Songs You May Have Missed #723

Fool’s Garden: “Million Dollar Baby” (2008)

From the 2008 limited tour edition EP Home, and saved from total obscurity by its appearance on the German band’s 2009 compilation High Times: The Best of Fool’s Garden.

The band hint in that compilation’s liner notes that the song’s title was inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name–which they, and I, recommend.

Fool’s Garden, fairly or not, are known as a one-hit wonder, that hit being the (nearly) worldwide smash “Lemon Tree”, which charted seemingly everywhere but in the US. If you want to hear their hit, click the link below, but not before checking out the very worthy “Million Dollar Baby”.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/10/30/songs-you-may-have-missed-671/

Songs You May Have Missed #722

Badflower: “Promise Me” (2019)

“Promise Me” finds Badflower in a more reflective frame of mind than on the harrowing “Daddy”, which we previously shared.

Both are excellent efforts from a, uh, promising young band.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/02/13/songs-you-may-have-missed-652/

How Neil Young Got Ready for the Country on ‘Harvest’

(via Ultimate Classic Rock) by Dave Lifton

Note: Neil Young’s Harvest album was released 50 years ago today.

Between his work in Buffalo SpringfieldCrosby, Stills Nash & Young and his first few solo records, Neil Young had often flirted with mixing country and rock. But with Harvest, released on Feb. 1, 1972, he more or less dove headfirst into it and came out with one of country-rock’s most commercially and critically successful albums.

Work began a year earlier when Young went to Nashville to appear on The Johnny Cash Show, on an episode that also included James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. Elliot Mazer, who had produced Ronstadt’s Silk Purse album a year earlier, arranged a party at his Quadrofonic Sound Studio for the three artists, and struck up a conversation with Young…

Read more: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-harvest/?fbclid=IwAR363fdu_oGaK0TDIKVvN8LXFkQLKstbl7BE7984Nhf31DqC8BC8lEy_3n8

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