VA - Wayfaring Strangers [2006-2017] (6 x CD's)

NUMERO'S WAYFARING STRANGERS

Previously posted November 13, 2021

VA - Wayfaring Strangers [2006-2017] (6 x CD's)

VA - Wayfaring Strangers, Ladies from the Canyon [2006]   By 1970 the folk revival was all but over. Gone were the days of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and "If I Had A Hammer." Richard Farina was dead. Dylan plugged in. The sound that began in the hills and caught fire on the lower east side of Manhattan was now being reborn in the canyons of California. The fruits of folk’s second renaissance are collected here. Wedged beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing in coffee houses and at church picnics. Deeper than recent crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon takes a solid look at folk’s private and obscure underbelly.(Amazon)

VA - Wayfaring Strangers, Guitar Soli 1968-1981 [2008]   Bridging the gap between American Primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Leo Kottke, and the California Morderists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi and Michael Hedges, GUITAR SOLI explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the New Age marketing juggernaut of the mid-80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a chipboard slipcase with a 40 page booklet, digipack and a limited edition Numero guitar pick and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmid, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Grandell, Tree People, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Cannon and Dana Westover.(Amazon)

VA - Wayfaring Strangers, Lonesome Heroes [2009]   Third in Numero's Wayfairing Strangers series, Lonesome Heroes is a yet another deep stab into the world of private-issue folk. Built around male singer-songwriters discovering their inner Cohen and Hardin, the seventeen-track compilation surveys the back roads of the American folk movement in the 1970s. Male singer/songwriter companion to Numero 008, Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon and Numero 018, Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli. 17 Rare tracks by folk unknowns Jim Schoenfeld, Jim Ransom, Richard Smyrnios, Tucker Zimmermann, Kieran White, Les Moore, Rob Carr, Jack Hardy, George Cromarty, Jay Bolotin, Tony Trosley, Roger Lewis, Tim Ward, David Kaufmann, John Villemonte, Bob Brown and Robb Kunkel. (Amazon)

VA - Warfaring Strangers, Darkscorch Canticles [2014]   With Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, the impacts of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on US shores and heartlands is revealed as a bludgeoning pr viously undescribed. In this collection, medieval Bonham thunk and febrile Iommi guitar leads crowd out the bluesy Americana that foregrounded those bands, replacing hippie pastoralism with mythology, armored conflict, sorcery, and doom. From legions of occult-obsessive 1970s bonehead teens, we summoned a horde of 16 bands, cloaked in eons of tortured obscurity, whose sole release amounts to a blistering chapter ripped free of rock s lumbering mythos. This music hails from an occluded realm, somewhere just beyond the pot-addled minds of its creators. Lyrically, the Darkscorch Canticles trifle with themes most grave: crippling fear, pagan hostility, paranoia, power addiction even necromancy. Satan s name is openly invoked, alongside Sauron s. These worried, warlike Canticles occupy a miniscule niche in the American underground of self-released rock, but their appeal is more broad today than in any previous era. One year ago, Medusa s mysterious First Step Beyond LP emerged from its Chicago forge, numbered in gold, sheathed in the black faux-velvet of a centaur s nutsack, heralding The Numero Group s first dive into the Stygian caverns of the American hard rock underground. But Darkscorch Canticles hail from no simple aural landscape: Numero 048 melds amateur D&D artwork with stout chunks of stoner basement rock, grafting physical music artifacts into an imagined world. In both LP and CD formats, eye-crushing band logos dominate the cover in false pen ink, all of it ensconced in an embossed Wibalin weave, foil-stamped by licks from the fire-lake of Eldara.(Amazon)

VA - Wayfaring Strangers, Cosmic American Music [2016]   Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became  "the dominant American rock style of the 1970's," as Peter Doggett's comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's real Wild West - America's one-off private press label substructure.(Amazon)

VA - Warfaring Strangers,  Acid Nightmares [2017]   As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips. (Amazon)

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Track lists

Wayfaring Strangers, Ladies from the Canyon

01 Becky Severson A Special Path 0:59

02 Collie Ryan Cricket 3:19

03 Linda Rich Sunlight Shadow 2:15

04 Caroline Peyton Engram 3:19

05 Carla Sciaky And I a Fairytale Lady 3:22

06 Judy Kelly Window 2:08

07 Shira Small Eternal Life 2:23

08 Jennie Pearl Maybe in Another Year 2:52

09 Mary Perrin Dedication 3:47

10 Priscilla Quinby With All Hands 3:13

11 Marj Snyder Rain 4:16

12 Barbara Sipple Song for Life 4:16

13 Ginny Reilly Wildman 5:57

14 Ellen Warshaw Sister Morphine 5:29

Wayfaring Strangers, Guitar Soli 1968-1981

01 Dana Westover Beginning 1:16

02 Ted Lucas Raga in "D" 3:37

03 Scott Witte Sailor's Dream 2:43

04 George Cromarty Flight 3:24

05 Richard Crandell Diagonal 3:27

06 Daniel Hecht Baba Dream Songs 6:53

07 Jim Ohlschmidt Delta Freeze 5:03

08 Stephen Cohen No More School 3:04

09 William Eaton Untitled 4:13

10 Mark Lang Strawberry Man 3:13

11 Tom Smith Quidate Quierda 4:24

12 Dan Lambert Charley Town 3:15

13 Brad Chequer Warm River 3:34

14 Dwayne Cannan One Forty Eight 2:00

15 Scott White Grow 4:35

16 William Eaton Untitled Theme 2:01

Wayfaring Strangers, Lonesome Heroes

01 Jim Schoenfeld Before 3:26

02 Jim Ransom It's So Profound 4:26

03 Richard Smyrnios As I Walk 2:54

04 Tucker Zimmerman No Love Lost 3:55

05 Kieran White Hummingbird 3:23

06 Les Moore Ooh-Pah-Do-Pah-Do 3:54

07 Rob Carr RNB II 2:59

08 Jack Hardy The Tailor 5:04

09 George Cromarty Little Children 2:31

10 Jay Bolotin Dear Father 5:52

11 Tony Trosley Deep Night 4:32

12 Roger Lewis Autumn 4:05

13 Timmothy Good Morning 3:57

14 David Kauffman Kiss Another Day Goodbye 4:49

15 John Villemonte I Am the Moonlight 4:45

16 Bob Brown Close of Day 4:19

17 Robb Kunkel O'light 4:22

Warfaring Strangers, Darkscorch Canticles

01 Air Twelve O’clock Satanial 3:23

02 Wrath Warlord 3:57

03 Stonehenge King of the Golden Hall 2:50

04 Triton Warrior Sealed in a Grave 4:36

05 Junction Sorcerer 2:44

06 Stone Axe Slave of Fear 4:49

07 Wizard Seance 3:47

08 Stoned Mace Tasmania 3:40

09 Arrogance Black Death 3:19

10 Sonaura Song of Sauron 3:00

11 Dark Star Spectre 3:12

12 Inside Wizzard King 2:03

13 Space Rock Dark Days 4:11

14 Medusa Black Wizard 6:08

15 Gorgon Medusa Sweet Child 4:37

16 Hellstorm Cry for the Newborn 6:08

Wayfaring Strangers, Cosmic American Music

01 Jimmy Carter and Dallas County Green Travelin' 3:33

02 Mistress Mary And I Didn't Want You 4:03

03 Plain Jane You Can't Make it Alone 4:13

04 Dan Pavlides Lily of the Valley 3:00

05 Angel Oak I Saw Her Cry 2:59

06 Kathy Heideman Sleep a Million Years 2:45

07 Deerfield Me Lovin' You 2:39

08 Arrogance To See Her Smile 3:45

09 Jeff Cowell Not Down This Low 2:24

10 Kenny Knight Baby's Back 2:03

11 Black Canyon Gang Lonesome City 3:34

12 Allan Wachs Mountain Roads 4:19

13 Mike and Pam Martin Lonely Entertainer 2:57

14 Bill Madison Buffalo Skinners 7:54

15 White Cloud All Cried Out 3:38

16 Ethel-Ann Powell Gentle One 4:19

17 Sandy Harless I Knew Her Well 3:52

18 F.J. McMahon The Spirit of the Golden Juice 3:35

19 Doug Firebaugh Alabama Railroad Town 1:19

Warfaring Strangers,  Acid Nightmares

01 Xarhanga Acid Nightmare 3:53

02 Novaks Kapelle Hypodermic Needle 2:58

03 Whistler's Mother Dark Dawn 2:57

04 Brass Alley Pink Pills 2:53

05 Gift Drugs 5:11

06 Supa Chief Red Brained Woman 2:58

07 Tns Times Up 4:39

08 Acid Acid 3:40

09 Sardonicus Evaporated Brain 3:59

10 Mass Temper Grave Digger 3:57

11 Goliath Dead Drunk Screamin' 3:54

12 Bulbous Creation Hooked 4:09

13 Ritual Speed Freak 3:19

14 Gollum Prayer of Despair 6:51

15 Crossblood Experiment Orange Sunshine 4:51

16 Purple Sun Dooms Day 2:51

17 Shy Guys Black Lightning Light 4:31

18 Sunn Cycle Acid Raga 4:50

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