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gest your ww w to truth be told it s not that i haven t stumbled upon any great new songs or artists to showcase on the blog but just that i ve been really busy and distracted with the rest of life such as getting laid off finding out i m gonna be a dad and then getting another job in that order naturally but i m back and committed to posting some music on this and it s sister blog soul spectrum on the somewhat regular today s post comes from a prolific yet anonymous source the blue ridge rangers the shadowy figures perched atop the bluish ridge are in actuality an army of fogerty john fogerty that is after the breakup of creedence clearwater revival in 1972 john fogerty lead singer and main songwriter embarked on a solo career with an album that not only didn t list his name except for as producer on the back of the lp but didn t include even one original song either he was trying to get back at fantasy records founder saul zaentz or he was trying to disassociate himself from ccr either way it s a solid album of classic country music performed entirely by fogerty with innovative arrangements that fits in wonderfully with the output of other country rockers of the time namely gram parsons ccr never really fit in with much of the contemporary rock coming out during their tenure 1968 1972 so its amusing that fogerty s first solo album actually does fit in with a trend even in its attempts to be anachronistic any way you slice it it s an interesting listen from start to finish john remade this album with some new tunes and a full band not too long ago but if i were you i d track down this original album find a cold american beer and a sunny porch and dig in blue ridge rangers john fogerty california blues blue yodel 4 blue ridge rangers john fogerty workin on a building ps isn t the young john fogerty a dead ringer for both a young steve martin and young harrison ford posted by the ambassador at tuesday july 06 2010 no comments labels country rock covers creedence clearwater revival john fogerty thursday march 25 2010 up and down the left coast with new riders of the purple sage as you may have read in my sole dead related ww w post that i am a dead neophyte and with trepadation i am plunging my birkenstock clad dirty toe into this insular world of endless jams bluegrass psychedelia and unfathomable depths of concert recordings my plan is to take bite sized shall we say brownie sized doses of dead related albums and classic dead albums before i start affixing bumper stickers to my thoroughly undead subaru according to a cool cat i met in austin named mark i need to get some live dead from 1972 73 recommendations of albums of boots to track down many thanks to scott for tipping me off to the new riders of the purple sage debut album which i found in portland on my last trip not a difficult album to find by any stretch but well worth it this a great listen all the way through and seems like a gateway album to fully immerse oneself into the dead world i swear the second song on the album watcha gonna do has the same intro riff as a track from american beauty to me this albums sounds like a more stoney version of the byrds sweetheart of the rodeo and that s just fine with me it also has the great tune portland woman and being from portland i can tell you that there are not many songs about the city of roses i remember listening to huey lewis heart of rock n roll waiting for the part where they list off cities that have the heart of rock n roll because portland made the cut so i did a brief little search and discovered that nrps were basically created as a vehicle for jerry to wail on his slide guitar in a more countrified fashion that the normal dead oevre would allow the two auxillary players that would form nrps were songwriter and acoustic guitar player john marmaduke dawson featured in the car next to jerry and david nelson on electric guitar alongside dead members garcia hart and lesh the story goes that jerry wanted to practice his slide guitar and frequently joined dawson at a menlo park coffee house these gigs eventually resulted in this band and a few tours with the dead before nrps really separated and became their own band i don t mean to blasphemy but it seems like they needed that dead influence as their later albums pale in comparison to this first one but we can t neglect to mention that dawson wrote all of these great tunes on the first album so it would be a mistake to look at nrps as merely a dead curiosity new riders of the purple sage portland woman new riders of the purple sage dirty business i also included dirty business from their debut album which is a great tune with interesting lyrics that really breaks away from the obvious hippie country terrain and really drifts off into some spacey territory this is the kind of dead material that i m interested in hearing more of new riders of the purple sage l a lady it s too perfect to include l a lady from a later album to get the full west coast tour covered you can already hear that their sound changed significantly from this first album to their later work scott warned me of this already but this tune is still pretty great posted by the ambassador at thursday march 25 2010 2 comments labels country country rock grateful dead jerry garcia portland slide guitar tuesday march 9 2010 ode to bobbie gentry the mississippi hippie part 1 hey there little doggies sorry it s been awhile since i posted some tunes up here on ww w but a lot has been going on meanwhile back at the ranch if you peruse my other blog soul spectrum you might have read that i was recently laid off sad i know but i m trying to recognize that i m not the only one out there in this position and honestly it does help to keep that perspective one of the silver linings to this cloud is that i now have much more time for the fun and unpaid music activities in my life such as weed whites wine today we re gonna do something special a rare cross blog collaboration with our sister site soul spectrum focusing on the rare talent that is bobbie gentry anyone who s ever dug for records will doubt have seen her duet album with glen campbell hundreds of times as it approaches the commonness of whipped cream and other delights and shockingly i don t even have that one though next times i see it the completist in me will snatch it up everybody probably knows that bobbie is best known for composing and singing the brilliant story song ode to billy joe a haunting song set in rural chickasaw country mississippi where a troubled billy joe mcallister jumps off the tallahachie bridge i had heard that song and several other versions but it wasn t until i heard the a side to her first single ode to billy joe was the b side on a british acid jazz comp blue juice that i really took notice that a side mississippi delta is a smoking country soul stomp and will be posted shortly on the companion tribute to bobbie gentry over at soul spectrum i spent the last few days going through my handful of bobbie gentry albums all from 1967 1970 and picked out some of the twangier tunes from her repertoire to me bobbie is somewhere in between tony joe white and john hartford two other native southerner singer songwriters who dabbled in pop country in the wake of the bob dylan revolution before dylan made columbia some serious few record labels took chances on singer songwriters especially in the country and or folk markets of the four songs below only one is a cover which seems pretty representative of her albums bobbie s story is a fascinating one that saw her peak in popularity with her very first single only to become fed up with the recording industry within a few years next she spent the better part of the seventies as one of the biggest acts in las vegas producing writing choreographing and performing her own show then in the late seventies she married wealthy and has disappeared from sight it s been rumored that she and elvis even had a thing going on in the early 70s no doubt as both stars were dominating the las vegas strip i urge you to listen closely to the words of the final song posted here fancy which is done in a similar story style as ode to billy joe but is about a teenage girl who s mother forces her into prostitution in order to pay the family s bills the song goes on to discuss the emotional wreckage that results not bad for a pop song it might help if you knew that before joining the los angeles music conservatory she was majoring in philosophy at ucla bobbie gentry okolona river bottom band this is from her second album which sold poorly but is clearly trying to build on that southern mythology check down below for a bizarre video of bobbie and bing crosby dueting on this tune bobbie gentry sweet peony this a funny little countrified number one thing i really like about bobbie gentry is that her arrangements are often very spare with her vocals way up front and funky rhythmic touches along the way bobbie gentry natural to be gone i love john hartford and this is one of my favorite tunes of his so i had to include it you ll notice she changes the lyric from banjo to guitar bobbie gentry fancy i already talked about this one i know she s a feminist and all but i don t think bobbie would mind if i commented on how hot she looks on this album cover here s a great performance of the tune on johnny cash s tv show from 1970 i m gonna guess here s another clip from johnny s show likely from an earlier season singing a hank williams tune in duet with the beautiful bobbie and here we have bobbie on bing crosby s show with bing dueting on okolona river bottom band and here s a link to cool video of bobbie singing louisiana man with some of the hollies including ww w favorite graham nash posted by the ambassador at tuesday march 09 2010 3 comments labels bobbie gentry country pop southern soul thursday december 17 2009 wine whites and doobies the doobie brothers and steely dan have more than jeff skunk baxter and michael mcdonald in common they are both ubiquitous 1970s pop rock bands that i ve come to love despite my best intentions to steer clear of obvious pop music fodder just like with the dan i had a moment years ago when hearing either china grove or long train runnin for the 100th time that i had to stop in my tracks and remark to myself damn that s a great song once that happens it s hard to go back i m not trying to say i m a super fan and unlike the dan i haven t seen the doobies live but i also wouldn t pass up the opportunity if it presented itself to me as far as weed whites wine goes the doobies pick up where a lot of the laurel canyon socal country hippies left off my office mate and friend grew is quick to point out that the doobies are probably the most famous band from the south bay san jose area and you can hear the similarity to other country rock outfits from these parts namely creedence clearwarter revival the bay area scene was more indebted to r b it would seem then the socal scene which had a little more folk and pop influences depending on the artist most of the doobies repertoire doesn t fit too well in the www bag but when i stumbled upon their first album from 1971 i was pleasantly surprised to hear the humble country ish beginnings of one of the 70s biggest rock bands you ll note that the line up on the album is merely four people three of which continue on to later albums and the smaller size is reflected on the more subtle songs when compared to the larger line ups and baroque arrangements of later years sure they never would have made it big if they kept it like this but the following tunes show that they were on to something interesting back in 1971 the doobie brothers nobody the doobie brothers greenwood creek the doobie brothers feelin down farther posted by the ambassador at thursday december 17 2009 no comments labels california country rock rock friday october 30 2009 the brothers everly ok so everybody knows the everly brothers from their ubiquitous oldies hits like cathy s clown etc but for my money they were the original country rockers don and phil s parents were country stars from kentucky so when these boys started their thing they were naturally tapping into some country roots i ve read here and there that the early hippy rockers like the byrds cs n and gram parsons and the burrito bros all worshipped the everly brothers early rock n roll hits so its only natural that the everly brothers would fit right in when the country rock scene blossomed in the late 60s well they did and they didn t i don t have it yet but their 1968 roots album is supposed to be a great example of their adapting to the new old country rock sound that they helped invent but this album from 1972 definitely finds the brothers stretching out in a country rock style not unlike some of their followers left to right paul rothschild producer phil don everly some of their admirers even joined in on this all star cast including john sebastien of the lovin spoonful david crosby delany bonnie and chris hillman among many others the album was recorded in sebastian s laural canyon home the brothers cover sebastian on the title tune which is nice and cover delaney bonnie on the opening cut but the three tracks here and my three favorites are all everly originals the heavenly green river is possibly one of my favorite country rock tunes of all time and will certainly make the cut for the forthcoming weed whites wine compilation the everly brothers green river the everly brothers i m tired of singing my song in las vegas the everly brothers up in mabel s room posted by the ambassador at friday october 30 2009 no comments labels country rock delaney and bonnie laurel canyon friday october 23 2009 astral weakness once again the bay area s bizarro weather is messing with me last week it was feeling very fall like and the last few days it s been really warm so i started prepping this post back when it was rainy and windy with the leaves departing their branches and accumulating in piles and on the sidewalks i figure it s gotta be fall like somewhere else so i m going ahead with this post i remember working at olsson s books music in washington d c and reading some mojo or q magazine top 50 list of the best albums of all time and van morrison s astral weeks was definitely in the top 10 if not top 5 i picked it up and quickly got carried away by the emotion and otherworldliness of the recording it s a special album that transports the listener to a strange and instantly nostalgic place like a great film for me the album reminds me of my year after college living in washington dc in the mt pleasant neighborhood and walking up irving street on the way to work with the sidewalks damp with rain and about half of the leaves on the ground on the other half dangling on the verge of joining the others van morrison astral weeks the title track to this classic album really sets the tone for this sonic journey it s not my absolute...