Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #25! Two Year Anniversary!

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Playlist

Opener – Mansfield/Hawkshaw – Action Scene (KPM)
Thee Midniters – Love Special Delivery (Whittier)
Harvey Mandel – Wade In the Water Pts 1&2 (Philips)
The Equals – Police On My Back (RCA)
Chad Mitchell – For What It’s Worth (Amy/Dunwich)
Everything Is Everything – Ooh Baby (Vanguard Apostolic)
Sons Of Champlin – Fat City (Verve/Trident)
Sons of Champlin Radio Spot

Cowsills – River Blue (MGM)
Cowsills- How Can I Make You See (MGM)
Cowsills – the Fun Song (MGM)
Cowsills – On My Side (London)
Cowsills – Once There Was a Time (London)
Cowsills – If You Can’t Have It Knock it (London)
Cowsills – Mystery Of Life (London)

Bill Cowsill – When Everybody’s Here (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – Take The Gun (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – Nobody (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – 2 x 2 (MGM)
Bodine – Short Time Woman / Oakland (MGM)
Bodine –Statues of Clay (MGM)
Bodine – Disaster (MGM)
Lightmyth – Across the Universe (RCA)

Paul and Barry Ryan – I Can’t Make Your Way (Decca)
Paul and Barry Ryan- Pay You Back With Interest (Decca)
Billy J Kramer – His Love Was Just a Lie (Columbia)
Rainy Day Friends – Away To Some Other World (World Pacific)
Rainy Day Friends – Don’t You Feel Rained On (World Pacific)
Wool – The Boy With the Green Eyes (ABC)
Lloyd Green – Steel Blue (Chart)
Stone Poneys Pepsi Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 25 – 190MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome to this month’s episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

As hard as this is to believe, this – the 25th edition of the ILRS – marks the two-year anniversary of the show!

It was back in May of 2011 that I decided to create an Iron Leg-gy alternative to the Funky16Corners Radio Show (albeit on a monthly, not weekly basis) in which I could bring you all manner of pop, sunshine, garage, freakbeat, psych and whatever else sounds groovy.

This time out you get some cool new arrivals, a long, second installment of my exploration of the Cowsills and a couple of old favorites.

As always, I hope you dig it. If you do, there are 24 more episodes in the archive to stuff into your ears.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #21

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Playlist

Show Opener – Action Scene – Mansfield/Hakwshaw (KPM)
The Spats – She Done Moved (ABC)
Sonny and Cher – It’s Gonna Rain (Atco)
WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator (HBR)
Buffalo Springfield – Mr Soul (45 Edit) (Atco)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – Out and About (A&M)
Boyce & Hart Coke Commercial
The Changin’ Times- How Is the Air Up There (Philips)
Gene Clark and the Gosdin Brothers – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Columbia)
The Kaleidoscope – Egyptian Gardens (Epic)
Lamp Of Childhood – You Can’t Blame Me (Dunhill)
Lyme and Cybelle – Follow Me (White Whale)
Monkees – Teardrop City (Colgems)
Bobby Fuller Four – KRLA King of the Wheels Commercial
The Poor – She’s Got the Time She’s Got the Changes (York)
The Poor – Feelin’ Down (Decca)
Love – The Red Telephone (Elektra)
Thorinshield – Wrong My Friend (Philips)
Sagittarius – My World Fell Down (Columbia)

Cheques – Testify (I Wanna) (HIP)
Chain Reaction – Ever Lovin’ Man (Verve)
Fun and Games – Something I Wrote (White Whale)
Los Gatos Negros – No Milk Today (Vergara)
Sound Foundation – Magic Carpet Ride (SmoBro)
Sound Foundation – Morning Dew (SmoBro)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich- Master Llewellyn (Fontana)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich – Coke Commercial

The Collection – Tomorrow Is a Window (Hot Biscuit)
Crib and Ben – Emily (Decca)
Peter Robbins – If I Knew Then What I Know Now (RCA)
Phaetons – Leave It To Me (WB)
Phaetons – You Better Come Home (WB)
Sonny Curtis – The Straight Life (Viva)
Fairport Convention – Tale In Hard Time (A&M)
Jerry Garcia – The Wheel (45 edit) (WB)
Grateful Dead concert commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 21 – 186MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope all is well in your part of the world.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode 21!

When I dipped into the crates to put this one together, it kind of got away from me as I pulled out on groovy LA-related side after another, and the first set stretched out to 45 minutes!

I don’t think you’ll be complaining, since it’s packed with some of the best music of the 60s, with stops in garage punk, pop, folk rock and psychedelia.

After that, you get two shorter sets – one heavier, one lighter – that I think you’ll also dig.

I hope you like it all, and I’ll see you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg: 2012 The Year In Vintage Pop

Why, yes dear! I’d love some fuzz!

Playlist

Woolies – Who Do You Love (Dunhill)
Beauregard and the Tuffs – Ramblin’ Rose (Decca)
Brenda Lee – Is It True (Decca)
Evie Sands – I Can’t Let Go (BlueCat)
The Knack – Time Waits For No One (Capitol)
Monkees – Star Collector (Colgems)
Nat Stuckey – Listen To the Band (RCA)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – Smilin’ (Aquarian)
Royal Guardsmen – Leaving Me (Laurie)
WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator (HBR)
Morning Glories – Love-In (WB)
Liberace – Suite Judy Blue Eyes (WB)
Mike Stoller and the Stoller System – Silver Sea Horse (Amy)
Nobody’s Children – I Can’t Let Go (Bullet)
Kitchen Cinq – Codine (LHI)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Wayne Logiudice – Come On (Let’s Get Some Action On) (Philips)
What-Knots – I Ain’t Dead Yet (Dial)
Bougalieu – Let’s Do Wrong (Roulette)
Connie Francis – Fallin’ (MGM)
The Gosdin Brothers – The Sounds of Goodbye (Bakersfield Intl)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg 2012: The Year In Vintage Pop – 99MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

What you see before you is the annual gathering of the ‘Best of’ Iron Leg for the year 2012.

Every year about this time I go back and comb the year’s posts looking for what I consider to be the finest tracks.

As the track listing above indicates, this has been an exceptional year, both for my record collection and for your MP3 delivery/storage device.

There are hot garage punk tracks, psychedelia, power pop, sunshine pop and all kinds of other goodies for you to soak yourselves in as the new year approaches.

As always, I hope you dig it, and that you join me in 2013 for more of the same.

Until then, stay cool, and I’ll see you when I see you.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #19

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Playlist

Intro/Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Byrds – Bad Night at the Whiskey (Columbia)
Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll – Save Me (Polydor)
Captain Beefheart – Who Do You Think You’re Fooling (A&M)
Chris Farlowe – Out of Time (Immediate)
Chris Farlowe – Baby Make It Soon (Immediate)
The Coopers – Didn’t I (White Whale)
The Hassles – You Got Me Hummin’ (UA)
Standells – Why Did You Hurt Me (Tower)
The Yardbirds – No Excess Baggage (Epic)
Yardbirds – Great Shakes Commercial

Hardy Boys – Here Come the Hardys (RCA/Dunwich)
Tradewinds – Mind Excursion (Kama Sutra)
Small Circle of Friends – Kind of Wasted Without You (A&M)
Pleasure Faire – Morning Glory Days (UNI)
Puppet – Best Friend (Date)
James Griffin – Miracle Worker (Viva)
Fun and Games – Don’t Worry Baby (White Whale)
Free Design – Bubbles (Project 3)
Brian Hyland – The Joker Went Wild (Philips)
Grin – White Lies (Spindizzy)
Blades of Grass – I Love You Alice B Toklas (Jubilee)
I Love You Alice B Toklas Movie Promo

Beaver and Krause – People’s Park 45 (WB)
Ananda Shankar – Light My Fire (Reprise)
The Fire Escape – The Trip (GNP Crescendo)
Cher – Hey Joe (Imperial)
Holy Mackerel – Scorpio Red (Reprise)
Living Strings – San Francisco Nights (Camden)
Mickey Newbury – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (RCA)
Peggy Lipton – The Lady of the Lake (Ode)
Mars Bonfire – Lady Moonwalker (UNI)
Scott Walker – Mrs Murphy (Philips)
Terry Reid – Stay With Me (Epic)
Van Dyke Parks – Datsun Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 19 – 176MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope all is well in your part of the world.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode 19!

This time around we have a great one for you, with three long sets of very groovy music.

We get things started with a bunch of garage and other rock, roll on into a set of sunshine and lighter fare, and close things out with a long, trippy grouping of sounds.

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something cool.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #18

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Playlist

Intro – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Joe South – Hush (Capitol)
Joe South – Games People Play (Capitol)
Joe South – I Knew You When (Capitol)
Joe South – Yo Yo (Capitol)
Joe South – Mirror of Your Mind (Capitol)
Joe South – A Million Miles Away (Capitol)
Gallenkamps Shoe Ad

Equals – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys (Shout)
Chain Reaction – Ever Lovin’ Man (Verve)
Chain Reaction – You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (Verve)
The Knack – Banana Man (Capitol)
The Knack – Pretty Daisy (Capitol)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Spotlights – Dayflower (Smash)
Montanas – That’s When Happiness Began (WB)
Playboys of Edinburgh – Mickey’s Monkey (Columbia)
Houston Post Now Sounds Groove In Ad

Ohio Express – Beg Borrow and Steal (Cameo Parkway)
Other Side – Walking Down the Road (Brent)
Other Side – Streetcar (Brent)
What-Knots – I Ain’t Dead Yet (Dial)
The Lamp Of Childhood – Season of the Witch (Dunhill)
The Lamp Of Childhood – First Time Last Time (Dunhill)
The Lamp of Childhood – Two O’Clock Morning (Dunhill)
The Lamp of Childhood – You Can’t Blame Me (Dunhill)
Connie Francis – Fallin’ (MGM)
The Velvet Underground – Who Loves the Sun (Cotillion)
L.U.V. Movie Ad

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 18 – 150MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, our eighteenth episode!

This month’s show is – thanks to a very fruitful day at the Allentown All-45 record Show – packed with recent acquisitions.

This time out we start with a tribute to Joe South, moving on to lots of excellent garage, folk rock , sunshine pop and as always a few wild cards.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something groovy.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #17

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Playlist

Intro – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Don and the Goodtimes – Little Sally Tease (Dunhill)
Los Gatos Negros – Land of 1000 Dances (Vergara)
The Equals – My Life Ain’t Easy (President)
Terry Knight and the Pack – Got Love (Lucky 11)
Chancellors – I’m a Man (Soma)
The Mods – Satisfaction (Revelation VII)
The Mods – Go (Steinbachs Mustang) (Revelation VII)
Mars Bonfire – Ride With Me (UNI)
Mars Bonfire – Born To Be Wild (UNI)
Hollywood Bowl Concert Radio Spot

Fun and Games – Elephant Candy (UNI)
Fun and Games – Grooviest Girl In the World (UNI)
Fun and Games – Something I Wrote (UNI)
The Hardy Boys – Here Come the Hardys (RCA/Dunwich)
Three Ring Circus – Groovin’ On the Sunshine (RCA)
The Pleasure Fair – Fade In Fade Out (UNI)
Morning Glories – Love-In (RCA)
Bread – Could I (Elektra)
Bread – It Don’t Matter To Me 1969 LP Version (Elektra)
Stone Poneys Pepsi Commercial

Gene Clark and the Gosdin Bros – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Columbia)
Brewer and Shipley – She Got the Time She Got the Changes (A&M)
Brewer and Shipley – Pig’s Head (Kama Sutra)
Gordon Lightfoot – The Pride of Man (UA)
John Denver – Molly (RCA)
Glen Campbell – Guess I’m Dumb (Capitol)
Primrose Circus – PS Call Me Lulu (Mira)
Jimmie Haskell feat. Denny Doherty – To Claudia On Thursday (ABC)
Kaleidoscope – Egyptian Garden (Epic)
Clear Light – Think Again (Elektra)
Jacques Dutronc – Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi (Vogue)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 17 – 172MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode the seventeenth!

This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show is packed with recent acquisitions.

The last month has been very fruitful digging-wise with lots of sunshine pop, psychedelia and even a long sought after local garage 45 that finally came my way.

You get to check out some prime, late-60s California pop, including some very interesting early stuff from Bread (and pre-Bread 45s too)!

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something groovy.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #7!

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Playlist

Hawkshaw/Mansfield – Action Scene (KPM)
Thorinshield – Daydreaming (Philips)
Thorinshield – Wrong My Friend (Philips)
Brewer and Shipley – Truly Right (A&M)
Brewer & Shipley – She Got the Time She Got the Changes (A&M)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Search the Sky (Liberty)
Giant Crab – Help Yourself (Uni)
Giant Crab – It’s Getting Harder (Uni)
Giant Crab – Walking In Different Circles (Uni)
Monkees – PO Box 9847 (Colgems)
KHJ Monkee Tripper Spot

Link Wray – Jack the Ripper (Swan)
Raybeats – Jack the Ripper (PVC)
Q65 – It Came To Me (Philips)
Equals – My Life Ain’t Easy (President)
Ascots – Sookie Sookie (Super)
Nashville Teens – Find My Way Home (London)
Iron Butterfly Ban Roll On Spot

Shanes – Gulf Oil Promo
Shanes – Chris Craft Number Nine (Capitol)
Thoughts – All Night Stand (Planet)
New Breed – Want Ad Reader (HBR)
Hermans Hermits – The Man With The Cigar (MGM)
Peppermint Trolley Company – Trust (Acta)
Paul Williams – Someday Man (A&M)
Mama Cass – California Earthquake (Dunhill)
Mama Cass – Talking To My Toothbrush (Dunhill)
Mama Cass KHJ Puppy Festival Spot

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 7 – 138MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome to the seventh edition of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

Despite the current bumps in the road, I managed to crowbar some quality time into the schedule, so here you have episode seven.

There’s a long set of groovy, late 60s LA stuff, a set of harder edged sounds (dig that Link Wray) and of course some lighter, sunshiney pop for your sweet tooth.

I hope you dig it all, and if you haven’t already heard them, head back into the archives for the first six episodes.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Episode #4!!

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Playlist

Opening – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)

Jacques Dutronc – Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi (Vogue)
Ian and the Zodiacs – Na Na Na Na Na (Philips)
Rotary Connection – Burning of the Midnight Lamp (Cadet Concept)
Living Strings – Somebody To Love (Camden)
Litter – My Little Red Book (Probe)
Jethro Tull – Fat Man (Reprise)
Clear Light – Think Again (Elektra)
American Breed Alone Phone Spot

Glenn Campbell – Guess I’m Dumb (Capitol)
Brenda Lee – The Crying Game (Decca)
Colin Blunstone – Caroline Goodbye (Epic)
Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars – You Showed Me (Project 3)
Linda Ronstadt – She’s a Very Lovely Woman (Capitol)
Love – The Red Telephone (Elektra)
Monkees – Porpoise Song -  45 edit (Colgems)
Pearls Before Swine – I Saw the World  – 45 edit (ESP Disk)
7-UP Commercial

Ascots – Sookie Sookie (Super)
Barbarians – Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (Laurie)
Changing Times – How Is the Air Up There (Philips)
Music Machine – Trouble (Original Sound)
Peanut Gallery – Out of Breath (Canterbury)
Kingsmen – Trouble (Wand)
Kitchen Cinq – Determination (LHI)
Wayne Logiudice – Come On Lets Get a Little Action On (Philips)
Lindy Blaskey and the Lavells – You Ain’t Tuff (Space)
Guilloteens – Hey You (HBR)
Vanilla Fudge Coke Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 4 – 149MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

The middle of August is here, and that means it’s time again for the Iron Leg Radio Show.

This time out we have even more of the groovy stuff that you’ve come to expect from Iron Leg, with the garage, and the Euro punk, and the sunshine pop, kitsch, freaks (beaten well), sophisticated musical musings, pa-sike-o-modelica and of course anything else that pops.

So, pull out your ears, prepare them for liftoff and pull down the ones and zeros.
See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Modern Folk Quartet – If All You Think

The Modern Folk Quartet

Listen/Download – Modern Folk Quartet – If All You Think

Greetings all.

I hope all is groovy in your neck of the woods.

The tune I bring you today is one of those records that kind of bubbled up from inside my collection in a way that I can’t even remember where I got it.

Aside from the fact that it is clearly an indicator that I buy way too many records (yes, the first step is admitting you have a problem….My name is Larry and I have a vinyl monkey on my back and in my wallet), but sometimes I get said records in clumps, i.e. via a “lot” purchase and don’t always get the time to examine the fruits of such a purchase as closely as I’d like.

As a result, when a spare hour or two pops up, I wade into the stacks and start giving these records a spin in an effort to dig up undiscovered gold and to pare down the piles of wax, of only a little bit at a time.

That said, for years the Modern Folk Quartet were little more than a name to me, eventually evolving into a stack of footnotes, with the group being the starting point for folks like Jerry Yester, Chip Douglas and uber LA-scene photographer Henry Diltz.

They recorded a couple of folkie albums for Warner Brothers in 1963 and 1964 and then some non-LP 45s for WB and Dunhill. It was during the 45-only period that their sound started to evolve and got a little less purely folk and a little bit more folk rock.

I haven’t been able to date the 45 that gives us today’s track, but I’m making an educated guess that it was issued some time in 1965 or early 1966 (the year the group broke up).

‘If All You Think’ is a very groovy bit of jangle that has that west coast 65/66, Beau Brummels/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feel to it, with 12-string guitar, tight group harmonies and just enough “rock” in the foundation to move it from the coffee house on to the Sunset Strip.

After the group split in 1966, Jerry Yester (whose brother Jim was in the Association) went on to join Judy Henske in recording the sought after freak folk/psych LP ‘Farewell Aldebaran’, Chip Douglas went on to a career as a studio musician recording with the Monkees among others, Cyrus Faryar had a career as a producer and performer, and Henry Diltz and his camera went on to capture some of the most memorable images of the Laurel Canyon rock world, including the covers of albums like the first Crosby Stills and Nash LP, the Doors ‘Morrison Hotel’ as well as countless famous images of CSNY, the Eagles and just about everyone else who ever entered a recording studio or trod a stage in LA.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll be back next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Mama Cass – California Earthquake / Talking To Your Toothbrush

Mama Cass

Listen/Download -Mama Cass – California Earthquake

Listen/Download -Mama Cass – Talkin’ To Your Toothbrush

Greetings all.

When I was rummaging in the Iron Leg/Funky16Corners record vault, pawing through the huge stacks of vinyl, trying to decide what to whip on you good people this week, letting myself be led by inspirado, as is often the case, I happened upon just the right record.

Cass Elliot is without a doubt one of my all-time favorite singers. I grew up loving (and continue to love) the Mamas and Papas and have fond memories of my Mother’s well-worn copy of Elliot’s greatest hits album ‘Mama’s Big Ones’ which was in heavy rotation on our old console stereo.

The Mamas and Papas managed to create more than their fair share of musical magic in their short time together, weaving their voices into some of the most brilliant harmonies ever to grace a pop record. Alongside John Phillips considerable songwriting talent, they also had exquisite taste in cover material, often reworking older songs in such a unique way as to make it their own.

When the group broke up in 1968, it was Mama Cass that took off as a solo act.

Her solo debut ‘Dream a Little Dream of Me’ (with the hit single that had in fact been recorded with the group) is an unjustly forgotten piece of the late-60s LA puzzle. It sees Elliot wrapping her voice around some very interesting material that provided a slightly more serious bridge between the Mamas and Papas sound and her pop hits of the early 70s.

There’s a wonderful, laid back (but never dull) Laurel Canyon feel to the whole album, laced with bits of mainstream pop, country rock and a kind of melancholic stoner vibe that makes it a kind of lost treasure.

I first heard today’s selection via a thread on a funk and soul board I frequent where someone had solicited suggestions for funky rock records.

While I wouldn’t say that ‘California Earthquake’ is terribly funky in the conventional sense, I can imagine a field full of buckskin clad, stoned hippies swaying aggressively to it, in a kind of Dead concert parking lot, nitrous style.

Written by John Hartford (his recording of the tune is in a conventional country rock vein), ‘California Earthquake’ is a not so vaguely apocalyptic tale in the ‘California breaks off and falls into the sea’ tradition, with the addition of a rising Atlantis to the story.

It almost sounds like a soundtrack to Rudolph Wurlitzers ‘Quake’, run past ‘The Day of the Locust’. Considering what was about to transpire in the coming years, with Manson, and man on the moon, the vibe was not without merit.

The flipside, ‘Talkin’ To Your Toothbrush’ (written by the album’s producer, John Simon) is one of those songs, like Spirit’s ‘Topanga Windows’ that seems be a blissful high writ large. It has in its grooves a dusty California sunset, hot wind, and pot smoke blowing past a reclaimed stained glass window in a Laurel Canyon crash pad. It’s one of those records I feel like listening to over and over again, letting the vibe wash over me.

Elliot’s career would take off in another direction before being cut cruelly short by her premature demise. Though I dig her poppier stuff, I wish she’d been able to make more albums like this one.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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