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The Howling Hex- The Best of the Howling Hex out 2/19/2013 on Drag City The Howling Hex are back in town - you can feel them in the air, man! The Best of The Howling Hex is a new album of new music by a new incarnation of The Howling Hex, now broadcasting as a band from the big town of Denver, Colorado. After years staked out in the border country of southern New Mexico, guitarist and leader Neil Hagerty is back in the phonebook, giving the Hex an urban soapbox on which to stand for the first time in their ten years of re-re-revisionist history. Mile high style seems to be a good match for the mercurial back-road attire of The Howling Hex. For this new album, the wide-opens spaces and New Border rhythms of recent albums have been telescoped and accelerated into a high-stepping, uptempo night on the tiles. Kicking the beat with New Border funk is a rhythm section complete with drummer, last heard on a Howling Hex record back in 2007.
Also redux is the functionality of the 'ditty' - most recently experienced on Earth Junk. The Best of The Howling Hex includes seven shortish songs that weave the wild spirits and far-flung textures of Wilson Semiconductors into tightly compressed sing-songs, before turning the jam out to bring the levee home. Hagerty's guitar tone is an alien wonder, and the careening beat of the band unleashes him to fill solo spots with fervor. After five years of wandering through the arid brush-country of Earth Junk and Wilson Semiconductors (as well as the sidetrack soundtrack adventure that was Victory Chimp, a Book), the days of the covered wagon seem to be behind The Howling Hex for the time being. However, the depth of the earth and the true direction of the wind are lessons learned from their years out there - they can't be unlearned. The Best of The Howling Hex is still square state rock with sharp corners; southern lights refocused on a more northern steppe, yet still awash in the vibration of the west, red as the rocks that the Indians danced upon not so very long ago. Their rhythm echoes in the Hex mix.
And so, The Howling Hex roll on, leaving the shell of their former creature to dry in the sun as ever before. Meanwhile, the border stretches on and on, an epic expanditure of time and energy. With so many incarnations of the band left to fossilize in the high desert, the dry washes and the broken country, the designation 'best' means, not even 'latest' but merely 'this one.'
So here you go - the latest installation of primo New Border Sound, The Best of the Howling Hex. Track listing: Built a Friend - Primetime Clown - Highlights - Electric Northern - Street Craps - The General Prologue - Green Limousine - Trashcan Bahamas ##################################################################### -- K e l l i e M o r g a n D R A G C I T Y ―, Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:58 (five years ago).
Yeah,I think I read that he wasn't too crazy about some of the added orkystrayshuns: NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD MUSIC BY TEXAS MUSICAL LEGEND TOWNES VAN ZANDT TO BE ISSUED ON 2-CD SET BY OMNIVORE RECORDINGS Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 is a 28-track set featuring versions of notable songs from the artist’s most prolific period, 1971-72. Liner notes by Colin Escott. AUSTIN, Texas — As musicologist Colin Escott writes in his liner notes for the upcoming Omnivore Recordings release of the late Townes Van Zandt’s Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos 1971-1972, “The art of Townes Van Zandt reveals a little at a time. Every hearing brings forth something you can’t believe you missed all the other times, or something that rings even truer today than way back when.” Omnivore will give listeners more to discover in Townes Van Zandt when the 28-song, two-CD set is released on February 5, 2013. The recordings that comprise the set have been hidden away in the vault since their initial recording and are now presented with the cooperation of the estate.
Due to acquisitions by various labels of the initial Poppy Records recordings, these session recordings have sat on the shelf with no one knowing quite where to find them — until now. Following ten studio albums, several singles and several live albums, the troubled life of the influential singer-songwriter, performer and poet came to a close on New Years Day 1997. Omnivore is pleased to finally be able to present, after many years in the works, a two-CD set of previously unavailable music from the Texas singer-songwriter’s classic albums High, Low & In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. One disc features outtakes and alternate takes/mixes of tracks from the sessions for those LPs; the other highlights solo demos. The set offers a window into the work that went into those two brilliant recordings, from a time when Van Zandt was at the height of his songwriting powers.
With alternate takes and mixes of songs like “To Live Is To Fly” (presented in both alternate take and demo form) and the classic 'Pancho & Lefty' (a mix made alongside the known version, but without the strings and horns of the commercial version), Sunshine Boy is an essential release for all true Townes Van Zandt fans. The quiet and largely solo demo disc provides an intimate portrait of Van Zandt demo-ing songs, some of which would become his best-known compositions. As Escott explains, “alternate versions add an entirely new dimension, like seeing someone you thought you knew so well in a new light. The new songs are simply good to have when it seemed the barrel was empty.
And so here are more than two hours of Townes Van Zandt — music unheard since the engineer peeled off a little splicing tape to seal the box 40 years ago.” Escott’s comprehensive liner notes, unseen photographs from the era and some entirely unheard songs, make this collection a must-have for fans of one of the best songwriters of his time. About Omnivore Recordings: Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI. Track listing: Disc One: Studio Sessions 1.
T for Texas 2. Who Do you Love 3. Sunshine Boy 4. Where I Lead Me 5.
Blue Ridge Mountains 6. Pancho & Lefty (Alternate 1972 mix without strings and horns) 8. To Live is to Fly 9.
You Are Not Needed Now 10. Don’t Take it Too Bad 11. Sad Cinderella 12. White Freight Liner Blues 14.
Two Hands 15. Dead Flowers Disc Two: Demos 1.
Heavenly Houseboat Blues 2, Diamond Heel Blues 3 To Live is to Fly 4. Tower Song 5. You Are Not Needed Now 6.
Highway Kind 8. Greensboro Woman 9. When He Offers His Hand 10. Dead Flowers 11. Old Paint 12.
Standin’ ―, Friday, 30 November 2012 00:10 (five years ago). Omnivore also has these, they are doing some good stuff: Buck Owens – Honky Tonk Man & Don Rich – Sings George Jones (Omnivore) – The San Joaquin Valley city with a population of just over 300,000 served as the Western counterpart to Nashville from the ’50s on through the ’70s, producing such stars as Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Merle Haggard, and the Maddox Brothers & Rose. Owens and Haggard topped the country charts for decades while retaining their Central California roots. But it wasn’t until 2012 that Omnivore Recordings, digging a little deeper, found two albums worth of never-before-released music from the Buckaroos camp: Buck Owens’ Honky Tonk Man and Don Rich Sings George Jones. Both CDs are set for release January 23, 2013. The 18 tracks on Buck Owens’ Honky Tonk Man were culled from the vast trove of material he recorded at his Bakersfield studio for the rural hit comedy TV series Hee Haw in the early ’70s. Until his tragic death in 1974, guitarist, fiddler and vocalist Don Rich appeared on nearly all Buck Owens’ hit records, beginning in the late ’50s.
Don Rich Sings George Jones is one of the most exciting country music discoveries in decades — the only solo album ever recorded by the legendary lead guitarist and harmony vocalist for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos. Even more amazing is the fact that this album sat in Owens’ tape vault — unreleased and long forgotten — until now. ―, Friday, 30 November 2012 02:43 (five years ago).
Hence the following news from Janet Beveridge Bean--anyway, good excuse for a tour: This is my first attempt at reaching out to press and radio since, I don't know, maybe the late 1980s? I believe Bettina, our label dominatrix, at Thrill Jockey Records has too much on her plate for our little tour, so in the spirit of Marx I'm going all 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' and just getting it done! So forgive my lack of correct approach. My crazy neighbor, Sally Timms, from the Mekons, said 'Janet, you can do this.'
And if you've ever been lucky enough to meet Sally you know that when she says march you march. Bloodshot records then pitched in an gave me their list of worthy contacts to which you are one. Here's the story: This tour came about out of the blue really. We shouldn't be touring since we don't have a new record out, but people kept asking us to play and we seem to have a perverse desire to head north in the winter; often it's the bitter climes of Germany it seems. This time we opted for stateside. Really we are touring on the re-release of Feels Like the Third Time. It's the 20th anniversary of its release, a crazy notion, that I still find hard to fathom.
We will be playing it in its entirety along with other favorites. We have found a lot of our fans were having babies round the time the record came out and those babies were forced to listen to Freakwater more than any baby should. It turns out those babies, now the record buying public, have some sort of DNA thing going where they gotta hear the Freakwater. So really we're doing this for the kids. I don't think we have played a proper tour in about 4 years, but we always stay busy. During our 4 year down time I released albums with my other bands eleventh dream day and The Horse's Ha; Catherine released an excellent solo record just this September; ( I think she may do a couple tunes from it at the show) Dave tours and records with the Reigning Sound and Morgan Geers' Drunken Prayer; and Jim Elkington, who will be joining us on this tour, is currently touring with Kelly Hogan and is then off to South America for a few shows with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadler.
The rest of the time he plays with Doug McComb's non-Tortoise band, Brokeback, and then with me in the Horse's Ha. We are immensely looking forward to getting out there and playing Freakwater tunes and getting into trouble.
Here are our dates:FREAKWATER TOUR DATES 2013 FEELS LIKE THE THIRD TIME 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR!!!! OMINVORE RECORDINGS CHRONICLES THE CLASSIC YEARS OF COUNTRY MUSIC PIONEERS WITH COLLECTIONS BY WANDA JACKSON, GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD Ten-inch vinyl EPs made available on Black Friday provided a sneak preview of Merle Haggard’s The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles, George Jones’ The Complete United Artists Solo Singles, and Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Omnivore Recordings will release definitive compilations by three giants of country and rockabilly music — Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and George Jones — on February 12, 2013. Having released musical appetizers in the form of ten-inch vinyl EPs on Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday, Omnivore will serve the main course on compact disc in the form of Merle Haggard’s The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles, George Jones’ The Complete United Artists Solo Singles, and Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles.
All three compilations feature A & B sides from the artists’ most influential years. The vinyl EPs were companion pieces, containing rarities not found on the CDs. Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles contains 29 songs from her Capitol stint, which began in 1956. Each was taken from the original analog mono 45-rpm masters. Idolized by three generations of rockers, the Queen of Rockabilly made musical side-trips into country and gospel. For every A-side rave-up like “Mean Mean Man” or “Fujiyama Mama,” she offers B sides of equal intrigue: a weeper like “(Every Time They Play) Our Song” or the hillbilly tragedy of “No Wedding Bells for Joe.” She tore through songs that Elvis sang, and also drew from the jazz greats, R&B legends, doo-woppers and the Nashville hit machine.
And she made each song her own. In the ’50s, Capitol Records ad men scratched their heads, looking for a way to position Wanda Jackson’s sound, gamely settling on “jumping rock ’n’ waltz novelty.” Today, as she plays before indie-rock-aged crowds, supporting recent albums produced by Jack White and Justin Townes Earle, we know she’s no novelty. The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles, with extensive liner notes by Daniel Cooper, is her most definitive career retrospective to date. Jackson’s Capitol label-mate Merle Haggard became one of country music’s greatest stars while recording his Bakersfield-honed songs at the tower at Hollywood & Vine from 1965 until 1976. The Omnivore compilation The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles features 28 A & B sides taken from the original analog mono 45-rpm masters. Neo-rockabilly artist and part-time journalist Deke Dickerson, a longtime Haggard fan, wrote the liner notes.
From “Swinging Doors” in 1965 until the end of the decade, Haggard had an impressive string of hits. “The Fugitive” (b/w “Someone Told My Story”), his first #1 single, was a composition by the esteemed songwriter Liz Anderson (Lynn Anderson’s mother).
“I Threw Away the Rose” b/w “Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive” went to #2 on the charts in 1966. Other chart-toppers on this volume include “You Don’t Have Very Far To Go” b/w “Good Times” and “The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde” b/w “I Started Loving You Again.” “Working Man Blues,” written when Haggard “needed (his) own ‘Folsom Prison Blues,’” became a blue-collar anthem and shot to #1. The collection closes with “Okie From Muskogee,” the unlikely political pop crossover that sent mixed signals to younger listeners. Most have since delved deeper into Haggard’s five decades of music and consider him a hero. He continues to record today. United Artists Records was eventually married to Capitol when it, along with parent label Liberty, was acquired by EMI in 1978.
But when country star George Jones recorded for the label (following stints at Starday and Mercury) from 1962 til 1966, United Artists and Capitol were Hollywood crosstown rivals. It was at UA that Jones mastered all the flavors of country: lovelorn ballads, inspirational gospel, uptempo honky tonk, humorous novelty numbers, old-timey murder ballads — even holiday and Western songs. Most of his UA work was done in Nashville featuring the city’s A team: guitarist Grady Martin, pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and Hal Rugg on pedal steel. The Jordanaires provided background vocals. Omnivore’s 32-song George Jones compilation, The Complete United Artist Solo Singles, leads off with chart toppers “She Thinks I Still Care” b/w “Sometimes You Just Can’t Win,” produced by the legendary Cowboy Jack Clement.
Both sides of the single pointed the way to the sound that would mark his signature style in decades to follow. The collection also includes Jones’ 1965 smash “The Race Is On.” “Country music is like a religion to me,” he told Holly George-Warren, author of this compilation’s liner notes. Jones’ early ’60s work for United Artists will make a believer out of you. About Omnivore Recordings: Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.
―, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:05 (five years ago). Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Reverse Shark Attack Street Date, January 22nd, 2013, In The Red Originally released in 2009 as a vinyl-only title on the Kill Shaman label, Reverse Shark Attack is a collaboration by two long time chums who grew up together in Laguna Beach. Both turned out to be hyper prolific singer/song-writer/musicians who recorded as solo artists as well as performing in bands such as the Sic Alps, Moonhearts, Epsilons and Okie Dokie.The result of this collaboration is an incredible shambolic 10-track delight of psychedelic garage jams that is sure to please the most scrutinizing rocker. Equal parts danceable garage rock and effects-ridden psychedelia, Reverse Shark Attack is a mind-blowing explosion of loud guitars, pounding rhythms and signature vocal harmonies. Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin balance perfectly between soprano and baritone vocals, making for outstanding results. The centerpiece of the album is the title track, a side-long epic that goes from Beatles-esque melody to psych/ folk weirdness then explodes into a Ventures-induced headache of smashed drums and wildly vibrant surf guitars.
This is a must-have release for fans of these two artists, and nothing like either of their projects have done before. Track List: 1.
I Wear Black 2. Drop Dead Baby 3. High School 4. Doctor Doctor 6. Bikini Babes 7. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk 8.
Reverse Shark Attack ―, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:36 (five years ago). The Traditional Fools - s/t Street Date, January 22nd, 2013, In The Red In The Red is proud to announce the re-release of the self-titled album by Ty Segall’s Traditional Fools. The Traditional Fools were a garage-punk-thrash-surf trio consisting of Ty, Andrew Luttrell and David Fox. They recorded and released their lone album back in 2008 - it sold out quickly and has never been re-pressed until now. Recorded live in the studio, Traditional Fools is low on fidelity and high in energy.
The band’s sound is a perfect combination of 60s garage, vintage surf reverb and early LA punk performed with trashy reckless abandon. Covers by Redd Kross and Thee Headcoats give you an idea where these guys were coming from and songs about bikini babes and shredsticks tell you where these guys were. Grab a bike, a tank top, sunglasses and every beer you can find and enjoy surf-punk done right. Track List: 1. Davey Crockett 2.
Get Off My Back 7. Shredstick 8. Kill Someone You Hate 9.
Valley (Of The Jams) 10. Party At My House 11. All-Right ―, Friday, 14 December 2012 14:26 (five years ago). KILLING JOKE To Release The Singles Collection 1979-2012 This Spring Via Spinefarm/Universal The Singles Tour Announced KILLING JOKE will celebrate their 35th anniversary in style next year with the release of The Singles Collection 1979-2012 and a world tour set to commence in Europe this coming March. 2013 will also see the band release a new studio album! With a fierce intelligence combined with a thirst for esoteric knowledge that matches a sound that is visceral and almost spiritual in its primal spirit, KILLING JOKE are like no other. This is a group spawned from punk rock that set out on one of the most remarkable and idiosyncratic journeys ever.
Their influence has been enormous, with an unlikely roll-call of musicians taking their cues from the KJ catalog, from Nirvana to most modern American metal to many DJs and dance music mavericks. Few, however have come close to matching the band’s innate power.
The Singles Collection 1979-2012, set for release via Spinefarm/Universal on April 16, 2013, captures their ever-evolving story with a series of dark, apocalyptic songs that have successfully combined disco, funk and shamanic wisdom with the dark side of the punk fall-out. The Singles Collection 1979-2012 will be released in three formats: as a digital download, a limited edition 3-CD set and a super deluxe edition. View The Singles Collection 1979-2012 cover art at THIS LOCATION. Formats: 3-CD Version includes: - 33 career-spanning singles over 2 CDs + a third disc of rarities, including previously unreleased studio tracks. This 3-CD version will be limited in number, reverting to 2 CDs containing the singles tracks.
To preorder, go HERE. Super Deluxe Version includes: - Hand-numbered hinged-lid “cigar box” made from 1500mcn black-lined rigid board finished with matt print retrospective artwork.
- 33 career-spanning CD singles plus selected B-Sides in full-color card wallets featuring original artwork. - Rarities disc, including previously unreleased studio tracks. - 32-page perfect-bound book including rare photos, archive notes, band commentary.
- Poster designed and personally signed by long-time KILLING JOKE artist/champion, Mike Coles, printed on 250gsm silk art. - Aluminum screw-top branded cigar tube containing original wrappers of cigars smoked by Jaz Coleman and Paul Raven during the recording of the Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell album. To preorder this version, go HERE. KILLING JOKE, with their original line-up of Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth and Big Paul continuing to hold firm, have signed a brand new deal with Spinefarm and will soon set about recording a third studio album for the label.
The release date of this new studio album is likely to be late 2013. FLYING NUN TO PARTNER WITH CAPTURED TRACKS ON REISSUE PROGRAM TOY LOVE TO KICK OFF REISSUE SERIES ON 2/19 Captured Tracks and Flying Nun have partnered up to manufacture and distribute the prestigious New Zealand label's back-catalog. Flying Nun began in 1981 in Christchurch, NZ and quickly established a roster of artists and DiY ethic that would go on to influence indie rock musicians and labels to the present day.
Featuring such vanguard artists as The Chills, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, The Bats and countless others, the label made a huge impression on US and European underground music despite its geographically isolated locale. Original founder Roger Shepherd bought back the rights to the label from WB in late 2009 which has ultimately led to Brooklyn label Captured Tracks involvement. The partnership plans on releasing a large quantity of currently out of print titles from the labels most prominent and most obscure releases, from their earliest releases through the catalog. Starting with the 2xLP Toy Love (pre-Tall Dwarfs/Bats) compilation that was recently issued in NZ, future projects include boxed sets, expanded reissues of 12' EP's, 7's, LP's on all formats as well as posters, shirts and various other items from Flying Nun's deep archives.
ABOUT TOY LOVE The 28-track compilation collects all the A & B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track and even a radio jingle. All mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes, no nasty CDs nor digital sources were used at all.
Housed in a gatefold jacket, a 24 page booklet accompanies the release with photos, ephemera and commentary from Toy Love. While, the back cover features a sketched cartoon of an early Toy Love flyer drawn by Chris Knox. Evolving from Dunedin band, The Enemy, Toy Love had a brief but bright existence between January 1979 and September 1980.
Invoking the ghost of punk and the melody and creativity of 60-70s pop, they were peerless at a time when New Zealand music was still struggling to imprint itself on the national consciousness. They became a model for local musicians around the country and inspired the birth of Flying Nun Records – a label which many from the band went on to work with, including Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate with the Tall Dwarfs and Paul Kean with The Bats. Then, in 2005 Flying Nun released Cuts, a double CD anthology of Toy Love material.
Electrifying and unmissable, Toy Love made an impact on all who saw then, and continue to do so around the world today. ―, Sunday, 6 January 2013 01:25 (four years ago). I wonder if the Van Zandt reissue contains any of the Jack Clement productions? Speaking of Omni, I've been listening to the two reissues they did of the Stonemans' stuff done for MGM and RCA in the late '60s and into 1970, produced by Clement.
Omni's notes say the songs contain elements of 'sunshine pop' which I don't hear so much; but they are very interesting and sometimes berserk bluegrass-inflected pop-folk tunes with lotsa crazed instrumental breaks, and lots of Clement tunes, including his 'The Five Little Johnson Girls,' which mentions space travel, and 'West Canterbury Subdivision Blues,' which is kind of a pop-folk-country 'Pleasant Valley Sunday.' I wonder if the George Jones thing doesn't just replicate tracks you can get elsewhere? ―, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:41 (four years ago). Morello has reissued 4 George Jones albums from the '70s. I included their The Grand Tour and Alone Again from 2012 in my Scene country ballot, because Alone Again[ is one of the half-dozen best Jones LPs (along with If My Heart Had Windows on Musicor and I Am What I Am and The Battle, the latter on Epic). They should have reissued I Wanta Sing but haven't yet, for whatever reason, but that's another really good one, includes 'Old King Kong.'
Didn't see any listings for 2013 yet. ―, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:53 (four years ago).
NUMERO TO ISSUE LIVE CODEINE LP FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2013 Following in the snow tracks of When I See The Sun, Numero Group's massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely, an eight song LP recorded at the group's live zenith. Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine's November 1993 swing through the Midwest opening for Mazzy Star, the album finds the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Doug Scharin running through their hits at Chicago's notorious Lounge Ax for a crowd of chatty 120 Minutes fans. Gastr Del Sol's David Grubbs joins for two songs on guitar, slinking on and off the two foot stage with little fanfare, but leaving an indelible mark on the performance. Constructed for Record Store Day 2013, What About The Lonely will be issued as a one-time pressing of 2000 150 gram LPs. There will be no CD or digital component. WHAT ABOUT THE LONELY TRACKLISTING 1.
Loss Leader 3. Pickup Song 5. Smoking Room ―, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:45 (four years ago). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LENA HUGHES 'Queen of the Flat-Top Guitar' out Jan 29, 2013 Reissue of Impossibly Rare early 60's LP. New notes by JOHN RENBOURN CD/LP/DL out January 29, 2013 on Tompkins Square A musical 'amateur' that best exemplified true artistry, Lena Hughes was born in Grape Grove Township, Missouri, in 1904. Though she never recorded any 78s and only one LP, Hughes was most influential through her steady performances at various fiddler conventions and folk festivals throughout the Ozarks.
She was an excellent fiddler, banjoist and guitar picker who retained the largely extinct repertoire of parlor pieces and the variety of specialized tunings that were necessary to play them. She lived most of her life in Ludlow, Missouri and passed away in 1998. Lena Hughes' repertoire can be divided roughly in half: finger-picked numbers adapted from fiddle tunes and recast parlor guitar pieces gleaned from popular sentimental songs, hymns, and 19th century airs. As a faithful attendee at folk festivals, Hughes was accompanied by her guitar-playing husband, Jake. Her most mesmerizing performances, such as Pearly Dew, Spanish Fandango, and Kentucky Moon Waltz, depend heavily upon the resonance of the open chord as it relates to the picking of the melodic line, primarily on one string.
This tonal reliance is most similar to the 'celestial octave' that Washington Phillips employs, with similar effect, on his Train Your Child. This ethereal harmonic technique, which seems so natural in Hughes' playing, is the holy grail for most finger-picking guitarists. Her lack of pretense and her mastery of this repertoire is what defines her legendary status. These recordings were made in the early 60's in Arkansas and released in very limited fashion as a private press LP. Remastered by Chris King.
Designed by Susan Archie. New liner notes by JOHN RENBOURN. CD: TSQ 2813 / LP: TSQ 2820 Distributed by INgrooves/ Fontana US, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE Australia Also Available: Obscure Giants of Acoustic Guitar Trading Cards (Lena's in there) ―, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:43 (four years ago).
Yeahhh that looks good. Have these been mentioned? MARTIN REV – S/T • First time vinyl reissue of Suicide instrumentalist’s debut solo album from 1980 • Originally released on preeminent No Wave label Infidelity (Lust/Unlust) • Insert includes new Rev interview by musician/critic Alan Licht • For fans of Suicide, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Air Released shortly after Suicide’s second full-length, Martin Rev was freed to explore his most experimental and pop leanings with dirty synths, dark melodies and dreamlike textures, and produced a masterpiece of modern alienation that captures a uniquely New York landscape. Rev's debut echoes other electronic forerunners such as Silver Apples and Kraftwerk, and foreshadows the work of Aphex Twin and Air. Preview here: 100 FLOWERS – S/T • First time reissue of underground Los Angeles classic from 1983 • For fans of The Urinals, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Desperate Bicycles • “Cool musicality with critical intelligence.
And they thrash on a high level.” —Thurston Moore 100 Flowers (previously known as The Urinals) were a power trio whose sole 1983 album is an enduring document of the Southern California underground. 100 Flowers crafted a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The Minutemen, pastoral jangle of the Dream Syndicate and oblique approach of Monitor and The Gun Club. The trio wielded a gripping visual aesthetic and hyper-literate lyrical content that reflected their art-school backgrounds, while a ferocity borne out of their bleak urban environment permeates their songs. Preview here: ―, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:31 (four years ago).
A LITTLE CLOSER. SQUIRREL BAIT! Louisville's been a pipe-line of pure hot bed (hot bed of pure pipe-line?) for Drag City singers and songs and sounds for dang near decades now, some of which we've even resurrected from a time prior to our own birth (These two hands. Our clay children!)!
One such band bore the likes of long time DC artist-in-residence David Grubbs, as well as the the Palace-collabing and Slint foundling bros, Brian McMahon and Britt Walford (along with the man called M, 'Papa' David Pajo) - yes, that's right, the seminal punk outfit, Squirrel Bait. Squirrel Bait may've been rocking out before you were born (circa '85-'87, in case you were wondering what years existed before you were born), but (visually) excitingly, they were barely outta diapers themselves when they made these tunes, from 'Hammering So Hard' and 'Sun God' to 'Black Light Poster Child and 'Too Close To the Fire.'
What were they gonna do? It was the mid 80s, they were young teens in Louisville, punk rock was less than ten years old and hard rock wasn't much older and was as much fun to play as the punk shit! Nothing else to do but write some songs in the negative, expressing themselves through a refusal of rules perceived in the songs they loved and hated! What else, bookish pre-internet teenagers from the past? How about shying away from angst and transparent confession lyrically, and instead portraying hard-edged, decadent youth scenes in fictive brush-strokes, without glorifying or even explaining what they're about? Yes, and yes!
Then they drowned the songs and lyrics and meanings in a cacaphony of thunderous drums, strangely indistinct guitars, and insistent power changes and choruses. Check, and mate! There's nothing to do but flip the record and drop the needle again. And now, there's no asking why - because both the self-titled EP and full-length LP, Skag Heaven, are back in print on the vinyl format for the first time in an internet generation (approximately 5 years)! Available for you, for now, as long as they're available - so get 'em from us here, now or go out and grab 'em at your local brick and mortar, horder!
―, Saturday, 12 January 2013 00:55 (four years ago). THE NUMERO GROUP BEGINS SAN ANTONIO EXCAVATION TWO RELEASES PLANNED TO LAUNCH SERIES, INCLUDING REISSUE OF DJ SHADOW-SANCTIONED FUNK GROUP MICKY & THE SOUL GENERATION Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label - March 19, 2013 Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation - May 2, 2013 Born out of the largesse created from Rene & Rene's Hot 100 Tejano tornado 'Angelito,' Dynamic Records was but one of half a dozen labels run by San Antonio music and real estate mogul Abe Epstein. His flag ship group, The Commands, took their AFB circuit-honed chops up to the middle of the charts in 1966 with 'No Time For You,' paving the way for 20 other soulful singles over Dynamic's impressive two and a half year run. Epstein's open door policy led to a diverse cross section of the population converging inside his studio on General McMullan Drive, as whites, blacks, and Latinos were swapped in and out of groups as needed. That melting pot mentality is well represented by The Tonettes, Little Jr.
Jesse & the Tear Drops, Don & the Doves, Willie Cooper & the Webs, Bobby Blackmon & his Soul Express, and Doc & Sal. Erupting at the same time, but at a different studio, was the mixed instrumental combo Mickey & the Soul Generation.
Best known for their 1969 paper hit 'Iron Leg,' the group came to semi-national attention following Nipsey Russell's performance of the Iron Leg dance on Johnny Carson. Though they shared a label with Ben E. King, they lacked access to the same promotion and marketing resources. A tour with Sam & Dave and opening slots for James Brown, Kool & the Gang, and The Supremes found them performing for thousands nightly, but still sleeping on floors. By the mid-'70s the group had fractured, with members joining the army, bottling Coke, and starting families. Their run would end in 1977 with two members turning in a passing Average White Band impression called 'Southern Fired Funk' before their handful of 45s fell completely out of vogue and made their journey to thrift shops and cut-out distributors. At the dawn of the century, Josh Davis (AKA DJ Shadow) tracked Mickey and his Soul Generation down for the purpose of reissuing their recordings on his upstart Cali-Tex label.
'Mickey and the Soul Generation are my favorite funk band,' Davis wrote in 2002. 'They were strong contenders for the title from my very first listen back in '92. 'Iron Leg' being the standout track on an otherwise flaccid jazz-funk compilation of the day.
Already a favorite rare-groove selection in the ever-accepting UK club scene, I too found myself buoying my bedroom DJ sets with snatches of the irresistible Soul Generation Sound. It became an instant priority of mine to locate an original.' That 2003 reissue was met with critical praise, and ultimately turned a new generation of music lovers onto rare funk and soul. Numero has gone back to the scene of the crime and re-canvased for new leads, helping Davis expand on his original work, with updated liner notes, tons of newly discovered photos, and a previously unreleased track. These two albums represent Numero's first forays into a seemingly bottomless well of San Antonio soul, R&B, funk, Latin, and garage.
This scorched earth campaign will continue into 2014. ―, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:53 (four years ago). GENE CLARK’S HERE TONIGHT: THE WHITE LIGHT DEMOS COMING FROM OMNIVORE RECORDINGS ON MARCH 26 LOS ANGELES, Calif. — By 1970, weary and wary of the fame game in Los Angeles with the trappings of “the star-maker machinery” surrounding him at every turn, ex-Byrds songwriter and singer Gene Clark was looking for a refuge. On March 26, 2013, Omnivore Recordings will release Clark’s Here Tonight: The White Light Demos, a glimpse into the songwriting craft of Clark at the inception of the compositions that would become his first ’70s solo album, White Light, for A&M Records, released in August of 1971. Of the tracks on this 12-song album, six (“White Light,” “For a Spanish Guitar,” “Where My Love Lies Asleep,” “The Virgin” “Because of You” and “With Tomorrow”) appeared in final form onWhite Light. Two (“Opening Day” and “Winter”) appeared in final form as bonus tracks on the 2002 A&M/Universal reissue of the album.
One track (”Here Tonight”) is an alternate version of a song that appeared on the Flying Burrito Brothers compilation Honky Tonk Heroes. And three songs (“For No One,” “Please Mr. Freud” and “Jimmy Christ”) have never been issued previously in any form. Liner notes are by John Einarson, author of Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of Gene Clark (Backbeat Books, 2005).
The collection is being reissued with the full cooperation of the estate of Gene Clark. Precipitating Clark’s move to a secluded life in Northern California, events of the prior four years had elevated the reclusive Kansas-raised boy to the top of the rock ’n’ roll pantheon. The Byrds had topped the charts with their 1965 debut single, “Mr.
Tambourine Man” and followed it with a string of folk- and country-influenced songs, many of them from Clark’s own pen. With a little help from Bob Dylan, the Byrds gave rock a literary sensibility.
In his own songwriting, Clark had come to embrace the Dylan style of oblique lyric poetry and accrued considerable attention for his songs, to the chagrin of his band mates. Fissures in the band hierarchy ensued.
With his sudden departure from the Byrds in 1966, Clark withdrew from the public eye. His attempt at a solo career later that year was hampered by a reluctance to tour or fly (earning him the title of “the Byrd who wouldn’t fly”). Teaming up with banjo demon Doug Dillard in 1968, the Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark recorded two trail-blazing country-rock bluegrass band around Gene’s well-crafted songs. By early 1970, he left the band, left L.A. For the open spaces of Little River, Calif., near Mendocino, accompanied by his girlfriend Carlie McCummings. The two were equally captivated by the tiny seaside community and were married in June of that year. Away from the pressure of the music business and inspired by the pastoral beauty of the area, Clark began to write songs that took on a reflective, introspective direction.
His songs became more folky and stripped down as Clark swore he’d never again play electric guitar. “There was no deadline,” says McCumming. “He wasn’t under any pressure. And as a result, the songs just flowed out of him. The lyrics were so pure. They don’t come out of any manufactured experience.” Clark also began exploring the nature of spirituality and the human condition in his lyrics, inspired by friend Philip O’Leno. At the end of the Dillard & Clark partnership, Gene owed A&M Records two additional albums.
Company co-founder Jerry Moss himself paid Gene a visit in Little River and managed to entice him and Carlie back to L.A. Jesse Ed Davis, with whom Gene had struck up a friendship during the Dillard & Clark sessions, was enlisted to produce. Clark first recorded the songs meant for the White Light album in demo form on acoustic guitar. It’s these demos, lost for decades and recently discovered, that comprise Here Tonight: The White Light Demos with the songs presented as Clark had originally conceived them in his Mendocino Coast cabin. “His voice was absolutely perfect at that point,” notes Carlie. Included are songs that would later appear on the A&M debut, as well as several that failed to make the cut. Jesse Ed Davis maintained much of the simplicity and honesty of the demos in producing the finished album.Rolling Stone drew comparisons to Clark’s mentor Bob Dylan.
It was voted “album of the year” in the Netherlands, whereupon Clark boarded a rare airplane to tour internationally. Sadly sales were slim. Clark returned to Northern California to write the next album at his own pace. Eventually he returned to L.A. To sustain his career. The rigors of the road eventually tore his marriage apart, leading to a tailspin of alcohol, drugs and death in 1991. ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS TO REISSUE SOUL LEGEND SWAMP DOGG'S NEWLY REMASTERED FIRST TWO SEMINAL ALBUMS FROM THE EARLY '70S: TOTAL DESTRUCTION TO YOUR MIND & RAT ON!
ON MARCH 5TH! Maverick soul artist Swamp Dogg (aka Jerry Williams) has been described as the “soul genius that time forgot,' and “a strange combination of Sly Stone’s progressive funk with Frank Zappa’s lyrical absurdism.' In the '70s he even made the famed Nixon’s Enemies List. Alive Naturalsound Records is proud to bring you Swamp Dogg’s first two albums, newly remastered and re-released for the very first time on vinyl since their original release in the early '70s. Total Destruction To Your Mind (1970), has been called “one of the most gloriously gonzo soul recordings of all time,' while Rat On! (1971) was ranked as having one of the top ten worst album covers of all time, an achievement that Swamp Dogg is rightfully proud of to this day.
The two remastered reissues of Swamp Dogg's early '70s albums Total Destruction To Your Mind and Rat On! Will be available on Black Vinyl and CD on March 5th. In addition, there will also be a very limited pressing of Colored Vinyl for both albums exclusive to mailorders through Bomp! 'He sings like some unfrozen Atlantic soul man of the sixties - his voice clarion pure, his phrasing a model of smoldering restraint.'
- ROLLING STONE 'He's made some of the maddest, funny, baddest, odd, angry, funkiest soul records.' - MOJO 'Vocally, Swamp Dogg sounds like a cross between General Johnson (of Chairmen of the Board) and Van Morrison; as a songwriter, he’s his own man.
With the exception of Sly Stone, no other soul men of the period were investigating controversial topics with such infectious musicality and good humor.' – AMG FOR MORE INFO ON SWAMP DOGG: FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE RECORDS: ―, Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:48 (four years ago). Sub Pop to release The Thermals vinyl reissues on March 5: More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine Available on limited edition, colored vinyl; 10th anniversary of ‘More Parts Per Million’ Plus - March tour dates announced, includes SXSW On March 5th, Sub Pop Records will reissue the entirety of The Thermals classic label discography - More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine - on vinyl.
All three releases will be available on limited edition, colored vinyl and are available for preorder now at Sub Pop.com (see Pitchfork news story Jan. 24) The Thermals have issued a statement on behalf of the reissues, as well as upcoming tour plans, and unusual sleeping arrangements: “Don't call it a comeback! They've been here for years. But in this (hopefully) foul year of our Lord, 2013, The Thermals are indeed returning.
With a vengeance. They will soon release their 6th LP, and again set about touring the world with an endless supply of wit and energy. But first, Sub Pop Records (who discovered and 'broke' The Thermals way back in 2003) proudly announces the reissuing of The Thermals' first three classic LP's - More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine (as well as the rare 'No Culture Icons' 7'.) These records have been unavailable on vinyl for some time, and are now back in limited color editions! These iconic, enduring collections of incredibly listenable songs will be re-released on March 5, 2013.
The date is EXACTLY ten years since the release of More Parts Per Million, The Thermals' blistering no-fi debut. Whew, ten years? Do you feel old? The Thermals don't.
But then again, they sleep in a 'holy bed' brand hyper-baric/-bolic chamber. You know, like Jacko did. Sub Pop and The Thermals hope vinyl enthusiasts everywhere enjoy these terrific records. Sit back, drop the needle, and let The Thermals take you back to a time of wonder and innocence, a time when indie rockers still shaved their faces, and you had to actually go into a store if you wanted to steal a record.” Tour Dates Mar. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Noise Pop (@ Rickshaw Stop) Mar.
02 - Cupertino, CA - Homestead Lanes Bowling Alley Mar. 07 - Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent Mar. 08 - Clinton, NY - Beinekie Events Barn @ Hamilton College Mar. 09 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s Mar. 13 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Mar. 14 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Mar. 15 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Mar.
16 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Mar. 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex (Check Yo Ponytail) ―, Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:26 (four years ago). Great to know; Koray was supposed to make maybe his only visit to America sometime in 2012 or 2013; maybe promoting this? Now dig it: SKYDOG: THE DUANE ALLMAN RETROSPECTIVE CHRONICLES GROUNDBREAKING GUITARIST’S CAREER, FROM GARAGE BANDS AND R&B SESSION WORK TO THE ALLMAN BROTHERS AND DEREK & THE DOMINOS Seven CD set, due out March 5 on Rounder Records, includes rare recordings by Allman’s early bands: the Escorts, Allman Joys, the 31st of February, and the Bleus. Extensive liner notes are accompanied by a tribute from Allman’s daughter. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
— Even if he’d never formed the Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman would be a major figure in American popular music. Long before his name became known to mainstream audiences, he had already established his credentials as a once-in-a-lifetime guitar visionary, leaving his unmistakable stamp on a broad array of recordings.
On March 5, 2013, Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, will release the most ambitious retrospective of Allman’s short but influential career titled Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective. The deluxe seven-disc collection, carrying a list price of $139.98, contains the guitarist’s best-known and most commercially successful recordings with the Allman Brothers Band and Derek & the Dominos, as well as session work with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Boz Scaggs, Clarence Carter, King Curtis, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Ronnie Hawkins, Otis Rush, Laura Nyro, Lulu, the Sweet Inspirations, Laura Lee, Spencer Wiggins, Arthur Conley, Willie Walker, the Lovelles, the Soul Survivors, Johnny Jenkins, John Hammond, Doris Duke, Eric Quincy Tate, Herbie Mann and more. The set was produced by Galadrielle Allman (Duane’s daughter) and two-time Grammy® winning producer Bill Levenson. Rounder Records’ Scott Billington served as executive producer. Scott Schinder contributed comprehensive historical liner notes, complemented by additional notes by Galadrielle Allman.
In her recollection of her father, who died when she was a young child, Galadrielle writes, “I am very lucky that my father is Duane Allman, an artist who left behind a wealth of incredible music... Working on this retrospective, I have gotten closer than I ever have been to understanding my father’s development as a musician and a man.” Duane Allman, known to his bandmates as Skydog, was born in Nashville in 1946. With Gregg, his only sibling, Duane had his first moment of musical revelation upon witnessing a late ’50s R&B bill that featured B.B. King and Jackie Wilson. By 1960, both Duane and Gregg owned guitars and played in a series of neighborhood garage bands in Tennessee and Florida.
Continuing their interest in blues and R&B in the shadow of blues radio station WLAC-AM’s continent-spanning signal, as well as absorbing the influence of the British Invasion, the brothers launched the Escorts in 1965 and the Allman Joys, who recorded a handful of sides in Bradley’s Barn in Nashville in 1966. By 1967, Duane and Gregg signed to Liberty as the Hour Glass and recorded two albums in Nashville and Los Angeles.
When the band sought to defy the label and spread its musical wings, they were dropped. The brothers returned to Florida, hooked up with drummer Butch Trucks, and recorded two sides as the 31st of February, and later at Ardent Studio in Memphis as the Bleus. By this time Duane had developed a reputation as a leading session guitarist.
He was on Fame Studio’s A list, his guitar licks coloring hits by Wilson Pickett. Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler took note and hired him to perform on Atlantic sessions by King Curtis, Otis Rush, Arthur Conley, the Soul Survivors and Sweet Inspirations. Wexler signed him to a solo Atlantic deal, resulting in a session that contained the raucous original “Happily Married Man” and more. The session, contained on the Skydog set, was abandoned mid-stream. But by then Capricorn Records’ Phil Walden had noticed the rumblings from Muscle Shoals. Duane gathered up brother Gregg, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Jai Johanny Johanson and others and the Allman Brothers Band was born. According to reissue annotator Schinder, “The [Allman Brothers Band’s] music was complex and adventurous, yet unfailingly accessible.
The subtle and harmonic interplay between Duane and Dickey’s dual lead guitars was matched by the three-man rhythm section’s surging, swinging cross-rhythms, with Gregg’s massively expressive singing and organ playing keeping the music firmly grounded in human emotion.” The band’s profile grew with each release — the self-titled debut, Idlewild South and eventually the band’s breakthrough, At Fillmore East. Testament to his energy and ambition, Duane still found time for side projects. When bandmates would hole up at home after tours, Duane joined fellow world-class guitarist Eric Clapton on Derek & the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. While not an official member, he quickly emerged as a major contributor to the classic album, his twin guitar interplay with Clapton shaping the hits “Layla” and “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad.” He also worked with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and Laura Nyro between Allman Brothers Band projects. By then acknowledged as one of rock’s premier guitarists, Duane and the Allman Brothers Band began recording their follow-up to At Fillmore East — Eat a Peach. Tom Dowd, another legendary Atlantic house producer, oversaw sessions at Criteria Studios. Then on October 29, 1971, four days after Fillmore had been certified gold, Duane was riding his motorcycle and swerved to avoid hitting a truck.
He crashed and died of internal injuries. He was 24 years old. The band forged ahead as a quintet on Eat a Peach, which became one of their best selling albums. The Allman Brothers, led by Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, continue to perform to this day.
Schinder notes, “More than four decades after his death, Duane Allman remains a towering figure whose stature has only increased in his absence. His influence lives on, not only in the multiple generations of guitarists who have been motivated by his input, but also in the legions of listeners who have continued to find inspiration in his vibrant vision of American music, which remains as fresh and truthful today as when it was created.” “When a musician of my father’s caliber dies, every note he ever recorded becomes even more precious,” writes Galadrielle.
“Each song is pressed into the service of telling his story. The longer Duane is gone, the clearer it becomes that there will never be another like him.” Over seven discs, Skydog tells the Duane Allman story with rare and never-before-heard gems alongside smash hits. “I hope the celebration of Duane’s life inspires you to live fearlessly and enjoy life,” Galadrielle concludes. Prob have to do these stream links sep: Morr Music Reissues Legendary First Two Dump Albums Solo Project From James McNew of Yo La Tengo Available for the First Time Ever On Vinyl Stream 'Secret Blood' From Superpowerless To Be Released on March 19 Stream 'Slow Down' From I Can Hear Music Out April 16 Dump, the recording and performing alias of James McNew, is reissuing his long out-of-circulation LPs Superpowerless (1993) and I Can Hear Music (1994) on Morr Music.
McNew has been the bassist from legendary lo-fi rockers Yo La Tengo since 1992. Remastered by Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission of Burma), the LPs are being released on vinyl for the first time ever. Superpowerless will be available as a CD, a double LP or digital download, and I Can Hear Music will be available as two CDs, a triple LP package or digitally.
Both will be released with the original album artwork, bonus materials and detailed liner notes. Stream both tracks from the 7' split of 'Secret Blood'/'Slow Down' now, which was released January 24th on Morr Music. Raised in Charlottesville, VA, McNew performed with Christmas from 1989 until they broke up two years later, at which point he joined Yo La Tengo. Yo La Tengo was known to have an extensive repertoire of covers-fittingly, McNew recorded an entire album of Prince covers as Dump.
Tastefully chosen covers appear on much of his other recorded work. The Dump moniker officially began in 1991, but he didn't have any releases after that name until Superpowerless came out two years later. McNew recorded most instruments-guitar, bass, drums, organ and vocals-by himself, except for the instances in which his Yo La Tengo bandmates joined him. McNew captured everything on a 4-track cassette recorder. 'It made more sense to me if someone recorded a song in the moment by themselves, and got it to me as soon as possible,' he said of the process. McNew much preferred the lo-fi aesthetic he gleaned from this process to the clean, polished sound obtained in a traditional studio setting. What's more, some of the instruments weren't instruments at all-Dump was known to have used 'cardboard boxes as bass-drums' and to have prized 'the victory of enthusiasm over perfection.'
He recorded I Can Hear Music in a living room, which is particularly apropos for the lo-fi style he aimed for. Dump has been joined onstage by his wife, Amy, his bandmates from Yo La Tengo, comedian Todd Barry and many more, and you can expect to see plenty of McNew with Yo La Tengo on the heels of their new release, Fade. Superpowerless Superpowerless Tracklisting 01. Hands Of Fear 02. So Sedimentary 03. Secret Blood 04.
Good Medicine 05. Formerly One-Eye 06.
Dark Road 07. Just For You 08. Outer Spaceways, Inc 09. The Sea Wall 10. Broken Conscience 11.
Throw Out The Lifeline 12. The Quality Of Hurt 13.
Moon River 15. Superpowerless 16. Ode To Shaggs' Own Thing 17. Love Theme From 'Providence' 18.
Knox's Lament 19. How Many Bells? Intro/ Nothing Left 21. Down To The Sea In Ships 22. Pennies From Heaven 23.
Christmas Card 24. Bunny Boy 26. Bus-Kicker's Theme I Can Hear Music I Can Hear Music Tracklisting CD1 01.
Slow Down 02. Jury Duty 03. Hope, Joe 04. Into Fall 05. Flap My Arms 06. The Letter 07.
Relocation Program 08. Invisible 10. Morning Morning 11. Remembering 12. Don't Let On 13. Wanted Man 14. Zusaan Says 16.
Liberty Spikes 17. It's Not All Right 19. Beyond The Door 20. Never Comes 21. Over CD 2 01.
I Can Hear Music 02. I Want To Be With You 03. No One, Never 05. Dear Betty 06. Acupuncture 07. 8 Km High 08. Bill Withers 09.
Slow Down 10. Swimming Pool (Live) ―, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:50 (four years ago). (out March 5) People, Hell & Angels is a new album of twelve never before released Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. This special album showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside the view of a massive audience that had established the Experience as rock’s largest grossing concert act and simultaneously placed two of his albums together in the US Top 10 sales chart, Jimi was busy working behind the scenes to craft his next musical statement. Earth Blues: Totally unlike the version first issued as part of Rainbow Bridge in 1971, this December 19, 1969 master take features just Hendrix, Cox and Miles—stripped down funk at its very origin.
Somewhere:This newly discovered gem was recorded in March 1968 and features Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass. Entirely different from any previous version fans have heard. Hear My Train A Comin’: This superb recording was drawn from Jimi’s first ever recording session with Billy Cox & Buddy Miles—the rhythm section with whom he would later record the groundbreaking album Band Of Gypsys. Bleeding Heart: This Elmore James masterwork had long been a favorite of Jimi’s.
Recorded at the same May 1969 session as “Hear My Train A Coming,” Jimi had a firm understanding of the arrangement and tempo he desired. Before they began, Jimi instructed Cox and Miles that he wanted to establish a totally different beat than the standard arrangement. He then kicked off this amazing rendition unlike any other he had ever attempted.
Let Me Move You: In March 1969, Jimi reached back to another old friend, saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood. Before he was discovered by Chas Chandler in the summer of 1966, Jimi had contributed guitar for Youngblood and such infectious rhythm and blues styled singles such as “Soul Food”. This March 1969 session features Hendrix and Youngblood trading licks on this never before heard, high velocity rock and soul classic. Izabella: In the aftermath of the Woodstock festival, Jimi gathered his new ensemble, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows at the Hit Factory in August 1969 with engineer Eddie Kramer. “Izabella” had been one of the new songs the guitarist introduced at the Woodstock festival and Jimi was eager to perfect a studio version. This new version is markedly different from the Band Of Gypsys 45 rpm single master issued by Reprise Records in 1970 and features Larry Lee, Jimi’s old friend on rhythm guitar. Easy Blues: An edited extract of this gorgeous, free flowing instrumental was briefly issued as part of the long out of print, 1981 album Nine To The Universe.
Now nearly twice as long, fans can enjoy the dramatic interplay between Jimi, second guitarist Larry Lee, Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell. Crash Landing: Perhaps known as the title song for the controversial 1975 album that featured Hendrix master recordings posthumously overdubbed by session musicians, this April 1969 original recording has never been heard before. Jimi is joined here by Billy Cox and drummer Rocky Isaac of the Cherry People to record this thinly veiled warning to his girlfriend Devon Wilson. Inside Out: Jimi was fascinated by the rhythm pattern which would ultimately take form as “Ezy Ryder”. Joined here by Mitch Mitchell, Jimi recorded all of the bass and guitar parts for this fascinating song--including a dramatic lead guitar part amplified through a Leslie organ speaker.
Hey Gypsy Boy: The roots of Jimi’s majestic “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)” trace themselves to this March 1969 recording. Unlike the posthumously overdubbed version briefly issued as part of Midnight Lightning in 1975, this is original recording that features Jimi joined by Buddy Miles. Mojo Man: Jimi lends a hand to Albert & Arthur Allen, the vocalists known as the Ghetto Fighters, whom he had befriended in Harlem long before he achieved fame with the Experience.
When the two recorded this inspired, previously unreleased master at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama they took it back to Hendrix at Electric Lady Studios. Jimi knew just what to do to elevate the recording beyond contemporary R & B to the new hybrid of rock, rhythm and blues he was celebrated for. Villanova Junction Blues: Long before his famous performance of this song at Woodstock, Jimi recorded this studio version with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles at the same May 1969 session which yielded “Hear My Train A Comin’” and “Bleeding Heart” also featured on this album. Never fully finished, the song stands as an example of the fertile ideas he hoped to harness. ―, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 14:15 (four years ago). Tompkins Square Reissues Rare Lone Solo Guitar LP 'Celestial Explosion' by Don Bikoff on CD/LP/DL February 26th, 2013 Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968.
You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, 'That's unusual to say the least.' A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears.
Bikoff has his own approach. Don is only 65 years old, and he's still playing strong. Don will appear with labelmate Daniel Bachman at Union Pool, Brooklyn NY on April 30th. ―, Thursday, 31 January 2013 18:53 (four years ago).
Stephen Stills: Carry On Performances with Buffalo Springfield (hopefully a better mix of the first album tracks), CSN, solo, Manassas tracks; note jam w Hendrix. Unreleased, out March 26 Disc: 1 1. Travelin Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 2. High Flyin Bird The Au Go Go Singers 3. Sit Down I Think I Love You Buffalo Springfield 4. Go And Say Goodbye Buffalo Springfield 5. For What It s Worth Buffalo Springfield 6.
Everydays Buffalo Springfield (previously unreleased) 7. Pretty Girl Why Buffalo Springfield 8. Bluebird Buffalo Springfield 9. Rock n Roll Woman Buffalo Springfield 10. Special Care Buffalo Springfield 11. Questions Buffalo Springfield 12.
Uno Mundo Buffalo Springfield 13. Four Days Gone Buffalo Springfield 14.
Who Ran Away? Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 15. Forty-Nine Reasons Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 16. Helplessly Hoping Crosby, Stills & Nash 17. You Don t Have To Cry Crosby, Stills & Nash 18. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Crosby, Stills & Nash 19.
4+20 Stephen Stills* 20. So Begins The Task Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 21. The Lee Shore Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 22. Carry On/Questions Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 23.
Woodstock Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Disc: 2 1. Love The One You re With Stephen Stills 2. Old Times Good Times Stephen Stills 3.
Black Queen Stephen Stills 4. No-Name Jam Stephen Stills & Jimi Hendrix (previously unreleased) 5.
Go Back Home Stephen Stills 6. Marianne Stephen Stills 7. My Love Is A Gentle Thing Stephen Stills 8. Fishes And Scorpions Stephen Stills 9. The Treasure Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 10. To A Flame Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 11.
Cherokee Stephen Stills 12. Song Of Love Stephen Stills 13. Rock n Roll Crazies/Cuban Bluegrass Stephen Stills 14. Jet Set (Sigh) Stephen Stills 15. It Doesn t Matter Stephen Stills 16. Colorado Stephen Stills 17.
Johnny s Garden Stephen Stills 18. Change Partners Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 19. Do For Others Stephen Stills and Steve Fromholz (previously unreleased) 20. Find The Cost Of Freedom Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased) 21.
Little Miss Bright Eyes Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 22. Isn t It About Time Stephen Stills Disc: 3 1. Turn Back The Pages Stephen Stills 2. First Things First Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 3. My Angel Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 4. Love Story Stephen Stills 5.
As I Come Of Age Stephen Stills 6. Know You Got To Run Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 7. Black Coral Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased) 8. I Give You Give Blind Crosby, Stills & Nash 9.
Crossroads/You Can t Catch Me Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 10. See The Changes Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased) 11. Thoroughfare Gap Stephen Stills 12. Lowdown Stephen Stills 13. Cuba Al Fin (edit) Stephen Stills 14. Fantasy Stephen Stills & Graham Nash 15.
Spanish Suite Stephen Stills 16. Feel Your Love Crosby, Stills & Nash 17. Raise A Voice Crosby, Stills & Nash 18. Daylight Again Crosby, Stills & Nash Disc: 4 1. Southern Cross Crosby, Stills & Nash 2.
Dark Star Crosby, Stills & Nash 3. Turn Your Back On Love Crosby, Stills & Nash 4. War Games Crosby, Stills & Nash 5. 50/50 Stephen Stills 6. Welfare Blues Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 7. Church Stephen Stills (previously unreleased) 8. I Don t Get It Stephen Stills 9.
Isn t It So Stephen Stills 10. Haven t We Lost Enough? Crosby, Stills & Nash 11. Ballad Of Hollis Brown Stephen Stills 12. Treetop Flyer Stephen Stills 13.
Heart s Gate Stephen Stills 14. Girl From The North Country Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased) 15. Feed The People Stephen Stills 16. Panama Crosby, Stills & Nash 17.
No Tears Left Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased) 18. Ole Man Trouble Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased) 19.
Ain't It Always Stephen Stills ―, Saturday, 2 February 2013 14:14 (four years ago). NUMERO FOLLOWS PROTO-SATANIST MEDUSA LP WITH THREE REPENTANT GOSPEL ALBUMS May 2013, The Numero Group will add three unique titles to the gospel canon. The first is the third entry into the Good God! Series, the second the fourth album in the Folkways-inspired Numerophon line, and the third a pixel for pixel replica of one of the most damaged, outsider gospel LPs ever recorded. Numero gospel Good God! Apocryphal Hymns The third installment in Numero's series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genre's lesser-known disciples. Here, heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, a bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message.
In homage to the stock jacket record industry of the 1970s, select one of these four alternate covers: Woodland Twilight, Seashore Morning, Mountain Waterfall, and Sunbeam Canyon. King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label On Cleveland's late 60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie's lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield's robe-wearing roots. Founded by gospel impresario James Bullard, BOS is the first chapter in story that includes stints producing major spiritual albums for the Birthright, Roadshow, and Word labels. BOS got its start inside Lester Johnson and Bill Branch's Way Out concern, running the devotional wing of Cleveland's largest black-owned record company, and picking up a ton of Way Out's soulful flavor in the process.
Compiled here are BOS's less traditional moments-12 bridges between FM R&B and AM sermons from a time when those worlds were splitting apart. Johnson: Everything - God Is Love 78 For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G.
Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine.in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. Everything - God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis's own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional 'other' voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions. FOR MORE INFORMATION: ―, Monday, 11 February 2013 17:34 (four years ago). Domino To Reissue Four Tet's Rounds With Bonus Disc To coincide with its ten year anniversary, Domino is to reissue Four Tet's seminal album, 'Rounds', on May 14th, 2013. The reissue will feature the album as well as a live set from Copenhagen recorded near the time of the original release.
Listen to album track 'As Serious As Your Life,' HERE. 'Rounds' will be available on 2 x CD (REWIGCD88), 2 x heavyweight LP plus the bonus disc on CD (REWIGLP88), and Digital bundle (REWIG88D). Pre-order it through Dom Mart HERE. The tracklisting is as follows: ROUNDS CD1 1 – Hands 2 – She Moves She 3 – First Thing 4 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth 5 – Spirit Fingers 6 – Unspoken 7 – Chia 8 – As Serious As Your Life 9 – And They All Looked Broken Hearted 10 – Slow Jam FOUR TET – LIVE IN COPENHAGEN (ROUNDS BONUS DISC) 1 – She Moves She 2 – Everything Is Alright 3 – Spirit Fingers 4 – Glue Of The World 5 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth 6 – As Serious As Your Life 7 – Hands, No More Mosquitos, Calamine, Tangle ―, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:00 (four years ago).
Ron Asheton Tribute Concert with Iggy & the Stooges + Special Guests Coming to DVD on April 9 Live concert tribute to brother Ron Asheton featuring the Stooges, Henry Rollins and more! Recorded live at the Michigan Theater, this heartfelt tribute/celebration of Stooge guitarist Ron Asheton's life and music featured Iggy and the Stooges, Henry Rollins, and guest guitarist Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman). Includes a string section on a few Stooges classics! All profits from the sale of the DVD go to the Ron Asheton Foundation which supports animal welfare and music. Gary Graff of BILLBOARD writes: 'It was a typical night of Stooges-style brutality but in an even more passionate form, as the group and its guests took a wide swing through the repertoire, clearly moved by the sense of occasion and the cacophonous spirit of the 1,700 fans who snapped up tickets for the concert in less than an hour.
'Some of his (Asheton's) themes always reminded me a lot of.classical music in the 17th century,' Pop told Billboard.com prior to the show -- emcee Henry Rollins fronted the band for 'I Got a Right.' Pop then came on to commence a full-on Stooges performance with co-founder and drummer Scott 'Rock Action' Asheton, 'Raw Power' guitarist James Williamson, longtime saxophonist Steve Mackay and Mike Watt, the group's bassist since 2003. Shirtless and manic as always, even two days before his 64th birthday, it didn't take Pop long to turn the theater to bedlam. Following pulverizing renditions of 'Raw Power,' 'Search and Destroy' and 'Gimme Danger,' Pop brought dozens of fans on stage for 'Shake Appeal,' clearly reveling in the ecstatic anarchy of the moment. The rest of the night maintained the energy through favorites such as 'Beyond the Law,' '1970' and 'Fun House,' the 'ballad' 'Open Up and Bleed' and a rendition of 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' beefed up by an 11-piece orchestra. The ensemble stayed on stage as Radio Birdman's Deniz Tek, a longtime Asheton friend, spelled Williamson for 'T.V.
Eye,' 'Loose,' 'Dirt' and 'Real Good Time,' while Williamson returned for a new acoustic composition called 'Ron's Tune,' in which Pop sang that 'the music says you'll be my friend to the end' and 'because you were my friend, I always think of you again.' The night finished with everyone, including more audience members, onstage for 'No Fun' -- whose title, of course, was the antithesis of the experience.' The complete story can be read HERE. Cover Art: Concert Clip: Track Listing I Got a Right (with Henry Rollins) Raw Power Search and Destroy Gimme Danger Shake Appeal 1970 L.A. Blues Night Theme Beyond the Law Fun House Open Up And Bleed Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell I Wanna Be Your Dog TV Eye Loose Dirt Real Cool Time Iggy's Speech Ron's Tune No Fun ―, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 00:17 (four years ago).
ALBERT KING’S LATE ’60s BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN ALBUM ON STAX RECORDS REISSUED APRIL 5 WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS TRACKS* Release teems with King’s best-known songs: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Laundromat Blues.” Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the MGs, the Memphis Horns and Stax’s songwriters help make it an all-time blues classic.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top.
The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album. While he’d recorded for labels like Vee-Jay, Parrot and Bobbin, it was his chemistry with the Stax team — label executives Al Bell, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, songwriters Booker T. Jones and William Bell, and backing from Booker T.
& the MGs and the Memphis Horns — that put King on the blues map. The Stax Remasters deluxe edition of Born Under a Bad Sign will be released by Stax Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, on April 2, 2013.
Music historian Bill Dahl wrote the new set of liner notes. Francesco Tristano Not For Piano Rar. King was influenced by pre-World War II bluesmen Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, and post-war artists T-Bone Walker and Howlin’ Wolf.
He came to Stax by way of Al Bell, a Little Rock native who’d met King when he played shows in the area. King’s first Stax recording was “Laundromat Blues,” included on this album, backed by Booker T. Jones on piano; Duck Dunn, bass; and Al Jackson, Jr., drums; plus the Memphis Horns (Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love) and Raymond Hill (sax player on Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88”). The song had come by way of an unsolicited songwriting demo that Stax co-founder Estelle Axton correctly believed could be a hit for King. “Crosscut Saw” is one of King’s best-known recordings as yet dated back to 1941 when Delta bluesman Tommy McClennan recorded it for Bluebird, and Willie Sanders & the Binghamton Boys cut it in ’63. “Moohah” Williams, a veteran DJ at Memphis R&B station WDIA-AM, brought it to King’s attention.
Jones and Stax soul singer William Bell came up with the thundering bass riff that defined the title track “Born Under a Bad Sign.” The song notched #49 on the R&B chart in 1967, and was covered in short order by Cream on its 1968 Wheels of Fire album. Soon King himself was playing venues like the Fillmore Auditorium to young white rock audiences. Another one of the signature tracks, “Oh, Pretty Woman,” written by WDIA DJ Williams, required the steady presence of Steve Cropper’s rhythm guitar to augment King’s lead licks. King received songwriting help from David Porter, on leave from his usual collaboration with Isaac Hayes, on “Personal Manager,” which was the B-side of the title track single. Born Under a Bad Sign was also notable for its selection of covers. King gave the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller R&B standard “Kansas City” an urban blues treatment. He’s right at home with Fenton Robinson’s “As the Years Go Passing By.” Ivory Joe Hunter’s “I Almost Lost My Mind” is a rare King ballad with countrypolitan overtones and jazz flute, an unlikely showcase for his rich baritone.
* For this special reissue Stax Records has reached into its vaults to provide previously unissued bonus tracks in the form of alternate takes of “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “The Hunter,” “Personal Manager” and an untitled, never-before-released instrumental. According to annotator Dahl, “Thanks to Born Under a Bad Sign, Albert King became a full-fledged blues luminary, masterfully bridging the gap between the Chitlin’ Circuit and the rock arena. He would make more great Stax albums, but he’d never top this one.” Albert King will be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, 2013. ―, Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:28 (four years ago). Just found out that last month a reissue of The Show Must Go On by Sam Dees came out.
It's the first time it's been available on CD. For anyone that doesn't know it, it's one of the best soul albums of the 70's. Another great soul album coming out next month is the self titled Caston & Majors album.
One of the most underated albums to come out on Motown in the 70's. Another one that's never been available on CD before. I'm all for these lost soul albums getting proper releases. The Prophet of Soul by Larry Saunders next please. ―, Friday, 22 February 2013 10:05 (four years ago). Skate Rock may have been one of the defining sounds of Southern California in the late ’80 / early ‘90s, but its origins were in another time and place.
It began, in fact, in post-Outlaw Country 1970s Austin, Texas. That’s where singer Randy “Biscuit” Turner, guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Greg Murray were mixing the prevailing trend of playing hard and fast with playing loose and funky. The Big Boys came from the same scene that spawned Scratch Acid, The Dicks, and MDC, but stood out with music that ventured far beyond post-punk angularities and hardcore machismo. With features in the earliest issues of Thrasher Magazine and coveted spots on their influential Skate Rock tape comps, Big Boys were the first band to be labeled “skate rock.” Originally released on David Bean’s (of the Judys) Wasted Talent label, their debut album Where’s My Towel / Industry Standard is a classic of American independent music.
Lyrically inspired by the group’s growing dissatisfaction with the local hardcore scene and how the release of their Live at Raul’s split record with the Dicks was handled, musically the album showed a move from the prevailing sound of the time. In this, the album’s sound has roots in funk, rock and avant-garde noise guitar as much as punk. Hand-numbered edition – limited to 3,000 copies world wide 180-gram wax with 4 color variations available Includes reproductions of a rare Big Boys sticker (shown above), original inserts, plus a new insert with a note from Big Boys founding member Tim Kerr Original album art expanded to a gatefold “tip-on” jacket with spot UV gloss Interior gatefold jacket features an unpublished 1982 photo of the band by artist Bill Daniel Includes download card for 320 Kbps MP3 of entire album Cassette co-released with Burger Records and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.
―, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:37 (four years ago). Hoping this precedes another round of reissued/prev.unreleased musics: POWER POP LEGENDS SHOES BEGIN THEIR SERIES OF 2013 SHOWS WITH THEIR SXSW DEBUT IN MARCH IN AUSTIN In celebration of their first new album in 18 years, the acclaimed Ignition, the boys from Zion fire up for Austin ZION, Ill. — Following the August 2012 release of Ignition, their first new album in 18 years, Shoes will appear at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas in March, their first time at the event. The legendary power pop band, originally from Zion, Ill., will bring their memorable melodies and do-it-yourself ethic for a series of performances and a discussion panel at one of the most prestigious music gatherings in the United States. Showcases for Shoes include a Wednesday, March 13, 1:35 p.m. Show at Molotov for the SXSW Guitartown/Conqueroo/M Music & Musicians/AllMusic Block Party Kickoff; a Friday, March 15, 4 p.m. Performance at the Ginger Man Pub for the Dog Fish Head/Blurt Magazine SXSW Party; and an Official SXSW Showcase concert presented by CD Baby at 11 p.m.
At Maggie Mae’s. More appearances are planned though not yet scheduled. Shoes member Jeff Murphy also will be participating on a Friday, March 15th, 11 a.m.
Panel discussion in Room 11 AB of the Austin Convention Center. “We’re really excited about having the opportunity to participate in SXSW,” says Shoes singer/bass player John Murphy. “It’s a great event with a lot of people who love music. We’re looking forward to being a part of it.” Shoes’ 2012 release, Ignition, received glowing reviews from publications around the country and further added to the band’s legacy. Ignition is Shoes’ 11th studio album and their fourth self-released album of all-new music since parting ways with Elektra Records, which released Present Tense (1979), Tongue Twister (1981), and Boomerang (1982). The 1984 Shoes offering Silhouette brought the band back to the same self-released D.I.Y. Process it had used for the 1977 groundbreaking Black Vinyl Shoes album.
Shoes followed up in 1990 with the critically acclaimed Stolen Wishes, which received a four-star review in Rolling Stone Magazine; and the 1994 follow-up, Propeller. The ensuing 18 years’ output has included a live CD, reissues, rarities compilations, and a two-CD set of early demos--2007’s limited-edition Double Exposureas well as film-soundtrack and tribute-album contributions. Look for announcements of shows and festivals around the Midwest this summer. ―, Friday, 22 February 2013 21:47 (four years ago).
New Major Lazer album is delayed, but three albums of stray/prev unreleased tracks coming out; this first is free, hopefully others too: In the mean time, please download LAZER STRIKES BACK Vol. Here: We will be putting out 3 volumes of music on-line until album release. LAZER STRIKES BACK Vol.
Major Lazer & Flux Pavilion - Jah No Partial (Jack Beats Remix) 2. Major Lazer - Get Free feat.
Amber of Dirty Projectors (Yellow Claw Get Free Money Remix) 3. Major Lazer - Original Don feat. The Partysquad (DGRC Remix) 4.
Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Extended Remix) ―, Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:27 (four years ago). This Nick Drake's mom thing is crazy and sounds amazing: Squirrel Thing Recordings, the label behind the mysterious lost recordings of Connie Converse, is proud to announce the release of Molly Drake—a self-titled collection of never-before-heard songs recorded in the 1950’s at the Drake family home, and lovingly restored by Nick Drake’s engineer John Wood. According to Joe Boyd, legendary producer of Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later, “this is the missing link in the Nick Drake story.” Molly Drake is a comprehensive first look at a singular and sophisticated artist, whose influence on her son’s celebrated musical style is undeniable.
The CD features a custom letterpressed jacket, family photos, and a biography by her daughter, Gabrielle Drake. Much like her son, Molly Drake’s music is at once beautiful, charming, dark and pensive. The easy elegance of her lyrics belies their deeper themes of regret, memory, dread, and the sublime, crystallized as only a poet can.
Her performances are intimately staged in the family sitting room, and perfectly complemented by her own piano accompaniment. Credits releases 05 March 2013 All songs written and performed by Molly Drake Recorded at home in Far Leys by Rodney Drake Produced for Bryter Music by John Wood & Cally Mastered by Simon Heyworth All songs © 2012 and published by Bryter Music (Fintage House) Produced and designed for Squirrel Thing Recordings by Dan Dzula & David Herman Released under licence from Bryter Music Jacket illustrations by Mike Schultz ―, Monday, 25 February 2013 06:28 (four years ago). TENDERNESS RECORDS IS RELEASING STRICTLY BALLROOM: THE COLLECTED RECORDINGS (1994-1999) ON TUESDAY, 3/19--FEATURES SIX UNRELEASED TRACKS, MEMBERS OF THE POSTAL SERVICE, DNTEL, BEACHWOOD SPARKS, MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY, MORE Chris Gunst (guitar/vocals) and Jimmy Tamborello (bass/vocals) were both KXLU DJs in college and started Strictly Ballroom in 1994 with Jimmy’s brother, Brian Tamborello on drums.many more folks were to join them along the way. Collected Recordings (1994-1999) pulls together the LP, 7 inches, comp songs and unreleased songs that the band had access to.
It’s not an entirely complete collection (some songs were lost to the ages), but it's a fantastic document of a band whose innovative approach to skewed melodic hardcore permanently altered the musical landscape of its community. Since the band's breakup in 1999, members have continued to make music together and with others. Jimmy Tamborello - DNTEL, Figurine, The Postal Service. Also produced Beachwood Sparks’ Make the Cowboy Robots Cry EP Chris Gunst- Beachwood Sparks, Mystic Chords of Memory, The Tyde. Performed on several DNTEL tracks.
Paul Larson- Athalia, The Minor Canon, The Georgia Sand. Has played live and recorded with DNTEL as well as contributing guitar to Beachwood Sparks’ Make the Cowboy Robots Cry EP. Jimi Hey- has played with a whole host of bands including Beachwood Sparks, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, All Night Radio, Indian Jewelry, The Rapture, Devendra Banhart, and more. His latest project is called BI. Koji Motonishi, Jose Salguero, Ian MacKinnon, Jimmy LaValle (of The Album Leaf/Tristeza) and Chris Hathwell (Festival of Dead Deer/Moving Units) also took part.
Track Listing: 1. A Picture - 4:46 (1996) 2. Crickets- 4:07 (1996) 3. Elevator Action-4:11 (1996) 4. Trains In The Distance At Night- 5:21 (1996) 5.
Something That Just Is-3:18 (1996) 6. This Will Self-Destruct-5:12 (1996) 7. Knots On A Counting Rope-4:35 (1996) 8. A Sudden Interest In Nature-14:49 (1996) 9.
Escape Plan#4 - 7:00 (1997) 10. Escape Plan #4 (other version)-2:45 (1997) 11. Fire- 4:08 (1997) 12. Fire Remix- 4:31 (1997) 13. Untitled 1 (live in Nashville)- 6:14 (1997) 14.
Untitled 2- 10:02 (1998) 15. Strictly Electronic Sketch (by Jimmy)- 5:04 (1999) 16. Don't Go Home (performed as Arca) - 3:12 (2000) 17. Risk - 1:45 (1994) 18. Other stars --3:01 (1994) 19.
Autobiography -- 2:16 (1994) 20. Tearjerker - 1:27 (1994) 21. Tearducts - 1:44 (1994) 22. Duct Tape -1:18 (1994) 23.
I Love.- 3:08 (1995) 24. New Angels -1:49 (1995) 25. Elevator Action -4:26 (1995) Track History: Tracks 1-8 are the Hide Here Forever LP Tracks 9 is from the Zum #10 comp (1997) Tracks 10 unreleased (1997) Tracks 11-12 are from the Sub Pop Singles Club (recorded in 1997, released in 2001) Track 13 is live and unreleased (1997) Track 14 is unreleased (1998) Track 15 is unreleased (1999) Track 16 is (as Arca) was released on a 7 inch for DIW magazine in 2000 Tracks 17- 20 are from the 1st 7 inch (1994) Tracks 21-22 are unreleased (1994) Tracks 23-25 are from the second 7 inch (1995) ―, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:13 (four years ago). Anybody heard it?
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO BE RICH April showers peel back the dirt from our greenish earth, often revealing previously hidden roots 'n' gems either lost for a time or in some cases never rightly appreciated in the first place. This April, that gem comes to from the mysterious urban graveland we call, Detroit and one of the minds drifting free there sometime in the indeterminate past. Back when the Motown scene was uprooting, and the city's Vietnam protesters were looting, a young Rich Ristagno went from jamming in the garage with his Midnight Riders band to serving time in the military during the conflict that propelled and repelled his generation.
Upon his return in 1971, working a series of faceless jobs, Rich planned a career in music, starting with a single of original material, which he recorded and pressed with a Canadian vanity plant (insert your own joke there!), the majority of which were sent as promo to radio stations. When the world failed to come knocking with a record deal, Rich found work at a steel plant, wherein plans for an album rooted themselves in his mind, and grew, and festered. Time passed, the kind of time we measure as years. One day, Rich finally pulled the trigger after seeing an ad in The Detroit News for a recording studio called Solar Sound, which had it's very own house band, Solar Flight - a group who proudly declared themselves 'so high they could touch the sun.'
This was important, since Rich needed a band to make his album. This was 1981, and Solar Flight were wicked R 'n' B players whose disco tendencies paired uniquely with Ristagno's classic rock sensibility to deliver, unbeknownst to either of them, something quite like DNA or The Contortions - a darkly sharp record that might be considered essential to the downtown New York scene of the time, had it actually been a part of it. Or it might be considered akin to an early Ariel Pink production.
Clearly, it was the wrong time, wrong place for Rich Ristagno. A hundred copies of the album, called What Would It Be Like To Be Rich, were pressed without a cover, remaining in his parents basement completely undisturbed (yet under-clothed, in only their dust jackets) ever since, being extracted only once in awhile, to float into the hands of some crusty waxidermist. And thence to us. But like we say, April's afoot and this generation's kids get the benefit of a fresh new pressing - this time with jacket!
- of this rarest of pleasures. Rich Ristagno's What Would It Be Like To Be Rich must be gripped, and once in hand will produce repeated spins, as addictive as any brain candy your shug-addled brain can imagine. Find out What Would It Be Like To Be Rich, on April 16th!
―, Sunday, 17 March 2013 00:05 (four years ago). Was just coming here to mention the SCG Singles Vol. 3, it looks great! Volume 3 in the series of Sun City Girls singles, compilations, and rare tracks, consists of material recorded between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Much of this collection reflects the Arabic guitar instrumental and acoustic pseudo-Asian vocal folk styles of the band from the period when they recorded relentlessly.
The 14 cuts vary wildly in scope yet maintain a consistent listening experience throughout, bridging a wide gap between the band's second full-length LP Grotto of Miracles (Track 3 -- 'Gum Arabic' -- being the only true outtake from that recording session) in 1986 and the 1993 launch of the group's Abduction label after the band relocated from Phoenix to Seattle. All four tracks from the Eye Mohini single as well as all six tracks from the Borungku Si Derita double single are included here, the latter featuring a vicious rehearsal version of Esoterica of Abyssynia with a rare captured occurrence of both Bishop brothers playing electric guitars. Th e remaining two tracks from Three Fake Female Orgasms double single not included on Volume 2 of this series are present with the extremely rare studio version of 'Kickin' the Dragon' from a triple 7' box set released by an obscure Bay Area label in 1994. The disc is rounded out by a 10-minute live track from the Heinz Afterworld Lounge in Oakland from 1992 where SCG closed the show with a heavy and ecstatic version of 'The Flower' from their Torch of the Mystics LP. As in the previous two volumes of this series, this CD is sequenced to play as a full album and is an excellent entry point for the non-initiated into a band that produced as diverse and intimidating a back catalog as any other entity in modern music.
―, Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:51 (four years ago). ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE: HOMEMADE RECORDS 1958-1992 Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Paul Major and Michael P. Daley 'The Greatest Coffee Table Book Ever Made' -Larry Clark 'Best-ever gateway to the infinitely peculiar multiverse of self-published phonograph records' -William Gibson AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW AT SINECURE BOOKS WEB STORE Pre-orders ship late April; worldwide release date May 21st. Only copies purchased directly from Sinecure Books will include a slipcase, a fold-out poster, and a facsimile clear vinyl 7' manual on 'How To Make Your Own Record'. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW AT SINECURE BOOKS WEB STORE About the book: Enjoy The Experience is both the first major work on American private press records and on track to be of the most notable illustrated books of 2013.
Private press records - also called vanity pressings - are vinyl albums produced and paid for by the artist(s). An endless stream of psych-rock hopefuls, Holiday Inn Elvises, pizza parlor organists, funk bands aspiring to become the JBs, high school bands performing all of Jesus Christ Superstar, cult leaders who never found the right cult, jazz bands inspired to forge a new stream all sincerely hoped to become stars, they committed themselves to record, and they left themselves vulnerable to an industry not understanding of nuance, not appreciative of character. This is not a gathering of kitsch and novelty, though: the records cataloged in Enjoy The Experience are funkier, more psychedelic, more idiosyncratic and more emotionally rewarding than the mainstream music product it aspired to be. A free download card featuring dozens of the most amazing artists featured in the book is included. In addition, Sinecure and Now-Again Records are presenting a companion double LP and CD anthology released alongside the book.
―, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:21 (four years ago). Oh yeah, speaking of the book's musical companion: Selections from the Sinecure Books publication Enjoy The Experience: psych, funk, folk, jazz, lounge, boogie and straight-up-weirdness from American private press albums. Release date: May 21st. Enjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 is the inaugural offering from Sinecure Books, the publishing company that Now-Again’s Egon co-founded with Johan Kugelberg. Packaged as a hardcover, and weighing in at 512 pages, it is the most comprehensive overview of the American “private press” movement from the latter half of the 20th Century that could possibly be assembled. We’re pleased to be distributing a 2CD/2LP anthology of psych, funk, folk, jazz, lounge, disco, boogie and just-plain-weirdness culled from the the book’s selections.
Take note: this is not a novelty freak show. Contained in this anthology are examples of some of the most highly regarded rock, soul, jazz, funk and singer/songwriter albums from the 60s through the early 80s. From the awkward-yet-talented to the genius-yet-bizarre, one thing unites all musicians presented here: they sincerely hoped to become stars, they committed themselves to record, and they left themselves vulnerable to an industry not understanding of nuance, not appreciative of character. While Enjoy The Experience the book details a forceful American cultural experience that stands in juxtaposition to the mainstream even as its creators attempted to infiltrate it, Enjoy The Experience the album shows the breadth of American creativity in a compelling, start-to-finish listen. Not all of it is easy to digest, but this music is essential to the 20th century American experience. We will be updating this post with more information about the anthology, downloads and the book in coming weeks.
―, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:29 (four years ago). And here's an update: Last month we announced the inaugural book that our sister company Sinecure Books is launching upon the world on May 21st and we told you all about the companion anthology 2CD/LP that we’re distributing here at Now-Again. Well, for those who think that May is a long way away, we have some good news: Enjoy The Experience will be available as an official Record Store Day release – and thus almost certainly available at your favorite local record store, worldwide – and a deluxe edition is available now as a pre-order at the Sinecure Books website. ―, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:30 (four years ago). Where these guys good?
QUARTERSTICK/TOUCH AND GO ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF RODAN'S FIFTEEN QUIET YEARS 6/11/13 Fifteen Quiet Years is a celebratory document four years in the making; a repository for all the important Rodan recordings that fans of Rusty have long wished they could unearth. The collection includes the 1994 BBC Peel session, together with all of Rodan's long-out-of-print 7's and compilation tracks. In 2009, Bob Weston, Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble lovingly re-mastered the tracks at Chicago Mastering Service. All formats of the album will include a digital download of 10 bonus live recordings selected by Jason Noble, Jeff Mueller, Tara Jane O'Neil and Kevin Coultas. The packaging for the vinyl album and CD was designed by Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, and has been letterpress printed by Jeff Mueller at his own Dexterity Press studio. Despite the brief time span of their existence (1992-1994), Rodan appeared on a surprising number of records.
Aside from their classic (and only) full length album Rusty (1994 on Quarterstick Records), the band released the Aviary demo cassette, and the 'How The Winter Was Passed' single. They also contributed tracks to the Compulsiv For Two, Inclined Plane, and Merry Christmas Is For Rockers compilations as well as released a song on the soundtrack to the film Half Cocked (in which they also acted), and recorded a brilliant session at the BBC studios in London for the John Peel show (unreleased until now). Many artists make their mark in the world while writing and performing in their first or second band, and they never again reach or exceed the high water mark of their earliest artistic output. The members of Rodan are an unusual exception to this all-too-common artistic struggle. Jeff Mueller went on to play guitar and sing in the highly influential and well loved group June Of 44, and subsequently in the very heavy group The Shipping News.
Jason Noble played bass in the modern classical, indie-phenomena outfit Rachel's, as well as in The Shipping News (with Jeff Mueller). Tara Jane O'Neil contributed her lovely voice and distinct guitar playing to the newly formed The Sonora Pine (together with Kevin Coultas), as well as the duo Retsin. Subsequent to the breakup of The Sonora Pine in 1998, Tara Jane began a solo career as TJO. Kevin Coultas continued to collaborate with Jason Noble (playing drums in Rachel's), and with Tara Jane O'Neil as the drummer for The Sonora Pine.
On August 4, 2012, Jason Noble lost a three year battle with cancer and passed away at the all-too-young age of 40. On February 9, 2013, Jon Cook also passed away. After 20+ years of continuous involvement in the Louisville music scene, both Jason and Jon will be greatly missed. Jeff Mueller - Guitar, Vocals Jason Noble - Guitar, Vocals Tara Jane O'Neil - Bass, Guitar, Vocals Jon Cook / John Weiss / Kevin Coultas - Drums ―, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:21 (four years ago). NUMERO REISSUING GROUNDBREAKING AMBIENT WORKS OF IASOS HEAR ALBUM TRACK 'RAINBOW CANYON' AT FADER: In 1989, professor Joel D.
Funk, at the psychology department of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, found that the music of Iasos bears striking resemblance to that which people hear during near-death experiences-at the very precipice between life and death, the mundane and the infinite. By the mid-1970s-prior to ambient's 'musical furniture' and the coming age of New Age-Iasos had his hands on his first synthesizer and had made in-roads into both aborning genres. In dialogue with Vista, a benevolent music-maker from a distant dimension, Iasos conducted groundbreaking experimentation with tape reversal, feedback, and the electronic processing of acoustic instruments (phase-shifted flute, echoplex), working with some of the first commercially available synthesizers, and inventing innovative visual effects for his own mind-expansive live sets. In translating the tones of his galactic muse for the ears of Earth humans, Iasos helped midwife new genres into existence and utterly transform the compositional possibilities for every contemporary musician-all while living the life of a poor pirate eccentric in the Marin County dock system's only telephone-equipped houseboat. Spotlighting selections from the first decade of Iasos' inter-dimensional output, The Numero Group's Celestial Soul Portraits 2LP/CD compilation (due June 18, 2013) features a bevy of never-before-seen photos, a 4,000-word history of Iasos, and an insight into the life and 'crystal giggling energy' of Iasos, the other Greek god of '70s exploration into music's electronic stargate. ―, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:28 (four years ago).
OK so this Bona Dish reissue on Captured Tracks. What’s cooler than cool? This vinyl release is way overdue. The songs are simple but at the same time complex. The two girls, two boy’s line-up added a tension that was both sexual and musically fragile. You felt it might all fall apart any second but it rarely did. After their “cassette in a tube” ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after.
Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls. “United by their love of the Velvets and the Supremes, the Hertfordshire four-piece got some radio attention from John Peel (they couldn’t have been more of a Peel band if they tried, and they probably did try), but they only released two cassettes in their short lifetime. Captured Tracks have compiled their entire recorded output on The Zaragoza Tapes. Bona Dish’s avowedly DIY aesthetic was coupled with a genuine pop flair, and songs like ’8am’ stand comparison with the very best independent music of the era.” -Fact Magazine Sounds pretty cool, a little like Animals & Men but then again not: ―, Thursday, 4 April 2013 03:28 (four years ago). ANONYMOUS - 'INSIDE THE SHADOW' LP/CD NOW TAKING ORDERS / SHIPS APRIL 30 'Close to the perfect album; each element has been drawn from the best possible source, yet somehow Ron Matelic manages to fuse these massive building blocks into personal, deeply human music.' - Patrick Lundborg, THE ACID ARCHIVES Originally released in 1976 in an edition of 300 copies, the sole album by Indianapolis' ANONYMOUS stands today as a high-water mark in rock 'n' roll, combining the adventure of west coast ballroom groups, the 12-string majesty of Byrds, and breathtaking multi-part harmonies to forge something inimitable and one-of-a-kind, with powerful songs that pushed the limit and raised the bar at the same time. Long time top ten favorite with almost every head we know, a true classic recommended for everyone into amazing rock records of all varieties.
Restored to its original glory for the first time since its initial release, this is the definitive INSIDE THE SHADOW! - First officially licensed reissue of this classic in almost twenty years; issued with the group's full cooperation and assistance - Remastered and restored by Warren Defever for best-ever sound - Sleeve notes from Aaron Milenski (co-author of the essential reference guide The Acid Archives), and recollections from Ron Matelic, Anonymous' visionary songwriter. - LP is sleeved in a tip-on jacket, with a reproduction of the original lyric insert - CD is sleeved in a digipak, with 8 page booklet with complete lyrics and notes / ―, Thursday, 4 April 2013 10:34 (four years ago). DEVO - Hardcore Volume 1 & 2 Available May 14th DEVO's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob, and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of 'devolved blues' that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros.
Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n' roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It's no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO's long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof. Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO's Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha's stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed 'the band of the future.'
―, Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:30 (four years ago). This is pretty great. A little MC5, a little Sonics Rendezvous Band, a little Sabbath.
Here it is folks, the first ever Hozac Archival release, and man is it a whopper. The 40th anniversary first edition of two unissued 1972 cuts by New York proto punk group, FURY, fronted by a young Sonny Vincent, who would later etch out his stain on the wall of punk history in the Testors and an illustrious solo career. These two tracks were recorded and shopped around to record companies in the early 1970s, only to have their dreams quashed due to lack of interest (or having Suicide open up for them, which you can read more about later), and the band, subsequently disillusioned and restless, disbanded without any real document of it’s existence. Sonny quickly started up another band upon FURY’s demise, Liquid Diamonds, in 1973, and never looked back (Liquid Diamonds debut 7″ coming soon on Hozac as well!), so it’s with such great excitement that we thrust forth this debut FURY single, an explosive fireball of rock’n roll mayhem aimed straight at your groin, the way it was intended, in the perfect, screaming 45 rpm format.
Bonehead cruncher? Yer damn right, this criss-crossed between heavy-handed biker rock and thug pungk supreme, dripping with chain grease and burnt skin, a true ball-crushing, tit-ripping rock’n roll gem for the ages, sadly unreleased and completely unknown during it’s time. Sonny’s signature style is immediate, even at this early of an age, the seething vocals are incredible, sounding much like his better-known later Testors material, yet with such an over-the-top proto punk hammer damaged sound drilling away in the background, you’ll feel your life getting better with each consecutive spin. ―, Sunday, 7 April 2013 12:59 (four years ago).
IN THE WAKE OF CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR TOWNES VAN ZANDT’S SUNSHINE BOY, OMNIVORE RECORDINGS REISSUES TWO MORE FROM TOWNES: HIGH, LOW AND IN BETWEEN AND THE LATE, GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT Early ’70s albums are re-mastered, available on CD and 180-gram vinyl, with notes by Colin Escott LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Even though Townes Van Zandt may not be a household name, he is a legend to songwriters and the music fans who love them. As the recently issued Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 proved — receiving five-star reviews from American Songwriter and Mojo, along with a ten-out-of-ten-star piece from Uncut — the world was ready to rediscover not only Van Zandt, but the studio albums those sessions came from.
Omnivore Recordings now offers reissues of Townes’ two seminal recordings: High, Low and In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, each available on CD and — for the first time in decades — on high-quality, 180-gram vinyl, with a release date of May 21, 2013. High, Low and In Between, Townes Van Zandt’s fifth album, originally released by Poppy Records in the fall of 1971, was an album that saw Townes becoming the songwriter revered today. Full of original material, including “You Are Not Needed Now,” “Blue Ridge Mountains,” and “To Live Is To Fly,” it opened eyes and ears to his abilities. His backing band included folks like Larry Carlton, who would play on Joni Mitchell’s Court & Spark, who accompanied Steely Dan on The Royal Scam (playing that solo we all know and love on “Kid Charlemagne”), and who was a member of Jazz’s elite Crusaders.
High, Low and In Between is, in the end, a classic Townes Van Zandt album. And one that should be re-examined. The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, his sixth effort, hit the shelves in 1972. The album built on High, Low and In Between, adding texture in both song and production. It’s probably best known for “Pancho & Lefty” — the song Emmylou Harris covered for 1977’s Luxury Liner and which Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings would take to the top of the charts in 1983.
Full of originals, as well as covers like Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonkin’,” the release was Van Zandt’s perfect storm, with every element in place. The Late Great Townes Van Zandt might be his masterwork. This release should be in every collection of great American music. The gloriously remastered editions of High, Low and In Between and The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt will be available on CD, in a digipak with liner notes from award-winning scribe Colin Escott, as well as on 180-gram vinyl, with the first 1000 pressed on orange and clear colored vinyl respectively. (Future pressings will be on standard weight, black vinyl.) It’s not too late to know and love the Late Great Townes Van Zandt. High, Low and In Between 1.
You Are Not Needed Now 3. Greensboro Woman 4. Highway Kind 5. To Live Is To Fly 8. When He Offers His Hand 9. Blue Ridge Mountains 11.
High, Low and In Between The Late Great Townes Van Zandt 1. No Lonesome Tune 2. Sad Cinderella 3. German Mustard (A Clapalong) 4. Don’t Let The Sunshine Fool You 5.
Honky Tonkin’ 6. Snow Don’t Fall 7. Pancho & Lefty 9.
If I Needed You 10. Silver Ships of Andilar 11. Heavenly Houseboat Blues About Omnivore Recordings: Founded in 2010 by highly respected, longtime industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.
―, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:00 (four years ago). Have just seen that Rockadrome vintage have a forthcoming release of Icecross on cd and vinyl. But I can't find any release date details.
Got their great version of Sainte Anthony's Fyre a few days back and looking in the cd tray you can see the front cover of Icecross's lp. SO I went to order it and can't see anything about it's release date on any of the main shopping sites, and Rockadriome themselves just have it listed as forthcoming with no further release details. Think they pretty much duplicate what they say on different entries for bot h vinyl and cd though. ―, Friday, 19 April 2013 14:58 (four years ago). Wow @ that Sly box. Meanwhile, more from S.Dogg, plus Dogg-produced Irma Thomas: SOUL LEGEND SWAMP DOGG TO RE-RELEASE NEWLY REMASTERED VERSIONS OF HIS 1973 GAG A MAGGOTT LP & IRMA THOMAS' SWAMP-PRODUCED SOUL CLASSIC IN BETWEEN TEARS ON MAY 14TH! AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL RELEASES IN 1973!
(THROUGH ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS) CD & DIGITAL VERSIONS INCLUDE TWO BONUS TRACKS EACH! Track from Irma's In Between Tears here: 'A lost classic that captures deep soul at its most poignant and resonant, couching Thomas' deeply affecting vocals in earthy arrangements that emphasize the singer's gospel roots.' - AMG Produced by legendary soul singer / songwriter / producer Jerry Williams Jr., aka Swamp Dogg, and featuring Duane Allman on two songs, Irma Thomas' In Between Tears is finally back on vinyl with its original cover for the first time since 1973. The CD and digital versions include the Canyon single ('We Won’t Be In Your Way Anymore' / 'I’ll Do It All Over You') as bonus tracks.
The CD also includes newly penned liner notes by Swamp Dogg. In Between Tears will be available in all formats on May 14th.
Color vinyl exclusive to Bomp-mailorder. IN BETWEEN TEARS TRACK LISTING: 1. In Between Tears 2. She'll Never Be Your Wife 3. These Four Walls 4. Whats So Wrong With You Loving Me 5.
You're The Dog (I Do The Barking Myself) 6. Medley: Coming From Behind (Monologue) 7. Wish Someone Would Care 8. Turn My World Around 9. We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore (CD & digital bonus track) 10.
I'll Do It All Over You (CD & digital bonus track) Track from Gag A Maggott here: Re-released for the first time on vinyl since its original release in 1973! 'Ivan Olander’s drums, Little Beaver’s guitar, even the horns of the Swamp Dogg Band maintain a fierce momentum that’s not conventional at all.” – Robert Christgau (Dean Of American Rock Critics) Swamp Dogg's Gag A Maggot was recorded at TK in Miami with an all-star cast. The CD and digital versions feature two unreleased bonus tracks recorded live at KSAN radio in 1972 ('Mamas Baby, Daddy’s Maybe' and 'Honky Tonk Woman'). The CD booklet also includes new liner notes and rare photos. The song 'Choking To Death (From The Ties That Bind)' was recorded by Canned Heat in 1974.
Gag A Maggott will be available in all formats on May 14th. Color vinyl exclusive to Bomp-mailorder. GAG A MAGGOTT TRACK LISTING: 1.
Wife Sitter 2. Choking To Death (From The Ties That Bind) 3. I Couldn't Pay For What I Got Last Night 4. Mighty Mighty Dollar Bill 5. Midnight Hour 6. Please Let Me Kiss You Goodbye 7. Why Must We Fall (When We Fall In Love) 9.
Plastered To The Wall (Higher Than The Ceiling) 10. Mama's Baby, Daddy's Maybe (Live) (CD & digital bonus track) 11. Honky Tonk Woman (Live) (CD & digital bonus track) The REMASTERED versions of Swamp Dogg's Total Destruction To Your Mind & Rat On! Are available digitally today ―, Friday, 19 April 2013 17:06 (four years ago). PETER JEFFERIES The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World IND 123 CD/LP/MP3 Release Date 4/6/2013 Peter Jefferies’s extraordinary debut solo album, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World, first saw life as a cassette via the Xpressway label of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1990.
As a result of some international underground acclaim in fanzines and mailorder catalogs – for both the album and a striking 7-inch, “The Fate of the Human Carbine”, released around the same time – it soon appeared on LP and CD as well, through the Ajax label of Chicago. Within a handful of years it slipped out of print and out of sight. Roughly 20 years later that situation is being amended by De Stijl with a vinyl reissue that includes the songs from the attendant single and no amount of remastering whatsoever. Though no one’s gotten around to writing a book on it yet, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World nonetheless stands as one of the singular singer-songwriter albums of all time, existing on a sparsely populated plane with Pink Moon, I Often Dream of Trains, Blues Run the Game, Our Mother the Mountain and not many others.
In a sandy voice that soothes and slashes, Jefferies offers a compassionate, piercingly lucid view of the endeavor of life, all our pain and small glories rendered in tones both harrowing and tender. On piano, drums and percussion, he pounds out melodies that roar, sweep and lilt, accompanied on many songs by the serrated guitars of a variety of players. DRAG CITY TO RELEASE ANDY KAUFMAN COMEDY RECORD, ANDY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER, OUT JULY 16TH! Andy Kaufman changed the worlds of comedy and performance in the 1970s, showing fans and friends alike a determination to follow put-ons into territory no one had ever even considered 'comic' before.
His fervor was so intense that when he passed away suddenly in 1984, it seemed as if the ultimate disappearing act had been staged; one that some people believe is still ongoing, with the reveal soon to come. Among the many things that Andy achieved in his lifetime (and in the years following), a phonograph album release, the staple of stand-up comedians in his time, never happened - until now. Andy and His Grandmother is material never heard before, a skimming from 82 hours of micro-cassette tapes that Andy recorded during 1977-79. Andy regarded the micro-tape recorder as a fantastic new way of capturing his hoaxing, and carried it with him everywhere, for use at any given moment. Real life was the ultimate frontier for him, and these tapes demonstrate the heart of Andy's comedy. With gusto, he involves those closest to him, as well as total strangers, in put-ons, falsehoods and other provocations, pushing the limit on logic and emotional investment in everyday situations from the trivial to the deeply personal until any suspension of disbelief is out of the question for all involved, and everyone becomes fully immersed in whatever scenario Andy is suggesting as the new reality.
With so much material on hand, Drag City turned to a writer, producer and comedian whose resume indicated to us that he was a true child of Kaufman's twisted talent. Since the late 90s, Vernon Chatman's work has been experienced by television viewers and aficionados of South Park, Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart She Holler, and Doggie Fizzle Televizzle, as well as fans of the Drag City DVD release Final Flesh. Vernon dug deeply into the tapes, working with editor Rodney Ascher (director of the notorious, controversial, and even acclaimed Room 237 documentary) to come up with a concept for a single LP that would include several dozen excerpts. Along the way, Vernon produced several tracks, adding effects to pieces that were clearly unfinished (in particular, 'Sleep Comedy') and drafting SNL's Bill Hader to provide narration for the journey. The finished album, with liner notes from Vernon and Kaufman cohort Bob Zmuda is a work of comedy for our times - one that was performed over thirty years ago.
Andy And His Grandmother is out July 16th on Drag City. ―, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:36 (four years ago). Just got this bizarro (but pretty entertaining) reish in the mail. A fierce, inimitable, and mythmaking countrydelic masterpiece of insular inspiration and absolutely singular vision and scope. Despite its intensely personal origins, long gestation, substantial financial costs, and deadly serious deliberation, the album betrays very little in the way of outside influences or traceable authorship. Commanding, aggressive, and unabashedly masculine, it literally sounds like nothing else we’ve ever heard—this is as close as we’ve gotten to unique music (if there is such a thing), the real deal, an obsessive, private-press triumph of the imagination. The closest analog we can (tentatively) venture is some unholy pot likker of Waylon Jennings, Funkadelic, the Fields of Nephilim, and the Bob Seger System: a strange Southern Gothic, alternately frightening and funky, and utterly transfixing.
One can only wonder as to which interstellar channels Chance is tuned, but whatever he’s hearing is not the same transmission that the rest of us hear. And God bless him for it.
―, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:44 (four years ago). Looks promising. And here's a Monkees box from Rhino Handmade: The MONKEES Present Micky, David, Michael By October 1969, things were radically different for The Monkees. Their NBC show had left prime time, Peter Tork had left the group, and Top 40 hits were no longer a sure thing. It was in this atmosphere that Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith exerted more creative control to record THE MONKEES PRESENT. The resulting album is one of the group's most varied, from the iconic single, 'Listen To The Band,' to Micky's anti-war anthem, 'Mommy And Daddy,' Davy's lush 'French Song,' and Michael's Nashville-tinged barn-burner, 'Good Clean Fun.' Strictly limited to 5,000 individually numbered boxes, the newly re-mastered and expanded THE MONKEES PRESENT is the latest release in Rhino Handmade's lavish Monkees boxed sets.
Packed with a whopping 85 tracks (60 previously unreleased!) over 3 CD's, Monkees historian and reissue producer Andrew Sandoval has raided the vault, pulling previously unheard songs, alternate versions and backing tracks from the original master tapes. THE MONKEES PRESENT also includes an exclusive bonus 7' vinyl single for 'Good Clean Fun (Alternate Mix)' b/w 'Mommy and Daddy (Mono Mix)' in a picture sleeve. THE MONKEES PRESENT ships in late July, but is available now for pre-order exclusively at Monkees.com. This box is not available from any store or other online retailer and is sure to sell out, so reserve your copy now. ―, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:25 (four years ago). New York, NY (May 14, 2013)—On June 18, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour on DVD and Digital Video Filmed in 1976 at Anaheim Stadium for American television, Good Vibrations follows the release of their 15 Big Ones album. Combining full live performances with interviews and several whimsical vignettes, Good Vibrations is 50 minutes of Beach Boys faire at its finest.
This DVD features all the original band members (Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine) performing their timeless classic hits: “Good Vibrations,” “God Only Knows,” “I Get Around,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “Sloop John B,” “California Girls,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “Surfin’ USA,” and many more. From the three Wilson brothers performing a song about their father to the full band harmonizing with a gospel choir, this DVD is packed with incredible moments. The Beach Boys were the most successful American pop group of the sixties. Their legendary vocal harmonies, renowned anthems, and classic albums earned an induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame, and to this day, this music inspires fans, musicians, and songwriters of all generations.
Above all, Good Vibrations is a perfect snapsnot of why The Beach Boys are one of the most endearing and beloved music acts of all time. Eagle Rock Entertainment is the largest producer and distributor of music programming for DVD, Blu-Ray, TV, Audio and Digital Media in the world. Eagle works directly alongside talent to produce top quality, High Definition and 3D programs, both concerts and documentaries, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, Queen, The Doors, Jeff Beck, U2, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney and Ozzy Osbourne. Eagle is a Grammy Award winning company and has received over 30 multi-platinum, over 50 platinum and over 90 gold discs, worldwide. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices in London, New York, Toronto, Paris and Hamburg.
―, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:50 (four years ago). The Complete LHI Years, July 23rd (CD, LP, Digital) Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label only put out interesting albums. Yet despite the psychedelic cowboy’s success with Nancy Sinatra and more, being on Lee Hazlewood Industries was no fast-track to success. Gorgeous and talented Detroit, Michigan girl group Honey Ltd had all the makings of a hit band, yet they disappeared after releasing just one album in 1968, a vinyl rarity that now regularly fetches upwards of $2,000. Light In The Attic Records is now looking to set the record straight. Having previously explored both the back catalog of Lee Hazlewood and his LHI label via the You Turned My Head Around 45s Box Set, Honey Ltd’s The Complete LHI Recordings presents everything the group ever recorded.
Fans of The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las and Pentangle are in for a treat – Honey Ltd’s music blended social commentary with harmony-drenched, psych-soul pop. Even opening track, ‘Warrior’, describes the mood of the times, as America sunk into the Vietnam war: “We must kill more people; strong men are what we need!' Laura Polkinghome, Marsha Jo Temmer and sisters Joan and Alexandra Sliwin are the girls with the angelic voices. Hailing from Detroit, the four members of Honey Ltd grew up in a culture of soul music and dance shows, yet forming a band was never part of the plan. It simply happened after they sung together in a Wayne State University cafeteria and found they’d silenced the room. By 1967 they had formed a group known as the Mama Cats and were playing shows with local singer Bob Seger.
By 1968, against a backdrop of rioting in Detroit, they’d hauled over to Los Angeles to give music a go, and it’s there that they hitch-hiked to an audition with Lee Hazlewood on Sunset Boulevard. At the time, Lee Hazlewood Industries was in its prime: the money flowed and the roster swelled.
“I think Lee just sat there for a while and listened, looking at us,” Temmer recalls. “He said, ‘Yeah, I think we can do something.’ You know – immediately!” Before long, LHI had the band in the studio with crack session music unit The Wrecking Crew. These were not enlightened times for girl groups. The group were re-named Honey Ltd by Hazlewood, and were put to work on an album without even realizing it. The band were under the impression they were simply recording singles. As a result, the band were unphased by Honey Ltd’s commercial failure.
The parent label, however, did notice the album’s failure but the girls continued on. By the end of 1968, the band joined Bob Hope on the USO tour and headed to Thailand to perform for soldiers.
In 1969, Alex married and quit the band, their tenure on LHI was effectively terminated and the remaining members regrouped as country-rock group Eve. But like their music, the girls’ outlook remained resolutely sunny.
“Its all a karmic equation, isn’t it?' Temmer recalled. “So many things to experience and learn and humbly let go of in this journey. Our friendship is based on love – we love each other always have always will.” ―, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:47 (four years ago). DARK - 'DARK ROUND THE EDGES' LP/CD One of THEE greatest guitar-heavy psych records in the world, “Dark Round the Edges”was originally issued in an edition of around 50 copies, mostly for friends, family, and the odd record company. Its reputation has since blossomed into something resembling a redwood, or perhaps an original Van Gogh. This album is the holy grail for lovers of fuzz-driven hard rock, and has been the most sought-after privately pressed LP on the planet.
We’ve spared no expense to bring you the deluxe reissue of this classic, an album be- loved by heads & cosmic couriers around the world for its great songwriting, terrific instrumental workouts, and mysterious vibe. ZERO TIME IS NOW. •Officially licensed by Dark, who will receive royalties from sales of this album •Remastered and restored by Warren Defever for maximum brilliance •Sleeve notes by the group’s songwriter and guitarist Steve Giles, including a complete group history •Sleeved in a tip-on gatefold jacket & obi, with an expanded version of the original booklet - 20 pages of lyrics and never before seen photos & session notes from the group’s personal archives / ―, Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:15 (four years ago). Aforementioned Source Family doc soundtrack turns out to be 14 tracks in 38 minutes and change, half or 'em excerpts, but brilliantly chosen. A standard of thoughtful, passionate versatility and precision that might well have earned daily bread in the L.A. Music biz, brought on home to Father Yod--although his own voice is phonogenic enough to get work in Babylon, if he wanted it.
Streaming 'til the CD release on May 21, I think--but worth checking later, if you don't have time before that--here's a more direct link ―, Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:03 (four years ago). Exit Stencil Recordings is honored to be re-releasing the long out of print, and woefully underrated, 1975 debut album by 15 -60-75 (The Numbers Band) entitled Jimmy Bell's Still in Town. For those familiar with the band and record---tracking down an original can easily cost you triple digits! Hailing from Kent, Ohio, 15 -60-75 (The Numbers Band) is considered one of the forefathers of the Akron / Cleveland music scene of the 1970s and their musical pedigree is pretty impressive---including members who would later go to found Devo and siblings of the legendary Chrissie Hynde. Long-standing Ohio folklore has it that the band actually served as an influence for The Blues Brothers! Check out the track 'Animal Speaks:' We are pressing 500 deluxe, 2 x LP Gatefold copies of the album---complete with liner notes from David Fricke (Rolling Stone) and David Giffels (co-author of Are We Not Men?). The record will include 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Release is set for late summer. ―, Thursday, 23 May 2013 01:39 (four years ago). NUMERO GROUP ANNOUNCE FIRST BOX SET OF COMPREHENSIVE UNWOUND REISSUE CAMPAIGN 'KID IS GONE' COLLECTS SEMINAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST POST-PUNK TRIO'S RECORDED OUTPUT FROM 1991-1992 VIEW THE ALBUM TRAILER HERE: This Fall the Numero Group embarks on a lengthy and comprehensive campaign to reissue the complete works of seminal Olympia, Washington, post-punk trio Unwound. Their seven albums - Fake Train, New Plastic Ideas, S/T, The Future Of What, Repetition, Challenge For Civilized Society, and Leaves Turn Inside You - will be expanded, remastered, and annotated in typical Numero fashion. The revered archival label has announced the first proper entry in the series, set for a 9/6/13 release, is a 3xLP comprising all of Unwound's recorded output from 1991 and 1992, prior to their debut LP. Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound.
Before 1993's Fake Train ripped through, they'd been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno's first restive years, 'Crab Nebula' might've best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno's split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero's 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia's fertile scene before Unwound's turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs-cassette-only demos, early 7's, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994's Unwound, on which the band's prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise. ―, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 21:08 (four years ago). Sly box details: Higher!, A 4CD Box Featuring The Best Of Sly And The Family Stone Epic Records and Legacy Recordings will join together to compile a collection of tracks from Sly and The Family Stone. The collection will be housed in a Boxed set, with 77 tracks burned within 4CDs. Of the 77 songs, 17 of the tracks are previously unreleased goodies.
The Box will be issued with a 104-page book that will mark every facet of Sly and The Family Stone over their long and fruitful career with photos, liner notes, a timeline, a serious credits listing, tons of memorabilia, and much more. The Box set is called Higher! And will be as complete a set as can be as revealed by the incredible track-listing provided by the label. Is on the calendar for August 27.
Cool, thanks! Sez wikipedia, Sly & the Family Stone: The showstoppers of Woodstock performed to a tired audience on the early morning of Sunday. However, the audience woke up for spirited renditions of 'I Want to Take You Higher', 'Dance to the Music' and 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)', which featured Sly on guitar. Prior to their encore, another political militant decided it was time to make a speech, and the booing audience started to throw beer cans onto the stage.
Freddie Stone was hit by a flying can and an angry Sly decided to skip the encore. He did promise a second appearance, but this never occurred. ―, Thursday, 30 May 2013 17:38 (four years ago). Vinyl from Light In The Attic Digable Planets Blowout Comb May 28th (Original Release Date: October 18, 1994) (Vinyl only) Modern Classics/Light In The Attic We are finally set to reissue Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn-based hip hop trio Digable Planets. The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant.
The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler (currently of Shabazz Palaces) said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: 'It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said. Like with 1993’s debut Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), ‘utilizing the natural’ meant creating hip hop that blended jazz with the formidable rap skills of the aforementioned Butterfly, Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving and Mary Ann ‘Ladybug Mecca’ Vieira. Unlike that debut, it meant broadening to include guests such as Gang Starr’s Guru, Jeru the Damaja, and Jazzy Joyce. Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut, they here set out to prove their artistic prowess. This is intelligent, alternative hip hop that sounded like party music.
Its lyrics are dense with wit, social commentary and politics – and its original inner sleeve was modeled on the newspaper of the Black Panther movement. Its instrumentation includes sax, vibraphone and flute. Its samples – gathered from global cratedigging trips while touring the first album around the world – included Grant Green, Eddie Harris, Shuggie Otis and jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers (whose “We Live in Brooklyn, Baby” became “Borough Check” here). And yet at the same time its beats are infectious and its spirit undeniable.
This is an album firmly rooted in Brooklyn. “Growing up hearing and cherishing this album, it created a textured soundscape of a mythical world of rhymes, jazz, breakbeats, culture, art and urban ambiance,” says DJ and fan Mick Boogie in the liner notes. “When I moved to Brooklyn years later, I found that the world I imagined while listening to this classic LP actually really existed” Though Digable Planets have reunited on occasion since – and though their influence endures in every top-shelf rap act with a jazzy sensibility – the trio parted ways after Blowout Comb, citing that old favorite 'creative differences”. Sometimes, the most volatile combinations create the best art.
- Limited edition first pressing with embossed cover and 18″×24″ fold-out poster - Liner notes by Larry Mizell Jr. - Subscribers receive lavender-colored wax - ON-LINE ONLY: White wax edition available to the first 150 pre-orders – DON’T SLEEP!(oops white's sold out) ―, Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:20 (four years ago). I was wondering about that; what's still in the vault? My understanding is that most of Rat Patrol at Fort Bragg is now accounted for (give or take a track or two), but I didn't know there was a lot of other stuff gathering dust. The vast majority of Mick Jones' mixes for 'Rat Patrol' are missing. These are often very different.
(In fact, I don't know of any of his mixes have been officially released.) The 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' demos are unreleased, as our several way-superior mixes. Several 'Sandinista!' Outtakes or demo-y things are unreleased. To name but a few things. ―, Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:30 (four years ago). Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings - Babineaux & Guidry, Angelas Le Jeune, & Blind Uncle Gaspard, 1929-1930 Available everywhere June 25th, 2013 on Tompkins Square This latest installment in the Long Gone Sound series features some of the rarest, most compelling tunes and heart-breaking songs from South-West Louisiana. Most of the performances on this collection have not been heard since they were originally recorded on 78 rpm disc and yet they serve as a discrete Rosetta Stone for the traditional Cajun and Creole repertoire that exists today.
Not to be understated, this collection features some of the most vexingly rare & valuable Cajun 78s ever recorded. Cajun discs such as those found in this release are valued not only for their magnificent artistry but also because of their desperate scarcity.
In the isolated back-water bayous & prairies of South-West Louisiana a profoundly unique and powerful form of indigenous music developed among the French speaking white Cajuns and black Creoles. Drawing from a rich range of cultural sounds, this music was first recorded in the 1920s & 1930s and featured such luminaries as Amede Ardoin, Dennis McGee and Joe & Cleoma Falcon. This special collection includes all of Percy Babineaux & Bixy Guidry's 1929 recordings and most of Angelas Le Jeune's 1929-1930 recordings with Denus McGee & Ernest Fruge. Found within is also the newly 'discovered' 78 of Blind Uncle Gaspard & Delma Lachney. Respectfully crafted by Christopher King, Susan Archie & Ron Brown for Tompkins Square. Tompkins Square distributed in North America by INgrooves/Fontana, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE for Australia.
Media queries: info at tompkins square dot com ―, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:26 (four years ago). Broadcom Usb Serial Adapter Driver. Kinks Muswell Hillbillies coming out in July as a deluxe 2CD dealie: Disc: 1 1.
Twentieth Century Man 2. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues 3.
Skin And Bone 5. Complicated Life 7. Here Come The People In Grey 8. Have A Cuppa Tea 9.
Holloway Jail 10. Oklahoma USA 11. Uncle Son 12. Muswell Hillbilly Disc: 2 1. Lavender Lane 2. Mountain Woman 3. Have A Cuppa Tea 4.
Muswell Hillbilly 5. Kentucky Moon 7. Nobody's Fool 8. 20th Century Man 9. 20th Century Man 10. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues 12.
Skin And Bone (I assume some of the duplicates on disc 2 are remixes; I've heard three distinct mixes of '20th Century Man') ―, Saturday, 8 June 2013 17:10 (four years ago). FORTY CLASSIC SIDES FROM SOUTHERN SOUL LABEL MINARET RECORDS REISSUED ON OMNIVORE RECORDS AUGUST 13 The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976 features Willie Cobbs, Big John Hamilton, Leroy Lloyd & the Dukes, Doris Allen and other under-the-radar soul greats. VALPARAISO, Fla. — For decades, Memphis and Muscle Shoals have been praised as the premier Southern soul recording capitals, and rightly so. But any comprehensive list of important R&B studio destinations should also include Valparaiso, located on Florida’s Panhandle, not far from the Alabama state line. That’s where Finley Duncan established the Playground Recording Studio in 1969, producing a series of stunning singles for his Minaret Records label (distributed by Shelby Singleton’s SSS International Records) that inexplicably avoided the charts but stand tall with legions of R&B aficionados.
Having explored the California East Bay’s vibrant soul/funk scene with its three-volume Music City Sessions, and solo outings by Darondo (Listen to My Song: The Music City Sessions) and The Two Things in One (Together Forever: The Music City Sessions), Omnivore Recordings now celebrates Southern R&B with The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976. Street date is August 13, 2013. This two-CD, 40-track collection gathers all of the A’s and B’s of Minaret’s soulful sides for the very first time.
Many of these tracks have been out of print for decades, commanding top dollar on the collector’s market. While the music is enticing enough, the package features a full-color booklet with extensive liner notes by music historian Bill Dahl detailing the history of the label and studio, as well as the stories of the artists whose work is showcased on these 20 singles. Minaret boasted a stable of soul and blues artists who were rich in talent, even if not in hits. Big John Hamilton was one of Minaret’s anchoring artists, represented here with 18 tracks (including four duets with Doris Allen).
Among his backing musicians were Muscle Shoals stalwart Spooner Oldham and the Memphis Horns. Hamilton was managed by fellow Minaret artist and guitarist Leroy Lloyd, whose instrumental “Sewanee Strut” is featured here. No Minaret artist boasted the track record of harpist Willie Cobbs, best known for the widely covered blues classic “You Don’t Love Me.” His 1968 session (“I’ll Love Only You” “Don’t Worry About Me”) is included in this collection. Featuring photographs and commentary from Playground staff past and present, The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976 adds to Omnivore’s reputation as “the Smithsonian of record labels, finding, preserving and championing some of the greatest (and most endangered) music of the past 50 years,” according to Popshifter’s Cait Brennan. If you’re wondering which side of the street has the best music, it’s South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976.
Has this been mentioned yet? I think it's a straight reish, no unreleased stuff.killer all around though. DEVO - Hardcore DEVO's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob, and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of 'devolved blues' that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros. Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n' roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It's no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album.
Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO's long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof. Few moments in pop music history can match the grinding, pent-up energy of 'Mongoloid' and the spastic bounce and sputter of 'Jocko Homo' (two anthems presented in their earlier and superior versions here).
Cult favorites like 'Mechanical Man' and 'Auto-Modown' make Volume 1 essential listening. Volume 2 digs further into the band's cranial bunker with the caveman hit 'Be Stiff,' the space age surf-blues of 'Clockout' and even a demented take on bubblegum pop, 'Goo Goo Itch.' This 2xLP set includes four previously unreleased tracks: 'Man From The Past,' 'Doghouse Doghouse,' 'Hubert House,' and 'Shimmy Shake.' From Henry Rollins' liner notes to the CD version: 'Hardcore is not some barrel bottom scrape in a desperate attempt to pilfer your billfold! This is pure DEVO – the sweetest crude, straight from the source!' Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO's Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha's stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed 'the band of the future.'
―, Monday, 10 June 2013 15:38 (four years ago). That cajun comp looks great. All the stuff chris king has worked on is lovely. I just got the LP version of his 'Five Days Married And Other Laments' which collects records recorded in Athens made mostly in the twenties and thirties with a few later issues.
Really gorgeous and mindblowing stuff. Highly recommended. Also his set 'Amer et Perdre' is lovely -- has some cajun material on it alongside country and some eastern european fiddle records as well. ―, Monday, 10 June 2013 17:21 (four years ago). Pre-Dirty Three from Drag City: The Venom P.
Stinger retrospective is on! One of the roughest groups of the 80s is back in print on vinyl and the first time ever on CD, and still nice and hard and rough and wild on either format. File under: punk rock/noise rock/free-of-constraints rock.
If you think of Venom P. Stinger simply as the proving ground for 2/3rds of the Dirty Three first, then you're seriously missing the point. Drag City is releasing all four vinyl releases (two LPs, a 7', and a 12'), as well as a 2xCD collection called 1986-1991, which compiles all those releases onto some very compact discs, all hitting the streets on August 20th, 2013.
Stinger - Meet My Friend Venom LP Venom P. Stinger - What's Yours Is Mine LP Venom P. Stinger - 'Walking About' b/w '26 Milligrams' 7' Venom P.
Stinger - Waiting Room 12' To commemorate this momentous occasion, Mick Turner has dug deep into the archives to literally salvage a glorious, circa mid-80s cover of the Rick James classic, 'Superfreak.' The tape disintegrated as it was being played, but not before the track was transferred.
It features Mick on keys and Paula Henderson on sax. It was premiered on SPIN earlier today. LISTEN TO 'SUPERFREAK' (RICK JAMES COVER) '>THE LEGEND OF VENOM P. STINGER It was the mid-80s and everything was going fine. Nobody down below had any great plans, they were just playing in bands. Melbourne had launched the career of the legendary Birthday Party, but that lot was long gone and there were loads of other interesting and great things going on.
Like Sick Things for instance. Dugald McKenzie and Mick Turner were part of that extremely raw and intense band, whose 'Committed to Suicide' had changed so many lives (for the better!). Mick had played as well in The Moodists and was in Fungus Brains and some others. Also on the scene was Jim White, who was playing in several bands, including People With Chairs Up Their Noses and the Feral Dinosaurs. It was a small group of people playing in bands like these back in mid-80s Melbourne and probably only a matter of time before they played in the same band together. And so, they did. Stinger attacked in a modified, somewhat streamlined hardcore punk style, with Mick's burnt-and-twisted guitar tone setting them apart.
Also unique was Jim White's drumming, which appeared to be born of a drum roll that grows and grows until it has eclipsed the entire kit, played with casual aplomb while never sparing the rod to any aimed-for surface. Meanwhile, bassist Alan Secher-Jensen nailed these loosely divergent styles together with nice heavy root notes. Instead of the violent pile-up that occurred in every Sick Things recording, there was instead something more organized, though coming from unique and indeed, singular corners of approach: post-hardcore with a very individual style. Unchanged from Sick Things days, however, was frontman Dugald McKenzie, whose vocalizing was a ferocious, largely apolitical transference of personal experience, all about conveying the awful qualities of life with throaty sensuousness and dirty glee. This was an unfiltered view of his day-to-day, which involved partying with drink and drugs and other low types drinking and doing drugs and not having responsibility for anything, other than getting more drink and drugs. A band with this kind of errant power fronted by a reprobate like Dugald, it made for madly entertaining shows!
And records, as well. So Dugald lived as rough as he sang, which was fine, everyone wanted to have fun, and when he stopped showing up to rehearsals and gigs, the rest of the band continued on with Nick Palmer on the mic. He was good, but Venom P. Stinger wasn't the same; something deeply psychotic was missing.
For Mick and Jim, the next step was a band that didn't rehearse at all. And a new chap named Warren Ellis had just hit town. ―, Monday, 10 June 2013 22:22 (four years ago). NUMERO'S TIN ANNIVERSARY Greetings Numerophiles- In a few days, The Numero Group will turn 10. There will be no party and no concert, no cakes or speeches. Turning 10 in regular life guarantees no pageantry, nor does 20 (though 21 does get grandly celebrated). Given our current pace, we might turn 30 before breaking out any streamers.
When last we wrote, Numero was on track to issue 50 unique records in 2013. This burnout pace is likely to continue through our Bar Mitzvah year and our Sweet Sixteen, resulting in a premature rehab stint at the front end of our third decade. With that in mind, Numero's second 10 years is shaping up to be a period of intense discovery.
We'll continue to mine the '80s and '90s via our 200 lineand you can go ahead and expect more garage, hard rock, metal, and punk in the 700 series. JR continues to expand, reissuing obscure LPs in no-frills packaging at a price us pre-teens can all afford. Eccentric Soul, the middle-aged father of Numero lines, should turn 50 sometime next year as we delve deeper into the world of unreleased R&B singles recorded last century. And, sure, our cousins at Cali-Tex and Numerophon might actually issue more than one album a year. And as for our spinally numbered and colored mainline? We'll crack 050 (and 050.5) this fall with a spine of purple and gold, emphasis on the purple. A board game is in development at the 048 position, sequels to Capsoul and Kid Soul peek over the horizon, and new additions to Cult Cargo and Local Customs rent space on our whiteboard. Ten years ago, a couple unemployed jerks got together in a fourth-floor walk-up and said, 'Let's start a record label.'
As the decade elapsed, we concerned ourselves with one thing, and one thing only: The making of great records. Why stop now? Jukebox Futures 003. One LP subscription to rule them all 004. Coming Attractions 001. New songbooks for your budding enthusiasm in Christ After straying from the flock for the last year, we return triumphantly to the pulpit with not one, not two, not three, but four (!) new chapters in our hymn book. Lazy religious metaphors aside, this 2013 class of gospel music is a heady mix, with pages ripped from outsider sects, free-form Baptists, and an accidentally psychedelic priest.
Apocryphal Hymns 2LP/CD/Digital The third installment in our series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genres lesser-known disciples. Here, heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, a bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message. In homage to the the stock jacket record industry of the 1970s, select one of these four alternate covers: Woodland Twilight, Seashore Morning, Mountain Waterfall, and Sunbeam Canyon.
We even made a late-night informercial. Watch and learn.
On second thought, don't worry about learning. Johnson: 'EverythingGod Is Love '78 LP For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. EverythingGod Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otiss own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes.
Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional other voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions. King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label LP/Digital On Clevelands late 60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddies lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfields robe-wearing roots.
Founded by gospel impresario James Bullard, BOS is the first chapter in story that includes stints producing major spiritual albums for the Birthright, Roadshow, and Word labels. BOS got its start inside Lester Johnson and Bill Branchs Way Out concern, running the devotional wing of Clevelands largest black-owned record company, and picking up a ton of Way Outs soulful flavor in the process.
Compiled here are BOSs less traditional moments12 bridges between FM R&B and AM sermons from a time when those worlds were splitting apart. The Sixth Station: Deep Night LP/Digital A raw cry from the dark night of one mans soul. Cloistered away from the popular culture of 1982, rural Illinois priest Tony Trosley painted a pastoral refraction of early 1970s Laurel Canyon watercolors with this stand-alone set of songs. Openhearted and naively psychedelic, Deep Night was recorded during a single pre-dawn marathon, and mixed live to tape in an isolated chapel. Cobbled together out of local players to help fill out this ethereal soundscape, Trosleys band brought an earnest but bluntly unsophisticated backdrop to his phaser-drenched 12-string guitar. The Sixth Stationnamed for a grim New Testament tableau in which Veronica washes the tortured face of Jesusmanaged to avoid overtly Christian themes in favor of a mystical Humanism that resonates timelessly, and to any sort of listener.
This Deep Night is as profound and eerie as the images conjured by its title. Our cup of 45s runneth over Three new additions to our ongoing Eccentric Soul 45 series have emerged: James Dockery 'My Faith In You Is All Gone' b/w 'Giving You The Love You Need' A few years before Maurice.
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