One of the best guitar pickers in Rockabilly and Hillbilly music, Lester Peabody is best known as guitarist of The Barnshakers. This is the second album released under his own name, and backed by some excellent musicians he show his guitar playing talents to the full. (Raucous)
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LESTER PEABODY "Visits The Johnny Bonanza Show"
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THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS
THE EARLY YEARS 1958-1962
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The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old 78rpm records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom had earlier appeared on the Anthology of American Folk Music. The New Lost City Ramblers refused to "sanitize" these southern sounds as did other folk groups of the time, such as the Weavers or Kingston Trio. Instead, the Ramblers have always striven for an authentic sound. However, the Ramblers did not merely copy the old recordings that inspired them. Rather, they would use the various old-time styles they encountered while at the same time not becoming slaves to imitation. -- Wikipedia
The New Lost City Ramblers recorded 12 albums between 1958-1962. The Early Years (1958-1962) collects 26 songs, over 70 minutes of music, from these dozen discs, creating an excellent document of the band's years with Tom Paley. Paley, John Cohen, and Mike Seeger formed the New Lost City Ramblers in 1958 with the idea of playing old-time music recorded between the late '20s and 1940. While it has often been stated that the trio intended to copy -- phrase for phrase, lick for lick -- the old 78s, Jon Pankake points out in the liner notes that this wasn't the case. Instead, the New Lost City Ramblers wanted to insert the same vim and vigor into "The Battleship of Maine" and "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" as the original players. What stands out now, some 40 years after these recordings, is the band's versatility. Whether cutting loose on an instrumental like "Colored Aristocracy" or singing tight harmony on "Brown's Ferry Blues," the three comrades form a tight unit. While the arrangements never outgrow the number of persons in the band, each player's ability to play multiple instruments lends diversity to the material. The Early Years (1958-1962) offers a very good introduction to an innovative and influential band. -- Allmusic
I bought this vinyl album sometime in the early seventies on the advice of a friend who played banjo in an old timey group called The Barren County Peach Puckers. I don't know what happened to the Peach Puckers but my friend still plays the banjo and I still listen to The New Lost City Ramblers. This album has grown on me over the years and I wouldn't part with not even for one Exile On Main Street and two Abbey Roads. -- JohnnyDiego
John Cohen - Banjo, Bass (Vocal), Guitar, Vocals
Tom Paley - Autoharp, Banjo, Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar, Tenor (Vocal), Vocals
Mike Seeger - Autoharp, Engineer, Falsetto, Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin, Remastering, Tenor (Vocal), Vocals
1 Colored Aristocracy
2 Hopalong Peter
3 Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
4 When First Unto This Country
5 Sales Tax On The Women
6 Rabbit Chase
7 Leaving Home
8 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
9 Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
10 I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
11 The Old Fish Song
12 The Battleship Of Maine
13 No Depression In Heaven
14 Dallas Rag
15 Bill Morgan And His Gal
16 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
17 The Lady Of Carlisle
18 Brown's Ferry Blues
19 My Long Journey Home
20 Talking Hard Luck
21 The Teetotals
22 Sal Got A Meatskin
23 Railroad Blues
24 On Some Foggy Mountain Top
25 My Sweet Farm Girl
26 Crow Black Chicken
Includes 4 page sessionography and info booklet
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Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 1
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Dave Godin is a big name, perhaps the biggest in British soul scholarship. He was a writer and critic in Blues & Soul magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, and an all-around promoter and collector who was instrumental in getting much American soul released in the U.K. This is his personal selection, accompanied by almost 10,000 words in liner notes, of 25 of his favorite "Deep Soul" tracks (a term that, according to his notes, he coined himself) from the 1960s and early 1970s. There are no songs by Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, or the like here, so presumably the cuts were also chosen with an eye toward how undeservedly unknown they are. Irma Thomas, represented by the original 1964 mono single version of "Anyone Who Know What Love Is (Will Understand)," is the sole name likely to be familiar to non-fanatics. The main qualification for inclusion is the intensity of the vocal performances, and on that grounds this disc certainly delivers; the life-dependent emotion puts this, in some senses, closer to gospel than pop. As far as this anthology representing the alpha and omega of the best rare "deep soul," it's been a little overhyped. It's certainly leagues above the average soul rarity compilation (including many done by the same Kent label), in part because it licenses from so many sources, rather than just one or two labels as such collections are apt to do. It also doesn't focus exclusively on soloists, adding group vocal performances with more of a pop and doo-wop influence here and there. The songs and singers, though, aren't as striking as they are on the records made by the best soul stars. Is it the best compilation of rare deep soul, then? Well, it's up there, although some of the tunes are more generic than Godin seems willing to admit, and the slow-to-midtempo churchy arrangements can get a bit stifling all at once. As for songs that should definitely be better known, Kenny Carter's almost apocalyptically operatic "Showdown," actually written for (and turned down by) the Moody Blues as a possible follow-up to "Go Now," is certainly a lost classic. Zerben R. Hicks' "Lights Out" features a taut drama that crosses from the simply intense to the haunting. Raw Spitt's "Songs to Sing" has a specific social consciousness missing from most of the tracks here; it is comparable to the material Swamp Dogg put on his early-1970s albums, which is no surprise as Swamp Dogg produced Mr. Spitt (aka Charlie Whitehead). (Ritchie Unterberger, Allmusic)
How often does a compilation title make such a big promise, but fail to deliver? This collection of genuine treasures gets better and better with each listen. When each song plays, I think "THIS is my favourite", but then the next song comes on ... You may not have heard of the songs or artists before, but if you miss hearing this wonderful collection, you're missing out on some of the finest soul music ever made. p.s. Volume 2 is great, too, if just one CD isn't enough!
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Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 2
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Twenty-five "deep soul" (the term used to refer to soul music that has a generally slow tempo and is seriously emotional) tracks from 1964-1975. There are a few stars here and there (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Ben E. King, Arthur Conley and Irma Thomas, although none of them perform hits) and even a couple of cuts that have appeared on widely circulated compilations (Bessie Banks' original version of "Go Now," which was covered for a hit by the Moody Blues, and Toussaint McCall's "Nothing Takes the Place of You"). Generally, though, it's the kind of obscure material that the average Joe can't get access to without getting some rabid soul collector to make a tape for him. Dave Godin is such a collector, and his compilations have received glowing press notices in the U.K., though they don't match the summit of soul compilations (various ones on Rhino are better) that include better-known material. It's a decent assembly of good obscure soul, not much of which screams "overlooked masterpiece," and the constant slow grooves can get dull at times. It is better (and more craftily sequenced and annotated) than most obscure soul compilations (including some on the Kent label) that compilers trumpet as killer discs even though they're just anthologies of average soul tracks that happen to be very rare. If you're not a completist but are on the lookout for good cuts that have escaped your attention, check out Conley's "Let Nothing Separate Us," which didn't make it onto his Ichiban best-of comp; Ruby Johnson's "I'll Run Your Hurt Away," a 1966 Volt single that stands up to Redding's better tracks, albeit with appealingly raw female vocals; the Premiers' "Make It Me" which, like the Johnson cut, is a good mid-'60s Stax production written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes; George Perkins' quizzical "Cryin' in the Streets"; and Lisa Richards' "Let's Take a Chance," which is like '60s soul accented with the feel of doo wop groups like Rosie & the Originals. (Ritchie Unterberger, Allmusic)
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Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 3
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The third installment of this well-respected series of (mostly) rare and (mostly) 1960s deep soul maintains the high standards of the previous two releases. The compiler bends just a little in the direction of greater accessibility here by including more names and songs that might actually be known to people with less than a few hundred soul records in their collections. Not that there are any songs that you'll hear on the average oldies radio show, but names like Carla Thomas, James Brown, Bobby Womack, the Impressions, and Bobby Bland are pretty well-known to many Joe Q. Publics. And songs like Irma Thomas' "Wish Someone Would Care," Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind," and Maxine Brown's "All in My Mind" (the original 1961 hit version that usually eludes reissue anthologies, not a remake) are actually familiar, though not exactly overplayed. Far from being a sellout, this actually enhances the listenability of the disc, which is still largely populated by rarities, some excellent, some just alright. Highlights this time around include Baby Washington's "Breakfast in Bed," more famous as sung by Dusty Springfield; Bessie Banks' Brill Building-flavored "It Sounds Like My Baby," the flip side of the original "Go Now"; Syl Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black," which adds some much-needed blues-funk grit and social conscience; and Betty Lavette's "Let Me Down Easy," a classic of anguished soul. (Ritchie Unterberger, Allmusic)
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Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 4
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In 1997, Dave Godin launched his first Deep Soul Treasures CD. Of the genre he had so masterfully identified, Godin noted, ''It is certainly the music of the outsider,'' before adding that this glorious music he had so skillfully hewn from the rich musical landscape of black America, was ''a form of therapy by which we are brought face to face with the worst thing we think could happen to us but by experiencing it through the artistic metaphor, we learn the lesson...''
Within the slap of a bass and the cry of a vocalist, the CDs became some of Ace's biggest-ever sellers and are now rightfully viewed as major releases.
Invariably, you will come to cherish your own choices, but right now I keep returning to the opening track, Temptation 'Bout To Get Me, by the Knight Brothers. The song's opening: muted trumpets and drum roll create the perfect setting for the boys impassioned plea for help against the demon that dogs us all.
The impeccable grace of Eddie and Ernie's I Believe She Will, follows, an emotional state of affairs sustained by the setting of the great Chuck Edwards' voice to a haunting organ and bassline on his song, I Need You. There's the exuberant musical colors of Just Loving You by Ruby Andrews, as well as the casual accusatory tone the Black Velvet adopt for Is It Me You Really Want, a song which gives way to the majestic classicism of Paul Kelly's The Day After Forever.
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The inventive musical touches that mark Jackie Lee's I Love You are not only ear catching, but make a claim for this Deep Soul collection to be the most varied yet, a point later strengthened by the inclusion of singer Tony Owens' uptempo stormer, This Heart Can't Take No More.
Yet, for me the heart of this collection resides in an incredible six-song sequence which begins with Doris Duke's I Don't Care Anymore, her resigned voice capturing the song's radical sentiment with amazing skill. We then move on to the previously unissued You Make Me Feel Good, by Lawrence and Jaibi, a footloose funky workout which nicely sets the stage for the solemn overtones of Barbara Brown's Can't Find No Happiness. The tragedy contained within her statement that, ''these empty arms just bring me great pain'', is then dispelled by the weighty vocal insistence of singer Garnett Mimms on My Baby, brilliantly accompanied by dragging horn lines, swinging drums and a fiery piano. Then there's just about enough time to catch your breath and suddenly the Webs are upon you, a lovely guitar lick mixed with great harmonies but the instrumentation played with an almost slapdash feel, as if both band and singers are on the point of breaking down. Which, when the song is called It's So Hard To Break A Habit, is probably the point.
As with other projects, Godin is not scared to include the more familiar. Thus the Miracles' exquisite Tracks Of My Tears and Irma Thomas' rousing Time Is On My Side are also included, as is the lesser-known but equally as powerful Gladys Knight track Giving Up.
And then comes Jaibi's previously unreleased It Was Like A Nightmare. This is a major new discovery - a great vocal performance that has lain dormant on unearthed tapes, a song that just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling, just like all the best nightmares do.
There's just time to pick out Roy Hamilton's grandiose vocal on the immortal Dark End Of The Street before we hit I Made It Over by Jimmy Robbins, a vocal performance rich with suggestion that the story is not as clear cut as his words claim. Bob and Earl's Don't Ever Leave Me ends the trip, worth it just for the vocal performances alone, complex in their arrangement, so direct in their efficiency.
Want the word on Dave Godin's new Deep Soul CD? Superb.
Paolo Hewitt, Ace Records
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Gyro, you never cease to amaze. With all the work you put into posting this amazing stuff day after day I wonder when you find the time for life. Do you ever read a book or sit in front of the television? Or maybe just sit and listen to all this music?
I say this from deep down, "You are one hell of a guy."
Thank you.
Thanks for Dave Godin's Treasures! Woo hoo!
I cannot express my thanks enough for all the soul that has been shared recently, big thanks Gyro et all and a sincere thank you to Jillem for not disappearing of the face of the earth!
Johnny D - I love playing my music while I am preparing music here. It's totally a labour of love, but it is time consuming to say the least. Believe it or not, I even find time to have a life with a girlfriend, friends and family. But can you say obsessive-compulsive? Nothing about all this is normal.
thank you for the fabulous Dave Goodin Deep soul.
Tel.
Thanks
Thank you for providing the Deep Soul collections, Gyro. I had vol. 3 (probably picked it up on this site at some point), so it's great to have the other volumes.
Also, blasting this wonderful music all weekend will help my remembrance and celebration of the life of the great Jimmy Ruffin.
Have a great weekend everyone!
This site is like a treasure box which refills every time you turn your eyes away from it. I have been coming here for years now and have been introduced to album after album of amazing music and sounds from every corner of the world. Thank you so much, you magnificent bastards, for the time and effort you put into this great work!
Pete
Oregon, USA
Ditto on the Thank Yous to all who post here for all of their hard work and excellent taste.
Dear Gyro
A thousand thanks for this marvellous collection of Deep Soul Treasures!! I've search theese albums and only found 2 of them, 4 or 5 years ago; I've stoped searching after a lot of hours of purchase. Be sure that I shall hear them very often the next weeks. Also thanks for the links to amazon.
LittleJack
This isn't just deep soul--it's Marianas-Trench-deep soul!
Yep, i'm all over those Deep Soul Treasures collections.
thanks for the new city lost ramblers.
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