Most Underrated Recording

Subject: Most Underrated Recording
From: Lucius
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 08:36 PM

Now that the awards for "Biggest waste of Vinyl" and "Favorite Folk Singer" are out of the way, I'm wondering....

Brewer & Shipley's debut album "Tarkio Road" was (in my opinion) one great album. Forget that their entire career was sullied by their one top hit "One Toke over the Line", there were some great gospel tunes on this album.

It's more than once that I've sat around the dying embers of a campfire sing, and wished that someone else knew even the words (forget the harmonies) to "the Light" or "Song from Platte River". Granted, they never did much beyond this, but their first album has some of the most underrated songwriting that I can think off. Anyone else?

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: Don Meixner
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 08:43 PM

Underated? or under appreciated or just unknown.

How about Jim Dawson, Bruce Murdock, Carolyn Hester, Paul Mc Neill, Faith Petric, Iris Dement, Nicol Williamson ( great actor but did you know he sings?)

Don

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: Brakn
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 09:01 PM

The Man Who Couldn't Cry - Loudon Wainwright

Mick Bracken

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: DonMeixner
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 09:13 PM

I also must mention

Children of Light, and The Thorn In Mrs. Roses Side by Biff Rose,

Woodsmoke and Oranges, and Jack Knife Gypsy by Paul Siebel.

Don

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: Matthew Bram
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 07:05 PM

I remember how much I loved my Tarkio Road album, but frankly, "One Toke" was my favorite song on it.

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: SeanM
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 07:09 PM

Sad to say, but one of my favorites will always be the Irish Rover's 'The Unicorn'... I know it was overdone, and also a bit mediocre, but it will always be (to me) one of the albums that introduced me to music beyond Duran Duran (being a child of the '80s as I am).

"The Wind that Shakes the Corn" and "Black Velvet Band" will always be some of my favorites...

M

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 09:01 PM

Don,

I remember a way below zero night in Rockford, Illinois, back in the 70's, after a gig opening the show for Biff Rose at Charlotte's Web (a good club), driving back to the farm where Biff & I were being housed a ways out o' town, we had THREE flat tires!! The kind of nights one doesen't forget. Where we got 3 spares I'll never know.Do ya have any idea where Biff is now?

Yeah, Biff's "THORN IN MRS> ROSE'S SIDE" was a grand and underrated album. One song really has stuck with me although the album has been long gone from my posession. It's the song about the guy who joins the circus and leaves his Molly behind--always thinking that he'll go home to her. When he returns to the place he's old and grizzled from all the road years--and Molly is gone. A very haunting song...

Art

Subject: RE: Most Underrated Recording
From: Don Meixner
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 09:12 PM

Art,

I'll send you a tape. Molly has always been a favorite of mine too. John Denever recorded it and even with the over production on it it still is a truly sad and trajic song.

I went to see the cotton candy world and make me lots of money,

On my own, for Molly, Oh my pretty Molly,

She writes me every day, so its Ok.

Regards,

Don