One day in 2009, George Baer Wallace was in New York City apartment at JD Martignon, one of the owners of Midnight Records. The Chelsea storefront is known for its excellent pirated parts and closed a few years ago, but Martinnon still sells records from his apartment. Wallace began browsing his friend’s “employee stack,” a bunch of records next to the stereo that former employees used to play in the store. He met Lotti Golden's debut in 1969, motorcyclean album is not familiar with and spins it.
motorcycle Showcased a teenager's motivation for most, with R&B erosion of harmonies and the gritty sensitivity of her native New York. Released on Atlantic Records, Golden's only album, and then fell into obscure. Wallace and Martinnon were stunned when they heard it. Wallace told Rolling stones. “We are like, 'What is it That?``It's totally strange, shocking and magical. Slowly, we realize, "Well, there are people who have been waiting for the world to catch up with them. We need to delete this record.'"
They formed a high lunar record, doing just in 2010, specifically reissuing favorites for rarity and cults. They first released Love's Lost 1973 album Black Beautyfollowed by the final album of Los Angeles Psychedelic Band, 1974 Scroll Realand former Bird singer Gene Clark's 1977 solo record label Two aspects of each story.
Wallace discovered many of these artists in his twenties and his mission was to bring these "accompanimental musicians" back to public consciousness. "I started to discover that there were other whole musicians, on the internet, in the early nineties, most people didn't know about it," he said. "Ke Parsons, Alex Chilton and the big star, Gene Clark, Love.
In late March, 14 years after Wallace and Martignon discovered it, High Moon finally released Golden's motorcycle. It was a long process that continued after Martinenon died in 2016, but it was perfectly timing. This year's re-release follows two other high moon gems of forgotten female artists: sixties San Francisco singer Jeannie Piersol and singer-songwriter's era performance Laurie Styers. Hosting both versions is Alec Palao, who is a producer, archivist, musician, and Wallace’s statement, “All basic music sharers. What he found and brought to me the label was incredible.
British-born Palao, who now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, described himself as the “quasi-Alan Lomax type” who has been in the reissue business for about 30 years (he provided the Nuggets reissue for Rhino in the late 1990s). Palau immerses himself in every project, finds tapes, digitizes, writes paper backing notes, selects photos, and more. “I love getting dirty with the real nuts and bolts made by these records,” he said. “It’s always exciting to be able to show it and feel like you’ve done your best.”
Palao was the lover of garage rocks in the sixties Saturday's Son: Complete recording from 1964-1966), and the most recent Cunning and Family Stone Live Albums First Family: Winchester Cathedral in 1967 lived in Winchester Cathedral. However, the project for this model is personal to him: he is intimate with her producer Shel Talmy, who is known for his collaborations with Kinks and Who.
Talmy gave all his tapes to Palao before he died last year, and Palao spent the pandemic time through the entire collection. He is familiar with Styvers, but he doesn't spend much time with her two albums, 1972's Play with milk and 1973 Colorado kids. His voice was surfaced by his voice – the laid-back alto sounded like a blueprint for today’s independent songwriter Weyes Blood, and the complex arrangements. "I love finding something that hasn't shine for so long," he said. "A lot of people would say, 'Well, I can find five dollars records on the plate, so she can't be very important." That's the attitude. ”
Born in Texas in 1951, Styvers joined the psychedelic folk band Justine in her swaying teenage years in London. She returned to the U.S. at the University of Colorado, and then back to the UK, where she cut her solo album under Talmy and producer Hugh Murphy, who briefly dated. “A lot of her songs are about him,” Palau said. "She really wore her heart on her sleeve."
However, the later life she spent with her father in Texas before she died of hepatitis in 1998 was little known. “Her obit doesn’t even mention her music career,” for Palau, the gaps in the schedule proved to be a challenge, especially when he wrote down his liner notes and struggled to connect with his family, only her nephew heard it. "Like her family doesn't want to know," he said. "Every request I made was deaf. I was desperate to get more information. But at the same time, her music wasn't complicated."
He is right: Distribute milk yes "Lost Jewelry" from the singer-songwriter era, a piano-driven album that emanates from the warmth of the song. "The sensitivity of American songwriting with the juxtaposition of British work and arrangements really pushed my button," Pala said. The opening fight "beats the Reaper" tells the story of spending a weekend getaway in the woods, "Smoke' or Drinkin' or Playin' guitar." It was a favorite of Stephen Malkmus of the sidewalk, but at the time, other albums weren't as enjoyable.
"Usually, I ignore records as obscure as this one," critic Robert Christgau wrote in a stern commentary at the time of his initial release. This is one of the few albums he gave, retaining the record "often called evidence without God." Despite being based in London, Styvers described her as “La Airhead”, who “was so old and pretty in her fashionable puberty that you wish she wanted her own money to live… Oh, shut, Laurie, Laurie.”
One wonders what might happen if the reviews are more positive, while the model continues to make music beyond her next album, Colorado kids. But Palao is amazing in High Moon, fully released - 2023 Gemini Girl: Complete Boo Recording And 2024 Let me comfort you: Rare Rare - When she deserves the moment she deserves it.
Jeannie Piersol is now 85 years old and lives in Sonoma County. When she received a call from Palao, she was confused when she asked about the music she made over 50 years ago. "I said, 'Who are you, why are you calling?'" Rolling stones. But Palau came to visit Pierthor and her husband Bill, and they knocked it down. "He's British, he doesn't drink alcohol," she said. "He's just having tea. We had a great time."
Although Piersol has only briefly appeared in the music industry, it was in one of its legendary most legendary times: the creepy era of San Francisco's mid-1960s. "She's the right of that generation, your plane and your dead," Pala said. Piersol grew up with Grace Slick and briefly joined Slick's group The Great Society (with Slick's husband Jerry, her brother son Darby, etc.). Piersol drove alone to the yellow brick road and hair and performed at legendary San Francisco venues like San Francisco, Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom and Matrix.
Piersol reached a solo deal with Cadet Concept, a subsidiary of the famous chess record, and flew to Chicago to record several meetings with Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Phil Upchurch and producer Charles Stepney. "Absolutely dreaming of the team," Palau said. “It’s its absolute peak in chess as far as the studio’s voice is concerned.”
At the time Secretary-General Minnie Riperton was even a secretary, even providing supportive voices. “She became friends with me,” Pierthor said. "I made some clothes for her. She loved my mini skirt. I made her a mini skirt. They didn't invite her to dinner and I was really angry. I said, 'Mini, you'll make it, they'll be sorry.' That's exactly what happened."
On songs like "Nest" and "Gladys", Piersol's voice is hypnotic, using a music palette that dabbles in psychedelic, R&B and Indian influences. "It's this wonderful juxtaposition of San Francisco hippie chicks," Palau said. "It sounds like a more exciting grace." But her music is everywhere and she ends up getting pregnant and leaving the industry. When asked about her later years, Pierthol was completely charming and sarcastic. "Three kids, that should be all this," she said. "You have these kids and they ruined your life. I never thought about music."
Piersol anthology by High Moon, 2025 nestrecorded her brief career, which included performances, demonstrations and live performances. Palau said it was a trickier process compared to the Styvers project — Piersol’s chess tape is believed to have been burned in the 2008 Universal Studios fire — but he was able to snatch the tapes belonging to the late Ray Anderson, a long-term number for the San Francisco scene. Piersol thanks Palao for his extensive work on the project. She joked, “I just wish I could wear a mini dress.”
When music fans discover worship in previous decades, especially female artists, they often compare it to others. Golden is usually compared to Laura Nyro, while Styers play alongside Carole King and Lost California songwriter Judee Sill. "These singers and songwriters are so unique, amazing and bizarre, that's a little frustrating," Wallace said. "You want to run up to the roof and yell at the world, 'Hey, everyone, listen to Jeannie Piersol and Lotti Golden and Laurie Styers!" But when the names of artists are recognized, it's hard to get them to the level they know. ”
In an era where physical media is becoming increasingly fading, these collections are simply incredible. “The high moon is like a miracle,” Pala said. “The truth is that they are still doing these luxury packages or allowing me to plan something – to their strength and loyalty. They really care. I can definitely tell you that it’s not making money.” As Wallace said, “We put every single fiber of ours into these.