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This week's Country Rock Cornucopia© presents a couple of hi-fiber biscuits that'll go down a treat while your old lady's fixing the tailgate on the truck. Get her to fetch you a brewskie first, though. Watching a dame chip rust can work up a thirst.
Milkwood's How's The Weather from '72 is a swell collection of CSNY-flavored tunes, distinguished by the presence of future Cars members Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr. Yep! The My Best Friend's Girl hitmakers started their careers as back-porch harmonizers, a-pickin' and a-singin' their easy way through something of a genre classic.
Timbercreek's Hellbound Highway ('75) is a double rarity. Not only was it a severely limited private press, it is also damn good, unlike many "lost classics" pressed up by local hopefuls. If you like Workingman's Dead, you'll flip for this. If you don't like Workingman's, please collect your shoes at the door on your way out. This isn't the Dead, of course, but they're a surprisingly skilled band, with an especially strong rhythm section (the bass playing is a stone delight) and better-than-average songwriting chops. They even get the home-made cover right, too. Keeper!
EDIT: Don't miss Bob's links in the comments for the boners tracks version of the album, and a beautiful, groovy, trucking live album!
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Always startling to see First Generation Punks (or whatever The Cars were) in an earlier incarnation as Hippies (or whatever Country Rockers were). Thanks!
ReplyDeleteJust found your site and have plenty of catching up to do. Where's the link to download?
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Delete@Psychfan, whatever they were is right. Neither 1st-generation nor punks. We're talking about the Cars, right? --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteThis is a phenomenon I'm familiar with as I was in high school during the sixties and still under 25 when punk happened. It was obvious that a lot of creative energy had shifted there and I like a lot of music from that time but I never considered myself a punk or lost my affinity for (and identification with) 60's culture in general.
ReplyDeleteSome people just went with the flow (as some people are wont to do) and some people really were glad that the sixties were over.
Because of this specific history I'm amused to see those who have a carefully constructed 70's identity suddenly outed as (gasp!) hippies.
Andy Summers having played in Dantalian's Chariot was one of those. And the Blockheads had sixties roots, and "Elvis Costello's" Attractions, and Debbie Harry ... yes, it wasn't something they advertised at the time.
DeleteDear Mr. Farquhar Throckmorton III;
ReplyDeleteI quite like Timbercreek. I saw them several times in the mid-seventies. Several years ago, I received a CDR of their album with 6 additional tracks. I also received a Live CDR recorded at various venues from 1974 to 1976.
Here are the bonus tracks:
Timber creek - Hellbound Highway (1975)
https://www98.zippyshare.com/v/znED0Hw7/file.html
Bonus Tracks
11. Cody
12. Harry
13. Landslide
14. Pa's Fool Son
15. Silver Ribbons
16. Tom Haley (alternate take)
Here are the live tracks
https://www98.zippyshare.com/v/ECVWL9bH/file.html
Timbercreek - LIVE
01 You Can Be Anything 6:09
02. Hell In The Hills 7:02
03. Truckers Song 6:01
04. God Said 4:46
05. Pa's Fool Son 4:08
06. Wells Fargo Stage 4:19
Timbercreek:
Larry Ross - vocals, guitar, piano
Doug Osburn - pedal steel guitar, banjo, guitar
John Hicks - vocals, bass
Frank Gummersal - vocals, guitar, piano
Carl Holland - vocals, drums, clarinet
I hope you will enjoy these additional recordings.
This is Foamtastic stuff, Bob! Thank you so much. And it's great to hear from someone who actually saw these guys - hardly headliners - several times. Thanks again.
DeleteTrack 11 - do we know her?
DeleteThe Cody from track 11 would be in her sixties or seventies now. Prime for me, but probably not for you. Plus I'm not sure about her carrying that shotgun.
DeleteWe're all as old as we want to be at th' House O'Foam, Bob!
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