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More great music no one’s ever heard: Garland Frady
Michael Nesmith produced Garland’s only album, Pure Country, in 1973. My promo copy is one of my most prized possessions. It’s a crying shame that Garland Frady never could break out beyond the LA club scene. He’s criminally underrated.

I love every song on this album, but my current repeat 1 is his cover of “Orange Silk Blouse”

 

Slim Tejeda. He's about 7 nowadays, god knows how much he's developed.

 

Great unsung australian band

 

What were you doing backstage at Skyhooks concerts, dare I ask?

 

Unless you were in Western MA, which I was, back in the 90s the only other place you would have heard The Scud Mountain Boys is on college radio. They used to play throughout the Happy Valley back in those days and I caught them a few times.

The lo-fi alt-country sound they had would have made them bigger if they were a new band in the lat five years, I feel.

 

Not sure what counts as obscure but here's two cuts from one of my all-time favorite albums. The band is Granfaloon Bus.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DrB9Snlo9M

 

The Subdudes were a staple in the bar circuit in Denver in the '80's. Tremendous live band, saw them many times back in the day.

Great choice.

 

Gabor Szabo:

 

Dot Allison, she’s worked with One Dove, Death in Vegas, Scott Walker, Pete Doherty and Massive Attack. Amazing body of work

 

I also like 'Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking' a lot better.

 

Bill Mallonee/Vigilantes of Love have dozens of top notch songs, criminally overlooked ~

 

Indian Song - Elastica

Not sure how many have heard this outside the UK.

 

Simon Finn - Pass The Distance - 1970

 

Bill Stone - Stone - 1970

 

Stephen Jones (Babybird). Briefly famous in the UK and some other countries in the 90s, but incredibly prolific and IMO an artist easily comparable to Ray Davies or David Bowie. It's just that some fall on stony ground.

Here is an awesome free (pay-what-you-like) Bandcamp sampler that you must download.

AN INTRODUCTION TO, by BABYBIRD

 

My band Shuffledown opened for VOL in the late 90s. It was one of the great evenings of my life. Bill was super supportive of what we were doing. Of course we loved his stuff.

 

Sunbear, from Dublin. Very much a band of the time (middish 90's) but the album holds up well today. I don't think the band are together at all now.

 

Thanks for this! I will definitely be checking out both albums soon...

 

Diamond Dogs. In a perfect world, they'd be huge. I can't believe more people on this forum don't like them, but here's goes another try:

 

I’ll take Gene Parsons solo album Kindling. What a great album. Gene plays drums, guitar, banjo, pedal steel.

 

I live in Brazil, but I happen to be a big fan. I discovered them by accident. Steve Walden was once a drummer with the Cone Ponies, which later evolved into the Vigilantes of Love. He wrote a doctoral thesis on Brazilian rock music in 1996 and got in touch with me through a relative of mine who lives in Athens, GA. I provided him with some information about Brazilian rock music and we even traded a few CDs for a time. I met him in person when I visited Athens in 2002. However, I discovered the Vigilantes of Love much later, just out of curiosity, because Steve had once played with them. Now it's difficult for me to import CDs and I'm also cutting my expenses, but I listen to their music on Deezer, Tidal and Bandcamp. Some of their albums are available on iTunes. Bill Mallonee is really a great songer/songwriter/player who deserves to be better known. By the way, I had mentioned them before on this forum. Check here:

Your favourite little known musician? *

 

Well, should you choose to listen, put yourself fully in a 1968 state of mind or if you're a youngster, what you perceive 1968 to sound like. I present to you for your listening pleasure... The Curtain Calls Sock It To Me Sunshine!

 

I have to post another favorite obscurity from '69 by The Brothers Sincere Sweet Lady In The Moon.