Same As It Ever Was...(Or Almost): All Pearls, No Swine 15

Time for another round on the ol' All Pearls, No Swine carousel, featuring...well, by now you know the drill. 

I wanted a kick-ass opener so the James Gang sans Joe Walsh would do with "Ride The Wind", a collaboration between singer Roy Kenner and guitarero Tommy Bolin. Other rock'n'roll sides come from Randy California with, uhm, "California Man" and the recently One Buck Records-featured Jackie Leven with punk-adjacent new wave band Doll By Doll and "Teenage Lightning". 

Softer sounds come from The Seabird Band, a pop/soft rock troupe with country influences hailing from North Carolina, where they had some local success and U.K. songwriter Paul Edwards with "Butterfly Days", from the album of the same name. Mike Heron splits the difference with his band Heron and the original version of "Don't Kill It Carol", later covered successfully by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 

Could this possibly look any more 1970s?

No All Pearls, No Swine volume would be complete without my beloved country rock, so you get Santa Fe (pictured above) who - unsurprisingly - aren't from Santa Fe, but from Thouand Oaks, California. They managed two albums on small labels before breaking up, the excellent "I'm Leaving" is from their debut on Ampex Records. Other genre artists present here are their label mate Alzo Fonte with the appropriately titled "Country", Victor Paul & William Ricketts with the lovely "Virginia Feelin'", and speaking of Virginia, West Virginia foursome Kiddog with "Been To California", from a self-titled private pressing release. 

But that isn't all, dear reader. 

There's even some gospel-inspired soul from Arizona family band The Comstocks and for psych fans (or Psychfan) some psych-folk courtesy of Naomi Lewis from Provo, Utah with the title song from her self-published Seagulls and Sunflowers album. Prog fans will hopefully like album closer "Sounds Of The Sea" by Renaissance, cut live in the studio.  

So, as usual, a smorgasboard of unknown or little-known treasures from the 70s, just the way you and I like it...