Taking it's lead from the first comp of folk-rock, the second dives in with some even deeper cuts from the likes of The Jokers, Mystics, The Striders, The Moonrakers (who later evolved into the band Sugarloaf), The Ill Winds (actually the surf band The Chantays of "Pipeline" fame under a different name), The Good Time Singers (showcased on the Andy Williams show for three years and featuring soap actor Michael Storm), and many, many more. Let me tell you, if you love folk music spiced up with a little jingle-jangle, this second volume is for you. Byrds-ian moments abound and it is just cool to hear this great stuff for the first time. Again, the questions must be asked: why didn't any of these songs or groups hit the big time? (Lost In The Grooves)
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trax:
1. forget me - The Chaps 2. what'cha gonna do - The Jokers 3. didn't we have a good time - The Mystics 4. stand back and look at yourself - The Mudd Family 5. say you love me - The Striders 6. At The Junction (Commercial) - The Moonrakers 7. i don't believe - The Moonrakers 8. so be on your way (i won't cry) - The Ill Winds 9. first tell me why - The Clefs Of Lavender Hill 10. where do we go from here - The Size Seven Group 11. concert film promo for the big TNT show - The Big TNT Show 12. i care babe - The Good Time Singers 13. belive in things - Floyd & Jerry with The Counterpoints 14. and i don't want your love - The Keepers Of Light 15. every day - The Reasonable Facsimile 16. the galaxy club concert promo - The Galaxy Club 17. ask yourself why babe - The Sapians 18. girl - Floyd & Jerry with The Counterpoints 19. meet your match - The New order 20. sometimes you walk in the sunshine - The James Boys 21. the astronauts at swingding commercial - The Astronauts 22. i need no one - The Skunks 23. girl i know - The Dawn 24. slow rollin' train - Kathy and Larry & The Creations 25. roll over stephen foster - The Plymouth Rockers 26. chicago tribune newspaper promo - The Cryan' Shames 27. break away girl - The Sacred Mushroom 28. love ain't makin' it no more - The Sapians 29. hey girl - The Woolies 30. it's my fate - The Sweets
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"VOYAGES INTO… FOLK-ROCK" Vol. 2
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DIE KNODEL - OVERCOOKED TYROLEANS (Verkochte Tiroler)
Koch International LP (1995)
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Originally released as Verkochte Tiroler on the Swiss RecRec label, Overcooked Tyroleans,
the debut album of the Austrian folk troupe Die Knödel, is a tour de force of Austrian folk
music renaissance. The musicians take traditional Austrian folk rhythms, add post-modern
melodies and chords, and play everything with sophisticated arrangements on an amazingly wide variety of instruments. "In Die Ribisl" is a very nice example of this creative tension
between tradition and modernity, but also all other tracks on this album make for a
excellent introduction into Austrian folk with a contemporary approach. -- Allmusic
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DIE KNODEL - DIE NOODLE!
Kock International LP (1996)
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Die Noodle continued the stream of ideas started with Overcooked Tyroleans. There are some
more vocal tracks on this album, for example "Notiknotok," which manages to sound
surprisingly mainstream, but is not at all dull. The songs are as masterfully shaped out as
usual, and there is some more melancholy in them as on the preceding albums (see "Chinese
Lanterns," "Soap Bubbles in the Moonlight," "Once Upon a Time in Strawberryland," or
"Muischka"), but this does not harm the musical quality. Watch out for the moments in
"Junglesong" when the instruments imitate animal sounds. -- Allmusic
This morning, as I do most mornings, I stripped naked, blindfolded myself, spun around three
times, and picked a CD from one of my CD shelves. What I came up with this morning was Die
Knodel, a CD I hadn't listened to for quite some time. I might classify this, as my
classifications go, as Sunday music but since TWILIGHTZONE! has been obsessed with Soul,
Garage Rock, Surf, etc for so long now I thought that today I might throw in something a
little different for the three or four of us who might like things a little out of the norm
at times.
It's amazing to me how dulcimers are used throughout these tunes. All Austrians don't
always yodel, it seems.
Spring appears to be here. Almost. Enjoy this music naked or otherwise. -- JohnnyDiego
The Players:
Christoph Dienz / bassoon
Alexandra Pedarnig / bass, dulcimer, vocals
Cathi Aglibut / violin, viola, vocals
Julia Fiegl / violin, vocals
Walter Seebacher / clarinet, dulcimer
Andreas Lackner / trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, dulcimer,
Margreth Köll / harp
Michael Öttl / guitar
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Duane
BONUS 1 OF 8
WRECKLESS ERIC - Le Beat Group Electrique (1989, Remastered 2014) @320
The first of these two recent reissues from Fire Records, 1989’s Le Beat Group Electrique, was his first album in nine years and followed up his last release for Stiff, Big Smash!, which, while a stellar album in and of itself, was not the big smash of its overly optimistic title. Instead of raging back onto the scene, Le Beat Group Electrique takes a more subdued, subtler track, utilizing space and softer dynamics to make its presence felt. As with previous outings, Le Beat Group Electrique find its sound firmly embedded in the past, eschewing the notion of the 1980s indie record sound in favor of something even more organic with nary a trace of paisley, having never left the garage in the first place. http://www.popmatters.com/review/181287-wreckless-eric-le-beat-group-electrique-the-donovan-of-trash/
Wreckless Eric never rose high on the ladder of stardom, but after his groups Captains of Industry and the Len Bright Combo both went belly-up, the bottom appeared to have fallen out of whatever career he had, and Eric suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1988, shortly before Eric relocated to France, he cut an album in his London flat, using a Teac four-track tape deck and a ragtag collection of outdated studio gear, and with the accompaniment of Andre Barreau on bass and Catfish Truton on percussion (often consisting of just a cardboard box and a tambourine). Purposefully low-key and performed as if the trio was often afraid of waking the neighbors, Le Beat Group Electrique often sounds as much like therapy as a recording project, but the album's modesty and open, personal tone are among its most appealing qualities. With the melodies rendered in humble, lo-fi form, Eric's vocals here are expressive and charming, more so than when he had to push his instrument into a bellow on some of his early recordings. Eric is conversational but full of personality on "You Sweet Big Thing" and "Wishing My Life Away," while he bares his soul with equal portions of wit, charm, and awkward introspection on "Depression" and "Parallel Beds." When Eric and the band turn things up just a bit on "Sarah" and "It's a Sick Sick World," the songs take off with a good head of steam, and the intimacy of the recording, simple but clear, gives Le Beat Group Electrique a feel akin to a house show in someone's living room (fitting, since it was in fact recorded in a living room). Wreckless Eric's music was already headed in a new direction before he recorded Le Beat Group Electrique, but the album's bare-bones approach forced Eric and his songs to stand on their own in a way his previous work did not, and the result was a small-scale triumph and some of the best work of his career. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)
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BONUS 2 OF 8
WRECKLESS ERIC - The Donovan Of Trash '91 @320
1993’s The Donovan Of Trash turns up the volume and overall energy level, gloriously shambolic in its overall lo fi aural aesthetic and sounding as if it were recorded sometime in the mid-‘60s rather than during the peak years of grunge. One could easily imagine any of these tracks coming from the studio of Joe Meek with their sonic weirdness, “Telstar”-esque guitars, and kitchen sink production. In fact, the only indication these thirteen tracks weren’t recorded in the 1960s is “The Extra Bonus Track”, with its mention of “compact discs”. Were it not for this anachronistic reference, one could easily be led to believe these to be lost Joe Meek-produced sessions. http://www.popmatters.com/review/181287-wreckless-eric-le-beat-group-electrique-the-donovan-of-trash/
Wreckless Eric is often said to have enjoyed something of a comeback in the last months of the '80s when he released his album Le Beat Group Electrique, but the truth is, he'd never really gone away, he just had a hard time getting enough people to pay attention to what he was doing with the Captains of Industry and the Len Bright Combo. Such is the fate of a cult figure, and it was more than fitting than in 1991, a fellow cult hero gave him another chance in the studio when Billy Childish released Eric's The Donovan of Trash on his Hangman Records label. Like Childish's best work, The Donovan of Trash is determinedly lo-fi, and frequently swings back and forth between the witty and the caustic, but the genuine charm and knack for keen lyrical observations that had always been a hallmark of Wreckless Eric's work are very much in evidence, and while the rough-and-ready sound of the album is sometimes more murky than it needs to be, the performances are full of fire even when Eric seems to be veering off the main road, and the songs are great. "Joe Meek" is a loving but brutally honest homage to another great British eccentric, "Lureland" and "School" are a pair of bitter remembrances from childhood, "Harry's Flat" and "Semi-Porno Statuette" are portraits of U.K. life that could have occurred to a rumbled and ale-sodden version of Ray Davies, "The Nerd/Turkey Song" is a first-class rocker about knowing one's place in the social pecking order, and "Paris in June" is a celebration of the City of Light in which an unexpected rainstorm seems almost welcome to a Brit on holiday. The Donovan of Trash is as pure and engaging an expression of Wreckless Eric's muse as anything he recorded during his glory days at Stiff Records, and the songs confirm he only improved as a tunesmith with the passage of time; few records this sloppy can honestly be called a real work of genius. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)
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http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-donovan-of-trash-mw0000102157
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BONUS 3 OF 8
IAN & SYLVIA - Nashville '68 @320
By the time Ian & Sylvia went into the studio to cut “Nashville”, they had already begun work on their first album for new label MGM. Dylan's then manager Albert Grossman had secured the new record deal but the Canadian duo still owed Vanguard one last disc and “Nashville” fulfilled that obligation. Recorded in February 1968, the LP was certainly no casual contractual affair. The supporting country session players included the outstanding group that would eventually become Area Code 615 as well as such élite pickers as Jerry Reed and Fred Carter.
The managerial role filled by Grossman had ensured Ian & Sylvia were among the first to hear Dylan's “Basement Tapes”. Consequently, they were also among the first to record versions of these new Dylan songs: in fact, the “Nashville” take of This Wheel’s On Fire was probably the first ever cover version of this classic song to be released on disc.
Stylistically, the recording sessions provided advance notice of the country rock revolution that was swiftly germinating out of the folk and hippie movements. At the same time, the duo exercised their formidable harmonising vocals in a variety of settings - not only country rock but also country, West Coast rock and folk. Some of the vocals are substantial: others more transitional. It's as if the last of the duo's seven albums for Vanguard was signalling not only the end of their folk journey but the subsequent artistic breakup of the early 70s.
Songs of note here are Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire, David Rea's 90 Degrees by 90 Degrees, Sylvia's Southern Comfort (very Buffy Sainte-Marie-ish) plus Ian's Farewell To The North and House Of Cards. The album is one of those that surrenders its secrets gradually. Easily overlooked on first hearing, “Nashville” provided a fitting finale to Ian & Sylvia's Vanguard years.
By John Crosby
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BONUS 4 OF 8
DAVE VAN ROCK - Ragtime Jug Stompers '64 @320
This is some outstanding American Music that should be available to everyone.
This wild and unrestrained collection of blues, jazz and blues standards makes Van Ronk's Red Onion album sound positively subdued. The rave-up of "Everybody Loves My Baby" is an acoustic equivalent of garage bands-to-come for sheer energy. You can tell that he loves these tunes; and in the notes, Van Ronk says he had been planning to start a jug band for a while, since 1958 (there is no © date on this LP anywhere). In any case, it's a record brimming with an energetic spirit. (Allmusic)
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http://www.allmusic.com/album/dave-van-ronk-the-ragtime-jug-stompers-mw0000886319
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all these bon voyages r fantastic. thanx
Thanks very much for Vol 2.
I can recommend the Ian and Sylvia disc as well.
@ Johnny D. Thank you for Die Knodel, a band I admit to never having heard of. Personally I'm glad to see some 'trad' music posted here.
Ralph11
Cheers for the Wreckless Eric, managed to get the Len Bright stuff from an earlier post too, made my day
Thanks Johnny Diego for these 2 albums. I've allways loved yodels, but I had only 2 albums (that I bought in Austria). Be sure you make me happy.
LittleJack
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