All Pearls, No Swine 14 or: I've just run out of catchy subtitles

So, no title, just the same quality music from underappreciated artists on major labels or the usual finds of gems from the self-published/microlabel circles. This volume is higher than usual on the former, rounding up a number of music business veterans whose names might be very vaguely familiar. 

To make the vague a little more concrete, here's the usual in-depth analysis liner notes random observations. 

The Eagles covered David Blue's "Outlaw Man" for their Desperado album, but it bubbled under, here's the author with his version of the song. 

Californian singer-songwriter Kathy Smith's biggest claim to fame is probably her appearance at the legendary Island Of Wight music festival in 1970, "Topanga" is from the same year's Some Songs I've Saved, her debut. 

Doug "The Ragin' Cajun'" Kershaw, the world-class fiddle player from Louisiana recorded a handful of albums for Warner Brothers in the late 60s and early 70s, "Jamestown Ferry" is from 1972's Devil's Elbow, just before his albums were starting to chart. 

The lovely "Lost Iron Man" comes from Rod Taylor's self-titled debut album for Asylum Records, he changed his stage name to Roderick Falconer soon afterwards for a number of pop and rock records, then became a TV producer. Oh, he was also an award-winning poet at Stanford. And, as seen above, not completely ugly, either. Man of many talents!

Hoover (Willis Hoover) is already familiar to All Pearls No Swine afficionados from his fantastically titled "Jesus Don't Drive No Fastback Car", "Freedom To Stay" comes from the same sessions for a second solo album that was shelved in 1972. 

Eddie Reeves is mainly known as a songwriter for dozens of rock and country acts and rarely recorded in his own name, "On The Street Again" is from an obscure shared showcase album with Jackie DeShannon and Jimmie Holiday, with whom he often collaborated. 

Flutist and saxophonist Charles Lloyd hung out with The Beach Boys in the early 1970s, mainly through their common affection for transcendental meditation, "All Life Is One" has inimitable vocals from the 'Boys. 

The enigmatic Al Manfredi recorded a six-track EP, issued in about a hundred copies and those mainly to record companies in search of a record deal, in 1973. A look at his very small body of work will follow here on One Buck Records at some point. 

                         His music is definitely better than the name (or the haircut...)

Johnny Cougar is of course now known as John Mellencamp, his early work under that ridiculous moniker is better than its reputation, including the featured "Dream Killing Town".

The Pilot of crunchy opener"Rider" isn't the Scottish soft rock/pop group, but the short-lived band led by Bruce Stephens.

One of my favorite tracks of this volume is Dirk Hamilton's forlorn "Billboard On The Moon" from his 1978 debut for Electra, Meet Me At The Crux. And I really like the double waterway-meets-the-cosmos double feature of Eric Andersen's "Blue River" and Keith Christmas' "The Forest And The Shore" that close out proceedings.  

And that's it, folks. Lots of quality music on here, same as it ever was. I might run out of silly subtitles, but All Pearls, No Swine will never run out of good music to discover or rediscover...