Joy of Cooking [Import]

Joy of Cooking | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B000094PWP
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,059 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

First time on CD for this 1971 album, originally released on Capitol/EMI. Produced by John Palladino (Quicksilver Messenger Service). 10 tracks. Acadia. 2003.

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Friends, August 15, 2004

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DeLane D. Wright (West Liberty, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joy of Cooking (Audio CD)

1970: I'm watching TV--some local program on a San Francisco station. A local group is performing for some talk show host. Two female singers and four guys backing them. They call themselves the Joy of Cooking. I am mesmerized, enough to spend money I don't have to buy their LP. Over the next few months I nearly wear it out, playing it again and again. JOC comes out with two more releases: "Closer to the Ground" and "Castles." I buy both of them, and though I do not find them quite as rewarding, I love them just the same.

Thirty four years later I'm going through my LP collection, thinking about ripping some MP3 from long-forgotten stuff when I run across JOC. So much of my collection from that era does not sit well with me these days--too pretentious, too self-indulgent. Even some of my old Janis Joplin just don't hold up. But JOC is as rich and creamy as the day I brought it home.

So I go to Amazon.com to see if any members of JOC are still around, and what do I find? This re-release. Wonderful.

These people were musicians first, last and still. They represent the best of their genre, their time. Forget most of the popular groups of the Woodstock generation. Get this CD and experience a real treasure.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a musical masterpiece you have not heard of, September 28, 2003

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oren pri har (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joy of Cooking (Audio CD)

I've had this album on tape in the early eighties, and waited for its re-issue since then. It's a classic country blues 60's album,
but unlike Let It Bleed for instance (yes, I think it's better),it's also clever and has a wonderful emotional attitude. First of all, this is the first rock(?) group whose material was written by the women in it. Terry Garthewaite is a happy Janis Joplin with great musical blues skills, a little harsh, but uptempered and free. She is a great improviser, as you can hear in the group's version for Mockingbird, that also has a touch of new-left critisizm in it. Toni Brown is the thinker and feeler. In a period that was put the word "free" before every statement, she talks wonderfully about attachments and about an intimate altenative that the cultural revolution may have suggested. Red wine at noon is an example. the two are mixed well together and are backed up by very good musicions. It is more or less a concept album, and one of the best examples of this ganre. We Are Living I Our Children's House, the last track, is a marvelous anthem for our relation to our planet and our future because it is presented on such a personal level.I can't overrate this, and can keep on writing about it forever, but in one sentence, thisis an excellnt album musically, whose content can be an inspiration for a life time.How is that for a compliment? thanks, Terry, toni, Fritz, Jeff and Ron.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And Not Forgotten, April 27, 2006

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Mark Champion "autumnfair" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joy of Cooking (Audio CD)

Seems to have taken forever for the reissuing of the Bay area's Joy Of Cooking's three (only three!) albums, but here they are. Earthy and visceral, each has its particular charms. This, the first, has several fine examples of mellow SF post-Grateful Dead acoustic rock/soul/gospel/blues/etc hybrids. Of particular note are "Red Wine At Noon" with Teri Brown and Toni Garthwaite's lovely harmonizing and the deceptively unassuming "Too Late, But Not Forgotten" which features some mellifluous piano work from Brown as well. The band stretches out a bit on "Did You Go Downtown" - - the call-and-response vocals are quite affecting; it must have been awesome when performed live. And "Children's House" is a great closer, with a lengthy and layered choir crescendo lending an enthralling gospel effect before the song settles down to a practically post-coital purr to end the album. Great stuff. Joy Of Cooking didn't get a whole lot of airplay in the early 70s, and most people don't even know they ever existed. Too bad. Here's your chance to do some catching up on one of the era's finest.