VA - GRETCHEN CRYER & COMPANY - I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road LP 79

One of two autographed vinyl which is always a pleasant surprise from Goodwill (remember Liberace's autographed post--not worth a nickel and no longer have it) with the other right below this post.  This album is very special and has lots of insert data but basically it is a 'natural high' per the opener and reprise and was part of the New York Shakespeare Festival.  Good songwriting, etc.  My best wishes to all the DU blog followers and I already got a thanks and greeting from Mark Underground the creator so see you next year!

https://bestfile.io/en/p4wg97Q7ijNrytE/file

Almost forgot the re-upped post-in-place links this week--shortcuts basically:

ANGEL CITY:  https://bestfile.io/en/zv3AM7pZhbXkKm3/file

BLUES IMAGE:  https://bestfile.io/en/VY2O7FuN5aeRTfq/file

CHIEFS OF RELIEF:  https://bestfile.io/en/UXL9cSO08tCNt3v/file

CHRIS de BURGH:  https://bestfile.io/en/iqlRRKIgAAwx4VV/file

JOE LALA (fixed a song edit):  https://bestfile.io/en/A9uuZlIiLIxj2xv/file

THE IDES OF MARCH:  https://bestfile.io/en/OADAzHhEX6VFXqg/file

THE PIONEERS:  https://bestfile.io/en/Dq2OMRZod1TmGft/file

THICK PIGEON (get this!!!):  https://bestfile.io/en/xPPjFebDgbL1Fb5/file

THE SPORTS (added all that was missing studio mainly):  https://bestfile.io/en/XQCEiFcF1nrJBG2/file

BILLY NICHOLLS:  https://bestfile.io/en/9uXjcwXmWZPsyev/file

BORN FREE MEGAPOST:  https://bestfile.io/en/PTinDOiCUkJDrhA/file

DYNAMIC FIVE:  https://bestfile.io/en/a40ugRkpNm5NW9P/file

JUDGE:  https://bestfile.io/en/L7DQ17QJAZldZJB/file

MELLOW CANDLE:  https://bestfile.io/en/wWDeprQ3WeuSgxo/file

METAPHYSICAL ANIMATION:  https://bestfile.io/en/9LtiaMk5v8ve6wP/file

MIRKWOOD:  https://bestfile.io/en/YYFE8ww7RgcAFSG/file

PEGASUS:  https://bestfile.io/en/sJoezo9VhWADJ3O/file

THE CONTENTS ARE:  https://bestfile.io/en/4NdLobs0BxgLxyZ/file

COLD CHISEL:  https://bestfile.io/en/XHus6VhUWh2JW12/file

THE SENDERS (Max's Kansas City presents):  https://bestfile.io/en/KSMaGrncXa38Dec/file

THE CHAMELEONS [U.K.]:  https://bestfile.io/en/ywVW5x9N2N6BtzV/file

THE COMSAT ANGELS:  https://bestfile.io/en/xgxUzAO3a4NIW6T/file

RICHARD SUPA w MAN [U.S.A.] (added both SUPA releases):  https://bestfile.io/qA89kf6ASeNA3e0/file

THE ROAD:  https://bestfile.io/ZihK0SwyROd1xFi/file

MORE LAST MINUTE ADD-ON RE-UP'S (like above two) SEE YOU NEXT YEAR:

IAN MATTHEWS:  https://bestfile.io/en/myDvIXg60eL4WUt/file

FRANCK POURCEL:  https://bestfile.io/BjKBROEuQoYNVCk/file

JEFF LORBER FUSION:  https://bestfile.io/5sU87MHY3JPRUeC/file

TOM TOM CLUB (for Discogs Jim):  https://bestfile.io/tMlm8U8ishhYl5G/file

VA - BLITZ LP 81:  https://bestfile.io/U5cqo6i5P15O18q/file

JIM CARLING - GOING PLATINUM LP 75

 FUNKMYROCK you are a force to be reckoned with!  While I keep all requests as text files on my work computer, I used to keep all together until I got overwhelmed so his list got buried but he let me know under the Pegasus post (reposted right above) just in time as this cool smoke color vinyl from yes, 1975 was last copy on youtube and is one of two autographs this week (other right above).  I got a few more critical ones but will work on his list next year and others can leave links in comments on that post.  Not a peep about his guy on discogs.  

https://bestfile.io/en/pRte3dV34zdEOmj/file

STEVE MILLANG AND GREG SCELSA - We All Live Together, Vol. 4 LP 80 w The Children's Theatre Players & Orchestra - The Adventures Of Alice In Wonderland LP w Tom Glazer/Gerard G. Jaffe - Happy Rhythms and Rhymes LP 71 w VA - 45 CHILDREN'S FAVORITE SONGS LP

15 WEEKS OF KIDS MUSIC CHRISTMAS:  Well kind of miscalculated this series forgetting that I had to use it or lose it for vacation time at end of year (now) so now I lumped the rest into this week and saved you all a few extra seconds by making it one download because it is just that good!!!  I did miss a couple of song splices but left the numbering open so could split and keep sequence when I have more time.  I will make a note that volumes 1-3 should be a 2024 project to try and get since a very cool series with some really interesting tunes.  Thanks all for putting up with my wanderings at Goodwill! I forgot to mention on th 45 songs album it has the Radio K station shoutout with the K shouted out after some intro and one of them from one of my VIACOMCMD homemade comps still posted has a sample from this record on the Gingerbread Man tune where the woman sings after the man voice intro “Run run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!

https://bestfile.io/en/kEiMVLlQ60kerZ6/file

NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND - Greatest Hits CD 90 w Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy CD 70 w William E. McEuen Presents WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN 3LP 72

REPOST and ADD ON:  Only had the greatest hits from Goodwill on first post long ago but found the Uncle Charlie posted at Twilight Zone blogspot in comments but forget who it was.  The real tour de force is the triple album my boss told me about right before he saw them play local in FL a week ago that I missed unfortunately.  He told me that William and Steve Martin hung out at a comedy club back in L.A. in old days and wouldn't you know it Michael Nesmith from the Monkees was the Usher!!  Wow, anyway this album hosts a big multitude of famous bluegrass and country artists so let's try this listing now:  Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Mother Maybelle Carter (a real treat to hear her!), Merle Travis, Roy Acuff, Junior Huskey, Norman Blake, Pete 'Oswalk' Kirby & Vassar Clements.

https://bestfile.io/en/R8Dk4Kxa3HzPk87/file

VA - THE BEST OF COUNTRY CROSSOVERS, VOL. 1 & 2 2LP 79

Well, had to pick out something special for the Country Comp theme for year end and this one is a real doozy!  Artists featured:  Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, Bobby Goldsboro, Billie Jo Spears, Glen Campbell, Jessi Colter, Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson (singing Patsy's 'Crazy'!), Joe South, Linda Ronstadt, Asleep At The Wheel, Ed Bruce, Merle Haggard and La Costa.

https://bestfile.io/2gg53uCZvPFR5Es/file

 

VA - THE LIFE TREASURY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC LP 61

 This one was a glaring omission from last weeks 'Folk For Thanksgiving" posts as I had it out but it got covered by other albums.  Features:  Gene Bluestein, Fort Wingate Indian School Children, Navajo Chorus, Alan Mills, Hermes Nye, Mickey Miller With Bess Hawes, Alan Mills & The Shanty Men, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Logan English and Kid Clayton.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/D4YrxqYPlc766J0/file

STEVE REICH AND MUSICIANS - MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS (SECTIONS I-XI) PULSE

 A driving instrumental tour de force, I combined all eleven sections to make one track.  Not sure what the 'Pulse' mention is all about.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Stephen Michael Reich

Profile:  American composer, born October 3, 1936, in New York City. He studied composition privately with Hall Overton, then moved on to Juilliard School in New-York to study with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti (1958 to 1961). Subsequently he attended Mills College in Oakland where he was taught by Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud (1961-63) and earned a master's degree in composition.

Early on, he was influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley's loosely-structured aleatoric works which combines simple musical patterns, offset in time, to create a slowly-shifting, cohesive whole. Reich adopted this approach to compose his first major work written in 1965: "It's Gonna Rain...". He moved on from the "phase shifting" technique he had pioneered to more elaborate pieces. He investigated other musical processes such as augmentation (the temporal lengthening of phrases and melodic fragments).  Reich's mother is the Broadway singer and lyricist June Carroll.

https://bestfile.io/3VMnUlKhjmGZaVa/file

RICK ROBERTS - Windmills LP 72 w She Is A Song LP 73

 A big thanks to Josef (Austria) this week for suggesting this artist to feature on my quad post this week of his selections with half newer style and this half older style.  Little on Discogs:  American country rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, born August 31, 1949 in Clearwater, Florida. Long based in Colorado.  So I will use a comment:  He was in the Flying Burrito Brothers post-Gram Parsons in 1971, and after these 2 excellent solo lps co-founded Firefall & was their lead singer for 7 years. He also wrote their biggest hit "You Are The Woman".

https://bestfile.io/fox3qLn0zQdmeVz/file

Renata Tarragó – Three Centuries Of Spanish Guitar Music LP 71

Per Discogs:  Real Name:   Renata Tarragó Fábregas

Profile:

Spanish guitarist and vihuelist (1927 – 2 August 2005) was a teacher and performer, both as a solo artist and an accompanist. She was the first female guitarist to record Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and was the editor of the first published edition of the Concierto de Aranjuez score.

Tarragó was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1927, the second of two children of Graciano Tarragó, who was a musician, composer and teacher, and his first wife, Renata Fábregas. She studied at the Barcelona Conservatory, where her first teacher was her father. Graciano Tarragó (1892–1973), who had previously taught the soprano Victoria de los Ángeles, had studied the guitar under Miguel Llobet, and also played the violin and viola.

Renata Tarragó made her first public appearance at the age of 14, and was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Barcelona Conservatory upon the completion of her studies there in 1944. In 1951, the Barcelona Conservatory awarded Tarragó the "Premio Extraordinario" for her artistic accomplishments.

Renata Tarragó's repertoire ranged from music written for the vihuela and Baroque guitar to that of the twentieth century. Among her solo recordings are the works of Federico Moreno Torroba, Francisco Tárrega, Fernando Sor, Gaspar Sanz, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Luigi Boccherini. In 1962, she made the first recording of Torroba's Concierto de Castilla, accompanied by the Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid, conducted by Jesús Arámbarri. Unlike the majority of classical guitarists, who play notes with their fingernails, Tarragó used her fingertips.

Tarragó concertized widely in Europe and abroad (including South Africa and the Soviet Union), and made her U.S. debut in 1960. In 1962, she represented Spain at the International Congress of the Guitar in Tokyo, and received a Gold Medal for her performances. During a 1962 concert at New York's Town Hall, she played both the vihuela and guitar, and the New York Times noted: "A musically sensitive performer, the beautiful Spanish artist explored the ranges of tonal subtlety and nuance."

In the 1968 film Deadfall, she appeared onscreen playing John Barry's Romance for Guitar and Orchestra in a concert scene, as well as on the soundtrack recording. The adagio from her recording of the Concierto de Aranjuez was used by Rex Nettleford and the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica for their dance piece, "Dialogue for Three"

https://bestfile.io/129Q6XMhTdkqmMB/file

PAUL JOHNSON - SONLIFE-A Musical Expression of Spiritual Renewal LP 75

 Representing the Jesus Music genre this week is a real classic on Tempo records (of Kansas City) not in the recent Parables type but the rant type stuff I like.  Here is the Discogs limited info (kind of hokey if you ask me):  PAUL JOHNSON SINGERS are professional studio singers who regularly sing on movie soundtracks, TV variety shows like the Oscars, jingles, & BGV's for artists of all genres.

https://bestfile.io/eh6kXOwCFipiRSL/file

DESTRY HAMPTON & THE WOLVES FROM HELL 7 78

 This one is a little present for Jonder who followed this blog before me like Nathan Nothin did too and both run great blogs I frequent daily.  Now I forget the reference to it but it sounds to me like The Pagans and both Jonder and I agree that their 'Buried Alive' album is the best of all!  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/yFhHCETV9xHuPGR/file

JOE LAUER pres. THE CRAZY GANG in 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Godfather....But Don't Ask LP 72

 Can't forget to include a little comedy at year end and this one is pretty funny one about thugs.

https://bestfile.io/C9jaCKXqdijDYeA/file

Nucleus - Roots LP 73 w Live In Bremen CD 71 03

 This initial band post is for a new member of the blog this year NICK THE GREEK who really helped me a bunch with dead links lately and had requested this band from early on.  I only had the two files unopened in my files so if others know which ones are best to add to this let me know.  The live is a pretty special one to...here is a sample from the text file I included:  This fabulous 2 disc set is a legit release of a concert taped in 1971 for German radio. We have to thank Cuneiform a hundred times over for locating and releasing this excellent sounding live concert from one of the greats of British jazz-rock. The band consists of Ian Carr-trumpet,flugelhorn, percussion; Karl Jenkins-oboe, electric piano; Brian Smith-saxes, flutes, percussion; Roy Babbington-bass; John Marshall-drums,percussion; and the only appearance with the group of guitarist Ray Russell. Brit-jazz lovers will recognize the name but for those who haven't had the pleasure of hearing Russell's outstanding fretwork - wow! Imagine Allan Holdsworth trying to sound like Jeff Beck & playing with Soft Machine in 1971! Nice liner notes and some archival photos round out this superb release!

https://bestfile.io/en/0ZBwo8stTt99Tsb/file

Into Paradise - Churchtown CD 91

Another new one for Josef (Austria) quad post which are two old/two new suggestions.  Per Discogs:  Into Paradise were a group from Dublin, Ireland whose influences included Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen. They formed in 1986 as 'Backwards into Paradise', and released their debut EP 'Blue Light' in 1989 on the independent label Setanta. Soon after came the EP 'Change' and the band's first full-length album, 'Under the Water'. There was only ever one fight on-stage, contray to popular belief, that was in 1988 more of a drunken scuffle in a small venue in dublin called the underground, it made good publicity thereafter.

https://bestfile.io/en/Gm4buuv8QagPIbp/file

 

Debris' - st CD 76 -cc

COLLECTORS CHOICE:  Another for the quad post this week for our great member Josef (Austria) who was tauting this one for the longest over at Urban Aspirines where we met.  Here is a short blurb from the text document in the file link:  *** Reviewed by great fellow Adamus67 ***

Debris ' Static Disposal is the pivotal mid-70s behemoth to emerge from the American private press underworld, a record which went on to inspire everyone from the Screamers to Nurse With Wound (NWW). A legendary reissue hailed in Ugly Things, The Acid Archives, and Mojo.

Recorded in December 10 and 16, 1975 at Benson Sound Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and released on January 20, 1976, before the first Ramones LP, and leading off with a song called One Way Spit", Debris' can now be seen as the most important proto-punk band, too often snubbed by "punk historians" who don't want to admit to having to rewrite their historical templates. The LP sounds almost contemporary today, with its aggression, angst, wild analog synthesizers, guitars and vocal experimentation, and a supercharged, avant-psychedelic recording quality.

https://bestfile.io/en/pU2BkFdVrxOfO3u/file

Dave Bixby - Ode to Quetzalcoatl CD 70 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Here is from the text file included:  Moody drug damage reflections loner xian folk psych.

This is one excellent obscure acid psychedelic record. This is a story of a man trying to overcome his drug addiction through faith. It is a lonely, moody record. I have no idea why this isn't a widely known record. The emotion on this acid folky record is huge, not to mention the simple pureness of the songs. Do yourself a favor and listen to this, you're missing out if you don't.

Strange enchanting dreamy acoustic custom of slow melodic tunes sleepily adrift in a hazy stereo-echoed blur of ethereal guitar work and sedated vocals, heavy on the lost loner “real people” vibes. Bixby’s story is detailed on the back cover – how he destroyed his life with substance abuse (recounted in ‘Drug Song’), cried out to God for his sanity, and eventually received a testimony of Jesus Christ. Ode To Quetzalcoatl contains twelve of his post-conversion songs, featuring titles like ‘Free Indeed’, ‘I Have Seen Him’, ‘Morning Sun’, ‘Open Doors’, ‘666’ and ‘Waiting For The Rains’. Occasional cosmic weirdity in the lyrics, as on ‘Prayer’ (“pick out a cloud, and speak very loud, and that cloud will be yours forever”). Sometimes joined by a second guitar, plus onetime appearances of harmonica (‘Secret Forest’) and spacey flute (‘Peace’). The mysterious album title reference to the ancient Mexican serpent god isn’t explained anywhere, nor is it mentioned in any of the songs. Some highly unusual yet very captivating stuff here, guaranteed to make yourself ask “where is this guy coming from?”.

~ Ken Scott, Archivist 

https://bestfile.io/en/IkP08C1ux7DgPMu/file

Patrick Woodroffe bw Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony CD 79

This was prompted by my Colosseum post a few weeks ago so here's the skinny on it:  The second album from this British legend.

Dave Greenslade was previously in the bands Colosseum and Greenslade. He broke off and did his five solo albums. Cactus Choir from 1976 is his best and most famous album.

This one though is the most infamous album. An eighty minutes long monster.

But it is also a monster who has greatly influenced techno, ambient, new-age and electronica music. It should not be underestimated.

Dave Greenslade plays all kinds of keyboards and everything with tangents attached to the instruments. Strangely enough, Phil Collins is the drummer on those tracks who requires drums. Yes, THE Phil Collins. John Lingwood also helps out on drums and percussion. Dave's own daughter Kate helps out with children voices.

Everything here is very electronica. Very synths and keyboards orientated. But there is actually a considerable amount of drums and percussion here too. There is rhythms on this album.

Most of it is avant-garde music based on synths. Which is not my cup of tea. Nevertheless, a lot of the stuff here is not bad. This is actually a decent enough album. One I am sure will interest a lot of people out there. Check it out.

https://bestfile.io/en/rm3NUku99C5LhF9/file

The Gizmos - Dow Jones and The Industrials - 1980 - Hoosier Hysteria 12'' w early 7 w 1976-1977 - Muff Divin' 7 76 w Amerika First 7 77 w Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's The Gizmos 7 78 w Hoosier Hysteria 7 12 80 w The Gizmos World Tour 7

REPOST Request:  Lumping all I got together on this including Dow Jones (this was Bernando's first submission to the blog so I left up his original post with comments over there).  If anyone has suggestions on a specific release I need I can try to go fetch at youtube next year.  Thanks to Josef (Austria) for suggesting this post....part of another quad post for Josef with two old, two new during post week.  NOTE:  I had a file from the way back that says "GIZMOS COMPLETE" and is still zipped up in this link because I don't have the password...if anyone can crack the code leave link in comments.        

https://bestfile.io/en/15CI2fmnar4oqGf/file