Forgotten Music, Episode #1

Occasionally I find new artists that I really love, of which I will possibly write about in another blog post. But today, I thought that I'd write about how much of the music that I listen to nowadays is stuff from many years ago, but which I had not discovered yet. The most common way that I do this is to recall artists of which I may have had one album which I enjoyed, or one single released that kept my toes tappin', and then researching their past discography to find all their releases. Very often, there will be much of it out-of-print, but there are multitudes of blogs that I can visit and find out more. Here is my first sampling of stuff that I have found and am listening to lately. This stuff is kinda in the vein of the country pop/rock of some of those great '70's bands like Firefall, Orleans, and Redbone.

Andrew Gold (1975)
This is Andrew's debut LP. If you don't know much about Andrew, I can tell you he is all over many artists' album from the '70's, including James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. He is versatile on the piano, guitar and backing vocals. I owned an 8-track of "What's Wrong With This Picture?", which had the hit "Lonely Boy" on it, but I really liked the entire album. Andrew later went on to join up with a later incarnation of 10cc, and from that involvement with Graham Gouldman, formed a band called Wax. Here is a download link to acquire a great song titled "That's Why I Love You" from this 1975 release.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K65WDRAN



Fool's Gold - Mr. Lucky (1977)
I remember seeing the debut album of this group in record stores ages ago, which featured a photo of the band on it. There are many decent cuts on it also, but "Mr. Lucky" was their follow-up album. They didn't stay around long....I really don't know much about them. I do know that Don Felder of the Eagles contributed some guitar work on one of their LP's, I am not sure if it was this one. They sure have that country-rock sound that I always heard termed "the California sound"...much like the songs of the very early Eagles. Enjoy this song titled "I Can Hear The Whistle". Find it here--
http://rapidshare.com/files/170038379/Fool_s_Gold_-_Mr._Lucky_-_02_-_I_Can_Hear_the_Whistle.mp3.html


Ozark Mountain Daredevils - 13 (1998)
I have listened to a LOT of the Ozarks thru the years. If you are unfamiliar with their music, the bigger hits they had was "Jackie Blue" and "If You Wanna Get To Heaven". This recording is not from the '70's, but it is still one that I had not discovered until recently, and it still has the great sound that they had back then, but with better production values.
Great songwriters...this has that warm, down-home, cozy feel. It is titled "Dream-O" and you can download and enjoy it here--
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=03KSWR5D