Favorite Songs Of The 1970's

[cusetown1]

[song: Feel Like Making Love]

 

[cusetown1]

[song: Night Fever]

 

[tee1222]

[s o n g: Night Fever]

Yeah, Brooklyn!

 

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The unique stylings of Ian Dury & the Blockheads. New Boots and Panties is one of the great obscure albums of the 70s.

[song: Billericay Dickie]

 

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Graham Parker and the Rumour

[song: Fool's Gold}

 

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[song: Local Girls]

 

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[song: Discovering Japan}

 

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[song: Shake Some Action]

 

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[song: Life From a Window]

 

[Symphony Steve]

The aforementioned Creedence had a great early '70's album in Cosmo's Factory. A couple of classics on that album. Here's the first:

[song: Travelin' Band]

 

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Here's the other:

[song: Lookin' Out My Backdoor]

 

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[song: The Modern World]

 

[Symphony Steve]

The shootings at Kent State happened my freshman year. This just in: Nixon still sucks:

[song: Ohio]

 

[Symphony Steve]

Rodney Crowell--a great country roots performer/songwriter. Check out this great song from 1978, later covered by Waylon:

[song: Ain't Livin' Long Like This]

Sorry for the abrupt cut-off. Those bleeping internets.

 

[moqui]

Seger. Night Moves. I wouldn't call it my favorite song, but the fact is, it just doesn't get any better than this.
[song: Night Moves]

 

[moqui]

Joe Ely, one of my three favorite active performers
joined here by fellow Flatlander Butch Hancock (who wrote this song)
the performances in the following set of songs are from 1980, but the songs are all from Joe's first two albums in the late 70s.
[song: Suckin' on a Big Bottle of Gin]

 

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[song: Boxcars]

 

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[song: I Had My Hopes Up High]

 

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[song: She Never Spoke Spanish To Me]

 

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I sang this song to my soon-to-be wife at our engagement dinner
[song: If You Were A Bluebird]

 

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[song: Johnny's Blues]

 

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[song: Honky Tonk Masquerade]

 

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[song: Because of the Wind]

 

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[song: Fingernails]

 

[moqui]

the next two songs appeared on Joe's first two albums, but they are performed by the legendary Flatlanders, featuring Joe, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

[song: West Texas Waltz/Julia]