VA - David Hepworth, More Deep 70s (Undiscovered Jewels From Music's Most Action-Packed Decade) [2025] (4 x CDS)

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VA - David Hepworth, More Deep 70s (Undiscovered Jewels From Music's Most Action-Packed Decade) [2025] (4 x CDS)

The 1970s were too large to fit inside a single narrative. They were restless, contradictory, overflowing with invention, and full of artists who made extraordinary records between the headlines. More Deep 70s embraces that breadth. Across four discs, David Hepworth curates a decade not through its obvious landmarks but through the songs that slipped between categories, covers, live takes, overlooked singles, album tracks that carried more truth than the hits beside them. The result is a portrait of the 70s as a place of constant movement.

The first disc sets the tone with reinvention. Ramones, Devo, Don Covay, Nina Simone, Lowell George, Todd Rundgren, Nilsson, each track reshapes familiar material, proving how the decade thrived on reinterpretation. You hear artists bending genres, slowing tempos, sharpening edges, and turning other people’s songs into personal statements. It’s the 70s as workshop: restless, curious, unafraid.

The second disc tightens the frame around skinny‑tie energy. Cheap Trick, The Cars, Joe Jackson, Dwight Twilley, Shoes, Raspberries, Squeeze — bright guitars, sharp hooks, and a sense of urgency that pointed toward the new wave to come. These tracks show how melody and attitude could coexist without compromise.

The third disc shifts into Americana, where songwriters chased emotional clarity rather than volume. Gene Clark, Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Millie Jackson, Bobby Bland, Dr. John, Guy Clark, Terry Allen — voices shaped by experience, arrangements built on warmth and space. It’s the quieter side of the decade, but no less intense.

The final disc widens again, moving through rock, art‑pop and reggae. Free, John Cale, Ultravox, Sparks, Burning Spear, Max Romeo, Richard Thompson — a reminder that the 70s were global, eclectic and impossible to pin down. The sequencing makes the connections feel natural: rhythm, mood, and imagination binding everything together.

What makes More Deep 70s special is its sense of discovery. Hepworth isn’t building a museum. He’s opening a door to the decade’s hidden rooms — the tracks that shaped taste, influenced peers, and carried the spirit of the era without ever dominating it. For collectors, it’s a treasure map. For listeners, it’s proof that the 70s remain the most surprising decade in modern music, still revealing new corners half a century later.(B)

Volume 1 can be found here:

https://butterboycompilations.blogspot.com/2023/01/va-david-hepworth-deep-70s-underrated.html

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Track lists

CD1

01 Ramones - Let's Dance 1:51

02 Devo - Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) 2:40

03 Nils Lofgren - Goin' Back 3:47

04 Hollies - Sandy (4th of July, Asbury Park) 4:11

05 Don Covay - Memphis 3:23

06 Nina Simone - Baltimore 4:38

07 Lowell George - What Do You Want the Girl to Do 4:48

08 Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel (Slow Version) 4:13

09 Bunch - When Will I Be Loved 3:16

10 Frankie Miller - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 4:02

11 Greg Kihn - For You 3:58

12 Thin Lizzy - Rosalie (Live) 3:14

13 Todd Rundgren - Rain 3:17

14 Nilsson - Vine Street 2:51

15 Joe Cocker - Jamaica Say You Will 4:15

16 Terry Melcher - These Days 4:23

17 John Martyn - Spencer The Rover 4:09

18 Ian Matthews - Seven Bridges Road 4:05

19 Leo Kottke - Pamela Brown 3:29

20 Pointer Sisters - Grinning in Your Face 4:49

21 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Psycho (Live) 3:22

CD2

01 Runaways - Cherry Bomb 2:18

02 Cheap Trick - Surrender 4:13

03 Cars - Double Life 4:14

04 Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls 3:42

05 Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire 3:19

06 Mink DeVille - Just Your Friends 4:12

07 Sniff 'N' The Tears - Driver's Seat 3:59

08 Shoes - Too Late 2:44

09 Raspberries - Go All The Way 3:25

10 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Local Girls 3:37

11 John Hiatt - Take Off Your Uniform 4:07

12 XTC - Life Begins at The Hop 3:49

13 Inmates - Dirty Water 2:59

14 Deaf School - What a Way to End it All 2:56

15 Tim Moore - Rock and Roll Love Letter 4:23

16 Squeeze - Up The Junction 3:09

17 Crabby Appleton - Go Back 3:06

CD3

01 Roger McGuinn - Draggin' 3:38

02 Gene Clark - No Other 5:08

03 Jimmy Webb - P.F. Sloan 4:16

04 Laura Nyro - Stoney End 2:43

05 Millie Jackson - Loving Arms 3:44

06 Bobby Bland - It's Not The Spotlight 3:53

07 Dr. John - I Been Hoodood 3:14

08 Meters - Fire on the Bayou 4:06

09 Taj Mahal - Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too 5:24

10 Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself 5:19

11 Joe Ely - Honky Tonk Masquerade 3:42

12 Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting for A Train 4:29

13 Paul Williams - Someday Man 2:53

14 Chip Taylor - I Wasn't Born in Tennessee 3:05

15 Joe Simon - Georgia Blue 2:59

16 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy 2:57

17 Terry Allen - New Delhi Freight Train 7:28

CD4

01 Heads Hands & Feet - (Let's Get This) Show on The Road 3:49

02 Free - The Highway Song 4:15

03 John Cale - You Know More Than I Know 3:35

04 Ultravox! - Young Savage 3:00

05 Nico - It Has Not Taken Long 4:11

06 Sparks - Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth 2:27

07 Heptones - Country Boy 2:56

08 Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey 3:27

09 Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil 3:26

10 Jess Roden - On Broadway 7:08

11 Swamp Dogg - Did I Come Back Too Soon (Or Stay Away Too Long) 3:43

12 Kevin Ayers - Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You 4:37

13 801 - Rongwrong 5:10

14 Jim Capaldi - Eve 3:41

15 Richard Thompson - Roll Over Vaughn Williams 4:11

16 Bryn Haworth - Grappenhall Rag 2:58

17 Peter Skellern - I Guess You Wish You'd Gone Home 2:43

18 Morris on Band - Princess Royal 3:44

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