This is an amazing comp of this kind of stuff:
I got into it by sheer chance really via sites like the AOR Disco blog, the weird thing was people showering praise on the people editing the tracks instead of the original producers. my copy of the excellent barney hoskyns book arrived last week. very good primer to the whole laurel canyon scene.
I keep forgetting I have this. Totally counts
https://youtu.be/edUhlRxyGOY
played this to a mate at a kick on and reduced him to a blubbering wreck
here’s a Spotify playlist of as many of the songs in this thread as they had available
i’ll keep adding to it as the list grows
We’re doing a double LP issue of this, this year: Lovelock - Burning Feeling | Releases | Discogs
It ticks all of the boxes, from the ace Steve Moore. Cosmic-Balearic-Yacht for sure.
Huge fan of Jonathan Wilson. In fact my wife walked out to the intro of this very record at our wedding and my youngest daughter was born at the exact moment ‘There’s A Light’ played on my phone.
Saw him play in a small room here in Sydney some years ago around the time Gentle Spirit came out. Absolutely amazing live performer and a modern marvel!
nice, a little bit of a cod reggae vibe on that John Douglas as well