Country/Nashville recommendations?

[Sunspots]

Great sleeve.

At first glance, a bit of a concept album; each song apparently being about a different city.

Includes (It's A Long Way To) London Town, which starts with the chimes of Big Ben but then goes on to mention 'nearly marrying a kangaroo'...

 

[Sunspots]

Another concept album (-and a collaboration with Shel Silverstein), this time about poverty amid the 70's economic recession. Maybe no surprise to read that it apparently wasn't a particularly huge seller at the time...

I think he looks a bit like a cross between Leonard Rossiter and Paul Kaye.

 

[twistedAM]

Jesus, now I'm getting REALLY jealous... Buck Owens and Bobby Bare and not bad albums either. Bare had a couple of sizeable hits off that one iirc before he went a bit maudlin and then cheesy as in (Pour Me Another) Tequila Shiela.

That was some find for fifty quid. ENJOY!!!

 

[Sunspots]

That was some find for fifty quid. ENJOY!!!

-Eh?

I actually 'only' bought 75 albums (-out of the several hundred).

Total spend = £7.50...

Edit: clarity.

 

[killer b]

goddamnit.

this is the kind of luck only i'm supposed to have.

 

[Sunspots]

goddamnit.

this is the kind of luck only i'm supposed to have.

This was a bit of a one-off special; hence the thread, I guess.

-You, on the other hand, seem to hit solid gold treasure every blummin' week!

 

[killer b]

it's up & down. and i've an awful lot of shite here too...

we'll expect a mix for the mixes thread once you've sorted the wheat from the chaff.

 

[Sunspots]

it's up & down. and i've an awful lot of shite here too...

Same here, and tbh, same as it ever was. (-As 'twas first written in The Tao Of Diggin'... )

we'll expect a mix for the mixes thread once you've sorted the wheat from the chaff.

Yep. I'll probably get it sorted by ...er... Christmas.

 

[Sunspots]

No date on it, but the Wikipedia says 1967.

Looks like a good one, anyway.

 

[killer b]

yes it does...

 

[Sunspots]

This one seems strangely out of place amongst the rest, verging as it does on the more 'hippy rock' side of country.

Despite being a potentially dangerous gateway album to the likes of The Grateful Dead, it still sounds pretty good to me.

 

[Sunspots]

A UK release on legendary budget label Hallmark. The only date on it is 1959, but this has surely got to be a later repackaging...

A proper religious album, this one. I like the cover though; good angle.

 

[Sunspots]

1981 reissue on Charly, but it's the same striking sleeve.

My slap-dash phone photography is looking rather wonky on this one.

 

[Sunspots]

This cover is class.

 

[Sunspots]

This cover is class too; but which class, I can't quite decide.

-Wonky photography again, sorry.

 

[Sunspots]

Dodgy album cover, and tbh, I can't say I much rate the music on this one either. (-Country and synths: the nightmare scenario... )

However, Hargus 'Pig' Robbins deserves a mention for being one of the most prolific and in-demand session players in country music. Look at the small print of so many albums, and there he is on keyboards. Respect due.

(-This album's cover is notable though due to the title being also printed in braille. I guess this is to do with Pig apparently having been blind since a nasty accident with his daddy's knife when he was three years old... )

 

[twistedAM]

-Eh?

I actually 'only' bought 75 albums (-out of the several hundred).

Total spend = £7.50...

Edit: clarity.

Bloody hell...this thread is worth a subscription of £7.50.

Keep em coming!!