Mostly knew what I was in for, but tuned in anyway because I'm a sucker for seeing CA towns on film as they appeared back in the '70's.
Was proud of self for just *knowing* that that was Battlin' Bill Smith, though couldn't come up with his name at the time.
But the surprise takeaway here, as pointed out by other reviewers, is that the "soundtrack", as it were -- effectively a collection of songs playing over, and essentially unrelated to the events on the screen -- was really, *really* good.
Sadly, you may have to sit through the flick to hear it, or try to track it down separately. But by the time the film was on to the third or fourth song, with me struggling to stay awake besides, I remember thinking that each tune was either (a) catchy, in a quirky way, or (b) something I had never heard before, yet which was listenable *and* seemed to capture the "feel" of the times.
Probably way more time and effort spent on this than it was worth, but seriously, try it out and see if it's not a great musical backdrop to an otherwise, y'know, mediocre flick.
