Various Artists - Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From the Canyon (2016)

By 1970, the folk revival had all but ended. Gone were the heady days of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” and “If I Had A Hammer.” Hootenanny had been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Fariña was dead; Bob Dylan had plugged in. Paths paved by Joan Baez and Judy Collins had led a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters into the woods, while the ethos forged in weather-beaten hills and tempered on the lower east side of Manhattan was being reborn in the canyons of California, as songs for seagulls crafted in Joni Mitchell’s visage. Culled from beyond the crop of crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon examines the world of private folk via the works of 13 unlikely heroines who sang beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing to coffeehouse chatter and church picnic silence. Each of these Wayfaring Strangers walk in the handmade aesthetic of lyrics scribbled into faded denim, of delicate movements captured and released.

Tracklist:
01. Becky Severson - A Special Path (1:00)
02. Collie Ryan - Cricket (3:21)
03. Linda Rich - Sunlight Shadow (2:18)
04. Caroline Peyton - Engram (3:21)
05. Carla Sciaky - And I a Fairytale Lady (3:23)
06. Judy Kelly - Window (2:09)
07. Ginny Reilly - Wildman (5:58)
08. Jennie Pearl - Maybe In Another Year (2:54)
09. Mary Perrin - Dedication (3:49)
10. Priscilla Quinby - Miss America (3:37)
11. Marj Snyder - Rain (4:17)
12. Barbara Sipple - Song For Life (4:17)
13. Shira Small - Eternal Life (2:25)
14. Susan Smith - One Horse Town (3:14)
15. Susan Pilsbury - Never Said Goodbye (2:23)