I love these old, lost recordings from 1967. Re-discovered and released for the first time, just a few days ago. For myself …. the evolution of the Singer/Songwriter, Folk/Rock style of music. And such a great, plaintive voice carrying these songs. It would have been a sin for these recordings to remain lost.
It's fascinating to read about the musicians from this time, who were exploring new territory opened up by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Now days these names are considered as greats but most were just starting out back then. How they joined up with, worked with and split from each other and then reforming with other musicians in various working arrangements and creating even more new music. And then the even newer names coming up behind them, continuing on. Just reading about it all you get the sense that it was a process played out over a decade when it was actually just a few years.
Is there anything or anyone comparable to that now? Or was that era something unique that could have only happened when it did, with it's surrounding events and circumstances?
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Revolver
In the cd player. 'Revolver' by The Beatles. A 2009 remastered version. I rarely listened to their records until ten or fifteen year...
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The Kenny Drew Trio - 'If You Could See Me Now' From 1976 on vinyl. Piano jazz. Browsing the bins today and came across this. The gu...
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"Hecla and Griper" by Songs: Ohia which is a singer/songwriter named Jason Molina who also recorded under both his name and Ma...
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"Wisdom of Elders" by Shabaka and the Ancestors. Just discovered. Ever since I heard "The Eraser" by Christian Scot...

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