VA - American Baroque: Chamber Pop And Beyond (1967 - 1971)

The heyday of American baroque pop – or chamber pop – ran from 1966 to the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and woodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, and quite far removed from rock’n’roll as Eddie Cochran would have known it. Baroque pop’s musicians often came from a folk background, with an affinity for acoustic instrumentation. Linda Ronstadt’s first band the Stone Poneys had introduced the autoharp to their line-ups in 1965, while the likes of Bonnie Dobson and Nico experimented with a string quartet’s, searching for different, post-electric Dylan directions.

TRACKLIST
1. YOU'RE A VERY LOVELY WOMAN - The Merry-Go-Round
2. I SHALL CALL HER MARY - The Montage
3. RAGGEDY ANN - John Randolph Marr
4. TULU ROGERS - Appaloosa
5. TURNAWAY - The Pleasure Fair
6. DIFFERENT DRUM - The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt
7. EMILY'S ILLNESS - Nora Guthrie
8. BAREFOOT GENTLEMAN - The Association
9. LAND OF SENSATIONS & DELIGHTS - J.K. & CO
10. BLUE JACK OF DIAMONDS - H.P. Lovecraft
11. TIME - Bonnie Dobson
12. SATIN SLIPPER - The Blades Of Grass
13. MY SILENT SYMPHONY - Chris & Peter Allen
14. MR WEBSTER - The Monkees
15. AGAIN AGAIN - Eternity's Children
16. MY PLAN - Russ Giguere
17. THE FAIREST OF THE SEASONS - Nico
18. OTHER TIMES - Tom Northcott
19. YOU LIED - The Neon Philharmonic
20. CLOSE TO CARMEL - The Fun & Games
21. HOME BEFORE DARK - Nora Guthrie
22. I HAVE BEEN ALONE - The Common People
23. TWO BY TWO (I'M LOSING YOU) - Steve Martin
24. LORELEI - Rosebud