Jeffrey Lee Pierce - reggae enthusiast, heroin addict, and former president of the Blondie fan club - upheld the confident predictions of many by dying a lonely and fairly depressing death over four years ago, on March 31st, 1997. Pierce's Johnny Thunders-esque holdout in the face of self-wrought bodily deterioration was oddly admirable, yet in no way was the man mistaken for a hero for it.
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He expired of a brain hemorrhage at a relative's house in Utah, HIV-positive and sick with hepatitis after untold years of drug use, alcoholism and the usual other suspects. Why this event mattered much to anyone lay most prominently in a fantastic record his band The Gun Club recorded 16 years earlier, the masterful Fire Of Love. Listening to that record hammers home a particularly visionary and fierce moment in time when The Gun Club took the raw, dripping meat of shopworn delta blues and infused it with the energy and fire of the Los Angeles punk rock scene. I thought I'd take a stab at conveying Fire Of Love's kick-ass timelessness for those who just might be unaware. The independent rock music stage in L.A. At the time was perhaps the finest local scene in the city's - quite arguably rock and roll's - history.
Three to four dozen bands and artists were busting paradigms, genres, skulls, what have you, with original, 'anti-parent', anti-Hollywood-machine rock and roll. From the aural hardcore assault of Black Flag to the infernal howl of The Flesh Eaters, Los Angelino rock circa 1980-1982 was as exciting and raw as it came. Out of an early musical start as Creeping Ritual in 1979 grew a bleary-eyed group of heavy drinkers and blues fans, soon to be renamed the Gun Club. They were comprised of the white-hot rhythm section of Rob Ritter and Terry Graham, wailing slide guitarist Ward Dotson, and Jeffrey Lee Pierce on vocals and occasional slide guitar. These men were already fixtures on the burgeoning scene - Ritter and Graham had been in one of the gnarliest, eat-you-alive first-wave punk bands, The Bags, and Pierce was already a notorious drunk, exhibitionist, poet and fanboy. The Gun Club were quickly a dangerous new spoke on the spinning wheel of dynamic LA alt-culture.
By 1980, Jeffrey Lee - 'Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee to the easily captivated European music press - had moved beyond his Blondie infatuations and into a deep reverence for Mississippi delta blues. The sounds of Son House, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and other giants were, as we know, co-opted by legions of rock-n-rollers and folkies beginning in the 1960's.
The Gun Club paid more than passing homage, however - they wholeheartedly swiped complete riffs, words and attitude from the masters. Pierce participated in the great blues singer tradition by cobbling together distinct lines from other people's songs to create new ones. Outright verse theft was indeed encouraged back in the day - the better to carry on the oral tradition. Snatches of Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson can be heard throughout the two sides of Fire Of Love. This debut LP was hotly anticipated throughout lowbrow Los Angeles upon its release, as the band had acquired an early reputation for cathartic, tear-'em-up live performances. Main Flesh Eater Chris D.
Took to releasing this fine platter on his own vanity subsidiary of Slash, Ruby Records. What makes Fire Of Love such a brilliant listen long after its time is the fact that this blatant homage to the blues was amplified, energized and kicked into overdrive - yet not in the way that, say, The Yardbirds or Led Zeppelin did it, but in a new style that combined the ghostliness of the original model with a FAST, unwound and supremely energetic beat. The band had a studio magic that was tight & controlled in all the right places, yet loose and wild as a general rule. Common sense book art williams pdf to word.
Ward Dotson joined Greg Ginn and Karl Precoda as one of LA's early '80's gutter-circuit guitar heroes, with each man bringing a totally unique slant to his instrument. Dotson attacked the guitar with each rise in tempo, all the while keeping the sound harmonious with the desired mood.
Usually this mood was pretty bleak (but crazed), and harkened to moonlit, fevered nights that spoke of sex, voodoo and imminent violence. His guitar pinnacle is on the album's second track, 'Preaching The Blues'. Dotson's histrionics sputter and flame out of control, only to be reigned in and tamed by the slide jammed onto his middle finger. And when Pierce plays his rare slide over a berserk Dotson riff, the effect is pretty much a yin-and-yang point-counterpoint.
Quite a sound, and you didn't have to be an unabashed blues hound or a drunken punker to get it. Fire Of Love has three songs in particular that will always be among my all-time favorites: 'Sex Beat', 'She's Like Heroin To Me' and 'For The Love Of Ivy'. They all reside on the LP's first side, though the second side is under no circumstances a slouch. Fire Of Love kicks off with 'Sex Beat' - for most folks this is the Gun Club's most recognizable number, and would have been their 'Satisfaction' had they made it to reunion tours 20 or 25 years on. Now, some people have always given poor Jeffrey Lee a hard time for his lyrics, not to mention the fact that he often came across as a fat, sweaty drunk. I won't dispute the latter, nor will I go to great lengths to defend him on the former. However, on Fire Of Love Jeff was immensely successful at transmitting the dark, twisted roots of evil without pasting them to his sleeve like a bad Greil Marcus essay.
'Sex Beat' quite simply combines an aggressive, convoluted sexuality with an homage to 'the devil's music': rock and roll, or alternately, blues. Black ops 2 download ps3. In the end, the song says, life comes down to a pair of basics: fucking and dancing (with emphasis on the former). Pierce at times had his lyrics questioned on what now seems laughable 1980s P.C. Grounds i.e., he uses the word 'nigger' several times, albeit in the guise of a deranged Southern evangelical straight from a Flannery O'Connor story. Given the historical, sometimes creepy and violent context of these songs, I think it's fair to say this blues-obsessed reggae lover had no beef with his African-American brothers. Unlike others of his time, you can actually understand the words Pierce sings, to the point where one could probably do a decent job transcribing the lyrics verbatim. Try that with Chris D.
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This gorgeous initial pink, black & green cover was jettisoned when the LP was re-released (by Blondie's vanity label 'Animal') in favor of an exceptionally dull 'fire' motif. Animal Records even unloaded the terrific Judith Bell bottle drawings on the record's back cover, each of which beautifully captures the essence of the particular songs they represent. This overall packaging of the original Fire Of Love complements the record perfectly, and makes the LP that much more special. 'She's Like Heroin To Me' was my personal introduction to this band, and it is one of the hellfire classics of this era.
Everything comes together in this 2:33 masterpiece, a paean to a wayward woman sprinkled with a few choice drug double-entendres. This is followed by the near-epic 'For The Love Of Ivy', a fetishistic salute to fellow traveler Poison Ivy of The Cramps. (Kid Congo Powers, who wrote the song with Pierce, was playing in The Cramps at or around this time, and came full circle by playing in later versions of The Gun Club). The closing line 'I was all dressed up like Elvis from HELL' - a line which really has nothing to do with the rest of the song - can be assumed to be a tip o' the bottle to Lux Interior as well. The side closes with the rave-up 'Fire Spirit,' which charges ferociously through a dirty 60's punk riff by way of bo-weevil blues. Turn the disc over, and you've got five more of the same, including a great take on the spooky Tommy Johnson blues, 'Cool Drink Of Water' (popularized, in a manner of speaking, by Howlin' Wolf).
No discussion of this fine platter would be complete without mentioned the engineering feats of Pat Burnette. This man wielded his Quad-Teck studios like a weapon, and mastered some of the greatest sides in LA music history. Listen to classics like the Germs' G.I. Or the Flesh Eaters' A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die, and you'll hear pure fullness of sound and the raw, hot throb of records that were made to stand the test of time. Burnette somehow engineered the music to leap right off of the vinyl and into your face.
Fire Of Love sounds like a 45rpm disco 12', yet plays at a normal 33+ revolutions and clocks in at roughly forty purifying minutes. It would be a shame if this record lived on only in the Trouser Press New Wave Record Guide or if it were allowed to totally lapse out of print. Jeffrey Lee Pierce was far from a visionary or even a particularly outstanding musician, but he had the cajones to lead this fantastic band through the recording of an album of timelessly roughshod and unruly punk-blues, perhaps the first - and easily the best - of its kind. Let's give the devil his due for this one, and ask him to take real good care of Jeffrey.
Kazuo Ishiguro, author of An Artist Of The Floating World and The Remains Of The Day, once told the Paris Review: 'I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.' After reading Jeffrey Lee Pierce's posthumously-published (and written towards the end of his life) memoir Go Tell The Mountain it's easy to conclude that he was of the same mind as Ishiguro, albeit moving in the geographically reverse direction. As a man whose background and musical mythologies were steeped in rootsy American culture he was nonetheless drawn all his life towards Asia, and frequently referred to his desire to 'float away'. His lifelong love of Asian cinema - from the delicate observations of early Zhang Yimou ( Red Sorghum, Raise The Red Lantern) to Terayama and Kurosawa's dramatic epics - was just part of a journey which took in a solo voyage to Vietnam and several trips to Japan.While Ishiguro grew up in England with a Japanese cultural background, the Texas-born Pierce left his hometown of Los Angeles several times over the course of his Gun Club and solo years to seek solace in the East. Despite the often-reported chaos of his lifestyle as a musician, he seemed ironically hellbent on escaping the material world and its judgmental trappings, and even to escape his body itself, in his case this desire manifesting itself in abject and continued assault on his liver. Even when he was settled for a time in the UK, his compass pointed to the East - he settled with a Japanese partner, Romi Mori (who eventually joined his band), spent whole weekends watching Japanese films and eventually saw Japan as some kind of final refuge for his imagination.
He even made one last pilgrimage to Japan when he was by normal standards just too sick to travel, not long before the end of his short life.Pierce threw himself into the culture by going that crucial step further than so many other Japan-loving Western artists before him, as he taught himself katakana, hiragana and kanji - the three components of the Japanese writing system. Go Tell The Mountain (published by Henry Rollins on his 2.13.61 imprint and now a highly sought collector's item on eBay) often has haiku-like inflections in his prose, which at times make it read as though it were originally written in Japanese and translated into English. It's hard to know if this was a studied effort, or a reflection of the way Japanese culture had by then gripped his imagination to such an extent that he'd assimilated it on a much deeper level.
I’ve seen The Gun Club perform live about a half-dozen times and the band makes both my “Top 10” best and worst concert lists. When they were “on”, I haven’t seen another band that could top their swamp-rock blues sound. When they were “off”, it was a complete train wreck. The last time I saw Jeffrey perform live was one of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Quartet shows and it was, unfortunately, a train wreck where Pierce was noticeably fighting with guitarist Romi Mori and kept turning up his amp to drown out her playing. Over the last decade, there have been an increasing number of (mostly) quality live recordings surfacing from The Gun Club but there has been nothing (until now) from Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s solo tours.Earlier last month, released Anarchic Blues which captures a live recording of Pierce in Slovenia on November 6, 1994. This show was originally broadcast live on “The Jane Weber Show” and it is a clear soundboard recording that runs just over an hour.Pierce is definitely “on” for this show but this isn’t the sweaty exorcism of the Wildweed live shows but rather the “Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee” delta-blues storytelling found on Pierce’s second solo album. After the breakup of the Lucky Jim lineup of The Gun Club in 1994, Pierce toured as an acoustic duo in Europe behind his 1992 solo release Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee with Cypress Grove and Willie Love along with guitarist Cypress Grove (a.k.a.
Tony Chmelik). The duo’s set list focused predominately on material from this disc along with some Gun Club and blues covers.Here is the complete track list:- St.
Louis Blues (W.C. Pierce & Cypress Grove)- Pony Blues (Son House or Charlie Patton)- Titanic Blues- Sto' Gallery Blues- My Black Mamma (James McCoy)- John Henry (trad.)- Juniors Got A Jap Girl For Christmas- Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)- John Hardy (trad., arr. Pierce) / Mother Earth (J.L. Pierce) / Lucky Jim (J.L. Pierce)- Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)- Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mel Tillis) / Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)- I Am A Rock (Paul Simon)- Breaking Hands (J.L. Pierce)This disc is a great companion piece to the '9 Lives' reissue of Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (which contains five previously unreleased bonus tracks).
Evidently there is more material in the “can” as Cypresss Grove is quoted on JeffreyLeePierce.net as saying “ Anyway, all the shows were recorded, and a live album of that final tour is coming out in February 2007. I get asked a lot of questions about what is happening with the album, so I thought here might be a good place to answer them!
It is to be called “Spanish Flang Dang” and will feature performances from most of the shows. Me and Edwin (the tour manager) spent many hours listening to all the DAT’s, and think we have pretty much come up with the best stuff – although as always, opinions may differ on that.”Links.
All of you Can fans have reason to rejoice. Not only do you have impeccable taste, but that taste will be rewarded on June 19 by the release of The Lost Tapes, a 3CD Box Set of unreleased rarities recorded between 1968 and 1977 featuring the core quartet along with Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki on some tracks.The band's keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, Daniel Miller, and Jono Podmore have culled this down from over 30 hours of material from the group archives, which were stored in their studios. When the German Rock n Pop Museum bought the studio from the band recently, the tapes were rediscovered.The box will include material left off their classic albums due to time constraints on the original LPs, tracks recorded for soundtracks of films which were never completed and some live tracks.Listen to Millionenspiel, the first track to be released from the box below. It's time for another ( hopefully ) thrilling mix put together for your listening pleasure by the Active Listener.This mix is a neo-psychedelia primer which makes no claims to being definitive but will hopefully be entertaining or educational to someone out there.Copyright holders: this was put together to convince prospective fans to listen to and buy more of your artist's work. However, feel free to get in touch if you wish to have anything removed.1. Epic - Car Sick2.
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Pram - The Owl ServiceDownload Here. EMI have announced today that they'll be releasing the new Smashing Pumpkins studio album, Oceania, on June 18. The album will appear on Billy Corgan's own label Martha's Music.EMI Label Services's Mike Harris said: 'We are thrilled to extend thelong-term partnership between The Smashing Pumpkins and EMI with therelease of 'Oceania'.
Everybody at EMI is looking forward to workingclosely with Billy and the band to help them deliver their vision andtheir music to fans around the world.' Billy Corgan is insisting that the album is the best he's delivered since Mellon Collie in 1995, and word from industry insiders who have heard the finished work is also very positive.The tracklisting for 'Oceania' is:'Quasar'Stella P And The People Mover'Panopticon'The Celestials'Violet Rays'My Love Is Winter'One Diamond, One Heart'Pinwheels'Oceania'Pale Horse'The Chimera'Glissandra'Inkless'Wildflower'Check out a live performance clip of Quasar here.
The Tallest Man On Earth has announced that his new album, There's No Leaving Now, will be released on June 12 in the U.S, and June 11 in the U.K.He had previously premiered the title track at a live show in Sweden in a band format, leading to speculation that the album may also include a rhythm section for the first time.Listen to the live capture of There's No Leaving Now ( Thanks to 24bit ) here:There's No Leaving Now:01 To Just Grow Away02 Revelation Blues03 Leading Me Now04 190405 Bright Lanterns06 There's No Leaving Now07 Wind and Walls08 Little Brother09 Criminals10 On Every Page. Originally released in 1984, Summer of Lust was the first Green Pajamas album and was only released on cassette ( apart from a very brief vinyl run in 1989 ).The fine folks at Green Monkey Records are working hard on it's first ever CD release. Green Monkey have released a number of Green Pajamas related releases including a very thorough reissue of the Book Of Hours with lots of bonus material. If the quality of that reissue is anything to go by Summer of Lust should be a real treat. Those that have heard the very scarce original Summer of Lust have overwhelmingly positive things to say about it.Tom Dyer from Green Monkey Records had this to say today: 'Spent 12 hours yesterday working on remastering the Green Pajamas' first cassette release, 'Summer of Lust.' Some of it involved working from the original cassette master, some finding earlier generation cassettes that Jeff has hidden around, selective use of noise reduction to battle tape hiss. It is coming along pretty nicely.
I think I got Mr. Ross to agree to finish up the cover this week and we are on track to have this out in May.' Check out the Green Monkey Records website here. Krzysztof Komeda - Cul-de-sac ( 1966 )A celebrated Polish free-jazz musician and film scorer Krzysztof Komeda had already been used by Roman Polanski to score his tense drama / thriller Knife in the Water. Komeda's soundtrack for Polanski's classic black comedy Cul-de-sac is an entirely different kettle of fish and is as lyrical, quirky and entertaining as the film itself.A short but impressively evocative beast with only 7 tracks and clocking in at under twenty minutes, it was only released as a 45rpm E.P originally and has been particularly sought after since. May 21 sees the next release in The Paul McCartney Archive Collection.
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Ram was originally released in 1971, his second album after the Beatles break up, and the only album of his career to be credited to Paul & Linda McCartney. It's also generally regarded as his finest post Beatles work barring Band on the Run, and who am I to argue? Mascis outfit Heavy Blanket has an instrumental album due out on May 8 which is described as loud, brutal and psychedelic.Mascis allegedly formed the band with 'Pete Cougar' and 'Johnny Pancake' in 1984 while J was a member of Deep Wound.Their hilarious self mythologising back story can be readA limited edition of 200 records will be available on purple vinyl.Heavy Blanket:01 Galloping Toward the Unknown02 Spit in the Eye03 Blockheads04 Corpuscle Through Time05 Dr Marten’s Blues06 No Telling No TrailsListen Below:from on.
The Beatles groundbreaking animated psychedelic odyssey Yellow Submarine has been digitally restored and will receive a long overdue DVD / Blu Ray release on May 28.The original elements have all been individually hand cleaned by Triage Motion Picture Services, meaning this will be the cleanest print we've ever seen of this classic.The host of extra features will include a Making Of documentary, the original theatrical trailer, an audio commentary from the producers, interview clips, storyboards and a gallery of behind the scenes photos. An essay by John Lasseter - the man responsible for a host of brilliant Pixar movies including Toy Story, The Incredibles and Up - is included in a 16-page booklet.
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Neil's first full album with Crazy Horse since Greendale, and the first with the full line up since Broken Arrow, it will feature heavy reinterpretations of mostly traditional folk tunes.At the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, Young talked about the album. 'A very young choir of children plays with Crazy Horse on the album,' he said. 'They're songs we all know from kindergarten, but Crazy Horse has rearranged them, and they now belong to us.'
'What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist,' says a press release announcing the new album.' The emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what’s going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written.' Young previewed a number of these tracks on a lengthy jam session that was briefly available on his website a few months ago, and may still be doing the rounds online if you look hard enough for it.The tracklisting for 'Americana ' will be'Oh Susannah'Clementine
'Tom Dooley'
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'High Flyin’ Bird
'She’ll Be Comin ’Round The Mountain'This Land Is Your Land
'Wayfarin’ Stranger
'God Save The Queen'.
We've all got a few favorite artists who we think should be superstars but no-one else seems to have heard of. Here's part one of the Active Listener's selection of musical geniuses that the masses have yet to discover. More to follow soon.Got your own selection of musical geniuses that you want the world to know about? Send it through to [email protected] and we'll see what we can do to publish it here.Jeff KellyThe prolific Jeff Kelly's first outfit the Green Pajama's started out with cassette only releases in 1984, and have released over 20 amazingly consistent albums since.
Initially lumped in with the Paisley Underground scene, the Green Pajama's were more heavily influenced by the U.K psychedelic scene of the late sixties than their peers and managed to capture the late sixties period flavor far more authentically than anyone else on the scene at the time. They've since progressed through psychedelia to jangle rock to folk rock to country rock on their latest.
In the meantime Kelly has also released a number of solo albums in more of a singer songwriter mould which highlight his lyrical songwriting and Tom Petty-ish voice better than the Pajamas material, and as Goblin Market, he also has three albums of more esoteric material verging on acid folk under his belt.BUY HERE:,Glenn CampbellGlenn Ross Campbell ( not the country singer ) is the Jimi Hendrix of the steel guitar and was highly influential in the transition from garage rock to psychedelia. As a member of the Misunderstood his distorted steel guitar heroics helped set the groundwork for the psychedelic movement in 1966 with material like Children of the Sun and Find A Hidden Door. He then found himself in rock outfit Juicy Lucy who released several excellent hard rock releases, before shifting into country rock. Their recordings of Who Do You Love and Willie the Pimp are definitive to me. More recently he's made an appearance on the Loon's excellent psychedelic garage album Red Dissolving Rays of Light.BUY HERE:,.Ian CarrIan Carr seems to be primarily known as a Miles Davis biographer, but was a very fine trumpet player and arranger in his own right. His work with Saxophonist Don Rendell throughout the sixties accounted for the very finest English jazz of the era, while he established the groundbreaking progressive jazz rock outfit Nucleus in 1969 who continued to push the envelope throughout the seventies. Fans of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and Tribute To Jack Johnson would do well to investigate.BUY HERE:,Ollie HalsallOllie Halsall was the finest guitarist that no-one seems to have heard of.
His imaginative, dexterous and fluent guitar runs helped to enliven albums by all sorts of progressive English musos in the late sixties and early seventies. As well as being a member of Patto and Tempest he also featured extensively on albums by Kevin Ayers, and appeared as Leppo in the Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. But it's his amazing guitar work that he's most noted for, check out the solos in Patto's Hold Your Fire and prepare to be blown away.
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We're all about the new releases and reissues, so we don't want to see reviews of anything that's been out for ages unless it's being freshly reissued. Hit us with ideas for features, interviews etc.Q: How do I advertise my album / e.p / single on the Active Listener?A: E-mail theactivelistener at hotmail.com for rates - you can expect between 1000 and 2000 people to see your ad each day. Rates are cheap and trading for a vinyl copy of your album may be a possibility instead of monetary payment.Q: Where does the money go if I make a donation for a sampler?A: A lot of it goes towards paying our Bandcamp fees and admin fees. Also, the more donations we receive, the less hours we have to spend doing our day jobs and the more time we can devote to making the Active Listener a better resource for you.Q: Is a donation for the sampler expected?A: Hell no, the samplers will always be available for free for anyone to download guilt free. Donations are welcome (and rare) but never expected of you.Q: Are Active Listener Records label releases available on CD, cassette or vinyl?A: At this point no. Our budget and geographical location (New Zealand) make it impractical for us to deal in physical media for now.
Some of our releases are available in physical formats independently or on other labels however.Q: What's the difference between Active Listener Records label releases and the sampler?A: The sampler is a monthly download, which features our pick of the best material reviewed on the Active Listener over the previous month as well as other stuff we've recently become aware of. These will always be available on a name your price basis starting at $0.
The label releases are our attempt to highlight and offer further exposure for artists that we love who we feel are underappreciated. The low cost of these downloads is shared between label and artists and enables us to provide you with more music in the future.Q: What makes you such experts?A: Nothing. We simply express our enjoyment and enthusiasm for the music we love.Any other questions are of course always welcome. In the early seventies Jimmy Page recorded a number of pieces at his home studio, the majority of which were intended for Kenneth Anger's film, Lucifer Rising.The music was never used in the film ( although Page did make a cameo appearance ) so the soundtrack was shelved.On March 20 Page will release the record Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks exclusively through his website, www.jimmypage.comAn LP edition will be issued on heavyweight vinyl, as well as a special run of numbered copies. The first 93 copies of that set will be autographed by Page. Billy Fuller and Matt 'Team Brick' Williams join Barrow in this three piece, and everything on here was written and recorded over twelve days in the studio, with no overdubs. Back in June 2010 the Tampa Bay Times reported that Didier C.
Deutsch was working for Legacy Records ( Sony's Flagship reissue label ) on a 40 CD Bob Dylan Box Set.Then early last year Variety reported that 'Sony's catalog division, Legacy, has released nine official Dylan bootlegs thus far and is currently developing a 40-CD 'superfan' Dylan release featuring a wealth of previously bootlegged studio outtakes.' It seems that the idea has evolved.Late last week Forbes reported the following: 'The word is Columbia Records is preparing the ultimate Bob Dylan box set– a collection of all his albums including his bootleg series. The massive box will be a Dylanographer’s delight, collecting every single track including single tracks like “George Jackson” that never made into onto an album.
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There will also be a couple of CDs with miscellaneous tracks, so that just about everything you ever heard, had, lost, or wanted is all in one place. The price for this super collection is said to be $300–but there’s an upside. I am told that there will be a code so buyers can download the whole thing for free as well. “It seemed crazy to say here it is, now go upload the whole thing into your computer too,” says a source.' The interesting thing about this is that the Forbes article disappeared almost immediately to be replaced by an article titled Robert Johnson Gets Blues Celebration at the Apollo.This article contained only the following line to represent the former article: 'Some of the gossip concerns Bob Dylan–and a big project set for the fall. Blues guys love Dylan and are always trying to collect everything he’s done.
Stay tuned'So it seems that Sony have asked for the story, or at least major parts of it to be removed. Some say the release was meant to still be a secret. Or could they have pulled it because they have other plans for what will actually appear on the box, and that the Forbes report had the wrong idea about it's content? Whatever the reason, it'll be very interesting to see whether this does surface and what exactly the couple of CDs of miscellaneous tracks will include. That report certainly makes it sound like it'll be previously released non album material, and not the wealth of previously bootlegged studio outtakes that Variety reported about last year.Stay tuned indeed.
The Eastern's official press release describes them better than I ever could: 'The Eastern are a string band that roars like a punk band, that swings like a gospel band, that drinks like a country band, that works like a bar band, that hopes like folk singers, and sings love songs like union songs, and writes union songs like love songs, and wants to slow dance and stand on tables, all at the same time.' They've carved a niche for themselves as New Zealand's premier roots outfit, and they've done it the old fashioned way - through hard work.
They tour constantly with 200+ shows a year, and have released three e.ps and now three albums in four years. Official Bio: Named after the ‘10p mixups’ you got at school, you just never know what you’re going to get next with Glasgow based band THE MIXUPS.Rhythm Guitarist and Vocals - Jamie Cameron, Bass - Ryan Tobias, Drums, Vocals - Paul Preston, and Lead Guitar/Keys/Vocals - Jamie Haffey are the young fellas behind the music.The four young, talented musical-players have been a group since 2009 and progress has been rapid. Festival appearances, a sell out debut E.P tour and national radio spins from Mark Lamarr (radio 2) and Jim Gellatly (radio Scotland) have all added to the ball of hype surrounding THE MIXUPS. Support slots with members of The Bluetones, The La’s and Supergrass have also attracted press coverage.The band released a single on December 1st and will do so every month after that for a year, available on download from itunes and other online stockists. After taking time out from gigging after their sold out debut E.P tour, which culminated in a fizzling performance at a sold out King Tuts in January, the band have been recording since then and have amassed a wealth of songs and a vibrant new sound.With a splash of sixties style, a dash of nineties groove and a helping of noughties naughtiness, Britain’s newest hitmakers have arrived.You can buy digital downloads of two of their tracks at amazon.co.uk by clicking the links below.
Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove With Willie Love Rar
2006 remaster'Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love'release date: 1992format: cd (2006 remaster)album rate: 3,5 / 5 3,32producer: Jeffrey Lee Piercelabel: Flow Records - nationality: USAStudio album by Jeffrey Lee Pierce released as 'Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love'. Jeffrey Lee plays guitar and sings together with guitarist Cypress Love and drummer Willie Love. Carl La Fong isn't credited as primary artist but he plays bass. The majority of the tracks are cover versions of classic 'blues' songs written by various artists (including Don Nix, Willie Brown, and Chester Burnett). The songs are all well-played and cleverly arranged, and despite the fact that the 'blues' isn't really my kinda style, this is quite originally sounding with a lot of genuine heartfelt craftsmanship to it, so to ignore it would be a shame.
I like it, It's gooood.
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