Favourite American Album in 1969?

Vince guaraldi- alma ville
Crosby stills and nash
Grateful dead - live dead

 

This by Poco and Gilded Palace of the Sun - Flying Burrito Brothers

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1. Scott Walker – Scott 4
2. Scott Walker – Scott 3
3. The Band – The Band
4. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
5. Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace Of Sin

 

How did I forget that? Finest white blues band debut ever with no apologies to Butterfield...

 

How about a Soundtrack?

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Easy Rider

 

Such a great year, but I think for rock Green River by Creedence shades Santana’s debut, and for jazz Miles’ In a Silent Way. Still play all three regularly, 50 years on...

 

As others have mentioned individually, CCR released 3 great albums in 1969:
Bayou Country
Green River
Willy And The Poor Boys

Take your pick...

 

This one:

Aretha Franklin - Soul '69
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Santana - s/t
The Band -s/t
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Velvet Underground - s/t
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Marvin Gaye - M.P.G.
Johnny Winter - s/t and Second Winter
Spirit - Clear
Creedence - Bayou Country, Green River, Willie & The Poor Boys (wow!)
The Allman Brothers Band - S/t
The Miracles - Four In Blue
MC5 - Kick Out The James
The Stooges - s/t

 

Clarification:
When the OP said "American" album in thread title, was this just for USA bands/musicians, or are Canadians included too (as they are part of North America)?

Because if only USA, then The Band and Neil Young would be disqualified.

 

KALIEDOSCOPE - INCREDIBLE - wonderful album!

 

I don't just like, I love it, so much I now have 21 LPs of Poco, how sad is that!

JG

 

Can't believe only one person has mentioned CSN's debut and that it got only one like. I'm going to mention it again because I think it's one of the finest rock albums ever to come out of the States.

 

Maybe because Nash is English, so people here didn't count it as 100% American.

 

Grand Funk Railroad - On Time & Grand Funk

 

The Bob Seger System - Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man & Noah

 

I still remember playing it for the first time and playing it again right after I was done with the first listen. I knew who these three guys were from their previous work but was blown away by their voices blending, playing, and writing on this album.

 

Another vote for

 

Lots of great albums, but it would be this one for me too

 

I think the rule should be... did the group form in America? And yes, that would make the Jimi Hendrix Experience an English band, but so be it. As Jagger said in the Jimi doc, "He was always ours, wasn't he?" (Or something to that effect.)

 

A lot of good choices, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with CCR's Green River.

 

A lot of great ones, hard to choose...

I’ll say Everybody Knows This is Nowhere just because, even though Neil Young has put out many ridiculously great albums since then, I don’t know that he has ever actually topped it.

I would put The Band at a close second, maybe even a tie on the right day. If we were talking about 1968, I would pick Big Pink without really having to think about it, though.