So I just heard this track on Pandora, and it blew me away. It's off a compilation called "B-Music - Cross Continental Record Raid Road Trip". The track was wrongly attributed to "Little Jerry Williams" a black dude that looks like MLK that had early rockabilly shit and later funk/soul/rap shit.

This is some guy named Jerry Lynn Williams who wrote for Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and B.B. King to name a few. Apparently more of a writer than a performer, but fuck, that is an epic track. Question- have you guys even heard of this fucking guy? His albums apparently dissapeared off the face of the earth like a fart in the wind. The green one shown in the video is only available on CD for import, about fifty bucks used and sixty to a hundred new. I'm gonna look into filesharing when I get home. I was just wondering if any of you music buffs know if the couple of albums he released (Down Home Boy-1970, Jerry Williams S/T-1972, Gone-1979) are any good? He released some shit in the 90's that I'm not interested in. Just wondering how such a talented dude didn't succeed further.

It happens all the time. It's the nature of the beast in the music biz. Warren Zevon comes to mind. Not a real commercial success, but was universally revered in the industry.

This reminds me of Cactus and/or Mountain, but it is APPROVED in no uncertain terms.

Reminds me of Ted Hawkins...with the lack of recognition.



Some people stay under the radar until it's too late. Zevon had his following though, and commercial success.

Sounds very Mountain. Very funky song, if that makes sense. It just has a very early 70's groove. Cowbell always works.

What I mean is that Zevon never had the commercial success he should've had. Until it was too late, like you said. I don't know anyone that doesn't own the Wind.

I can see the Mountain comparison but to me he sounds like what Robin Trower would sound like if he came out of San Francisco instead of England. Is he just the vocalist or is he the guitarist as well? If he was just the vocalist this might have had more success had it been credited to The whoever the guitarist is Band than to him. Vocals are kind of a shrill 2nd rate Robert Plant quality (maybe 3rd rate if you consider David Coverdale to be 2nd rate). Guitar riff is very early 1970s heavy though.

According to Wikipedia he wrote Forever Man and Pretending for Clapton and had also written songs for Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King and both Vaughan brothers. His biggest success however came from Delbert McLinton's cover of Giving It Up For Your Love.

Mothers Finest , Les Dudek, Southern Rock and a bit of heavy metal rolled into one. Very very cool.

The vocal sounds like what Wolfmother does these days.

It's the early 70s rock backlash against hippie and folk music. Really simple guitar, percussion and bass.

Lee Michaels!

That's exactly what I thought. Sounds like James Dewar singing Falsetto. I forgot all about this thread, and tonight I will kick the kid off of the Minecraft Youtube videos and look for his stuff on Soulseek. If I succeed I'll PM you niggas and send you the tracks if you want to drop an Anon email address. I'm not too worried about breaking laws here. Guys fucking dead and nobody's really heard of him. Pandora does this shit to me all the time. They'll drop an amazing track on my head and then dare me to try and find the source material somewhere.

Good stuff, I have a good record shop for 70s hard rock in town so I'm going to check there first, he's not showing up on any of the blogs I frequent.

I've had absolutely zero luck in the filesharing. The only track that pulls up is the one I posted plus some Clapton shit that's he's credited in writing. Oh well. I guess I'll go ahead and dedicate this thread to that guy's youtube channel-MusicIcantfind.

Here's some rockin australian fucks named Finch.





Copy/paste from wikipedia:

Finch was an Australian hard rock band, initially formed in Sydney as Stillwater in 1973. In 1973 they won a 2SM/Pepsi Pop Poll, winning a contract with "Picture Records" who released their first single in 1974 (while guitarist Spencer was still in high school).[1] Finch also appeared on the soundtrack album to the surfing film "Drouyn". Finch's three rock tracks - Sail Away, Lady of Truth and Roses - appeared alongside jazzy incidental material.

The band settled into the pub rock circuit and released the self-financed "Thunderbird" album in May 1976. In December they released the single, "Short Changed Again", which peaked at Number 29 on the Sydney chart. Finch moved to Melbourne at the end of 1976 and embarked on a successful tour with Perth group, Supernaut. In March 1977, just as Finch was making commercial headway, 19-year old Spencer left to replace Red Symons in Skyhooks. Bassist Tony Strain also let the band. The band went through a rash of new players (Gary Quince, Skeeta Pereira, Sam Mallett and Graham Thompson) before the line-up stabilised with the arrival of Mark Evans (ex AC/DC) on bass and Graham Kennedy and Chris Jones on guitars. The band signed to CBS/Epic and issued the single, "One More Time" in October 1977. Dave Hinds (ex-Rabbit) replaced Chris Jones (who joined Feather) in December of that year.

The band began to move in a more commercial hard rock direction, and the next single, Where Were You? reached Number 14 in Melbourne and Number 33 in Sydney in February 1978. The album "Nothing To Hide" produced a second single, also called "Nothing To Hide" (May 1978). Finch then signed with CBS's US subsidiary label, Portrait. Due to the presence of a Dutch band also called Finch, the band then became Contraband. Portrait issued Contraband's debut single, That's Your Way in October 1978 and in that same month, Barry Cram (ex-Avalanche) replaced McFarlane, who joined Swanee. The Contraband album was released in May 1979, accompanied by the singles Rainin' Again and Gimme Some Lovin' (a cover of the Spencer Davis Group track). The album created interest in the USA but was not successful in Australia. Portrait dropped Contraband later in the year and the band broke up.[1][2] Earlier Finch material was re-released under the Contraband name but they broke up in 1979.[2]