{"product_id":"american-baroque-chamber-pop-and-beyond-1967-1971","title":"American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe heyday of American baroque pop – or chamber pop - ran from 1966 \nto the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and \nwoodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, \nand quite far removed from rock’n’roll as Eddie Cochran would have known\n it. Baroque pop’s musicians often came from a folk background, with an \naffinity for acoustic instrumentation. Linda Ronstadt's first band the \nStone Poneys had introduced the autoharp to their line-ups in 1965, \nwhile the likes of Bonnie Dobson and Nico experimented with a string \nquartet’s, searching for different, post-electric Dylan directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can trace it back to the Left Banke \nwho created a sound that was soft but insistently sad - where were the \nguitars? Their guitarist Rick Brand claimed their lyrics \"were written \nas rather self-consciously beautiful musical whimsy, as you find in the \nlatter 18th-century Romantic music, pre-Beethoven\". They had a huge hit \nwith ‘Walk Away Renee’ and effectively invented a genre before \ncombusting after just one album. Splinter group Montage produced a very \nrare album and singer Steve Martin Caro an equally rare single - both \nare represented on “American Baroque”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough the baroque sound \nwas quickly forced into a corner by the back-to-basics stance of power \ntrios like Cream and Blue Cheer, many musicians weren’t yet ready to \nditch cellos and harpsichords. Some groups like the Blades of Grass \naimed their minor key melodies at an early or even pre-teen following. \nAnd others like Emmit Rhodes' Merry Go Round, H.P. Lovecraft and \nAppaloosa simply loved the feel of string quartets and woodwinds and \ncontinued to explore orchestral pop further, into the early seventies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\n doing so, they created this tapestry of delights. There was no single \nblueprint for the American baroque sound – it could be bordering on the \ngothic (Russ Giguere of the Association’s extraordinary ‘My Plan’) or as\n small and precise as a music box (Tom Northcott’s ‘Other Times’).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. YOU'RE A VERY LOVELY WOMAN -     The Merry-Go-Round\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. I SHALL CALL HER MARY - The Montage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. RAGGEDY ANN - John Randolph Marr \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. TULU ROGERS - Appaloosa \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. TURNAWAY - The Pleasure Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. DIFFERENT DRUM –     The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. EMILY'S ILLNESS - Nora Guthrie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. BAREFOOT GENTLEMAN - The Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. LAND OF SENSATIONS \u0026amp; DELIGHTS - J.K. \u0026amp; CO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. BLUE JACK OF DIAMONDS - H.P. Lovecraft \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. TIME - Bonnie Dobson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. SATIN SLIPPER - The Blades Of Grass \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. MY SILENT SYMPHONY - Chris \u0026amp; Peter Allen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. MR WEBSTER - The Monkees \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. AGAIN AGAIN - Eternity's Children\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. MY PLAN - Russ Giguere \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. THE FAIREST OF THE SEASONS - Nico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. OTHER TIMES - Tom Northcott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. YOU LIED - The Neon Philharmonic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. CLOSE TO CARMEL - The Fun \u0026amp; Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21. HOME BEFORE DARK - Nora Guthrie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22. I HAVE BEEN ALONE - The Common People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23. TWO BY TWO (I'M LOSING YOU) - Steve Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24. LORELEI – Rosebud\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ace Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50982205423947,"sku":"2236413","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50982205129035,"sku":"2236412","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot_2024-12-16_at_15.44.53_53a7d811_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1734365061","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/american-baroque-chamber-pop-and-beyond-1967-1971","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}