Chondritic Sound – 162
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VA - 2013 - Your Victorian Breasts 2xLP
Three:four records – 017
The comp's range stretches from demos (Date Palms, Arlt) to soundtracks (Roger Tellier-Craig), archival material shelved for years (Supreme Dicks), cover songs (Bridget St John as revisited by Alvarius B, Daniel Johnston by Circuit des Yeux, and an anonymous Serbian ballad by Eric Chenaux), live takes (Mendrugo, Syracuse Ear) and new studio works (Robert Hampson, Corridors, ...).
Track Listing
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[01/20] Phase IV (excerpt) (A R P) (5:40) 320 kbps 13.08 MB
[02/20] Do Not Wake Me (Ignatz) (4:00) 320 kbps 9.22 MB
[03/20] Where the Oyster remains shut; and the Mole pisses at the sun, extinguishing its Light (Filipe Felizardo) (4:44) 320 kbps 10.90 MB
[04/20] Tu m'as encore crevé un cheval (Arlt) (4:20) 320 kbps 10.00 MB
[05/20] A Portrait of Sarah (William Tyler) (6:09) 320 kbps 14.19 MB
[06/20] Retour à la chaleur (Robert Hampson) (6:55) 320 kbps 15.92 MB
[07/20] New Heart of Darkness (Alastair Galbraith) (2:37) 320 kbps 6.03 MB
[08/20] Dust Bowl Theme (demo) (Date Palms) (3:04) 320 kbps 7.10 MB
[09/20] Transit (Roger Tellier-Craig) (4:11) 320 kbps 9.64 MB
[10/20] Nord (Black To Comm) (5:04) 320 kbps 11.67 MB
[11/20] Na Te Mislim (Eric Chenaux) (6:34) 320 kbps 15.15 MB
[12/20] Earth of Vitreous (Syracuse Ear) (4:11) 320 kbps 9.63 MB
[13/20] What Comes (Hamilton Yarns) (5:40) 320 kbps 13.06 MB
[14/20] Broken Ellipses (Corridors) (5:05) 320 kbps 11.74 MB
[15/20] Mésanges (Pigeons) (3:55) 320 kbps 9.05 MB
[16/20] Goodbaby Goodbye (Alvarius B) (2:58) 320 kbps 6.86 MB
[17/20] Despair Came Knocking (Circuit des Yeux) (3:56) 320 kbps 9.08 MB
[18/20] Estrella Fugaz (Mendrugo) (3:34) 320 kbps 8.24 MB
[19/20] My Boy is a Good Child, Sleep (Raajmahal) (8:44) 320 kbps 20.13 MB
[20/20] 4 Come In (For Gaelle) (Supreme Dicks) (3:07) 320 kbps 7.19 MB
Total number of files: 20
Total size of files: 217.95 MB
Total playing time: 94:28
Total size of files: 217.95 MB
Total playing time: 94:28
VA - (2013) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) 6xLP
Third Man Records – 203
How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in ‘The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932,’ an epic, two-volume omnibus of art, words and music housed in a limited-edition, hand-sculpted cabinet-of-wonder, to be jointly released by Jack White’s Third Man Records and John Fahey’s Revenant Records.
‘Volume One,’ which covers the label’s improbable rise from 1917-1927, will be released exclusively through Third Man on October 29, and worldwide on November 19. The project is co-produced by leading Paramount authority Alex van der Tuuk, and ‘Volume 2’ will be released in November 2014.
Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available. Over its lifetime, the label would become a “race records” powerhouse, its sound and fortunes directly linked to the Great Migration.
By the time Paramount ceased operations in 1932, it had compiled a dizzying array of performers still unrivaled to this day, spanning early jazz titans (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller), blues masters (Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Skip James), American divas (Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters), gospel (Norfolk Jubilee Quartette), vaudeville (Papa Charlie Jackson), and the indefinable “other” (Geeshie Wiley, Elvie Thomas). Paramount would also directly influence the style of Robert Crumb and countless other 20th century artists and illustrators, through a series of hand-drawn ads promoting its releases in the pages of the Chicago Defender.
The ‘Rise and Fall’ wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship; original and newly created graphic art; industrial design; and a compelling analog to digital download music experience. ‘Volume One’ contains the following:
Tracklist
A1 –Sister Cunningham And T.C.I. Sacred Singers Sign Of Judgement
A2 –Blind Blake Dry Bone Shuffle
A3 –Jimmy O'Bryant's Famous Original Washboard Band My Man Rocks Me
A4 –Danny Small And Ukelele Mays Sweet Georgia Brown
A5 –Handy's Memphis Blues Band St. Louis Blues
A6 –Bo Weavil Jackson Pistol Blues
A7 –Harkreader And Moore Old Joe Clark
B1 –Papa Charlie Jackson Coffee Pot Blues
B2 –Jones' Paramount Charleston Four Old Steady Roll
B3 –Famous Jubilee Singers Wait 'Till I Put On My Robe
B4 –Jimmy Blythe And His Ragamuffins Messin' Around
B5 –Banjo Joe Madison Street Rag
B6 –Lottie Beaman Mama's Can't Lose
B7 –Sunset Four Barnum's Steam Calliope
C1 –O'Bryant's Washboard Band Skoodlum Blues
C2 –Norfolk Jazz Quartette Jelly Roll's First Cousin
C3 –Alberta Hunter Come On Home
C4 –Lone Star Fiddlers Drunk Man's Blues
C5 –The Washingtonians Rainy Nights
C6 –Ida Cox How Long Daddy, How Long
C7 –Jelly Roll Morton's Steamboat Four Mr. Jelly Lord
D1 –Viola Bartlette Anna Mina Forty And St. Louis Shorty
D2 –Ida Cox Coffin Blues
D3 –Blythe's Sinful Five Pump Tillie
D4 –Beale Street Sheiks You Shall
D5 –C.H. Gatewood Well Of Salvation
D6 –John Williams' Synco Jazzers Goose Grease
D7 –Ethel Waters And The Jazz Masters Brown Baby
E1 –Leola B. Wilson Dying Blues
E2 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Charleston Mad
E3 –Pace Jubilee Singers Certainly Lord
E4 –Blanche Johnson 216 Blues
E5 –Junie Cobb's Home Town Band Chicago Buzz
E6 –Ed Bell Mamlish Blues
E7 –North Carolina Ramblers And Roy Harvey I'm Glad I'm Married
E8 –Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings Steady Roll
F1 –Nelson's Paramount Serenaders Nelson Blues
F2 –T.C.I. Section Crew Track Linin'
F3 –Ma Rainey Bessemer Bound Blues
F4 –William And Versey Smith Everybody Help The Blues Come Home
F5 –Dixon's Jazz Maniacs Crazy Quilt
F6 –Buddy Boy Hawkins Shaggy Dog Blues
F7 –Trixie Smith My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll
F8 –Ollie Powers Jazzbo Jenkins
G1 –J. Churchill Sleep Baby Sleep
G2 –Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals Salty Dog
G3 –Rev. James Beard Memory Of Departed Friends
G4 –Big Bill And Thomps House Rent Stomp
G5 –Ukulele “Bob” Williams West Indies Blues
G6 –Sodarisa Miller Nobody Knows
G7 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Steppin' On The Blues
G8 –Watts And Wilson Walk Right In Belmont
H1 –Norfolk Jubilee Quartette When I Was A Moaner
H2 –Wilson's T.O.B.A. Band Steady Roll
H3 –Rev. W.M. Clark And Sisters Satan At Church
H4 –Ethel Waters' Jazz Masters Pacific Coast Blues
H5 –Papa Charlie Jackson Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants
H6 –Marion Harrison Baby Can't You Understand
H7 –Wood's Famous Blind Jubilee Singers Seek And Ye Shall Find
I1 –Blind Connie Rosemond Will My Mother Know Me There
I2 –Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band Hot Hot Hottentot
I3 –Four Harmony Kings Ain't It A Shame
I4 –Lena Wilson The Wicked Fives' Blues
I5 –James Blythe Armour Ave. Struggle
I6 –Elzadie Robinson Houston Bound
I7 –D.C. Nelson's Serenaders Coo Coo Stomp
J1 –Bo Weavil Jackson You Can't Keep No Brown
J2 –Jasper Taylor And His State Street Boys Stomp Time Blues
J3 –Rev. T.T. Rose And Gospel Singers I've Got A Hiding Place
J4 –Osey Helton Cacklin' Hen
J5 –Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools Fade Away Blues
J6 –Sweet Papa Stovepipe Mama's Angel Child
J7 –Edmonia Henderson Black Man Blues
K1 –Jack Penewell Hen House Blues
K2 –Pickett-Parham Apollo Syncopators Mojo Strut
K3 –Rev. M.L. Gipson And Various Sympathetic Christ
K4 –Ethel Waters And Her Jazz Masters That Da Da Strain
K5 –Blind Lemon Jefferson Wartime Blues
K6 –Dixie-Land Thumpers There'll Come A Day
K7 –Wiseman Sextette With Various Oh Calvary
L1 –Chicago De Lux Orchestra St. Louis Blues
L2 –Johnnie Blakey On This Rock I Will Build My Church
L3 –Alberta Hunter Don't Pan Me
L4 –Ollie Powers' Orchestra Play That Thing
L5 –Homer Quincy Smith I Want Jesus To Talk With Me
L6 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Peepin' Blues
L7 –Danny Small And Ukelele Mays Cecilia
A5 –Handy's Memphis Blues Band St. Louis Blues
A6 –Bo Weavil Jackson Pistol Blues
A7 –Harkreader And Moore Old Joe Clark
B1 –Papa Charlie Jackson Coffee Pot Blues
B2 –Jones' Paramount Charleston Four Old Steady Roll
B3 –Famous Jubilee Singers Wait 'Till I Put On My Robe
B4 –Jimmy Blythe And His Ragamuffins Messin' Around
B5 –Banjo Joe Madison Street Rag
B6 –Lottie Beaman Mama's Can't Lose
B7 –Sunset Four Barnum's Steam Calliope
C1 –O'Bryant's Washboard Band Skoodlum Blues
C2 –Norfolk Jazz Quartette Jelly Roll's First Cousin
C3 –Alberta Hunter Come On Home
C4 –Lone Star Fiddlers Drunk Man's Blues
C5 –The Washingtonians Rainy Nights
C6 –Ida Cox How Long Daddy, How Long
C7 –Jelly Roll Morton's Steamboat Four Mr. Jelly Lord
D1 –Viola Bartlette Anna Mina Forty And St. Louis Shorty
D2 –Ida Cox Coffin Blues
D3 –Blythe's Sinful Five Pump Tillie
D4 –Beale Street Sheiks You Shall
D5 –C.H. Gatewood Well Of Salvation
D6 –John Williams' Synco Jazzers Goose Grease
D7 –Ethel Waters And The Jazz Masters Brown Baby
E1 –Leola B. Wilson Dying Blues
E2 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Charleston Mad
E3 –Pace Jubilee Singers Certainly Lord
E4 –Blanche Johnson 216 Blues
E5 –Junie Cobb's Home Town Band Chicago Buzz
E6 –Ed Bell Mamlish Blues
E7 –North Carolina Ramblers And Roy Harvey I'm Glad I'm Married
E8 –Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings Steady Roll
F1 –Nelson's Paramount Serenaders Nelson Blues
F2 –T.C.I. Section Crew Track Linin'
F3 –Ma Rainey Bessemer Bound Blues
F4 –William And Versey Smith Everybody Help The Blues Come Home
F5 –Dixon's Jazz Maniacs Crazy Quilt
F6 –Buddy Boy Hawkins Shaggy Dog Blues
F7 –Trixie Smith My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll
F8 –Ollie Powers Jazzbo Jenkins
G1 –J. Churchill Sleep Baby Sleep
G2 –Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals Salty Dog
G3 –Rev. James Beard Memory Of Departed Friends
G4 –Big Bill And Thomps House Rent Stomp
G5 –Ukulele “Bob” Williams West Indies Blues
G6 –Sodarisa Miller Nobody Knows
G7 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Steppin' On The Blues
G8 –Watts And Wilson Walk Right In Belmont
H1 –Norfolk Jubilee Quartette When I Was A Moaner
H2 –Wilson's T.O.B.A. Band Steady Roll
H3 –Rev. W.M. Clark And Sisters Satan At Church
H4 –Ethel Waters' Jazz Masters Pacific Coast Blues
H5 –Papa Charlie Jackson Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants
H6 –Marion Harrison Baby Can't You Understand
H7 –Wood's Famous Blind Jubilee Singers Seek And Ye Shall Find
I1 –Blind Connie Rosemond Will My Mother Know Me There
I2 –Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band Hot Hot Hottentot
I3 –Four Harmony Kings Ain't It A Shame
I4 –Lena Wilson The Wicked Fives' Blues
I5 –James Blythe Armour Ave. Struggle
I6 –Elzadie Robinson Houston Bound
I7 –D.C. Nelson's Serenaders Coo Coo Stomp
J1 –Bo Weavil Jackson You Can't Keep No Brown
J2 –Jasper Taylor And His State Street Boys Stomp Time Blues
J3 –Rev. T.T. Rose And Gospel Singers I've Got A Hiding Place
J4 –Osey Helton Cacklin' Hen
J5 –Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools Fade Away Blues
J6 –Sweet Papa Stovepipe Mama's Angel Child
J7 –Edmonia Henderson Black Man Blues
K1 –Jack Penewell Hen House Blues
K2 –Pickett-Parham Apollo Syncopators Mojo Strut
K3 –Rev. M.L. Gipson And Various Sympathetic Christ
K4 –Ethel Waters And Her Jazz Masters That Da Da Strain
K5 –Blind Lemon Jefferson Wartime Blues
K6 –Dixie-Land Thumpers There'll Come A Day
K7 –Wiseman Sextette With Various Oh Calvary
L1 –Chicago De Lux Orchestra St. Louis Blues
L2 –Johnnie Blakey On This Rock I Will Build My Church
L3 –Alberta Hunter Don't Pan Me
L4 –Ollie Powers' Orchestra Play That Thing
L5 –Homer Quincy Smith I Want Jesus To Talk With Me
L6 –Lovie Austin And Her Blues Serenaders Peepin' Blues
L7 –Danny Small And Ukelele Mays Cecilia
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
VA - 2014 - The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records: Volume 2 (1928-1932) 6xLP
Third Man Records – 204
The first volume in this collection was called "spectacular" (New York Times), "unprecedented" (Rolling Stone), "breathtaking" (Boing Boing), and "a cabinet of wonder, indeed" (Pitchfork).
On November 18, Third Man and Revenant proudly bring you The Rise & Fall of Paramount, Volume Two - already being hailed by Wired as "the ultimate box set of iconic American music."
Volume One (1917-27) chronicled Paramount's improbable rise from also-ran to jazz-blues juggernaut, launching the recording careers of giants like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey, Papa Charlie Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Fats Waller. Order Volume One here.
But just as it seemed Paramount might be losing steam, it began a second act that threatened to dwarf its first. This astonishing second act is the subject of The Rise & Fall of Paramount, Volume Two (1928-32), the final chapter in our commemoration of America's greatest record label.
In its final 5 year push from 1928-32, Paramount embarked on a furious run for the ages, birthing the entire genre of Mississippi Delta blues recordings and issuing some of the most coveted records in the history of wax - a staggering playlist including Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Willie Brown, King Solomon Hill, Tampa Red, Lottie Kimbrough, Rube Lacy, Meade Lux Lewis, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Jaydee Short, George "Bullet" Williams, Cow Cow Davenport, Clifford Gibson, Ishman Bracey, Louise Johnson, Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas, The Mississippi Sheiks. and hundreds of other artists.
Paramount simply killed. But more than that, it changed how this country thought of itself. It was the first enterprise of any kind to capture what America really sounded like in the 1920s and '30s - on its street corners, at its fish fries and country suppers, in its nightclubs and dance halls and showtents. In the process, it was profit-minded Paramount - not a preservationist body like the Library of Congress - that inadvertently created the most significant repository of this young nation's greatest art form.
Six LPs, housed in a polished aluminum case evoking the era's high art deco stylings and America's own Machine Age take on modernist design.
A joint release by Third Man and Revenant, co-produced by leading Paramount scholar Alex van der Tuuk, with all Paramount masters issued under license agreement with GHB Jazz Foundation.
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For a decade, Paramount Records was one the most influential labels in the country. Now, a two box set collection tracks its rise and fall in the early 20th century...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
This music is part of the legacy of Paramount Records. The label was an offshoot of the Wisconsin Chair Company created in 1917 to help sell the phonographs the furniture company built. As one music expert put it, it was like Apple creating iTunes in order to sell iPods. Paramount was incredibly influential in its 15-year run. And now its classic recordings are available in a pair of limited edition box sets called "The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records." Meredith Ochs has been delving into that history.
MEREDITH OCHS, BYLINE: In the late 1920s, Paramount Records was struggling. As the Great Depression set in, their cash flow dried up. New technology began to make their scratchy-sounding, cheaply-made records less desirable. And the public's taste in music was evolving. Paramount scrambled to keep up, their talent scouts searching the American South and West for the next big thing. But even as it was slowly failing, the label discovered some of the most influential figures in American music, like Delta bluesman Charley Patton. A top seller for Paramount, Patton was famous for flashy moves like playing guitar behind his head.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PONY BLUES")
CHARLEY PATTON: (Singing) Tell you when I get out, yeah, I don't want to marry - just want to be your man.
OCHS: Paramount folded in 1933, shutting down so abruptly that employees were offered master recordings in lieu of payment - or so the story goes. The workers supposedly responded by tossing these priceless artifacts into the Milwaukee River. But every now and then, a lost treasure resurfaces.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUN TO SUN")
BLIND BLAKE: (Singing) A man can worry from sun to sun.
OCHS: Like this 1931 Blind Blake recording, found just eight years ago at a mobile home park in North Carolina.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUN TO SUN")
BLIND BLAKE: (Singing) But a woman's worries have just begun.
OCHS: After Paramount shut down, some of its artists quit music for decades. Virginia banjo virtuoso Dock Boggs was one of them.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FALSEHEARTED LOVER'S BLUES")
DOCK BOGGS: (Singing) I'm sure my falsehearted lover will drive me to my lonesome grave.
OCHS: With alternate tunings and finger-pick melodies, his style was innovative and haunting. But he had to earn a living. So he went back to what he knew, working as a coal miner for many years, before he was rediscovered during the 1960s folk revival.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FALSEHEARTED LOVER'S BLUES")
BOGGS: (Singing) From your heartstrings weave silk garters. Build their dog house on your grave.
OCHS: This second volume of the Paramount Records story is a painstakingly-assembled scholarly project that never loses its magic in the details. The sheer number of songs is remarkable - 800 of them, by 175 artists, ghostly voices that tell the stories of sharecroppers, women who hadn't yet won the right to vote when the label was founded and even bootleggers. This collection effectively shows how these artists laid the groundwork for so much contemporary roots and rock music. And the history of Paramount itself is just as fascinating, a tale of race, region, economics and our evolving culture in the early 20th century.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TERRIBLE MURDER BLUES")
BERTHA HENDERSON: (Singing) I can't take it no more.
SIEGEL: Meredith Ochs is a talk show host and DJ at SiriusXM Radio. She reviewed the double box set "The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records."
Tracklist
A1 –Skip James I'm So Glad (Pm 13098, L-759-1) 2:50
A2 –Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Knocking Down Casey Jones (Bwy 8248, 2455--) 3:12
A3 –Mississippi Sheiks Please Baby (Pm 13153, L-1562-2) 3:35
A4 –The Famous Blue Jay Singers Of Birmingham Alabama Clanka A Lanka (Sleep On Mother) (Pm 13119, L-1230-1) 3:08
A5 –Charley Patton I'm Goin' Home (Pm 12883, 15227--) 3:15
A6 –Dixie Four Five O'Clock Stomp (Pm 12674, 20657-1) 2:35
A7 –Clifford Gibson Tired Of Being Mistreated Part 1 (QRS R7079, 484 - A) 3:10
B1 –Carver Boys Tim Brook (Pm 3199, 15546--) 2:11
B2 –Jabo Williams Jab Blues (Pm 13141, L-1404-2) 3:23
B3 –Elvie Thomas Motherless Child Blues (Pm 12977, L-264-2) 3:22
B4 –Bob Coleman Tear It Down (Pm 12731, 21102-1) 2:50
B5 –Soileau & Robin Easy Rider Blues (Pm 12808, 15344--) 2:56
B6 –The Tub Jug Washboard Band San (Pm 12671, 20671-2) 3:04
B7 –Bessie Mae Smith And Wesley Wallace St. Louis Daddy (Pm 12922, L-78-1) 3:05
C1 –Lottie Kimbrough Rolling Log Blues (Pm 12850, 14162--) 3:18
C2 –Cow Cow Davenport Chimes Blues (Ch 15726, 14978--) 3:19
C3 –Edward Thompson West Virginia Blues (Pm 13018, 2416-A) 3:10
C4 –Biddleville Quintette Wasn't That A Mighty Day (Pm 12845, 422-A) 2:52
C5 –Blind Blake - Charlie Spand Hastings St. (Pm 12863, 15457--) 3:15
C6 –Emry Arthur Reuben Oh Reuben (Pm 3237, L-107-1) 3:00
C7 –Skip James Special Rider Blues (Pm 13098, L-760-2) 3:03
D1 –Ollie Hess Mammy's Lullaby (Bwy 8322, L-1369-1) 4:03
D2 –King Solomon Hill The Gone Dead Train (Ch 50022, L-1254-2 3:21
D3 –Blind Arthur Groom And Bro., Blind Roosevelt Graves Take Your Burdens To The Lord (Pm 12874, 15645-A) 3:12
D4 –Blind Leroy Garnett Louisiana Glide (Pm 12879, 15767--) 3:11
D5 –Winston Holmes And Charlie Turner Rounders Lament (Pm 12798, 15259--) 3:07
D6 –Willie Brown M & O Blues (Ch 50023, L-413-2) 3:05
D7 –Norfolk Jazz Quartette Oh What Is The Matter Now (Pm 12844, 6112-1)3:18 3:06
E1 –The Hokum Boys Gamblers Blues (St. James Infirmary Blues) (Pm 12897, 21463-1) 2:49
E2 –Charley Patton High Water Everywhere - Part I (Pm 12909, L-59-1 3:05
E3 –Windy Rhythm Kings South African Blues (Pm 12770, 21255-1) 3:15
E4 –Emry Arthur And Della Hatfield A Railroad Lover For Me (Bwy 8266, L-132-2) 2:52
E5 –Jaydee Short Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (Pm 13043, L-468-1) 2:52
E6 –James Wiggins Frisco Bound (Pm 12860, 15769-A) 3:20
E7 –Tommy Settlers & His Blues Moaner Big Bed Bug (Pm 13056, L-603-1) 2:38
E8 –King Solomon Hill Down On My Bended Knee (Cr 3325, L-1253-2) 2:56
F1 –Bogus Ben Covington Adam And Eve In The Garden (Pm 12693, 20863-1) 2:42
F2 –Son House Walkin' Blues (Pm Unissued, 9/2#1) 2:57
F3 –Dobby Bragg Fire Detective Blues (Pm 12827, 15557--) 3:09
F4 –Skip James Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Pm 13065, L-752-2) 2:51
F5 –Walter And Byrd Wasn't It Sad About Lemon (Pm 12945, L-276-3) 3:03
F6 –Blind Joe Reynolds Cold Woman Blues (Pm 12983, L-147-3) 2:57
F7 –Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Sleepy Desert (Pm 3282, 2463--) 3:06
F8 –Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Blues (Pm 12951, L-257-4) 3:01
G1 –Johnnie Head Fare Thee Well - Part II (Pm 12628, 20275-2) 2:38
G2 –Slim Barton & Eddie Mapp Wicked Treatin' Blues (QRS R7089, 471-A) 2:58
G3 –B.L. Pritchard Acc. By Scottdale String Band Stone Mountain Wobble (Pm 3320, L-1503-2) 3:22
G4 –Ma Rainey Black Eye Blues (Pm Unissued, 20898-1) 3:21
G5 –Teddy Darby Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues (Pm 12828, 15566--) 3:07
G6 –Little Brother Montgomery Vicksburg Blues (Pm 13006, L-502-1) 3:00
G7 –Charley Patton Jim Lee Blues - Part I (Pm 13080, L-57-2) 3:05
H1 –Blind Willie Davis When The Saints Go Marching In (Pm 12658, 20298--) 1:58
H2 –Clarence Williams And His Orchestra Long, Deep And Wide (QRS R7004, 151-) 2:29
H3 –Rube Lacy Mississippi Jail House Groan (Pm 12629, 20419-2) 3:26
H4 –'Boodle It' Wiggins Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In (Pm 12662, 20378-1) 2:44
H5 –Son House Dry Spell Blues - Part I (Pm 12990, L-425-4) 3:12
H6 –Skip James If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road (Pm 13066, L-766-1) 2:56
H7 –The Mississippi Sheiks Tell Me To Do Right (Pm 13156, L-1550-2) 3:33
H8 –Elder J.J. Hadley Prayer Of Death - Part 2 (Pm 12799, 15225-A)1:58 2:48
I1 –The Famous Blue Jay Singers Of Birmingham Alabama I Declare My Mother Ought To Live Right (Ch 50026, L-1245-2) 3:03
I2 –Ishman Bracey Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2) 3:26
I3 –Clarence Black And His Savoy Trio 'Cause I Feel Low Down (Pm 12683, 20776-2) 2:38
I4 –Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie (Pm 12888, 15459-A) 2:58
I5 –Frank Palmes Troubled 'Bout My Soul (Pm 12893, 21413-2) 2:53
I6 –Charley Patton Rattlesnake Blues (Pm 12924, L-63-2) 2:47
I7 –The Hokum Boys Only The Blues (Pm Unissued, 21073-2U 2:54
I8 –Blind Joe Taggart He Done What The World Couldn't Do (Pm Unissued, L-699-2) 3:01
J1 –The Mississippi Sheiks The New Stop And Listen (Pm 13134, L-1551-3) 3:50
J2 –Brother Fullbosom A Sermon On A Silver Dollar (Pm 13078, L-866-1) 3:03
J3 –Blind Joe Reynolds Nehi Blues (Pm 12927, L-146-2) 3:14
J4 –Bill Moore One Way Gal (Pm 12648, 20309-1) 3:18
J5 –Skip James Devil Got My Woman (Pm 13088, L-746-1) 3:01
J6 –Louise Johnson By The Moon And Stars (Pm 13008, L-420-2) 2:53
J7 –Mr. Freddie Spruell Tom Cat Blues (Pm 12665, 20727-2) 3:07
K1 –Son House My Black Mama - Part II (Pm 13042, L-409-2) 3:16
K2 –Virginia Dandies God’s Getting Worried (Cr 3145, 1221-1) 2:42
K3 –Jesse Johnson And His Singers I Wish I Had Died In Egyptland - Pt. I (Pm 12829, 15570--) 3:24
K4 –Geeshie Wiley Pick Poor Robin Clean (Pm 13074, L-824-1) 3:14
K5 –Blind Lemon Jefferson See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Pm 12608, 20374-1) 2:54
K6 –George "Bullet" Williams The Escaped Convict (Pm 12651, 20593-2) 2:59
K7 –Tommy Johnson Lonesome Home Blues (Pm 13000, L-230-2) 3:08
L1 –Mandel Terry And Orchestra Black And Tan Fantasy (Bwy 1498, L-1199-2) 3:37
L2 –Kentucky Ramblers Good Cocaine (Mama Don't Allow It) (Bwy 8271, L-552-2) 3:18
L3 –Blind Joe Taggart In That Pearly White City Above (Pm 13059, L-703-2) 3:08
L4 –Walter Hawkins A Rag Blues (Pm 12814, 15212--) 3:00
L5 –Bessie Mae Smith Farewell Baby Blues (Pm 12922, L-90-2) 2:56
L6 –Blind Willie Davis I Believe I'll Go Back Home (Pm 12979, L-113-1)e (Pm 12979, L-113-1) 3:06
L7 –Lottie Kimbrough Going Away Blues (Pm 12850, 14163-A) 2:41
On November 18, Third Man and Revenant proudly bring you The Rise & Fall of Paramount, Volume Two - already being hailed by Wired as "the ultimate box set of iconic American music."
Volume One (1917-27) chronicled Paramount's improbable rise from also-ran to jazz-blues juggernaut, launching the recording careers of giants like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey, Papa Charlie Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Fats Waller. Order Volume One here.
But just as it seemed Paramount might be losing steam, it began a second act that threatened to dwarf its first. This astonishing second act is the subject of The Rise & Fall of Paramount, Volume Two (1928-32), the final chapter in our commemoration of America's greatest record label.
In its final 5 year push from 1928-32, Paramount embarked on a furious run for the ages, birthing the entire genre of Mississippi Delta blues recordings and issuing some of the most coveted records in the history of wax - a staggering playlist including Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Willie Brown, King Solomon Hill, Tampa Red, Lottie Kimbrough, Rube Lacy, Meade Lux Lewis, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Jaydee Short, George "Bullet" Williams, Cow Cow Davenport, Clifford Gibson, Ishman Bracey, Louise Johnson, Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas, The Mississippi Sheiks. and hundreds of other artists.
Paramount simply killed. But more than that, it changed how this country thought of itself. It was the first enterprise of any kind to capture what America really sounded like in the 1920s and '30s - on its street corners, at its fish fries and country suppers, in its nightclubs and dance halls and showtents. In the process, it was profit-minded Paramount - not a preservationist body like the Library of Congress - that inadvertently created the most significant repository of this young nation's greatest art form.
Six LPs, housed in a polished aluminum case evoking the era's high art deco stylings and America's own Machine Age take on modernist design.
A joint release by Third Man and Revenant, co-produced by leading Paramount scholar Alex van der Tuuk, with all Paramount masters issued under license agreement with GHB Jazz Foundation.
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For a decade, Paramount Records was one the most influential labels in the country. Now, a two box set collection tracks its rise and fall in the early 20th century...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
This music is part of the legacy of Paramount Records. The label was an offshoot of the Wisconsin Chair Company created in 1917 to help sell the phonographs the furniture company built. As one music expert put it, it was like Apple creating iTunes in order to sell iPods. Paramount was incredibly influential in its 15-year run. And now its classic recordings are available in a pair of limited edition box sets called "The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records." Meredith Ochs has been delving into that history.
MEREDITH OCHS, BYLINE: In the late 1920s, Paramount Records was struggling. As the Great Depression set in, their cash flow dried up. New technology began to make their scratchy-sounding, cheaply-made records less desirable. And the public's taste in music was evolving. Paramount scrambled to keep up, their talent scouts searching the American South and West for the next big thing. But even as it was slowly failing, the label discovered some of the most influential figures in American music, like Delta bluesman Charley Patton. A top seller for Paramount, Patton was famous for flashy moves like playing guitar behind his head.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PONY BLUES")
CHARLEY PATTON: (Singing) Tell you when I get out, yeah, I don't want to marry - just want to be your man.
OCHS: Paramount folded in 1933, shutting down so abruptly that employees were offered master recordings in lieu of payment - or so the story goes. The workers supposedly responded by tossing these priceless artifacts into the Milwaukee River. But every now and then, a lost treasure resurfaces.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUN TO SUN")
BLIND BLAKE: (Singing) A man can worry from sun to sun.
OCHS: Like this 1931 Blind Blake recording, found just eight years ago at a mobile home park in North Carolina.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUN TO SUN")
BLIND BLAKE: (Singing) But a woman's worries have just begun.
OCHS: After Paramount shut down, some of its artists quit music for decades. Virginia banjo virtuoso Dock Boggs was one of them.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FALSEHEARTED LOVER'S BLUES")
DOCK BOGGS: (Singing) I'm sure my falsehearted lover will drive me to my lonesome grave.
OCHS: With alternate tunings and finger-pick melodies, his style was innovative and haunting. But he had to earn a living. So he went back to what he knew, working as a coal miner for many years, before he was rediscovered during the 1960s folk revival.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FALSEHEARTED LOVER'S BLUES")
BOGGS: (Singing) From your heartstrings weave silk garters. Build their dog house on your grave.
OCHS: This second volume of the Paramount Records story is a painstakingly-assembled scholarly project that never loses its magic in the details. The sheer number of songs is remarkable - 800 of them, by 175 artists, ghostly voices that tell the stories of sharecroppers, women who hadn't yet won the right to vote when the label was founded and even bootleggers. This collection effectively shows how these artists laid the groundwork for so much contemporary roots and rock music. And the history of Paramount itself is just as fascinating, a tale of race, region, economics and our evolving culture in the early 20th century.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TERRIBLE MURDER BLUES")
BERTHA HENDERSON: (Singing) I can't take it no more.
SIEGEL: Meredith Ochs is a talk show host and DJ at SiriusXM Radio. She reviewed the double box set "The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records."
Tracklist
A1 –Skip James I'm So Glad (Pm 13098, L-759-1) 2:50
A2 –Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Knocking Down Casey Jones (Bwy 8248, 2455--) 3:12
A3 –Mississippi Sheiks Please Baby (Pm 13153, L-1562-2) 3:35
A4 –The Famous Blue Jay Singers Of Birmingham Alabama Clanka A Lanka (Sleep On Mother) (Pm 13119, L-1230-1) 3:08
A5 –Charley Patton I'm Goin' Home (Pm 12883, 15227--) 3:15
A6 –Dixie Four Five O'Clock Stomp (Pm 12674, 20657-1) 2:35
A7 –Clifford Gibson Tired Of Being Mistreated Part 1 (QRS R7079, 484 - A) 3:10
B1 –Carver Boys Tim Brook (Pm 3199, 15546--) 2:11
B2 –Jabo Williams Jab Blues (Pm 13141, L-1404-2) 3:23
B3 –Elvie Thomas Motherless Child Blues (Pm 12977, L-264-2) 3:22
B4 –Bob Coleman Tear It Down (Pm 12731, 21102-1) 2:50
B5 –Soileau & Robin Easy Rider Blues (Pm 12808, 15344--) 2:56
B6 –The Tub Jug Washboard Band San (Pm 12671, 20671-2) 3:04
B7 –Bessie Mae Smith And Wesley Wallace St. Louis Daddy (Pm 12922, L-78-1) 3:05
C1 –Lottie Kimbrough Rolling Log Blues (Pm 12850, 14162--) 3:18
C2 –Cow Cow Davenport Chimes Blues (Ch 15726, 14978--) 3:19
C3 –Edward Thompson West Virginia Blues (Pm 13018, 2416-A) 3:10
C4 –Biddleville Quintette Wasn't That A Mighty Day (Pm 12845, 422-A) 2:52
C5 –Blind Blake - Charlie Spand Hastings St. (Pm 12863, 15457--) 3:15
C6 –Emry Arthur Reuben Oh Reuben (Pm 3237, L-107-1) 3:00
C7 –Skip James Special Rider Blues (Pm 13098, L-760-2) 3:03
D1 –Ollie Hess Mammy's Lullaby (Bwy 8322, L-1369-1) 4:03
D2 –King Solomon Hill The Gone Dead Train (Ch 50022, L-1254-2 3:21
D3 –Blind Arthur Groom And Bro., Blind Roosevelt Graves Take Your Burdens To The Lord (Pm 12874, 15645-A) 3:12
D4 –Blind Leroy Garnett Louisiana Glide (Pm 12879, 15767--) 3:11
D5 –Winston Holmes And Charlie Turner Rounders Lament (Pm 12798, 15259--) 3:07
D6 –Willie Brown M & O Blues (Ch 50023, L-413-2) 3:05
D7 –Norfolk Jazz Quartette Oh What Is The Matter Now (Pm 12844, 6112-1)3:18 3:06
E1 –The Hokum Boys Gamblers Blues (St. James Infirmary Blues) (Pm 12897, 21463-1) 2:49
E2 –Charley Patton High Water Everywhere - Part I (Pm 12909, L-59-1 3:05
E3 –Windy Rhythm Kings South African Blues (Pm 12770, 21255-1) 3:15
E4 –Emry Arthur And Della Hatfield A Railroad Lover For Me (Bwy 8266, L-132-2) 2:52
E5 –Jaydee Short Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (Pm 13043, L-468-1) 2:52
E6 –James Wiggins Frisco Bound (Pm 12860, 15769-A) 3:20
E7 –Tommy Settlers & His Blues Moaner Big Bed Bug (Pm 13056, L-603-1) 2:38
E8 –King Solomon Hill Down On My Bended Knee (Cr 3325, L-1253-2) 2:56
F1 –Bogus Ben Covington Adam And Eve In The Garden (Pm 12693, 20863-1) 2:42
F2 –Son House Walkin' Blues (Pm Unissued, 9/2#1) 2:57
F3 –Dobby Bragg Fire Detective Blues (Pm 12827, 15557--) 3:09
F4 –Skip James Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Pm 13065, L-752-2) 2:51
F5 –Walter And Byrd Wasn't It Sad About Lemon (Pm 12945, L-276-3) 3:03
F6 –Blind Joe Reynolds Cold Woman Blues (Pm 12983, L-147-3) 2:57
F7 –Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Sleepy Desert (Pm 3282, 2463--) 3:06
F8 –Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Blues (Pm 12951, L-257-4) 3:01
G1 –Johnnie Head Fare Thee Well - Part II (Pm 12628, 20275-2) 2:38
G2 –Slim Barton & Eddie Mapp Wicked Treatin' Blues (QRS R7089, 471-A) 2:58
G3 –B.L. Pritchard Acc. By Scottdale String Band Stone Mountain Wobble (Pm 3320, L-1503-2) 3:22
G4 –Ma Rainey Black Eye Blues (Pm Unissued, 20898-1) 3:21
G5 –Teddy Darby Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues (Pm 12828, 15566--) 3:07
G6 –Little Brother Montgomery Vicksburg Blues (Pm 13006, L-502-1) 3:00
G7 –Charley Patton Jim Lee Blues - Part I (Pm 13080, L-57-2) 3:05
H1 –Blind Willie Davis When The Saints Go Marching In (Pm 12658, 20298--) 1:58
H2 –Clarence Williams And His Orchestra Long, Deep And Wide (QRS R7004, 151-) 2:29
H3 –Rube Lacy Mississippi Jail House Groan (Pm 12629, 20419-2) 3:26
H4 –'Boodle It' Wiggins Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In (Pm 12662, 20378-1) 2:44
H5 –Son House Dry Spell Blues - Part I (Pm 12990, L-425-4) 3:12
H6 –Skip James If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road (Pm 13066, L-766-1) 2:56
H7 –The Mississippi Sheiks Tell Me To Do Right (Pm 13156, L-1550-2) 3:33
H8 –Elder J.J. Hadley Prayer Of Death - Part 2 (Pm 12799, 15225-A)1:58 2:48
I1 –The Famous Blue Jay Singers Of Birmingham Alabama I Declare My Mother Ought To Live Right (Ch 50026, L-1245-2) 3:03
I2 –Ishman Bracey Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2) 3:26
I3 –Clarence Black And His Savoy Trio 'Cause I Feel Low Down (Pm 12683, 20776-2) 2:38
I4 –Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie (Pm 12888, 15459-A) 2:58
I5 –Frank Palmes Troubled 'Bout My Soul (Pm 12893, 21413-2) 2:53
I6 –Charley Patton Rattlesnake Blues (Pm 12924, L-63-2) 2:47
I7 –The Hokum Boys Only The Blues (Pm Unissued, 21073-2U 2:54
I8 –Blind Joe Taggart He Done What The World Couldn't Do (Pm Unissued, L-699-2) 3:01
J1 –The Mississippi Sheiks The New Stop And Listen (Pm 13134, L-1551-3) 3:50
J2 –Brother Fullbosom A Sermon On A Silver Dollar (Pm 13078, L-866-1) 3:03
J3 –Blind Joe Reynolds Nehi Blues (Pm 12927, L-146-2) 3:14
J4 –Bill Moore One Way Gal (Pm 12648, 20309-1) 3:18
J5 –Skip James Devil Got My Woman (Pm 13088, L-746-1) 3:01
J6 –Louise Johnson By The Moon And Stars (Pm 13008, L-420-2) 2:53
J7 –Mr. Freddie Spruell Tom Cat Blues (Pm 12665, 20727-2) 3:07
K1 –Son House My Black Mama - Part II (Pm 13042, L-409-2) 3:16
K2 –Virginia Dandies God’s Getting Worried (Cr 3145, 1221-1) 2:42
K3 –Jesse Johnson And His Singers I Wish I Had Died In Egyptland - Pt. I (Pm 12829, 15570--) 3:24
K4 –Geeshie Wiley Pick Poor Robin Clean (Pm 13074, L-824-1) 3:14
K5 –Blind Lemon Jefferson See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Pm 12608, 20374-1) 2:54
K6 –George "Bullet" Williams The Escaped Convict (Pm 12651, 20593-2) 2:59
K7 –Tommy Johnson Lonesome Home Blues (Pm 13000, L-230-2) 3:08
L1 –Mandel Terry And Orchestra Black And Tan Fantasy (Bwy 1498, L-1199-2) 3:37
L2 –Kentucky Ramblers Good Cocaine (Mama Don't Allow It) (Bwy 8271, L-552-2) 3:18
L3 –Blind Joe Taggart In That Pearly White City Above (Pm 13059, L-703-2) 3:08
L4 –Walter Hawkins A Rag Blues (Pm 12814, 15212--) 3:00
L5 –Bessie Mae Smith Farewell Baby Blues (Pm 12922, L-90-2) 2:56
L6 –Blind Willie Davis I Believe I'll Go Back Home (Pm 12979, L-113-1)e (Pm 12979, L-113-1) 3:06
L7 –Lottie Kimbrough Going Away Blues (Pm 12850, 14163-A) 2:41
VA - 2017 - Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs 2xCD
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – 40226
Woody Guthrie’s 26 Northwest Songs is a trove of new discoveries, and a celebration of Guthrie’s genius and lasting contributions to both the history and musical traditions of the Pacific Northwest. In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration commissioned Guthrie to write songs to help promote to the public the construction of dams along the Columbia River. 75 years later, present-day artists with ties to the Pacific Northwest who have been influenced by this fruitful time in Guthrie’s career have gathered together to record their own interpretations. Roll Columbia is the first and only complete collection of these 26 songs, including nine that had never before been recorded, such as “Eleckatricity and All” and “Portland Town to Klamath Falls,” as well as classic Guthrie tunes “Pastures of Plenty” and “Hard Travelin’.” 2 discs, 104 minutes.
VA - 2006 - Good For What Ails You (Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926 - 1937) 2xCD
Old Hat Records – 1005
Before motion pictures... before radio... before television... the traveling medicine shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures, and with them came a host of singers, dancers, comedians, banjo pickers, blues shouters, jug blowers, string ticklers, and minstrel men. The shows died out by mid-20th century, but not before a handful of seasoned veterans left their musical legacy on phonograph records. Here are 48 classic performances by such colorful names as Pink Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Shorty Godwin, Gid Tanner, Banjo Joe, the Three Tobacco Tags, and many more—well over two hours of this extraordinary music. A 72-page color booklet details the fascinating history of the medicine shows with a profusion of rare photographs, artifacts, illustrations, full discography, and song descriptions. Three years in the making, the new release from Old Hat Records is a groundbreaking survey of music from the American medicine show, that peculiar form of theater that merged entertainment with merchandising. Good For What Ails You is a two-CD set that delivers a generous mix of 48 songs, many available nowhere else, first recorded nearly 80 years ago and now remastered with digital clarity.
1-1 Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah – The Spasm
1-2 Gid Tanner & Riley Pucket – Tanner's Boarding House
1-3 Lil McClintock – Don't Think I'm Santa Claus
1-4 Dallas String Band with Coley Jones – Hokum Blues
1-5 Shorty Godwin – Jimbo Jambo Land
1-6 Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers – Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate
1-7 Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley – Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad
1-8 Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright – The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man
1-9 Jim Jackson – Bye, Bye, Policeman
1-10 Walter Smith – The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom
1-11 Allen Brothers – Bow Wow Blues
1-12 Beans Hambone & El Morrow – Beans
1-13 Stovepipe # 1 And David Crockett – A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around
1-14 Grant Brothers & Their Music – Tell It To Me
1-15 Carolina Tar Heels – Ain't No Use Working So Hard
1-16 Walter Cole – Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean
1-17 Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet – C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken
1-18 Banjo Joe – My Money Never Runs Out
1-19 Henry Thomas “Ragtime Texas” – Railroadin' Some
1-20 Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers – Traveling Man
1-21 Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop – G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again
1-22 Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers – Baby All Night Long
1-23 Chris Bouchillon – Born In Hard Luck
1-24 Memphis Sheiks – He's In The Jailhouse Now
2-1 Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley – Gonna Tip Out Tonight
2-2 Sam McGee – Chevrolet Car
2-3 Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers – It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
2-4 Cannon's Jug Stompers – Bring It With You When You Come
2-5 Blind Sammie – Atlanta Strut
2-6 Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers – Go Along Mule
2-7 Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band – Casey Bill
2-8 Frank Stokes – I Got Mine
2-9 Chris Bouchillon – Hannah
2-10 Bogus Ben Covington – Adam & Eve In The Garden
2-11 Alec Johnson & His Band – Mysterious Coon
2-12 Carolina Tar Heels – Her Name Was Hula Lou
2-13 Three Tobacco Tags – Reno Blues
2-14 Papa Charlie Jackson – Scoodle Um Skoo
2-15 Frank Hutchison – Stackalee
2-16 Walter Smith – The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough
2-17 Hezekiah Jenkins – Shout You Cats
2-18 Tommie Bradley – Nobody's Business If I Do
2-19 Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers – Sweet Sixteen
2-20 Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright – Ticklish Reuben
2-21 Jim Jackson – I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop
2-22 Dallas String Band with Coley Jones – Shine
2-23 Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers – The Gypsy
2-24 J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers – Kiss Me Cindy
VA - 2017 - Vanity of Vanities - A Tribute to Connie Converse
Tzadik – 4019
VA - 2003 - The Invisible Pyramid 2xCD
Last Visible Dog – 045/46
In particular regarding my overworked flippancy last ish, I'd like to make some amends for the review of the Last Visible Dog label's The Invisible Pyramid 2CD compilation. Not only was my track-by-track for the first CD half-assed and rushed, I didn't even mention the second disc at all! What can I say, sometimes my beloved off-the-cuff-ness takes over my common sense (like when I coin a phrase like "beloved off-the-cuff-ness").
For example, I couldn't even remember disc one's tracks 7 and 8 right after listening to them, and now they're two of the most memorable on the whole album. Track 7 is by Thuja (the sound of dark blue smoke finding it's way into the fissures in a football field made of ice at 4AM in the morning) and Track 8 is by that (I think I can spell this right) Kemialliset Ystävät band from Finland (some kind of crafty cinematic mind / loop-fuck, WTF??).
As for disc two highlights: The track by The Birdtree is just gauzed-out GREAT. Sounds like someone just put on a scratchy obscure singer-songwriter record from the 70s except that it's obviously from the 90s and BEYOND. What else? Subarachnoid Space hit hard with a heavy boom-box jam. Kind of imitation Bardo Pond, but in this case it's a good thing. One of the few tracks on here that really moves; a lot of this stuff is drony and static . . . . . Miminokoto contribute "Dokonimo" -- say it three times fast! This was the first place I heard this band, which I highly recommend -- Fushitsusha meets Curtis Mayfield back to Crazy Horse at their rawest and slowest. I was just talking about them today to local psychedelic superhero Plastic Crimewave, he's opening for them this Tuesday on their first US tour. We hope people go see this band. I won't, I'll be at home with babe-o, but I'll be there in spirit. Hell, I'm ALREADY there in spirit. This song is GREAT, I think it's better than any song on their excellent Live CD, also on Last Visible Dog . . . . . . Avarus are big in the news these days, and with good reason -- their track on here is a little freaky too. Manic low cello saw, sure, but as Tony Rettman said about some completely different record in the last issue, "it's the shit clipping in the air around it that's so dangerous" . . . . . Charalambides contribute an excellent track, one of the quieter ones on here, but if you listen close there's a lot of their distinctively thorny beauty and quiet desperation in there . . . . . Bardo Pond's track is actually kind of a letdown for me, I wanted to hear them in full huge heaven-band mode, but it's a no-rhythm-section 'ethnic forgery' kind of track . . . . . Omit's track is GREAT and reminded me that he's one of the very best soundmakers to ever have the two words "New Zealand" somewhere in his return address. Why have I not listened to this guy once for the last four years again? . . . . . Karl Precoda and Mike Gangloff (are they in Pelt?) do an excellent soft piano meets softly shaken sheet metal kind of 'contempo classical' whatsis . . . . . Black Forest/Black Sea's track reminds me of both "Drifters of the Grand Trunk" by SCG and, gosh, I think Sandy Bull . . . . . really good, too short . . . . . and Peter Wright closes the disc with a nicely short and slightly odd piece. And that's not everybody, but that's the end of this review -- obviously, you should check out this comp if you're looking for a fully stuffed introduction to today's various strains of New Millenium Psych.
For example, I couldn't even remember disc one's tracks 7 and 8 right after listening to them, and now they're two of the most memorable on the whole album. Track 7 is by Thuja (the sound of dark blue smoke finding it's way into the fissures in a football field made of ice at 4AM in the morning) and Track 8 is by that (I think I can spell this right) Kemialliset Ystävät band from Finland (some kind of crafty cinematic mind / loop-fuck, WTF??).
As for disc two highlights: The track by The Birdtree is just gauzed-out GREAT. Sounds like someone just put on a scratchy obscure singer-songwriter record from the 70s except that it's obviously from the 90s and BEYOND. What else? Subarachnoid Space hit hard with a heavy boom-box jam. Kind of imitation Bardo Pond, but in this case it's a good thing. One of the few tracks on here that really moves; a lot of this stuff is drony and static . . . . . Miminokoto contribute "Dokonimo" -- say it three times fast! This was the first place I heard this band, which I highly recommend -- Fushitsusha meets Curtis Mayfield back to Crazy Horse at their rawest and slowest. I was just talking about them today to local psychedelic superhero Plastic Crimewave, he's opening for them this Tuesday on their first US tour. We hope people go see this band. I won't, I'll be at home with babe-o, but I'll be there in spirit. Hell, I'm ALREADY there in spirit. This song is GREAT, I think it's better than any song on their excellent Live CD, also on Last Visible Dog . . . . . . Avarus are big in the news these days, and with good reason -- their track on here is a little freaky too. Manic low cello saw, sure, but as Tony Rettman said about some completely different record in the last issue, "it's the shit clipping in the air around it that's so dangerous" . . . . . Charalambides contribute an excellent track, one of the quieter ones on here, but if you listen close there's a lot of their distinctively thorny beauty and quiet desperation in there . . . . . Bardo Pond's track is actually kind of a letdown for me, I wanted to hear them in full huge heaven-band mode, but it's a no-rhythm-section 'ethnic forgery' kind of track . . . . . Omit's track is GREAT and reminded me that he's one of the very best soundmakers to ever have the two words "New Zealand" somewhere in his return address. Why have I not listened to this guy once for the last four years again? . . . . . Karl Precoda and Mike Gangloff (are they in Pelt?) do an excellent soft piano meets softly shaken sheet metal kind of 'contempo classical' whatsis . . . . . Black Forest/Black Sea's track reminds me of both "Drifters of the Grand Trunk" by SCG and, gosh, I think Sandy Bull . . . . . really good, too short . . . . . and Peter Wright closes the disc with a nicely short and slightly odd piece. And that's not everybody, but that's the end of this review -- obviously, you should check out this comp if you're looking for a fully stuffed introduction to today's various strains of New Millenium Psych.
Disc 1
Karma – "1st.sex"
Flies Inside the Sun – "La Maga"
Fursaxa – "Chartreuse My Green"
Birchville Cat Motel – "Queen Flat Sheet"
Pelt – "The Signal Tower at Murrysville, Pennsylvania"
The Iditarod – "Where The Cold Winds Blow"
Thuja – "Ice Caves"
Kemialliset Ystävät – "Unohdan Kaiken"
Reynols – "Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion Maysa – Part I: Yomulido Doble Pechuas"
"Part II: Sojos Abriero 1956"
"Part III: Melates Sopirar"
"Part IV: Minecxio Doles Pechod"
Disc 2
SubArachnoid Space – "Honarable Mention"
Avarus – "Röllien Planeetta"
MCMS – "The Good Life"
Karl Precoda and Mike Gangloff – "John Dee's Dream"
Charalambides – "Water Falls Through Air to Earth"
drona parva – "Lost Island"
Miminokoto – "Dokonimo"
Omit – "Dip"
Pylon – "Bass is the Bass, Bass is the Bass"
Sandoz Lab Technicians – "Liquid Constant"
drona parva – "Pink Cloud"
Bardo Pond – "Thirsty Sect"
Black Forest/Black Sea – "Stones and the Curling Smoke"
The Birdtree – "She is the Swallow"
Peter Wright – "The Lightbox"
Karma – "1st.sex"
Flies Inside the Sun – "La Maga"
Fursaxa – "Chartreuse My Green"
Birchville Cat Motel – "Queen Flat Sheet"
Pelt – "The Signal Tower at Murrysville, Pennsylvania"
The Iditarod – "Where The Cold Winds Blow"
Thuja – "Ice Caves"
Kemialliset Ystävät – "Unohdan Kaiken"
Reynols – "Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion Maysa – Part I: Yomulido Doble Pechuas"
"Part II: Sojos Abriero 1956"
"Part III: Melates Sopirar"
"Part IV: Minecxio Doles Pechod"
Disc 2
SubArachnoid Space – "Honarable Mention"
Avarus – "Röllien Planeetta"
MCMS – "The Good Life"
Karl Precoda and Mike Gangloff – "John Dee's Dream"
Charalambides – "Water Falls Through Air to Earth"
drona parva – "Lost Island"
Miminokoto – "Dokonimo"
Omit – "Dip"
Pylon – "Bass is the Bass, Bass is the Bass"
Sandoz Lab Technicians – "Liquid Constant"
drona parva – "Pink Cloud"
Bardo Pond – "Thirsty Sect"
Black Forest/Black Sea – "Stones and the Curling Smoke"
The Birdtree – "She is the Swallow"
Peter Wright – "The Lightbox"
VA - 2011 - Tennesthesia 2xCD
Memetic Society – none
Mark Rothko swore that he wasn't painting color fields, but jazz. Vladimir Nabokov was a renowned Lepidopterist because he loved the way that butterflies tasted when he looked at them. For French pianist Helene Grimaud, C minor is the color black, while D minor is a poignant blue. These people have the neurological condition known as Synesthesia.
Imagine sound taking form. Its physical presence commands shapes that defy your own. Its aromas lift you. Its hues are kaleidoscopic, with colors so brilliant that you must squint and strain your vision. Synesthesia is a condition in which the neural pathways in the brain cross where they shouldn't, involuntarily stimulating multiple senses to correspond to a singular perceptual experience, triggering other unrelated sensations. This phenomenon can occur in any combination of senses, and varies from person to person. Numbers and letters can have corresponding colors. Words can have taste and texture. An individual sense is imbued with a unique personality, where something as simple as the sound of a single note conjures rich, full fields of projected color, or a robust aroma.
This compilation is inspired by Synesthesia, and powered by musicians from the great state of Tennessee. This fantastic state is itself home to the most bizarre cross-section of absurdly talented, divinely curious, and melodiously inspired new artists. What we're driving at is a new approach to music. We want to experience music as an innate, preternatural reflex to its own reticulating nervous system, where Tennessee's own topography is transmuted waveform. Our hope is that Tennesthesia is catching, that the sounds of our fair state continue to invigorate the minds of those they reach, and that eventually metaphor will be moot next to the transformative sound of this fair state.
Tennessee shapes the sound, and the sound shapes Tennessee.
Disc A:
1. Majestico (Nashville) - Atropa Belladonna Blues
2. The Distribution (Chattanooga) - Trouble
3. Faux Ferocious (Knoxville) - 5 no 2 no 3 no None
4. Square People (Knoxville) - I'm Not Lazy
5. Fly Golden Eagle (Nashville) - Moira
6. Forest Magic (Chattanooga) - Terrible Creatures
7. Scandaliz Vandalistz (Memphis) - Fireworks
8. Moonlight Bride (Chattanooga) - Lemonade
9. Burning Itch (Knoxville) - Skrewin' Up My Mind
10. Nite Nite (Nashville) - Black Noise
11. The Oscars (Memphis) - Apocalypse
Disc B:
1. Scandaliz Vandalistz (Memphis) - Cinnamon Spice
2. Forest Magic (Chattanooga) - Explorin' Explorin'
3. Burning Itch (Knoxville) - Wasted Again
4. Moonlight Bride (Chattanooga) - Diego
5. Square People (Nashville) - I'm Not Nervous
6. The Distribution (Chattanooga) - The Get Down
7. Nite Nite (Nashville) - Bury Me
8. Faux Ferocious (Knoxville) - Boys Like Creatures
9. The Oscars (Memphis) - Putain
10. Majestico (Nashville) - Terrify
11. Fly Golden Eagle (Nashville) - Windjammers
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