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Tag Archives: 1974
ROD McKUEN – Odyssey- (Stanyan) – 1974
I start by quoting myself from other comments I have done on McKuen: "Rod McKuen is an acquired taste. His detractors would say he is pretentiously poetic, maudlinly romantic, ponderously repetitious, slightly narcissistic, boringly middle aged, full of middlebrow banality … Continue reading
ROGER McGUINN – Peace on You – (Columbia) – 1974
More McGuinn! Can you ever have enough McGuinn? Perhaps, but I have not reached that point yet and I doubt I will as he is consistently interesting even when his (solo) albums don’t achieve greatness. In relation his Thunderbyrd (1977) … Continue reading
ALAN PRICE – Between Today and Yesterday – (Warner Brothers) – 1974
A mate gave me this some years ago. Thanks Mitchell! I relegated it and then thought twice and stuck it in a “maybe” pile for years. So, I’m approaching it afresh. The only other Price LP I had before this … Continue reading
POCO – Cantamos – (Epic) – 1974
I have a few Poco albums sitting in the pile behind me and I have listened to a few in the past but I have never really been taken with them. They were always a bit too slick. Like … Continue reading
ARLO GUTHRIE – Arlo Guthrie – (Reprise) – 1974
Arlo albums are perfect Sunday morning records. They are contemplative and more than a little spiritual (though the spirituality may be secular or not of one religion if that makes any sense). His music, like a Catholic mass (the … Continue reading
JIM POST – Colorado Exile – (Fantasy) – 1974
I know at least one friend, actually only one, who would salivate over the sleeve of this record. A man, a backpack, and a mountain. I’m sure, on the sleeve alone, he would have plonked down $1, as I did, for … Continue reading
MICKEY NEWBURY – I Came to Hear the Music – (Elektra) – 1974
Newbury was friends with Townes Van Zandt and occupied the same territory as him but no cult has developed around Newbury since his death as it has with Townes. Townes is great but, Newbury is better. They both write direct … Continue reading
SHAWN PHILLIPS – Furthermore … – (A&M) – 1974
See some of my other posts for more detail on Shawn Phillips. Suffice it to say I didn’t know a great load about him till quite recently. He certainly is obscure, by contemporary standards, and there isn’t anything … Continue reading
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD – Country Joe – (Vanguard) – 1974
Country Joe occupies a strange place in rock history. He never had many hits. He never had songs covered by others that became hits. He never had any sort of a sizable cult develop around him. … Continue reading
ADAM FAITH – I Survive ( Warner Brothers) – 1974
Faith was from that remarkable period of English music after the invasion of American rock but before the rise of the Beatles. New Romantic, baggy, grebo, punk, ska, mod etc have all been discussed and analysed ad nauseam by scholarly English … Continue reading
