Your Favorite Albums Of 1973

(well, released in 1977/78)

 

Recorded in July 1973. It would have been released then except for a dispute between producer, Jack Clement, and the label. There’s nothing in the original post restricting choices to the eventual year of release.

 

Well, a pedant might argue that it cannot be an "Album of 1973" if the album did not exist then.
As far as I'm aware I don't think its release was delayed, or that Cowboy Jack was involved - I think you might mean the aborted 7 Comes 11 album.

 

You’re right about the delayed album, my mix-up. However, the album was still recorded in 1973 which makes it representative of where Townes was at in 1973, not 1977 unless he was a time-traveller. I take the view that makes it an album of 1973. I also regard the matter as of such little importance that it is not worth arguing about. If you feel by exercising your admitted penchant for pedantry you have somehow scored a point then I am happy for you and I’ll leave you to go and pick faults in others’ posts.

 

My favorite of the year

 

Eric Weissman & Steve Mandell - Dueling Banjos: From the Original Sound Track of Deliverance

 

I've been listing archival releases in the recording year if possible (that is, if it's not an archival release with recordings from different years). Ideally that seems a better fit to me than putting them in the release year.

 

Oops! Just realize I had a typo with Weissberg's name above.

 

bumped

 

Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

 

Dexter Gordon - Ca'Purange

With Thad Jones on trumpet/flugelhorn, Hank Jones on piano, Stanley Clarke on bass and Louis Hayes on drums.

 

Pete Atkin - A King At Nightfall
Michael Nesmith - Pretty Much Your Stand Ranch Stash
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
John Stewart - Cannons In The Rain
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Red Rhodes - Velvet Hammer in a Cowboy Band
Mickey Newbury - Heaven Help The Child
Sandy Denny - Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
Bobby Bare - Lullabys, Legends and Lies
Michael Murphey - Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Paul McCartney & Wings - Red Rose Speedway
Garland Frady - Pure Country
Jimmy Buffett - A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
Bruce Cockburn - Night Vision
John Cale Paris 1919
Ian Matthews - Valley Hi
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard/A True Star

 

Eagles - Desperado

 

The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy

 

1. Stevie Wonder--Innervisions
2. Bob Marley and the Wailers--Burnin'
3. Mahavishnu Orchestra--Birds of Fire
4. Paul Butterfield--Better Days
5. Roy Buchanan--Second Album
6. Paul McCartney--Band on the Run
7. Herbie Hancock--Headhunters
8. Weather Report--Sweetnighter
9. Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon
10. Mott the Hoople--Mott

11. Santana--Welcome
12. Allman Brothers Band--Brothers and Sisters
13. Bruce Springsteen--Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J.
14. Bruce Springsteen--The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
15. Chick Corea/Gary Burton--Crystal Silence
16. Dave Holland--Conference of the Birds
17. Bob Marley and the Wailers--Catch a Fire
18. Dr. John--In The Right Place
19. Bonnie Raitt--Takin' My Time
20. Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks--Last Train to Hicksville

21. Sun Ra--Astro Black
22. Sun Ra--Space Is The Place

 

We have similar tastes! Great list!

 

Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters

 

Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

 

You know, I always used to think of 1973 as "the year the 70s got boring (until 76-77 or so)", but looking at a list of albums released that year... there was a LOT of good stuff!

a few particular faves:

Gram Parsons - GP
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
Lou Reed - Berlin
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
New York Dolls - s/t
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Stones - Goats Head Soup
Springsteen - Wild, Innocent, etc.
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Loudon Wainwright III - Attempted Mustache

and that's a short list. There were a bunch more that made me say, "Hey, that's a good one!"

 

Good list

 

The wild, the innocent & the e-street shuffle (Bruce)
Tres hombres (ZZ top)
Quadrophonia (Who)
Aloha from Hawaii (Elvis)