New Morning
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 6.76
The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
Artist: Souther-Hillman-Furay Band

When David Geffen convinced Richie Furay, Chris Hillman, and J.D. Souther to join forces to form a country-rock supergroup, it seemed like an inspired suggestion. Crosby, Stills & Nash's folk-rock had scored big with a similar idea, while bands such as the Eagles, who recorded for Geffen's Asylum Records, had made some waves commercially in... Read More

Once in a Blue Moon
Artist: Frankie Miller

This first album by Scotland's Frankie Miller features pub-rock favorites Brinsley Schwartz as his backup band. That alone is reason enough to own this record. Add to that a nice batch of songs (mostly originals) and you have an enjoyable album. ~ Jim Worbois, All Music Guide Read More

Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas
Artist: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

This is Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen at their best, live on-stage and out on the road with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. What a bill and what a grand time for a live album. This is how it really was -- wild, loud, and fun. Again they intersperse their own songs with old favorites. "Armadillo Stomp" was penned for this event, and... Read More

Expecting to Fly
Artist: Buffalo Springfield
Skip
Artist: Skip Battin

A true Hollywood cowboy, Skip Battin writes songs in a country-rock style that frequently concern themselves with the silver screen, a tendency that turned up during his tenure in The Byrds on songs like "Citizen Kane" and that is apparent here on his debut solo album on songs like "Valentino." Battin's songwriting partner is the notorious Kim... Read More

Area Code 615/A Trip in the Country
Artist: Area Code 615

Koch reissued Area Code 615's two albums, 1969's Area Code 615 and 1970's Trip in the Country, as a CD two-fer in 2000, adding two bonus tracks -- "John Henry" and "Tennessee Green" -- in the process. These were cult items prior to this CD, and they remained cult items after this reissue, because these are progressive psychedelic instrumental... Read More

Crazy Eyes
Artist: Poco
Community Score: 6.00

The third biggest-selling album in the group's history, Crazy Eyes is also the group's liveliest and most bracing work and contains some of their most soulful music. In short, it's the fruition of everything they'd been working toward for four years. Curiously, it's also one of a handful of examples of their use of outside help, including Chris... Read More

The Adventures of Panama Red
Artist: New Riders of the Purple Sage

One has to wonder if 1973 was the year of drug references in songs...never mind. In any case, The Adventures of Panama Red established the New Riders of the Purple Sage as something more than a Jerry Garcia side project -- which they never were. John Dawson, Spencer Dryden, David Nelson, and Dave Torbert along with pedal steel ace Buddy Cage --... Read More

Quah
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen
Community Score: 8.00

Quah -- Jorma Kaukonen's (guitar/vocal) solo debut effort -- was recorded and issued shortly after the dissolution of Jefferson Airplane in 1974. In contrast to the sonic indulgences of Grace Slick's Manhole or Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship's Blows Against the Empire, Kaukonen retreated back to his folk-blues roots along with vocalist Tom... Read More

Europe '72
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 9.33

The Grateful Dead commemorated their first extended European tour with an extravagant triple-LP set appropriately enough titled Europe '72. This collection is fashioned in much the same way as their previous release -- which had also been a live multi-disc affair. The band mixes a bevy of new material -- such as "Ramble on Rose," "Jack Straw,"... Read More

American Beauty
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 8.53

A companion piece to the luminous Workingman's Dead, American Beauty is an even stronger document of the Grateful Dead's return to their musical roots. Sporting a more full-bodied and intricate sound than its predecessor thanks to the addition of subtle electric textures, the record is also more representative of the group as a collective unit,... Read More

Wake of the Flood
Artist: Grateful Dead
Community Score: 8.70

After satisfying their nine-title/dozen-disc deal with Warner Brothers, the Dead began their own record labels: Grateful Dead Records (for group releases) and Round Records (for solo projects). Wake of the Flood was the first Dead disc issued entirely under the band's supervision -- which also included manufacturing and marketing. Additionally,... Read More

Garcia
Artist: Jerry Garcia
Community Score: 9.33

This disc was a happy byproduct of the Grateful Dead re-signing with Warner Bros. It was mutually beneficial for Bob Weir (guitar/vocals) as well as Mickey Hart (percussion), and his criminally overlooked debut long player Rolling Thunder (1972). Jerry Garcia's (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass, piano, organ, samples,... Read More

Poco
Artist: Poco