Some Singles and EP's by the A-Bones!

Bashing out garage rock years before it was fashionable and rockabilly-influenced sounds as if the Stray Cats had never happened, the A-Bones were a Brooklyn-based five-piece that approached the sloppy greatness of rock & roll's past with a beer-addled enthusiasm that had nothing to do with "oldies" or "nostalgia" and everything to do with the primal impulse to play music that's fast, loud, and wild. Named for a tune by the Trashmen, the A-Bones were led by vocalist Billy Miller and drummer Miriam Linna, who previously bashed it out in the Zantees and were also the brains behind wild-assed pop culture journal Kicks and label Norton Records, both of which reflected the same frantic attitude as their band. (Filling out the lineup were Bruce Bennett on guitar, Mike Lewis and later Marcus "The Carcass" Natale on bass, and Lars Espensen on sax.) The A-Bones kicked off their career in 1984, and two years later they released their first record, a 10" EP called Tempo Tantrum, with the album Free Beer for Life! following in 1988. They lent their services as a backing band to such unsung rock & roll legends as Rudy Grayzell, Hasil Adkins, Johnny Powers, Ronnie Dawson, Roy Loney, and Cordell Jackson, released a fistful of singles on various hyper-cool labels, and released five full-length LPs for Norton before finally calling it a day in 1994. The group played occasional reunion shows over the next decade, though, and in 2004 recorded a new tune (with backing vocals from the 5.6.7.8's) for a 20th anniversary retrospective, Daddy Wants a Cold Beer and Other Million Sellers. In 2009, the A-Bones reunited again and released the full-length studio effort Not Now! - Artist Biography by Mark Deming

RUDY ''TUTTI'' GRAYZELL & THE A-BONES "TEXAS KOOL KAT" 1991trax:
01 Judy 02 Why Why Why 03 You're Gone 04 One Mile

THE A-BONES "Bamboo Rock'n'Roll" 1994trax:
01 Bamboo Rock'n'Roll 02 Hep Cat

THE A-BONES "The World's Greatest Sinner" 1993trax:
01 The World's Greatest Sinner 02 Shanty Tramp

THE A-BONES "Bad Boy" 1996trax:
01 Bad Boy 02 Come Back

THE A-BONES "HERE THEY COME!" 1993trax:
01 Louie Go Home 02 Maintaining My Cool

THE A-BONES + S.C.O.T.S. "GOSSIP AND RUMORS" 1993trax:
1. Gossip Gossip Gossip - THE A-BONES 2. Rumors Of Surf - Southern Culture On The Skids

THE A-BONES + THE MYSTIC EYES "She Said Yeah" 1993trax:
1. She Said Yeah - THE A-BONES 2. I Would Marry You Today - The Mystic Eyes
…all originally served by DooWopDaddyO...

Great Gaylord & THE A-BONES "The Sultan of Squat!" 1991trax:
01 Squat With Me Baby 02 Do de Squat

THE A-BONES "Tempo Tantrum" 1986trax:
01 Gonna be loved 02 Froggy Went A-Courtin' 03 Betty Lou got a new tatoo 04 Lordy hoody

THE A-BONES "Free Beer For Life" 1988trax:
01 Darlene 02 Devil Dance 03 A-Bomb Bop 04 Mumbo Jumbo 05 Spinning My Wheels 06 Lug Nuts

Roy Loney & THE A-BONES "Boy Meets Bone" 1993trax:

01 Stop It Baby 02 You Know What You Can Do 03 Jump Into The River 04 Smoke Rings

The Incredible Sucking Spongies "Let There Be Surf" (Demo) 2002

This is Belgium's Incredible Sucking Spongies first demo. About half well chosen covers, the set is spunky and quite cool. 8 surfable instrumentals and one lone vocal titled "Spongies Theme pt. II." - Phil Dirt"The Incredible Sucking Spongies", is a fine surf / instro combo, founded in 1997 on the exotic beach of Antwerp. Ex-members of the combo "Los Huertos" (Jan Dean on lead guitar, Phill B on bass and Dick RosenDale on drums) joined forces with Dick VdB (rhythm guitar).

Adventures in country & western, sixties classics, mysterious exotica, jazz and obscure TV tunes created a unique sound mix, all combined to an exciting Surf Cocktail with both spongies originals, bizarre interpretations and classic hits.

In 2002, the first professional recordings were made and won the Demopoll contest on national radio station Studio Brussel. The winning track "Sad Moose" was released in September '02 on the Demopoll promo cd.

Our promo cd "Let There be Surf!.." was rewarded with 4 stars by the legendary Phil Dirt (Reverb Central, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)

A new member joined the band: fresh GoGo Girl "Lolita Tequila"!… Just experience the blasting "spongies" live shows with its notorious on stage dance act!… Let There Be Surf!...

trax:

01 The Wedge 02 Call Guys 03 Spongies Theme Part 2 04 Sad Moose 05 Humble Bee - Bah-A-Ree-Bah 06 Jipiee 07 Sputnics Theme 08 Collega's Theme 09 Wild Goose 10 A Night In Tunesia

"Rock & Roll Country Style" Vol. 1

Here’s a wild collection of 20 unknown country rockers from the late 50’s to early 60’s, all from small labels.trax:

1. Rock 'n' Roll Country Style - The Logan Valley Boys 2. You'll Come Runnin' Home To Me - Ralph Collier 3. Shallow Water Blues - Black Jack Wayne 4. So Doggone Lonesome - Delbert Baker 5. Green River Blues - Nick Foley 6. Jesus Is Coming Back To Earth - Bud Shaw 7. He Rescued Me - Bud Shaw 8. Looking For An Old Fashioned Church - Delmer Sexton & The Rone County Boys 9. I Will Not Be Denied - Delmer Sexton & The Rone County Boys 10. Salt Your Pillow Down - Jimmy Johnson 11. I Wish I Could Believe You - B. F. Johnson 12. Love Is Coming Back To Me - Nelson Young 13. Lonely For A Day - Bill Thomas 14. I Flubbed My Dub - Curley Dan & Jim Maynard 15. You'll Be The One To Cry - Curley Dan & Jim Maynard 16. Don't Steal Her - Tennessee Jim 17. Hanging My Tears Out To Dry - Tennessee Jim 18. Clocking My Card - Ray Taylor 19. The Sissy Song - Billy Briggs 20. Drunk Man's Wiggle - Jimmy Myers

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"Love Me Do" 50 Songs That Shaped The Beatles

'It's as complete and insightful a collection of Beatles influences as ever assembled' Music Week
'The most comprehensive to date' Now Dig This
'It’s discovering the hidden connections of the less obvious selections that makes this such an engrossing proposition' Shindig!Coinciding with half a century since the Beatles made their recorded debut, Fantastic Voyage presents Love Me Do: 50 Songs That Shaped The Beatles, showing the wildly-diverse range of influences which helped shape the musical mindsets of the individuals who turned into the Beatles, the biggest group the world has ever seen.

Apart from the expected rock ‘n’ roll and blues which provided life-changing epithanies for any self-respecting artists coming up in the 1950s, the set crucially examines the less likely outings which would manifest in Beatles songs after they had climbed to fame with their signature beat and ballad sound; music hall, comedy, jazz, girl groups, country, musicals and novelty songs. Compiled and annotated by respected Beatlesologist Spencer Leigh [author of Tomorrow never Knows], the set also underlines the Fabs’ grounding in the classic Tin Pan Alley song writing craft. It would be easy to have filled the set with Elvis, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, who are here but with one [less obvious] track apiece. Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ is essential for the McCartney ‘Oooh’, but it’s the lesser-known rockers such as Vince Taylor who start to make the set a fascinating well-spring of insights into the Beatles’ early motivations and inspirations, which obviously includes the Quarrymen with Lonnie Donegan‘s ’Rock Island Line’. There’s even the Merseysippi Jazz Band, who opened the Cavern in 1957. The influence of McCartney’s bandleader dad Jim is evident in names such as Fats Waller and Fats Domino, and other artists whose songs he’s covered, including Fred Astaire and Peggy Lee, while Ringo’s early immersion in orchestral faves such as Doris Day’s ‘Sentimental Journey’ showed up later in his solo career. The presence of Lita Roxa, Liverpool’s first singing star, is another nice touch, as is Lennon and Harrison’s much-loved George Formby and Peter Sellers, another childhood hero who had been produced by George Martin.

Other names to be found on this multi-faceted collection include the Vipers Skiffle Group, Eddie Cochran, Dickie Bishop & His Sidekicks, the Crickets, Dell-Vikings, Bill Justis, the Quintet Of the Hot Club of France, Slim Whitman, Joe Brown, Tony Sheridan, Barrett Strong, Billy Fury, Roy Young, Drifters, Anthony Newley, the Marvelettes, Shirelles, Cozy Cole, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, the Crew-Cuts, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Dave Brubeck, Bruce Channel and the Everly Brothers. As both insight into the Beatles’ influences and  rollicking trip back into a lost world of musical fun, frolics and innocence, Love Me Do is a fine way to celebrate the Fab Four’s 50th in slightly more unusual fashion.

trax disc 1:

1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Fats Waller & His Rhythm 2. I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino 3. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 4. Bad Boy - Larry Williams 5. Trouble - Elvis Presley 6. Bésame Mucho (Parts 1 & 2) - The Coasters 7. Sentimental Journey - Doris With Les Brown And His Orchestra Day 8. Chinese Laundry Blues - George Formby 9. Hong Kong Blues - Hoagy Carmichael 10. Little White Lies - Lita Roza 11. Rock Island Line - The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group 12. Puttin' On The Smile - Peter Sellers 13. Maggie May - The Vipers Skiffle Group 14. No Other Baby - Dickie Bishop & His Sidekicks 15. That’ll Be The Day - The Crickets 16. Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings 17. Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran 18. Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps 19. Guitar Boogie - Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith & His Cracker-Jacks 20. Matchbox - Carl Perkins 21. Raunchy - Bill Justis 22. Sweet Georgia Brown - The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France 23. Beautiful Dreamer - Slim Whitman 24. The Darktown Strutters' Ball - Joe Brown & The Bruvvers 25. My Bonnie (Mein Herz Ist Bei Dir Nur) - Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers

trax disc 2:

1. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong 2. The Hippy Hippy Shake - Chan Romero 3. Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry 4. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Merseysippi Jazz Band 5. Turn My Back On You - Billy Fury 6. Wendy - Johnny Gentle 7. Right Behind You Baby - Vince Taylor 8. Big Fat Mama - Roy Young 9. Do You Mind - Anthony Newley 10. The Girl Next Door - Mal Perry 11. Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters 12. Please Mr Postman - The Marvelettes 13. Linda Lu - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates 14. Baby It's You - The Shirelles 15. Your Cheatin’ Heart - Hank Williams 16. Caribbean - Mitchell Torok 17. Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts 18. Topsy II - Cozy Cole 19. Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire 20. Till There Was You - Peggy Lee 21. Answer Me, My Love - Nat King Cole 22. Bad Penny Blues - Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band 23. Kathy's Waltz - The Dave Brubeck Quartet 24. Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers 25. Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel

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The Infrareds "Sounds From The Darkroom" 2004

Some heavy surf here, from The Infrareds! Really cool & heavy surf instrumental! Please take a listen & hope you enjoy!Listening to most classic surf guitar bands, it’s easy to picture surfers cruising on slowly peeling waves, walking up and down their long boards as gingerly as ballroom dancers. But listening to the late ’90s local surf guitar trio The Infrareds, another image of surf culture emerges. With their sped-up – at times punk rock – take on the genre, The Infrareds conjure the rowdy, reckless side of the sport, from broken boards to surfers on short boards busting skateboarding-style airs off the back of waves. - http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/

trax:

01 The Rambo Kid02 KLI03 Change In The Water04 Matte Blood05 Pictures Of Your Girlfriend06 The Lost Air07 Third Star To The Left08 Deluxe Images09 Ms. Represented10 Half Moon Bay11 Sounds From The Darkroom

"Rockin' Memphis" (Box Set)

Most Memphis heritage compilations focus either on the city’s R&B or rockabilly scenes, but there’s plenty of room on this four-disc, 118-track box set to cover all bases, offering a detailed account of how rock’n’roll, the miscegenate offspring of blues and country, came crawling out of the South in the early Fifties. Drawing primarily on the varied output of Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service (later Sun Studio) from 1950 onwards, it mingles raw blues from Howlin’ Wolf, BB King and Little Milton, R&B from Little Junior Parker, Johnny Ace and Rosco Gordon, and earthy rockabilly from Charlie Feathers, Johnny Burnette and Billy C Riley, the proceedings studded throughout with such milestones as “Rocket 88”, “Bear Cat”, “Mystery Train”, “Get Rhythm” and “Flyin’ Saucers Rock’n’Roll”. (The Independent)During the 1950s Memphis was named the USA's cleanest and safest city and the diversified population had reached nearly 400,000. This 4CD compilation looks at the music recorded in Memphis and its environs by native Memphians and shows the stupendous effect the sounds had on the world of popular music. Music had always abounded in Memphis but there were no recording facilities there, an omission that one Sam Phillips was about to rectify, he opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue on the 2nd of January 1950. He proceeded to record anything that moved including weddings, funerals and artists for WREC radio. He soon went on to record artists for record labels such as Gilt Edge and 4 Star and it didn't take more than a few months for him to record the likes of B.B. King, a young Ike Turner with Jackie Brenston, and madcap Rufus Thomas. Come 1952 Sam started his own record label, Sun, and the rest as they say is history. (Proper)

trax disc 1:

1. Cool Down Mama - Lost John Hunter 2. Boogie In The Park - Joe Hill Louis 3. B. B. Boogie - B.B. King 4. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston 5. She's Dynamite - B.B. King 6. Ridin' the Boogie - Lou Sargent 7. Juiced - Jackie Brenston 8. My Real Gone Rocket - Jackie Brenston 9. Drop Love - Billy Love 10. Booted - Rosco Gordon 11. Howlin' Wolf Boogie - Howlin' Wolf 12. When I'm Gone (She Treats Me Mean and Evil) - Joe Hill Louis 13. Decorate the Counter - Rufus Thomas 14. Baker Shop Boogie - Willie Nix 15. Hi-Tone Mama - Walter "Tang" Smith 16. Follow the Rule - Johnny Ace 17. Rock the Bottle - Earl Forest & The Beale Streeters 18. Pretty Bessie - Earl Forest & The Beale Streeters 19. Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas 20. Feelin' Good - Little Junior's Blue Flames 21. Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) - Rufus Thomas 22. Beggin' My Baby - Little Milton 23. Love My Baby - Little Junior's Blue Flames 24. Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames 25. Burley Cutie '52 - Johnny Ace With Johnny Board & His Orchestra 26. If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton 27. Move Baby Move '55 - Billy "The Kid" Emerson 28. Red Hot '55 - Billy "The Kid" Emerson 29. Do The Chicken (Dance With You) - Rosco Gordon

trax disc 2:

1. Skunk Hollow Boogie - Slim Rhodes 2. Ozark Boogie - Slim Rhodes 3. Two Piano Boogie - Freddie Burns 4. I'm Just a Pore Unlucky Dog - Freddie Burns 5. Hot Foot Rag - Slim Rhodes 6. Memphis Bounce - Slim Rhodes 7. Step It Up and Go - Harmonica Frank Floyd 8. Boogie Blues - Earl Peterson 9. Now She Cares No More For Me - Doug Poindexter & The Starlight Wranglers 10. Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Malcolm Yelvington And The Star Rhythm Boys 11. Just Rolling Along - Malcolm Yelvington 12. Defrost Your Heart - Charlie Feathers 13. Oh Darling - Lloyd McCollough 14. Rock the Bop - Jimmie Martin Combo 15. Red Bobby Sox - Jimmie Martin Combo 16. Bad Girl - Slim Rhodes 17. Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash 18. Crazy Arms - Jerry Lee Lewis 19. Until I Love Again - Lloyd McCollough 20. Finders Keepers - The Miller Sisters 21. Wondering If You Still Care - Billie High & The Four Recorders 22. Black Jack David - Warren Smith 23. Honky Tonk Ways - Carvis Turney 24. Everyday - Mack Self 25. Can't Face Life Alone - Eddie Collins 26. Patience Baby - Eddie Collins 27. So Long, I'm Gone - Warren Smith 28. Easy To Love - Mack Self 29. Let's Fall in Love - Dorsey Burnette 30. Spanish Rock-a-Rolla - Len Griffin & His Boys

trax disc 3:

1. Rockabilly Boogie - Johnny Burnette Trio 2. Oakie Boogie - Hank Swatley 3. You're Undecided - Johnny Burnette Trio 4. The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette 5. Dixie Fried - Carl Perkins 6. Slow Down - Jack Earls and the Jimbos 7. Where'd You Stay Last Night? - Ray Harris 8. Love Gone - Ramon Maupin 9. No Chance - Ramon Maupin 10. I've Got a Woman - Eddie Bond & The Stompers 11. Flip Flop Mama - Eddie Bond & The Stompers 12. Raw Deal - Junior Thompson 13. Get With It - Charlie Feathers With Jody And Jerry 14. End Of The Road - Jerry Lee Lewis 15. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley 16. Gonna Romp and Stomp - Slim Rhodes 17. Ten Cats Down - The Miller Sisters 18. Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith 19. Honey Don't - Carl Perkins 20. Rock With Me Baby - Billy Riley & His Little Green Men 21. Red Headed Woman - Sonny Burgess 22. I Need A Man - Barbara Pittman 23. Go! Go! Go - Roy Orbison 24. Baby, Baby, Baby (What Am I Gonna Do) - Eddie Bond & The Stompers 25. Don't Worry 'Bout Nuthin' - Mason Dixon 26. Women - Lendon Smith & The Jesters 27. Charcoal Suit - Brad Suggs 28. Lonesome Rhythm Blues - Wayne McGinnis With The Swing Teens 29. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

trax disc 4:

1. Love Is My Business - Cliff Gleaves 2. Eenie Meanie Minie Mo - Hoyt Johnson & The Four Recorders 3. Boppin' Wigwam Willie - Ray Scott & The Four Recorders 4. Gonna Shut You Off Baby - Jimmy Haggett with The Daydreamers 5. I Fell - Barney Burcham with The Moon Beams 6. Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson 7. Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll - Billy Riley & His Little Green Men 8. Bop Bop Baby - Wade & Dick 9. Honeysuckle - Allen Page 10. Cause I Love You - Lloyd McCollough 11. Got Rockin' on My Mind - Curley Griffin 12. I'm Asking but I'm Not Getting - Lee Carzle with Bobby Mizzel & The Le-Bows 13. Flat Foot Sam - Tommy Blake 14. The Devil's Queen - Dorsey Burnette 15. Real Gone Baby - The Velvatones with The Memphis Rhythm Boys 16. Gonna Love My Baby - Lloyd McCollough 17. One Broken Heart - Hayden Thompson 18. Bop with Me Baby - Johnny Tate 19. Cindy Lou - Dick Penner 20. Red Hot - Billy Riley & His Little Green Men 21. Rock Boppin' Baby - Edwin Bruce 22. I've Got Love If You Want It - Warren Smith 23. Curfew - Steve Carl & The Jags 24. Eager Beaver Baby - Johnny Burnette 25. Blues Stay Away From Me - Johnny Burnette 26. Gonna Rock 'N' Roll Tonight - Carl Mann & The Kool Kats 27. Treat Me Right - Kenny Parchman 28. Tootsie - Carl McVoy 29. Good Lovin - Dickey Lee & The Collegiates 30. Stay True Baby - Dickey Lee & The Collegiates

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ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS’s Raising Sand - The Originals

The combination of rough-throated ROBERT PLANT and angelic-voiced ALISON KRAUSS may have sounded ill-conceived on paper but the results on their 2007 album “Raising Sand” defied all expectations. With the assistance of producer T Bone Burnett, both singers display an obvious mutual admiration that imbues each song with something that resembles neither Zeppelin’s heavy rock stylings nor Krauss’s gentle bluegrass leanings. To guarantee these results, Plant, Krauss and Burnett dip into a varied collection of original source music that crosses musical genres and spans six decades. (Mark R.)trax:

1. Rich Woman - L’IL MILLET & HIS CREOLES (1955) 2. Killing the Blues - ROLY SALLEY (1977) 3. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - SAM PHILLIPS (2008) 4. Polly Come Home - DILLARD & CLARK (1969) 5. Gone Gone Gone - EVERLY BROTHERS (1964) 6. Through the Morning, Through the Night - DILLARD & CLARK (1969) 7. Please Read the Letter - JIMMY PAGE AND ROBERT PLANT (1998) 8. Trampled Rose - TOM WAITS (2004) 9. Fortune Teller - BENNY SPELLMAN (1962) 10. Stick With Me Baby - EVERLY BROTHERS (1960) 11. Nothin’ - TOWNES VAN ZANDT (1970) 12. Let Your Losss Be Your Lesson - LITTLE MILTON (1975) 13. Your Long Journey - WATSON FAMILY (1963)

…Compiled By Mark R. / served by Gyro1966…

The Infrareds "The Infrareds" 2000

After they started playing around town sometime in the late ’90s, The Infrareds racked up a series of shows that still live on in the minds of local music fans. The trio opened for the great ’80s surf punk band Agent Orange at the Monterey Fairgrounds and did a set before the psychedelic surf rock group The Mermen took the stage at Big Sur’s Fernwood Bar. But some folks will always remember The Infrareds for their gig at the Dream Theater in 2000 with The Lesser Known Gods and an upstart country rock act called The Darktown Rounders…
…A now-gone art house movie theater in New Monterey, The Dream Theater hosted the show on a Monday night and, according to a piece back then in the Weekly, sold out all tickets. Skydecker recalls that The Infrareds performed a high-energy closing set as the movie Apocalypse Now was projected on a movie screen behind them.
Another highlight for The Infrareds occurred later with the release of the band’s 2003 Recorded on Microfilm. The 17-song album begins with an old cigar advertisement before going into “The Red Scare,” a barreling surf-rock number with fast guitar playing and what sounds like war whoops in the background. On a later number, “Opening the Watergate,” Fortune’s surf guitar licks unfold as fluidly and powerfully as the waves reeling off a meaty right hand point break.
Following the CD’s release, The Infrareds embarked on an almost month-long tour around the United States. They performed at the famous New York City venue CBGB and did a show in a Portland, Maine, basement punk club called Gino’s, which Skydecker recalls as “the stuff that horror movies are made of.”
“That really was the apex of our career,” Skydecker says of Recorded on Microfilm and the following tour.
The Infrareds did put out another CD, 2004’s Sounds From the Darkroom, followed by a three-week tour of the Netherlands, but the trio lost their way after relocating to Los Angeles. After performing at a venue called Spike’s, The Infrareds were approached by an aspiring filmmaker who wanted to make a music video for the band. Unfortunately, the filmmaker and her associates encouraged The Infrareds to fire Glasby and add a vocalist to the band. (L.T. Thompson of the local groups Red Light Nightmare and Serpico did time as The Infrareds’ singer.) “It forced us to sell out,” Skydecker says. “In retrospect, I think we kind of feel guilty about it.” In 2006, The Infrareds officially called it quits. - http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/trax:

01 Pico Blanco 02 The Infraromp 03 The Outskirts 04 Dead Heat 05 Squad Car 06 The Umiac Mission 07 Red Spyglass 08 Exotic 09 Death to the Private Eyes 10 Covert & Stateless

"Rock 'n' Roll Party" Top Rockers From The Past

Wild collection of rare 50’s and early 60’s rock ’n’roll! This collection is out of print and hard to find.trax:

1. You Are My Sunshine - Paul McGhee 2. Rock 'n' Roll Hepcat - The Rockatunes 3. Splittin' - Billy Patch & The Pirates 4. Palzy Waltz - Billy Patch & The Pirates 5. Mary Lou - Bobby & The Temps 6. Champagne Charlene - Herbie Lee III 7. Rocket Baby - Jack Martin 8. Ask Her To Dance - Jim Fleming & The Casuals 9. Oh Moon - The Ferrel Brothers 10. Little John's Gone - Carl McVoy 11. Dig That Ford - Doug Harden 12. Where's That Love - Joe Venuti 13. Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie - Jimmie Maddin 14. It's A Long Way To St. Louis - R. Dean Taylor 15. Boogie Beat Rock'n' Roll - Bill Parker 16. Oh Geronimo - Barry Lane 17. Gettin' Rerady For Love - Barry Lane 18. Goodbye Baby Goodbye - Sonny Lowery 19. Miss Secretary - Jody Daniels & Bobby Samuel 20. Don't You Hear Me Calling Baby - The Tren-Els

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"Ham Hocks & Cornbread" (Box Set)

JSP has done it again! Given us several hours of good rocking jump blues. The artists range from known(Johnny Otis) to the less well-known(Goree Carter) a singer-guitarist from Texas. This is the music that bridged the gap between blues r&b and rock and roll. These recordings were all made with small to medium sized groups usually consisting of a rhythm section and at least one or two horns. The type of group where the singer and the honking sax try to outdo each other. This is exciting music! Meant to be played loud,preferably with something cold to drink. There is very little let-up from one song to the next-which is a good thing! In the end the artist is almost immaterial because the music is so unrelentingly good, loud and fast. If gut-bucket r&b is your thing-pick this up! And make sure you have something cold to drink with it. (Roots & Rhythm)trax disc 1:

1. Happy Pay Day - Little Willie Littlefield 2. Barrelhouse Stomp - Johnny Otis 3. Blues With A Feeling - Rabon Tarrant 4. I'm Your Boogie Man - Goree Carter 5. Big Bob's Boogie - Big Bob Dougherty 6. Did You Ever Love A Woman - Gatemouth Moore 7. Cheatin' Woman - Jimmy Smith 8. Drinking Ink Splink - Andrew Tibbs 9. Dyke Takes A Hike - David Van Dyke 10. T-Model Boogie - Rosco Gordon 11. Stop Light - Walter Brown 12. I Go For That - Billie McAllister 13. Floorshow - Frank Culley 14. Dyna-Flow - Jack Cooley 15. I'm Lucky With My Brown Gal - Sherman Williams 16. Achin' Heart Boogie - Clifford Bivens 17. Rockin' Boogie - Joe Lutcher 18. She's Gone With The Wind - Wynonie Harris 19. Swingin' For Pappy - Wild Bill Moore 20. Wine Woogie - Marvin Phillips 21. What's Your Phone Number - Jimmy McCracklin 22. Moose On The Loose - Bull Moose Jackson 23. Insect Ball - Big Jay McNeely 24. Blow Wynn Blow - Big Jim Wynn 25. V-8 Baby - Tommy Brown 26. The Hammer - Red Prysock And His House Rockers 27. That'll Get It - Floyd Dixon 28. Weasel Walk - Joe Morris 29. Ooh Wee Baby - Carl Campbell

trax disc 2:

1. Walk That Mess - Tiny Bradshaw 2. The Fish Pt. 2 - Sonny Thompson 3. There's No Other Way - The Jackson Brothers 4. Hey Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Wild Bill Moore 5. 35-30 - Paul Williams 6. Fan Your Fanny Blues - Harold Tinsley 7. Take Me Back Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon 8. Blue Creek Hop - Rene Hall Sextette 9. Red Hot Blues - T.J. Fowler 10. Red's Blues - Red Prysock 11. Sure Like To Run - King Carl Davis 12. Right Around The Corner - Jimmy Nelson 13. Ham Hocks - Cecil Payne 14. How About That - Eddie Mack 15. Your Mouth Got A Hole In It - Pinocchio James 16. Merc-O-Matic Boogie - The Joe Dyson Orchestra 17. Moondog Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 18. Mighty Mighty Man - Roy Brown 19. Hole In The Ground - Cousin Joe 20. Wino - Kid Tanner 21. Walkin' Home - Eddie Chamblee 22. Stidham Jumps - Arbee Stidham 23. My Baby Left Me - Little Eddie 24. Pachuko Hop - Ike Carpenter Orchestra 25. That's Right Baby - Piney Brown 26. Rocket Flight - Fats Noel 27. Heavy Weight Baby - Jimmy Crawford & Frank Motley 28. Banks' Boogie - Buddy Banks 29. Lousiana Boogie - L.C. Williams

trax disc 3:

1. Cornbread - Hal Singer 2. Gonna Bring My Baby Back - Mr. Swing (Rufus Thomas) 3. On My way - Roy Hawkins 4. Bookie's Blues - H-Bomb Ferguson 5. Screamin' Boogie - Dick Davis 6. Baby You're Still A Square - Percy Mayfield 7. Rubber Leg Woman - Sylvester Mike 8. Baby, You Don't Know - Roy Milton 9. Buck Fever - Freddie Jackson 10. Run, Mister Rabbit, Run - Smiling Smokey Lynn 11. Don't Give It Away - Jo Jo Adams 12. Rockin' With Big John - Big John Greer 13. Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night - Zuzu Bollin 14. Marshall Plan - Big Al Sears 15. Blues - Jack McVea 16. Flying Home - Gene Phillips 17. Lucy Brown - Duke Henderson 18. Safronia B - Calvin Boze 19. Down The Lane - Morris Lane 20. I'm Gonna Wind Your Clock - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson 21. Easy Rockin' - Freddie Kohlman 22. Walkin' The Floor - Felix Gross 23. Boogie Mr. Williams - Paul Williams 24. Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket - King Perry 25. Castle Rock - Johnny Hodges 26. She Sets My Soul On Fire - Sonny Parker 27. Wine-O-Baby - Big Joe Turner 28. Page Boy Shuffle - Todd Rhodes 29. The Blues Pick On Me - Peppermint Harris 30. Landslide - James Von Streeter

trax disc 4:

1. Hi-Ho Sylvester - Jimmy Rushing 2. Damp Rag - Stomp Gordon 3. Time To Blow Crown - Prince Waterford 4. For You My Love - Grant 'Mr. Blues' Jones 5. Royal Boogie - Maxwell Davis 6. My Baby's Blues - Little Maxie 7. Rock Around The Clock - Hal Singer 8. Take A Swing With Me - B.B. King 9. Chit'lins - James Von Streeter 10. Love Me Baby - Bernie Hardison 11. Douglas Boogie - Tommy Douglas 12. Come Home Baby - Tommy Ridgely 13. Buzzard Pie - Rudy Greene 14. Blow Mr. Singleton - Charlie Singleton 15. Giddy-Up Giddy-Up - Lloyd "Fat Man" Smith  16. Walkin' Home - J.T. Brown 17. Get Rich Quick - Little Richard 18. Fish Market Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 19. House Rockers Jamboree - Robert Tucker 20. It Sure Costs Money To Live - Earl Jackson 21. Jackson's Blues - Earl Jackson 22. Forgive Me Baby - Elmore 'Elmo' Nixon 23. Jackson's Boogie - Little Willie Jackson 24. I'm Your Rockin' Man - Herman Manzy 25. Worrying Blues - Plas Johnson 26. High Class Woman - Hubert Robinson 27. Night Train - Jimmy Forrest 28. I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use - Lester Williams 29. I'll Send You - Goree Carter 30. Cornbread & Cabbage Greens - Joe Houston

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"What A Way To Die" 15 Forgotten Losers From the Mid 60's - 1983

Supercool 60s garage comp from long ago!! This is one really great 60s comp that you shouldn´t miss!!!Another winner from the golden age of '81-84, compiled by N.J collectors Todd A and Vince B. Several classic punkers made their first reissue here. Contrary to what you've heard, the closing bonus cut is not by the "Dirty water" guys.traxfromwax:

1. What A Way To Die - The Pleasure Seekers 2. Let's Go To the Beach - Larry & the Loafers 3. Don't Mess With Me - The Teddy Boys 4. That's When Happiness Began - The Grains Of Sand 5. I'm Gone - The Magic Mushroom 6. Leave Me Alone - The Knaves 7. 13 Women - The Renegades 8. Empty Heart - The First Four 9. You Can Make It - Richard and the Young Lions 10. My Iconoclastic Life - The Beech-Nuts 11. Evil Hearted You - The Human Beingz 12. Do You Have To Ask - The Swingin' Machine 13. She Already Has Somebody - The Enfields 14. Never Thought You'd Leave Me - The Pleasure Seekers 15. Unknown - The Standells

The Surfing Spacemen "Mental Pictures" 2001

Wow! I pretty damn impressed with this record. It kinda has a Laika and the Cosmonauts feel to some of the songs. I wanna hear the first record like... now! - Brandonio!This is CD number two from Finland's Surfing Spacemen. It's quite different from the first, more polished and farther into the go-go scene. Images of bachelor pads and space age spy films abound. Some very good writing and arranging, coupled with strong musicianship and interesting blends of sounds. Real beat and groovy. - from Fat City Cigar Loungetrax:

01 Go Hammonds, Go 02 Super-Fly 03 Naked City 04 Island Of Bob-To 05 Immemorial 06 Waves 07 Satellite Beeps 08 Linoleum 09 Ergo Spega Extrobasa 10 Jamaican Root Canal 11 Swingin' Beatniks 12 Mr. Agent 13 No Questions Asked 14 Soho 15 Hard Labour. 16 Saved By The Bell

Lulu "To Sir With Love" The Complete Mickie Most Recordings 1967-1969

This wonderful compilation of her work from 1967-1969 includes HITS, B-SIDES, RARITIES!!!For the majority of American listeners, Lulu's career began and ended with "To Sir with Love," the theme song to the 1967 box office hit, though she enjoyed considerably greater success in the United Kingdom, and not without reason. Lulu had a solid, spirited voice that could handle an admirable range of material, and she tended to get good songs that she made the most of with the assistance of some very talented studio help (John Paul Jones arranged much of the material on her 1969 set Lulu's Album). To Sir with Love: The Complete Mickey Most Recordings features 39 tunes recorded during Lulu's tenure with famed British producer Most, and if this consistently leans to the more commercial side of British pop of the late '60s, it's great pop with heart, soul, and no shortage of enthusiasm. On tunes like "Love Loves to Love, Love" and her cover of the Beatles' "Day Tripper," Lulu sounds very convincing belting out tough rock & roll, and she's just as confident handling soulful material with real emotional weight, such as "Morning Dew" and "To Love Somebody." And while she also gets her share of MOR pop tunes here, she handles them flawlessly, and "The Best of Both Worlds" and "A House Is Not a Home" are marvelous, heart-tugging stuff. Lulu and Most had a great ear for material, tackling numbers from the songbook of Neil Diamond, Dan Penn, Harry Nilsson, and Elton John, and even the lesser tracks (we get three versions of the less-than-thrilling "Boom Bang a Bang" -- in English, French, and Italian!) are executed with superb craft and as much feeling as the singer could muster. Lulu continued to make fine records through the 1970s and still performs today, but her early material captured her at her peak, and this thoroughly enjoyable package offers the lion's share of her excellent 1967-1969 work, digitally remastered and sounding spectacular with intelligent liner notes. Fans will love it and those who only know Lulu as the "To Sir with Love" girl will be very pleasantly surprised. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)trax disc 1:

01 Movin' On Down The Line 02 The Way You Do 03 It Hurts Me Too 04 How Fine Can You Be 05 Slow Freight Back Home 06 Let's Try Again 07 I Can't Stand You No More 08 You've Been Goofing 09 Strawberry Jam 10 The Lost Train 11 Strollin' With Nolen 12 After Hours 13 I Used To Love A Woman 14 Strollin' With Nolen [Alt.] 15 Don't Leave Me No More 16 Strangest Blues 17 Wipe Your Tears 18 Jimmy's Jive 19 Come On Home

trax disc 2:

01 Movin' On Down The Line 02 The Way You Do 03 It Hurts Me Too 04 How Fine Can You Be 05 Slow Freight Back Home 06 Let's Try Again 07 I Can't Stand You No More 08 You've Been Goofing 09 Strawberry Jam 10 The Lost Train 11 Strollin' With Nolen 12 After Hours 13 I Used To Love A Woman 14 Strollin' With Nolen [Alt.] 15 Don't Leave Me No More 16 Strangest Blues 17 Wipe Your Tears 18 Jimmy's Jive 19 Come On Home

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Jimmy Nolen "Before The Funk"

WOW!!! This set has almost all of Jimmy Nolen's blues & R&B recordings before joining the James Brown Band...  Awesome guitar tone & tasty blues sounds makes this a favorite here… (BlueBeat Music)trax:

01 Movin' On Down The Line 02 The Way You Do 03 It Hurts Me Too 04 How Fine Can You Be 05 Slow Freight Back Home 06 Let's Try Again 07 I Can't Stand You No More 08 You've Been Goofing 09 Strawberry Jam 10 The Lost Train 11 Strollin' With Nolen 12 After Hours 13 I Used To Love A Woman 14 Strollin' With Nolen [Alt.] 15 Don't Leave Me No More 16 Strangest Blues 17 Wipe Your Tears 18 Jimmy's Jive 19 Come On Home

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Adiós Comandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz! (born 13. August 1926 in Birán bei Mayarí, Provinz Oriente; † 25. November 2016 in Havanna)

Clarence & Cal Green "Jumpin' Houston Guitarists" (P-Vine Cd)

Cal Green can be attached to blues as well as jazz, funk and rock & roll. He has played in all those styles. Influenced by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, he is part of the Houston scene with his friend Roy Gaines. Like him, his older brother Clarence is also a blues guitarist in Houston. For various labels, Cal accompanies many artists including Hank Ballard from summer 1954. In solo, he recorded two singles for Federal in 1956 and 1958. (Blues Sessions)trax:

01 Huffing And Puffing 02 Fast Times In Houston 03 Do It Now 04 Mary My Daring 05 Bossa Nova Walk 06 Cheenevert Street Shuffle 07 Red Light 08 Strollong 09 Don't Let The Blues Get You 10 I Know I Was Wong 11 Honky Tonk 12 All That Slow Jazz Got Me Blue 13 Just Keep It Up 14 Blues All Night Long 15 Good Thing Going 16 Green's Rocket 17 Sawdust Floor

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"Snake-Eyed Woman" 50's & 60's Rock 'n' Roll

Excellent collection of rockin’ and hard to find rock ’n’ roll!trax:

1. Snake-Eyed Woman - The Sundowners 2. Keep A-Walkin' - Bobby Darin 3. I Was Doin' It Too - The Rexters 4. Outta Tune - The Big Four 5. I'm A Real Glad Daddy - Curtis Potter 6. I'm So Glad Youre Mine - Sonny Burgess 7. Jeannie With The Dark Blue Eyes - Doug Powell 8. Lover - Jimmy Jones & Pretenders 9. Judy - Elvis Presley 10. Lou Lou - Darrell Rhodes 11. Maybellene - Marty Robbins 12. Momma Don't Allow - Bob Tyree 13. I Love My Baby - The Crystals 14. Mystery Train - Johnny Waleen 15. Ring Of Fire - The Tennessee Three 16. Ten Horned Devil - Prince Arky 17. I Wanna Love My Baby (demo) - The Burnette Brothers 18. The Fire Of Love - Marty Wilde 19. To My Baby - Skeet Richardson 20. Miss Annette - O'Neil Howes

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Dr. John "Locked Down" 2012

Between 1968 and 1972, New Orleans-cum-L.A. session musician Mac Rebennack transformed himself into Dr. John, The Nite Tripper. He recorded a series of albums for Atlantic, most importantly Gris-Gris, but also Babylon, Remedies, and The Sun, Moon, & Herbs; they seamlessly wove a heady, swampy brew of voodoo ritual, funk, and R&B, psychedelic rock, and Creole roots music......The Black Keys' guitarist Dan Auerbach admitted upon meeting Rebennack that he wanted to produce a Dr. John album and to revisit the Nite Tripper's musical terrain on record. The pair worked in Auerbach's Nashville studio with a group of younger players to explore the rawer, spookier elements in Dr. John's music. Locked Down is not an attempt to re-create Gris-Gris, which remains his classic; it -- and the other three records -- resembled nothing that existed before. Auerbach and Dr. John wanted to make a modern recording that drew on the spontaneous, more organic feel of those records; they succeeded in spades. Locked Down isn't quite swampy, but it is humid, even steamy. Its grooves are tight but raw and immediate. Its lyrics and music are charged with spiritual energy, carnal desire, and righteous indignation. It melds primal rock, careening R&B, and electric blues in an irresistible, downright nasty brew. The fingerpopping horn chart that announces "Revolution," is underscored by a fat baritone sax, an urgent, shake-your-ass bassline, and pulsing guitars. Drum breaks are constant in accompanying Rebennack's screed against corruption, "religious" hatred, and violence, which degrade humanity. His Wurlitzer solo is brief yet searing. "Ice Age"'s guitar, drum, and percussion vamp are deadly infectious. Rebennack's voice growls about collusion between the CIA and KKK and the end of an era, as the McCrary Sisters complement the vocals with an R&B chorus line in affirmation. His organ drones and wheezes to complete the picture, yet turns the last line into possibility: "If you ain't iced/you got the breath of life within."The electric piano on "Getaway" sets up a funktastic, bluesed-out swing. The guitars and Nick Movshon's hyper bassline drive it urgently with clusters of surf-like chords, reverb, and effects, completed by a roiling, over-the rails Auerbach solo. "Eleggua" is pure spaced-out Nite Tripper, a cosmic funky butt strut; its chanted mystical prayers come from the world of flesh and spirit; it's populated by slippery, watery guitars, wailing B-3, broken snare beats, and even a flute. That feel is underscored in the nocturnal shift and shimmer of "My Children, My Angels," driven by Rebennack's Rhodes, guitars, and a skittering snare. It's greasy yet somehow in synch with this love letter from a repentant father to his kids. Rebennack and Auerbach send it off, appropriately enough, with rock & roll gospel in "God's Sure Good" and a joyous chorus from the McCrary's behind-the-lyric's gratitude, highlighted by a swelling B-3 and backbone-slipping grit. No matter which era or what record you prefer, as an album, Locked Down stands with Rebennack's best. - AllMusic Review by Thom Jurektrax:

01 Locked Down 02 Revolution 03 Big Shot 04 Ice Age 05 Getwaway 06 Kingdom Of Izzness 07 You Lie 08 Eleggua 09 My Children, My Angels 10 God's Sure Good

Wilson Pickett "In Philadelphia" 1970

After cutting most of his hits in the laid-back but gritty environs of the Deep South (most notably Memphis and Muscle Shoals), in 1970 Wilson Pickett decided to move with the times and headed to Philadelphia, where his raw, bigger-than-life vocals were paired with the higher-gloss funk of songwriters and producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. It may not have seemed like an ideal match on paper, but in the studio the results were inspired; on Wilson Pickett in Philadelphia, Gamble and Huff kept the studio band on the good foot at all times, and Pickett's always passionate and forceful performance added whatever grease that might have been missing from the Philly session cats. (Not that they sound lacking in spirit, as Pickett inspires fiery performances from the band on cuts like "Engine, Engine Number 9" and "Run, Joey, Run".) While a few of the songs aren't quite up to snuff (especially the just-plain-silly "International Playboy"), and Pickett sound a lot better when he's tom-catting than when he's lovelorn (as on "Help The Needy"), the star still fires on all cylinders regardless of the material, and Gamble and Huff create first-class accommodations for his performances without losing touch with Pickett's gritty soul in the process. Wilson Pickett in Philadelphia was one of his last truly memorable sets for Atlantic Records; in 1973, he'd leave the label for RCA Victor, and his career as an R&B hit-maker would never truly recover. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)trax:

01 Run Joey Run 02 Help The Needy 03 Come Right Here 04 Bumble Bee (Sting Me) 05 Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You 06 Get Me Back On Time, Engine Number 9 07 Days Go By 08 International Playboy 09 Ain't No Doubt About It 10 Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You 11 Engine Number 9 12 International Playboy (2nd Single Version)

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"Three Alley Cats" 50's & 60's Rock 'n' Roll

Excellent collection from the original records! Thanks to djmcblues2 for the transfers and the share!trax:

1. Three Alley Cats - Roy Hall 2. Baby Don't Go - Andy Charles & The Blues Kings 3. Yes I Do - Royce Porter 4. Everybody Rock - Jeff Stone 5. Uh Huh, Oh Yeah - Tracy Pendarvis 6. Mama Don't You Think I Know - Jackie Lee Cochran 7. The Rocking Guitar - Cecil Campbell 8. New Shoes - Lee Denson 9. Rocky Road Blues - John Tolleson 10. Susie's House - John D. Loudermilk 11. Rough Tough Man - Don Curtis 12. Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache - Warren Smith 13. I'm In My Teens - The Collins Kids 14. Teeny Weeny Man - Jimmy Wolford 15. Way Out There - Chuck and Bill 16. Rock All Night - Glenn Honeycutt 17. Corrine Corrina - Johnny Carroll 18. Weepin' and Wailin' - Billy Barry 19. Cool Cat - Joe Montgomery 20. You Arouse My Curiosity - Dennis Herrold

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The Ultra 5 "Reincarnation" 1991

Fuzztime! Ultra Creepy Fuzzgarage from this New York Outfit!This is how it all started. Now its been 12 years since we released a long player and 20 years since the band began, inspired by psych bands that released one single in 1967, plus all the usual ones like the Count V, Music Machine, Love, Chocolate Watch Band, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, etc., etc., etc. Before and after releasing our first 45 on our own label we contributed tracks to numerous comps, soundtracks, and split 45's, including the "Bones Walk" single and a great ep on Zebra records called "Back In The Savage Garden" in 1996 as well as three long players: "Reincarnation" 1991, "House O Fun" 1992, and a live at Tutti Frutti LP on Moonking records titled "Dead Or Live" recorded and pressed in Mexico on psychedelic vinyl ― after one of three tours in our favorite place to play.
Now the ULTRA 5 have a large cult following, especially in Greece and Mexico, inspiring people to form bands like the Ultrasonicas, Los Magnificos and to cover ULTRA 5 tracks and our great new "Denizens Of Dementia" CD on Green Cookie records, with too many tracks to list and 2 video clips ― all digitally remastered with tons of unreleased pix ! It looks like maybe The Ultra 5 will rise again, all draped in leopard, to creep up on a stage near you! ― Ultra 5 Headquarters, 2004trax:

1. Rock'n'roll doll 2. She's the girl 3. Fun 4. Get out of my life woman 5. Don't know why 6. Lady orange peel 7. Bones walk 8. It's a long way home 9. Satan's angel 10. Off the hook 11. Hell 12. Mystery track

The Wet Tones "Mucho Reverbo" 2005

A band I've been digging hugely for the last couple of months is Italy's the Wet-Tones. These guys get NO recognition in the USA, but their debut CD "Mucho Reverbo" is REALLY good! Not quite reaching the lofty heights of "Dumb Loud Hollow Twang", but definitely one of the best surf CDs I've heard this year. - review by BrianAnother very trad 4-piece band, with a very appropriate CD title. The Wet-Tones will especially appeal to the fans of Satan's Pilgrims, the Nebulas and the Penetrators. Ten original songs and one cover (an instro surf version of the horrendously annoying and corny folk standard "If I Had a Hammer" - however, they manage to make it sound listenable! No mean feat, I might add...). The originals are consistently very good, combining great tones, a range of moods, often great melodies and imaginative arrangements. The highlights for me are: "The 7th Wave", an ultra-energetic, exoticly-tinged DD-like rocker that features a pretty spanish-guitar intro and the second verse with the acoustic guitar in the forefront, which was really cool - haven't heard anything like that in a long time. "Playa Piranha" sounds like it just escaped from a Penetrators album, all happy and playful with a big dose of reverb! "Lightning Strike" starts off sounding like the Fathoms or the Boss Martians, moving into a HEAVY DD-like part, and then back to heavily muted lead and rhythm, again followed by some intense double-picking. What a great way to combine both the DD and Astronauts schools of the surf sound. "Bonecrasher" reminds me a bit of some Space Cossacks stuff (if I may say so) with a beautiful double-picked melody that's not overly aggressive. "Surfin' the Casbah" starts off with a familiar melody, but then moves into some really aggressive and heavily reverbed double-picking that's just a pleasure to wallow in. The album comes to an untimely end (the whole thing is less than half an hour long) with a gorgeous ballad "Mucho Reverbo" that sounds a lot like the Bambi Molesters, or maybe some of Satan's Pilgrims quieter moments. Again, featuring an achingly beautiful and evocative mino-key melody, it's as good a ballad as it gets, especially as it shifts to a major key and adds a big dose of acoustic rhythm guitar at the end to bring the album to a close. Nicely recorded, with the authentic surf sound (mostly Jazzmasters with an occasional Jag, Twin amps, I think?). Great artwork, too. I'm really impressed with this album and this band. I've been in contact with one of their guitarists, Bruno, for many years, and he is a really humble guy, always telling me that they're not that good. What a crock! From what I heard here, I'd say that these guys are among the top ten surf bands in the world today. I haven't heard any other Italian surf band that I liked nearly as much as these guys. They're the real thing. from: http://www.surfguitar101.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=74trax:

01. Mr. X 02. Bikini 03. Apache Trail 04. Playa Piranha 05. Lightning Strike 06. Bonecrasher 07. If I Had A Hammer 08. Tropicana 09. Surfin'the Casbah 10. The 7th Wave 11. Mucho Reverbo

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Dr. John & The Lower 911 "Tribal" 2010

Dr. John revived his "Night Tripper" persona at the 2006 Bonnaroo Festival. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, his sense of urgency about Louisiana and the Gulf region allowed his spiritual persona free rein in concerts and interviews for the first time since the '70s…...He wore the garb on-stage and brought his entire history as a musician to bear in his performances. He's become a full-fledged activist who does his part educating the world about his geography's unique significance as a musical, spiritual, and environmental territory. As an album, Tribal, employs some of the spookier elements of Dr. John's earlier recordings like Gris Gris, but it's all rooted in blues, funk, folk traditions, and R&B that have been at the heart of his musical career since the '50s. His crack unit, the Lower 911, are augmented by a number of guests, including a horn section led and arranged by saxophonist Alonzo Bowens, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison (himself a Mardis Gras Indian Chief), a string section arranged by Wardell Quezergue, Derek Trucks on select cuts, and the fine backing vocal trio of Elaine Foster, Lisa Foster, and Erica Falls throughout. Dr. John wrote or co-wrote 13 of the set's 14 cuts (there are 16 on the vinyl version). Musically "Jinky Jinx," the title track with its Oglala Lakota Indian chant intro, and the guitar- and percussion-driven voodoo blues on "Manoovas" (with Trucks) hearken back to the '70s with better production. But current modes, such as slippery R&B and jazz, are fused on the album-opener "Feel Good Music," and a shimmering old-school New Orleans intro gives way to a laid-back yet fingerpopping political R&B in Allen Toussaint's "Big Gap." There's Southern-fried groove in "Change of Heart," (one of three songs co-written with the late Bobby Charles, whose memory the album is dedicated to; "Podnah" is another, but it's a nasty blues). A gritty, late-night funk saturates "When I'm Right, I'm Wrong" and "What's wit Dat" (a scathing admonition to eat healthy). He also lays down the socio-political second line in "Them," and the angry, jazz-fueled swagger in "Only in Amerika." Dr. John's piano and organ, which are everywhere present, highlight the beautiful closer "A Place in the Sun." When taken as a whole, Tribal is a revelation: it traces Dr. John's entire past, and integrates everything into a whole that is familiar yet points forward. Thematically, Tribal meditates on the state of the country and the world; it exhorts listeners to quit bullshitting one another because our mutual survival depends upon it. This isn't just a logical follow-up to 2008's excellent The City That Care Forgot, it's close to a career-defining summation from one of America's most important musicians. - AllMusic Review by Thom Jurektrax:

01 Feel Good Music 02 Lissen At Our Prayer 03 Big Gap 04 When I'm Right (I'm Wrong) 05 Jinky Jinx 06 Change Of Heart 07 Sleepin' In My Bed 08 Whut's Wit Dat 09 Tribal 10 Them 11 Only In Amerika 12 Potnah 13 Music Came 14 Manoovas 15 Seroungin' 16 A Place In The Sun

Randy Holden "Early Works" (The Sons Of Adam, The Fender IV) 1964-1966

Special Note: I have taken Richie Unterberger’s advice and added the third Sons of Adam single ("Feathered Fish"/"Baby Show the World”)from my own 45 collection. Now this compilation is truly “complete”. Enjoy!A nifty compilation of most of the rare mid-'60s singles that Holden played on before joining the Other Half. The two 1966 singles by Sons of Adam are solid psych-pop-punk, particularly the scorching "Saturday's Son." Those four tracks are joined by three previously unreleased Sons of Adam cuts that show an unexpected Zombies/Beau Brummels influence. The remaining six selections are by the Fender IV, including both of their Imperial singles and a couple of previously unreleased items. It's solid surf music, highlighted by Holden's stellar wall-of-staccato reverb on "Mar Gaya" (also available on Rhino's Legends of Guitar: Surf, Vol. 1) and the propulsive (vocal) surf-Merseybeat hybrid "You Better Tell Me Now." If only it had the third and last Sons of Adam single, this would be a complete retrospective of Holden's pre-Other Half output; unfortunately, that third Sons of Adam single ("Feathered Fish"/"Baby Show the World") was the group's best, so its omission is significant. (It is available on a hard-to-find EP on Moxie that has all three Sons of Adam 45s.) Incidentally, unlike many such import compilations of impossibly obscure '60s music, this is personally authorized by the artist himself. (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)

Thanks to the original sharer for the inspiration)

trax:

Sons Of Adam:

01 Take My Hand 02 Tomorrow's Gonna Be Anoth 03 Saturday's Son 04 Mr. You're a Better Man T 05 Without Love 06 I Told You Once Before 07 You Make Me Feel Good

The Fender IV:

08 Mar Gaya 09 You Better Tell Me Now 10 Malibu Run 11 Everybody Up 12 Highway Surfer 13 Little Ollie

Sons Of Adam:

14 Feathered Fish. (Alamo) 15 Baby Stop the World. (Alamo)

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Dr. John & The Lower 911 "City That Care Forgot" 2008

The City That Care Forgot follows Dr. John's (aka Mac Rebennack's) brilliant 2006 Mercernary set based on Johnny Mercer tunes. Given that this recording, like 2005's emergency benefit EP Sippiana Hericane, is rather political in nature, one can assume it's an entirely different animal than Mercernary... but is it?......Since the good Doc has his fantastic Lower 911 band in tow (they played on both of the previous outings), we can count on some deeply funky, New Orleans second-line R&B, blues, and jazz grooves, despite the socially conscious nature of the lyrics. The set was recorded in Maurice, LA, and produced by Mac and Herman Roscoe Ernest. There is a load of "name" guests here, which is a mixed blessing in at least one case. Eric Clapton makes his second sideman appearance this year -- the first was on Steve Winwood's brilliant Nine Lives -- playing excellent spooky blues guitar on three tracks here: the title (with Ani DiFranco on backing vocals and guitar), the strutting R&B whomp of "Time for a Change," (an exhortation to vote), and the deep, driven funk of "Stripped Away." (Perhaps he should quit making his own records and take up the sideman gig permanently, because these appearances are stellar.) In addition, Terence Blanchard makes a pair of appearances on the voodoo stroll of "We Gettin' There," and the popping backline, jazzy funk of "Land Grab." So far, so good: but why is Willie Nelson here? His duet vocal on "Promises, Promises" -- not the Burt Bacharach tune -- drags this uptempo, swaggering Mardi Gras rhythm track into the suburbs. It's lifeless. Terrance Simien makes a fine appearance on the album closer "Save Our Wetlands," and the badass horns of James "12" Andrews and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews make "My People Need a Second Line" an authentic example. It should also be noted that the great Bobby Charles co-wrote five tunes with Mac, and authored "Promises, Promises" all by his lonesome. The man is killing it as a writer -- if only he'd record more!
The vibe on this record dances all over the map. It's very consistent with that one exception. The music gets all dark, moody, and hoodoo in places, à la the sinister tracks on 1998's Anutha Zone, or his Atlantic recording period. In the cuts "Dream Warrior" and the title track, the anger expressed may result in a real life hex. Elsewhere, the Doc and Lower 911 offer more upbeat musical reflections that walk the razor's fine line between rage and hope, as on "You Might Be Surprised" (with its gorgeous strings and honky tonk piano), the mucky horn and clavinet funk that drives "Say Whut?," and the jazzy R&B of the opener "Keep on Goin'." "Save Our Wetlands" and "My People Need a Second Line" carry hope, and there's a strident "never surrender" message in what is some of the most joyous music imaginable. The character of New Orleans cultural -- and particularly musical -- heritage is everywhere present on this disc, and its personnel reflects it: the legendary Wardell Quezergue arranges horns on a couple of cuts. And the horn section is comprised of Crescent City residents Alonzo Bowens, Jason Mingeldorff, and Charlie Miller. Add to this the killer backing vocals of Tyrone Aiken, and percussion by Kenneth "Afro" Williams and Herman V. Ernest III, and it's a homespun party. Despite the serious nature of the lyrics on City That Care Forgot, the music is pure Dr. John doing everything he does best and, as evidenced by his last four or five outings, he's more consistent in the early 2000s than at any time in his long career. - AllMusic Review by Thom Jurektrax:

01 Keep On Goin 02 Time For A Change (Featuring Eric Clapton) 03 Promises Promises (Featuring Willie Nelson) 04 You Might Be Surprised 05 Dream Warrior 06 Black Gold 07 We Gettin There (Featuring Terence Blanchard) 08 Stripped Away (Featuring Eric Clapton) 09 Say Whut 10 My People Need A Second Line 11 Land Grab (Featuring Terence Blanchard) 12 City That Care Forgot (Featurning Eric Clapton and Ani Difranco) 13 Save Our Wetlands (Featuring Terrance Simien)

"Ragged But Right" Great String Bands Of The 1930's

The little-known performances on this very interesting CD feature four separate quartets comprised of strings (including violin, banjo, guitar, mandolin and/or bass) and smaller collaborations from the same dates. There are selections from the final recording sessions of Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers and numbers from the Prairie Ramblers (a top Western swing group), the pioneer bluegrass group J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers and Ade Mainer's similar Sons of the Mountaineers. While one thinks of the 1930s as the big-band era, clearly there was a great deal of other music being performed at the same time and this CD sampler should greatly interest collectors of early country and Southern roots music. (Scott Yanow, Allmusic) Out Of Printtrax:

1. Ragged But Right - Riley Puckett & Ted Hawkins 2. Ida Red - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers 3. Soldiers Joy - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers 4. On Tanner's Farm - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers 5. Hawkin's Rag - Ted Hawkins & Riley Puckett 6. Tokio Rag - Riley Puckett & Ted Hawkins 7. Go Easy Blues - The Prairie Ramblers 8. Blue River - The Prairie Ramblers 9. Kentucky Blues - The Prairie Ramblers 10. Shady Grove My Darling - The Prairie Ramblers 11. Tex's Dance - The Prairie Ramblers 12. Montana Plains - Patsy Montana Wirh The Prairie Ramblers 13. Maple On The Hill - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers 14. Seven And A Half - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers 15. Johnson's Old Grey Mule - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers 16. Short Life And It's Trouble - Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris 17. Riding On That Train Forty Five - Steve Ledford, Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris 18. Michell Blues - Wade Mainer & The Sons Of The Mountaineers

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"Are You From Dixie?" Great Country Brother Teams Of The 1930's

The title is truth in advertising. Excellent sides and spellbinding harmony vocals from the Delmore Brothers, the Monroe Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, the Dixon Brothers, the Allen Brothers, and the Lone Star Cowboys. (Allmusic) Out Of Printtrax:

1. Jake Walk Blues - The Allen Brothers 2. Roll Down The Line - The Allen Brothers 3. A New Salty Dog - The Allen Brothers 4. Deep Elm Blues - The Lone Star Cowboys 5. Crawdad Song - The Lone Star Cowboys 6. Just Because - The Lone Star Cowboys 7. I've Got The Big River Blues - The Delmore Brothers 8. Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train - The Delmore Brothers 9. The Nashville Blues - The Delmore Brothers 10. Weave Room Blues - The Dixon Brothers 11. The Intoxicated Rat - The Dixon Brothers 12. Down With The Old Canoe - The Dixon Brothers 13. Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy - The Monroe Brothers 14. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - The Monroe Brothers 15. Have A Feast Here Tonight - The Monroe Brothers 16. I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail - The Blue Sky Boys 17. Katie Dear - The Blue Sky Boys 18. Are You From Dixie? - The Blue Sky Boys

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The Glasgow Tiki Shakers "In Venice" 2006

The Glasgow Tiki Shakers play modern instrumental surf music with a twist. Based by the sea in the Los Angeles area the Glasgows play with a vintage sound in a modern setting. Tight - intense - soft and soulful, it's all here. - Phil DirtThe infectious joy this trio generates is also of a superior order, as the three and a half minutes of Velvet Surf exemplifies. A variety of approaches also play a part in the success of this group’s music.

A kind of arbitrary but pertinent test that can be applied to music like this is whether or not it transcends the listener’s own prejudices with regards to individual instruments or instrumental lineups. In this instance the music comes through with flags waving in both cases, and I'm left rueing the fact that it’s taken me so long to catch up with a band as good as the Glasgow Tiki Shakers. - Instrumental Observer

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01 Speedway Chase 02 350 Bumper Car 03 Velvet Surf 04 Bamboo Boogie 05 Madras 06 Splat 07 Buumu 08 Tram Jumper 09 Agave Days 10 Spicy Danger 11 Cotton Candy 12 Exbrook 13 Toes