Great Bands That Only Made One Album

Ha, i didnt think you were referring to Connecticuts own, Little Village, ..great local band in mid seventies...

Ill have to think on the one and done...

But, wow...that musta been some concert....love John Hiatt, let alone, the rest of that lineup

^That album came out at a good time for me.  I taped a live concert of their's off the radio around that time as well.  Good stuff!

For years, I would've said: Stone Roses.  Then they released that second one....

All i got is Derek and Dominos?

Traveling Wilburys?

Here is some one stop shopping for similar groups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_supergroups

The Phil Lesh Quintet

In a similar vein to the type of group that Little Village was, I was a fan of the Nottingham Hillbillies, a low-key all star band of sorts featuring Brendan Croker, Ed Bicknell, Guy Fletcher, Mark Knopfler, Paul Franklin, and Steve Phillips.

They had one album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time in 1990.

I'm still kicking myself for missing these guys when they came to town (Glasgow, Scotland) when I was there.

There's a good interview of them (with some playing) on sugarmegs (or whatever that mp3 site is)

Temple of the Dog

Sex Pistols

The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood

link has 3 songs from the album 

https://www.discogs.com/The-Jerry-Hahn-Brotherhood-The-Jerry-Hahn-Brothe...

Finnigan and Wood - Crazed Hipsters

I know that some of you know Mike Finnigan's work, and Jerry Hahn from post above is worth looking up on wikipedia to get an idea of who he is.

link has 3 songs from the album

https://www.discogs.com/Finnigan-And-Wood-Crazed-Hipsters/release/3221527

PBS (Porter Batiste Stoltz) - Expanding The Funkin' Universe (2005)

Great live band (who I never got to see) and pretty nice debut album. There's a bunch of shows on the archive if anyone is interested. https://archive.org/details/PorterBatisteStoltz?&sort=-downloads&page=2

Unfortunately these guys have been been wrapped up in lawsuits with their previous record label since 2009 and stopped touring as a result. Here's the last few posts by George Porter Jr. on their facebook page.

January 15 at 8:57pm

Smilin' from time to time FB tell's me that I have not came to this page and that I should come and tell people what is going own with Porter Batiste Stoltz, well to keep a long story short nothing and because the courts still have us by the balls we can't say anything about it. There it is in short. You all have a great year. gpjr

August 3, 2016 · 

Yesterday PBS on going court Battle just got longer the courts in Boston just ruled the appeal to be heard up there it is close to 7 years and thousands of dollars in royalties I have not seen. Just thought I give you all a heads up. Keep us in your hearts that is if we are already in there.

Upon further reflection, my very favorite band with one album must be The Modern Lovers, though I must admit that I never saw them live.

Old and In The Way

Band of Gypsys

^NICE X 2!

The Johnny Average Band

Bearsville Records, 1980

http://home.lyse.net/mott/average.html

I saw Little Village at the Orpheum in Boston - that show was an FM broadcast as well , I believe the last show of their only tour . They were fantastic ... I remember seeing David Lindley a year or two later , and his banter before their tune "Do You Want My Job "  was basically about how all their conflicting record companies/management doomed them from the start ... Mr. Dave still plays that tune ...

 I knew of that old Ct. band from the '70's - they were often on the same bill as NRBQ , but I never saw them ...

I second all of these previously listed greats:

Traveling Wilburys

Buena Vista Social Club

Old & In The Way

Two bands, that were associated with Led Zeppelin, that were a "two & done" - Detective & The Firm

Detective

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_(band)

Detective - Grim Reaper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03mGRXHbn_M

The guitar player in Detective was Michael Monarch, the lead guitarist from Stepen Wolf.

Love Buena Vista Social Club and thankful to see them at Zellerbach (or maybe it was some other combo of Ry Cooder playing with some of the members).

Hey Timmy!  I found my CD of Little Village and will spin it for my evening commute in your honor.

Well, she might run cold for you

She runs hot for ME!

Emmitt-Nershi Band - New Country Blues

Berry/Buck/Cook/Mills/Zevon, otherwise known as Hindu Love Gods

https://youtu.be/jRMjSGBHz7E

Pail Head. 

The short lived and extremely unlikely collaboration between Al Jourgensen and Ian MacKay. 

Passengers.

also, the grateful dead only ever went on one tour... does that count??

Puss N Boots -  Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper only have only one album, so far - "No Fools, No Fun".

Bill Bruford from yes had one. I think, (besides w howe and wakeman....ill look it up)

Timmy,

I'm home and was just going to make a similar statement about Big Love.  Good stuff.

>>>Puss N Boots -  Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper only have only one album, so far - "No Fools, No Fun".

Plans are to record a follow up, hopefully later this year.

Mark d...little village from ct was great band...john frisell on guitar, mark nomad i think...they played w NRBQ few times im sure...they had cpl good singles.....Beaver Fever being one....lol

Also, Clockwork, Street Temperature, Shaboo All Stars....all had albums out on small or local labels in 70 s

Thanks Ski, I'm looking forward to new tunes from them.

Oysterhead

..P

Gibby Haynes and His Problem

That PBS album is an underrated one. Saw them back in 2006, Brian stoltz can play some serious black people music. 

Band i was thinking of was bruford moraz band..but, they had two albums....oh well

How bout band of gypsies?

Or is that not band name ?

Live albums feel like cheating.

How about Thanks I'll Eat It Here by Lowell George, even though he's not a band. 

Agreed...on live...but gypsies has previously unreleased material, and his first without "the experience"....just always wondered if its name of band, name of album, or both?

blind faith

Great call on Oysterhead, love that album.

I like Claypools Duo de Twang

Surrender to the Air (Trey/Fish/Medeski/Ribot/Sun Ra Arkestra dudes);

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOo3_g3R8Uw&list=PLbO2woMFAgS_ELrhvvh0TqsiSdGjfSH_S

that figures fafa....lol

Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve (aka HSAS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0EWW2JGw1E

Toy Matinee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGMEIX1a5Y

Second for Blind Faith. Gotta be one of the greatest one off albums ever.

Them Crooked Vultures.

didn't the traveling wilburys have a 2nd album?

>didn't the traveling wilburys have a 2nd album

Yes, traveling Wiburys vol 3

They joined Fleetwood Mac after, and made more solo stuff later, but Buckingham/Nicks is a great record. 

Dirty Mac

pretty sure no album and maybe it was just the one performance but a solid lineup....minus yoko

Arc Angels

>Arc Angels

Stole my pick!  First band that I thought of.  That album was a staple in my car for years.  

Lots of talent in that band but Bramhall fucked the whole thing up. 

Willbury's had two albums

Hooteroll?

This is the Little Village show that I taped off of WXRT Chicago (I wonder if anyone has a circulating copy...Dime?):

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/little_village/little_village_l...

I'll relisten to my tape (That stuff is stored under my desk at work as well...no shelter available for the inevitable earthquake) to see if it may be worth converting to digital.

Blue Floyd

Frog Wings

Check out Claypool Lennon Delirium Fafa. Another one off as well.

Germs-GI

(released 1979)

I got a goodie for yall-

The Moving Sidewalks - Flash

with Billy Gibbons pre- ZZTop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPheF4Gw-K0

Solo

Jeff Buckley - Grace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byrq_jNLHuk

Willburys had two albums<<

Thought so.

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe? lol. That's all I got. Cool thread, TH.

Derek & the Dominos

These guys didn't even record a whole album, but the 3 songs that they recorded were among my absolute favorites when I was a high schooler:

From http://www.allmusic.com/artist/santa-barbara-machine-head-mn0000293713/b...

To look at the line-up of Santa Barbara Machine Head, one would think that it was a super-group, but for the fact that its members hadn't yet done the things that made them famous, much less "super." It's also no accident that Santa Barbara Machine Head incorporates a name that was to become important in the history of Deep Purple-apart from future Faces-Rolling Stone member Ron Wood, Twink (aka John Alder), who later joined Tomorrow and the Pretty Things, and the Creation's Kim Gardener, the band's line-up included Jon Lord, somewhere between the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and a brief touring stint with The Flowerpot Men, enroute to Roundabout, the group whence he would meet Ritchie Blackmore and company.

Santa Barbara Machine Head, organized in 1967, played electric blues rather than proto heavy-metal, and only ever recorded three tracks, "Porcupine Juice, " "Albert, " and "Rubber Monkey, " all under the auspices of Andrew "Loog" Oldham's newly-formed Immediate Records. They might've lasted longer but for the fact that each of them-but especially Jon Lord-had bigger fish to fry in other genres and musical settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UExS19tcmuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6hflqWRgss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGLFmJagUA

Ruh-Roh!  Now I'm starting to get back into the '60's

How about these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzM0Pmx2Uao

I guess Piper at the gates of dawn counts. I think that was the only album with syd. Pretty good album,

Little Village was a big disappointment after "Bring the Family" IMO.  Didn't come close to the previous effort.

And Nick Lowe agrees:

Nick Lowe later said, "Little Village was really good fun. Unfortunately, the record we did was no good. I suppose on some level, it worked, but Warner Brothers kind of gave us too much time to do it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Village

The Little Village album was kind of disappointing.  A better effort for them was John Hiatt's Bring The Family album, which also featured  Cooder, Lowe and Keltner as the core band.

Nick Lowe was involved in an even better band that only recorded one album that hasn't been mentioned, Rockpile.  Their Seconds Of Pleasure album was outstanding.

Thunderclap Newman is another great one-off band.  They recorded the memorable song Something In The Air, and had Pete Townshend producing and playing bass, but never issued a follow-up.

Lone Justice, great first album, then hot chick gets talked into going solo, hot chick's career faded fast

Lone Justice recorded two albums, the self-titled debut and the follow-up Shelter.

The line-up was different on the second album, though.   

Maria McKee still has an active solo career.

Good points made about the Little Village album itself.  I fell in love with this band based on the Live show that I have on tape.

Reminds me of another band that I hold dear....

Then there is Rising Sons, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal's mid-60's one-off.  Surprised those two have never reprised that record, since they have both gone on to such long and storied careers.

7 Walkers

NRPS with Jerry and Mickey in the lineup