dudes had lother and hand people connections!!

p.s.s. comments anybody??? i post up some zen effluveum, NADA. toss some great jerry jeff, who cares? rip my own jackie and roy for ya, hmmmm? i have a strange feeling more people than the one or two who leave comments are checking out these sounds. i hate to be a comments nazi, but if you dig, share opinions one way or another. i don't like feeling as if i am throwing these nice lps into a void. thanks. -cary

the green green grass of home....

recent fave is a wonderful southwestern dig called Santa Fe... countryish sun-baked splendor. understated, backroads type stuff. really becoming my favorite angle of the psych whirlwind... RURAL MOVES folks - i.e. hippies with a love of country, kind of sums up me in a lot of ways. hits so many sincere emotional notes without being cheesy, and is just a real deal piece of music. their kind of inherent geekiness, and gumption for oddly spun hometown folktales reminds me of one of my other favorite records Hickory Wind, albeit a southwestern strain. hope you dig the blue bus...



also, special bonus rip from my dollar bin scores. jackie and roy's GRASS lp. the electric jackie and roy, that is. perfect turned-on sunshine pop. WAY COOL, so don't miss this one.

peace, love, happy holidaze... -cary

her good lovin' grace...

here's perhaps one of the more in-dire-need-of-a-reissue major label/major artsist items still left sitting in the stacks. a long time personal favorite of myself, and a record passed to me by my father is jerry jeff walker's self-titled 1972 lp. not only is this a great country-folk record, i'd say it's my hands down favorite outlaw record. recorded in austin with a bunch of locals the thing oozes that organic laidback thing all the great austin records have. jerry sounds somewhere between wandering folk troubador and southern hick and manages to allow hippie-ish sensibilities, at least in how utterly laid back this record is, into the sounds. its a perfect early 70s vibe... take the guitar solo on "i got a feeling"... a rushing jolt of pure joyous cosmos enters every molecule of the sound. piano underlies the picking and the violin thrums over the top... it is the sound of smalltown perfection. friends playing with friends, for friends... the outlaw rejection of nashville plasticity, and thus a return to the front porch. he covers several beautiful guy clark songs... each one a gem of country songwriting. "charlie dunn", "that old time feeling", etc.... this is the music that makes a saturday morning. "hairy ass hillbillies" is another favorite. i feel like it gives the Band a serious run for their money. this record has seen me through many times, as it did my father before me, and i wouldn't part with it for anything. i hope you enjoy it too.

p.s. just readin the allmusic write-up on this one, and it was recorded with no board!!! i like what they say here too: ""Her Good Lovin' Grace" sums up the entire ambience of these sessions with its false beginning that becomes a real one and the whole band slipping and sliding their way through a song that's being written as they go. Amazing."

requiem

i just scored this record, and it is every goddam last thing i ever thought it might be. sorry for super-weak picture. this is a hard to find one...

the legendary country outlaw cut this record in the late 60s, with a mild psychedelic slant, at least in the garagey fuzz ripping back up band that creates lurid soundscapes for his beyond the pale rapping on living inside "the asphalt jungle"... like an aged street freak spilling late night recollections of days lived minute to minute searching for something/anything to illuminate, and in doing so becomes extremely psychedelic. this will easily crawl into my most played by the end of this year... TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE

not so much a cookbook...

the wonderful thing about the "joy of cooking" record is that like other early 70s favorites of mine "frasier and debolt" and zephyr's "sunset ride" - they sound totally apart of their time and yet totally unique and original. hippie-ish sounds unite with lounge/folk/soft sounds for a pure de-lite that is as well written as it is joyously musical. the band was led by Toni Brown and Terry Garthwaite who write all the tunes and play piano/guitar, making this the 2nd female led band to sign a major label contract! the reason for their lack of commercial success might just be why the record holds up so well today: they didn't go for any cheap 1-shot moves for success, but spent time on writing an album full of beautiful songs, and sang with great husky voices that neither go for the histrionics of say joplin, or stay too lightly in the traditional femme folk stylings. here's all the info you need thanks to perfect sound forever.
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