Seminal work by one of the first big figures in country music – the great Roy Acuff, whose early material was the second force putting the sound on the map after the work of Jimmie Rodgers! Roy was one of the greatest stars of the early years – a hell of a singer, an important composer ... read moreCD
Alabama —
Roll On ... LP RCA, 1984. Very Good+ ...
$6.99
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(Includes the printed inner sleeve. Cover has light wear.)
Mike Auldridge —
Dobro ... LP Takoma, 1972. Near Mint- ...
$7.99
Mike plays dobro and sings a bit – and the set features other acoustic instrumentation, including lots of guitar and mandolin – all recorded in the best Takoma style! LP, Vinyl record album
(Black and gold label pressing. Cover has light wear.)
What a warm, wonderful record from the Bobby Bare family and Shel Silverstein – the long buried, deeply underappreciated Singing In The Kichen album from 1974! Though originally released as a children's LP, this one works for our adult ears just as well as the far more celebrated Lullabies, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Orange label stereo pressing. Cover hs light edge wear and some splitting in the spine and top seam.)
Robbie Basho —
Venus In Cancer ... LP Blue Thumb/Traffic, 1969. New Copy Gatefold (reissue)...
$21.9924.98
One of the wildest albums ever from the great Robbie Basho – as you might guess from the cover! Basho first made waves with his solo guitar work (and a bit of vocalizations) for the Takoma label, during the early years of John Fahey – but as the 60s ended, Robbie had more of a ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Becoming —
Becoming ... LP Becoming, 1982. Very Good ...
$4.99
Bernstein at his best – coming up with a strong and driving score, written to accompany this great little western that starred Dean Martin and John Wayne! The main theme's got a lot of punch, and is very much in a "Magnificent 7" mode, and the other tracks on the album are good ... (Soundtracks, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Tim Buckley —
Blue Afternoon ... LP Straight, Late 60s. Very Good Gatefold ...
$24.99
Incredible stuff – and one of Tim Buckley's greatest albums! The record's got a style that's a wonderful mix of folk and jazz – using acoustic guitar on most tracks, but also throwing in some vibes by a young David Friedman, which gives the record some warm chromatic hues. Buckley's ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original pink label pressing, with Straight inner sleeve. Cover has light wear and a name in pen.)
Fantastic material from Tim Buckley – rare tracks recorded in 1968 and 1973, both presenting two different slices of his too-short career – and standing together as a great addition to his too-small catalog of recorded work! The first half features small sessions from 1968 – with ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited edition of 1000 – on "Greenish Gold" vinyl!)
Easily one of our favorite albums by Tim Buckley – and a record that really opens up with some key jazzy touches! Buckley's still got his roots in folk here, and his vocals are yet to hit the extremes of Starsailor or Lorca – but there's also a new sense of inflection to the way he ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Large 'E' red label pressing. Unipak cover has some spine and surface wear, with a slight waviness feel.)
Johnny Cash's first record for Rick Rubin's American Recordings label – and a late career reviving masterpiece for the great, distinctly American legend. Rubin's genius idea for Johnny Cash was to strip the sound to it's barest essence, and let Cash's deep, bass-vibrating baritone voice ... read moreCD
Johnny's first LP for Columbia! His terse, spare Sun style is still in evidence here with a slightly more crisp and polished sound, but no less powerful thanks to that famous wobbly baritone. Johnny would soon start stretching out good and wide thanks to the full creative freedom Columbia ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Stereo 6 eye pressing with deep groove. Vinyl is great, but cover has a partial split on spine & top, light surface wear & aging.)
(360 Sound stereo pressing in a Unipak cover. Includes the printed inner sleeve. Vinyl has just a few light sleeve marks. Cover has some ring and edge wear.)
One of the greatest live albums ever, and probably THE best album Johnny Cash ever recorded! In 1969 Cash had more angst than you could shake a stick at – he just kicked drugs, and he hadn't had a big hit in years, so his respectful and thoughtful empathy for the audience of inmates not only ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Includes the songs "Cry! Cry! Cry!", "Hey Porter", "Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk The Line", "Get Rhythm", "Big River", "Guess Things Happen That Way", "Ring Of Fire", "Jackson", "A Boy Named Sue ... read moreCD
Cash's fourth volume of stark, sparely-arranged studio recordings for producer/set list provider Rick Rubin. As Johnny gets on in the years his always haunting voice, like Bob Dylan's, is weighted by age, but the heavily-breathed delivery only adds to the ghostly quality of the increasingly dark ... read moreCD
Cates Gang —
Wanted ... LP Metromedia, Early 70s. Very Good ...
$6.99
All songs penned by Earl and Ernest Cate – and titles include "I Made Up My Mind", "I'll Take You Back Again", "If You Got The Time", "Help Me Make It Out Woman", "When Will We Learn", "God Gave Me A Woman", and "Leavin This ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Original Irish pressing. Laminate cover has light wear.)
Susan Christie —
Paint A Lady ... LP Finders Keepers (UK), Late 60s. New Copy Gatefold ...
$24.9928.99
The first-ever release of some incredible funky folk tunes from vocalist Susan Christie – originally recorded as demos in the years before her work at Columbia Records, and arguably even better than those classic singles! Backings here are by John Hill, who inflects Susan's folksy style with ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A strange bit of country soul – but a great one, and unique gem from Don Crawford! Another Shade Of Black was recorded by Don Crawford in New York, with bit of a crossover folksy feel that's more like work you'd hear from Muscle Shoals, but it's in a slightly more experimental mode. The ... (Soul, Folk/Country)read moreCD
Dancas Ocultas —
Tarab ... CD Numerica (Portugal), 2009. Used ...
$4.99
(In original die-cut textured sleeve with printed inner. Promo copy. Short click on first track, "You're Not Just A Rose." Cover has some light ring and edge wear.)
Darkly beautiful sounds from the duo of Don & Stevie Gere – a husband and wife who work here with a style that's folksy, but a bit spooky too – possibly due to the fact that the music within was recorded in their California home, and never issued for years! There's a deeply ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreCD
Darkly beautiful sounds from the duo of Don & Stevie Gere – a husband and wife who work here with a style that's folksy, but a bit spooky too – possibly due to the fact that the music within was recorded in their California home, and never issued for years! There's a deeply ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Dylan's wonderful foray into country rock – the great Nashville Skyline! He takes his voice into a strangely crooning arena that we hadn't heard from him before or since, kinda adding a mysterious vibe of the whole thing. Titles include a duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl From The North ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Stereo 360 Sound pressing – 1L/1AB matirx, including Columbia inner sleeve. Cover has light wear.)
Cheryl Ernst may not be one of the biggest names in 70s music, but she gets some top-shelf here from Bones Howe in the studio – who mixes her sweet vocals and guitar with some really sublime larger backings! The blend is wonderful – as Cheryl's post-folk approach might sound a bit too ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreCD
The group's lost some of its early members by this point – but Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson both make guest apperances – along with Ralph McTell too! Titles include "Me With You", "The Hens March Through The Midden & The Four Poster Bed", "Furs & ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A pivotal album from Fairport Convention – hardly the "holiday" you might expect from the title, and instead a set that has the group really reaching out for some new ideas and styles in their music! Sandy Denny is firmly in place here – taking the lead on most numbers – ... read moreCD
The first, second & third albums by Julie Felix – a California born folk singer who made her name in the UK – her complete mid 60s Decca oeuvre in a 2 CD set! Julie's work was the first contemporary folk releases that Decca ever issued – and a fine portrait of the voice and ... read moreCD
Blaze Foley —
Dawg Years ... LP Fat Possum, Late 70s. New Copy ...
$19.9922.99
A straight-up incredible batch of recordings by the Austin singer-songwriter ghost of a legend that is Blaze Foley – a self-destructive character better known to the stars he influenced than he is to the masses (he is the "Drunken Angel" who Lucinda Williams wrote and sang about) ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Beautiful lost recordings from California folksinger Ruthann Friedman – probably best known as the author of The Association's hit "Windy", but a heck of a great artist on her own! The tracks here are all pulled from Ruthann's private tapes, and document not only her fantastic (yet ... read moreCD
A sublime album from the great Bobbie Gentry – and maybe her strongest full-length set recorded during the classic Capitol years! The title's "sweete" is a hillbilly play on the word "suite" – and the album definitely works as an extended suite of tracks – ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Two of Capitol's biggest late 60s stars on a single album – working with backings from Al De Lory – on titles that include "Sunday Mornin", "Mornin Glory", "Terrible Tangled Web", "Less Of Me", "Gentle On My Mind", "My Elusive ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A set that looks like it features three different artists, but which instead focuses on the wide-ranging talents of just one guy – Lloyd Leslie George, who recorded for a number of different labels during the postwar years, and in a number of different styles too! First up are a number of ... read moreCD
One of the original line of great albums from the official mid-to-late 60s union of folk and rock – the masterful debut of the Grass Roots! The Grass Roots had a more unabashedly eager-to-please sound early on than the increasingly weirder Byrds and others of the ilk, making way for a really ... (Rock, Folk/Country)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Yellow border logo label stereo pressing. Cover has ring and edge wear and discoloration from age.)