On the recommendation of another poster on another thread I checked out Time Of The Last Persecution (1971) by Bill Fay last night. Very good album. I highly enjoyed it. It's kinda singer-songwritery but with more oomph. I guess that's another album I have to track down now. My wallet hates this forum but my ears love it.
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass and Peter Gabriel - So. Both are excellent albums and worth the listen! I was more familiar with So due to the mega singles released off of it like Sledgehammer, Big Time, and In Your Eyes. But it's songs like Don't Give Up and Mercy Street that are the standouts to me.
Goats Head Soup As an 80s Metal guy who later got into Alternative, Jazz and World music. I skipped right over the Classic Rock stuff unless I heard the 'hits' on the radio.
Blonde on Blonde is one that I never had listened to all the way through until a couple weeks ago. Some of the songs I had heard for many years prior.
After watching the Ozark Netflix season I had to go and have a listen. A group we never took seriously in the day ie we preferred the Allmans, New Riders and the country leaning Tucker Band especially the proximity to the Allmans on MT debut but as I anxiously await season 2 of the show this group will be getting revisited.
One of my all time favorites. Their follow up to this (It'll Shine When It Shines) is worth a listen as well.
OK, I'll pile on....the first three Ozark Mountain Daredevils albums are rock solid foundations of my 70's listening. They had a huge impact on me. The Quilt Album,It'll Shine When It Shines, and Car Over The Lake Album including The Little Red Record....totally awesome I'm shocked at how many people don't know these records. Wake up children ....git on the chicken train! Classics every one.
Seals and Crofts: Unborn Child, I'll Play For You (2 CDs from the 5 CD Original Album Series box that I didn't previously have) Jimmie Spheeris: Isle of View, The Original Tap Dancing Kid
Big Star - #1 Record, simply fantastic! I'm an 80's child so I never heard these guys until recently.
I heard "Very Dionne" (Dionne Warwick - 1970 IIRC) and "In the Wind" (Peter Paul & Mary - 63 or 64) for the first time a few months ago, a bit by chance. My mum moved and gave me some stuff she thought belonged to me, including a tape cassette in which somebody had recorded those records. I wasn't very impressed but I will give them a second chance one of these days.
The first Roberta Flack record is great. My most recent spate of digging into old records was spurred by NPR’s all female top 150 albums.
I don't know why the cover art portrays him like Frankenstein's monster with radioactive hands, but Art Tatum albums have sublime playing.
