THE BARS FERRY BAND - AMORY (USA '84 Country Rock) RARE

 (Produced by Billy Maddox & The Bars Ferry Band)

Wasn't able to find out much info about these guys, a twangy bar band from Tupelo, Mississippi who were the house band at a place called the Niteliter Bar. The group included Johnny Wigginton (vocals and guitar), Jim Roby (vocals, steel), Tommy Horton (drums), Dean Koon (vocals, rhythm guitar), Jimmy Kreson (keyboards), and Gary Chandler (bass) with backup vocals by the Shoal Sisters (Muscle Shoals studio pros Ava Aldridge, and others) along with the Cates Sisters... Apparently Jim Roby was still playing gigs around Tupelo as late as 2000 or so...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1bf4h17c4i1rtim/Bars+Ferry+Band+-+Amory+(Usa+'84+Country+Rock).rar/file

RIDE - First (Usa '74 Psych Jazz Funk)

                                          ON DEMAND : Private Northern California rural psych rock LP with a laid back edge. Sometimes very Grateful dead like other times a very cool funk like bar band blues feel.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/k23jtf9q72lzpzw/Ride+-+Same+First+(Usa+'74+Psych+Jazz.rar/file

CALICO - VOL II (USA '76 COUNTRY ROCK)

 A very odd follow-up to their first major-label offering -- to untrained ears this seems to have very little commercial potential in either the pop or country fields, mixing sluggish though grandiose pop ballads with just a couple of overtly twangy tracks. There is some residual twang, but overall this album leans heavily towards a 'Seventies soft-pop sound, pairing downtempo vocals with swelling (though lackadaisical) arrangements courtesy of Nashville studio honcho Bill Justis. The slow stuff dominates, and I guess we have to assume that Oates and Impellitier were consciously throwing it all away, choosing to make a doleful, contemplative album instead of aiming for the charts. Notably, the Nashville crew got completely switched up, with Dave Kirby on guitar, and Tom Morrell adding a lot of nice pedal steel licks; Morrell seems to have been the most fully committed of all the musicians on here, though I think the singers also were trying to make a real statement of some sort. Twangfans might dig "Suppertime Lovin'," a bouncy hippie-billy number in the mode of Commander Cody or the New Riders Of The Purple Sage, or possibly their dutiful cover of Waylon's "I Recall A Gypsy Woman." The album almost had one dazzling triumph, a version of the Hank Williams oldie, "Cold, Cold Heart," that starts out starkly with just vocals and piano, like something Joni Mitchell might have done in her Blue phase, but then they slowly layer in some steel guitar and more of Justis's rather indifferent countrypolitan-isms, and it slowly fades into mediocrity. I mean, this record could grow on you -- especially if you're into vintage soft pop -- but it mostly seems like a square peg, round hole kind of deal.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/m5uh0cxtbzl4wsl/Calico+-+Vol+II+(Usa+'76+Country+Rock).rar/file

CALICO - FIRST (USA '75 COUNTRY ROCK)

 Second-string countrypolitan/country-rock from Fort Worth, Texas, with iffy vocals but a wealth of serious talent in the studio: Buddy Spicher on fiddle, Lloyd Green playing pedal steel, Bobby Thompson on guitar, adding a few extra licks behind the band. Top Forty fans will notice youngsters Allan Reynolds and Garth Fundis paying their dues as journeymen producers -- later they'd become two of Nashville's major heavy-hitters. Singer Jerry Oates seems to have been the driving force in this band -- he wrote most of he songs and sang some of the lead vocals, along with pianist Keith Impellitier. This is hardly a classic, but fans of '70s country-rock and soft-pop might want to check it out. The band often reminds me of less-fortunate (non-major label) acts like Greezy Wheels and Chuck Wagon who were also on the scene at the time... (Footnote: apparently steel player Tom Morrell was in an early lineup of the band, but he wasn't on this album... Anyone have more info about their history?)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/35m9soov4et5eh5/Calico+-+Same+(Usa'75+Country+Rock).rar/file

THE JUSTICE MCBRIDE BAND - CHILDREN AT PLAY (USA '82 Southern Rock)

 

          Private Southern Rock UTICA NY

https://www.mediafire.com/file/6em1lrrlpivevxg/Justice+McBride+Band+-+Chidren+At+Play+(Usa+'82+Southern+Rock).rar/file

RIVERSTREET - SELF TITLE (USA '81 Southern Rock)

 Riverstreet "Riverstreet" (Rare Summer Records, 1981) (LP)

(Produced by Mike Summerfield)
More of a southern rock thing by this band from Charleston, West Virginia... The group was led by lead singer/guitarist Marshall Crowder, who wrote most of the band's original material. Other members included Fred Blackwell (lead vocals), Fred Lacy (drums), John Wiseman (bass), Bugs Workman (rhythm guitar) and Rosie Workman (vocals). Not totally sure how "country" to consider these guys, bu there was definitely some twang in the mix... Also worth noting that there are other bands called Riverstreet, including a late 'Seventies band from Georgia that was basically a straight-up hard rock group.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/m1va13ksb5iy250/Riverstreet+-+Same+(Usa+'81+Southern+Rock).rar/file

KENTUCKY - ON THE RISE (USA '82 Country Southern Rock)

 Released on the upstate New York Kentucky label(#KMP2465)by this local Syracuse band. Cuts include the Allmanesque jammer "He Who Laughs Last", "Morning Lights", "Lucky At Cards", "Factory Song", "It's Over", "Back Down The Road" and more. 

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