WHO CALLS HIMSELF LITTLE BEAVER? THIS GUY.

Here's another guy I'd never heard of, despite having bookmarked this ten years ago (gulp!). I never followed up and posted it. It's Little Beaver (real name William Hale) a session guitarist with some solo stuff of his own. Check our "Funkadelic Sound". It's not a Funkadelic sound as one would suspect. It's a straight up unapologetic James Brown copy cat record, which isn't a bad thing. This sort of thing, particularly from someone normally associated with session work, is great to pick apart, isolating instruments while listening. Not by means of a mixer or equalizer, but by doing it the old fashioned way. Just listen to one instrument while you're listening to the song. It's a nice way to see how this shit works.

The other song by Betty Wright is one that Little Beaver played on. He also played on a handful of Blowfly records. Now I know who Little Beaver is.

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Listen:
Little Beaver - Funkadelic Sound mp3 at Margauxville
Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman mp3 at Margauxville

PUN FREE TITLE.

I had "Whole Lotta Love" on the brain from the other night. Having posted a King Curtis song on the last post, it was his version that I'd been thinking about. I meant to revisit it. Then today I ran into a version of Tina Turner doing it. It's actually pretty good. I gotta say though, I did fast forward throughout her version the first time I listened to it just to hear if it kicked in, like the Ike and Tina version of "Proud Mary". Never happened though. Her version of "Whole Lotta Love" is five and a half minutes long and sounds like a version a very stoned person would enjoy. Very Isaac Hayes sexy slow funk. I, not being stoned, noticed that it had a reggae vibe to it, what with the empty space. That's why I like it. That and her singing. Her vocals do strange things to me on this one.

I kind of poked around looking for a reggae version and ran into one by Alpha Blondy. A little too show biz for me. I probably should have listened first before watching the video, which really is the show bizzy part of it. Onto another reggae version, one by an outfit called the Dynamics. Theirs, turns out, wasn't all that bad. I checked further and it's from an album of theirs that's all reggae covers. After a pause to roll my eyes, I saw that they also covered Herbie Hancock's "Rockit". My first thought was, "Man, this has gotta suck." It did not. It almost sounded like something Jerry Dammers and and his Spatial whatever would do.

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Listen:
King Curtis and the Kingpins - Whole Lotta Love (streaming) at YouTube
Tina Turner - Whole Lotta Love mp3 at Sunrise
The Dynamics - Whole Lotta Love (streaming) at YouTube
The Dynamics - Rockit (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Alpha Blondy - Whole Lotta Love at YouTube
Herbie Hancock - Rockit at YouTube

PER USUAL, LATE TO THE PARTY

Just another random link. I had no idea who Bernard Purdie was but the name seemed familiar, so I clicked. Holy shit, right out of the gate, "Hap'nin'", a drumming tour de force. This guy is funky as hell. He had to be a drummer's drummer. I had to have heard this guy. As it turns out he is, and I had. The Aretha and King Curtis cuts below were the first two that popped up, but the dude's played with everybody.

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Listen:
Bernard Purdie - Hap'nin' mp3 at Sunrise
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady mp3 at Drummer World
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew mp3 at Drummer World
Visit:
Bernard Purdie session discography (partial) at Wikipedia
Bernard Purdie solo discography at Wikipedia

...AND OUR DRUMMER IS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER

It's been a while since since I heard a song that made me think "What the fuck is this?". Okay, so the fuzz hooked me, but a slide whistle? And not just a little slide whistle as an accent or something. No, the slide whistle is all throughout the song. On top of that, they've got coconut shells or whatever the percussion instrument it is that makes it sound like a horse galloping. There's other weird shit going on in it to, but I don't want to ruin it for you.  It's worth hearing just as an exercise in solving the "What were they thinking?" puzzle. Do check out the hosting blog, Melting Pot. The have three more by these nuts (who by the way are Tobruk, a band from Brazil) and the story about how they came to own the record.

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Listen:
Tobruk - Heart of a Sound Spirit mp3 at Melting Pot
Tobruk - Three more songs at Melting Pot

WHEN LINER NOTES WERE SEARCH ENGINES

As I've mentioned a zillion times, my brothers and I were music freaks at an early age. After we started listening to blues rockers (i.e. Johnny Winter) and British blues (John Mayall), we noticed a name that kept popping up in the songwriting credits, McKinley Morganfield. We were in high school. It was the dark ages, no Google, no Wikipedia, no internet. Home computers were not made yet. (Neither were pocket calculators or digital watches.) It took some time to figure out what that name meant. After seeing the name Muddy Waters mentioned in interviews by the artists that also had McKinley Morganfield songs on their records, my twin brother went out and bought a Muddy Waters album, thereby discovering that a bunch of the songs on it were written by Morganfield. He's the one of us that put two and two together. Confirmation came via the counter guy at Soundsville, the local record store. Muddy Waters was McKinley Morganfield. Thus began our affair with good Chicago blues. Now, onto this Chester Burnett guy. So, just for the hell of it, here are three well known Muddy Waters associated songs not written by him.

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Listen:
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love to You mp3 at Internet Archive
Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Koochie Man mp3 at Internet Archive
Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go mp3 at Internet Archive

THE SIX WORD BAND NAME THAT MAKES NO SENSE

Reposting for a reason. I was just talking with a neighbor across the alley about Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, and thought I'd make this post easy to find as a welcome here to the (digital) neighborhood. So, without further ado, the post from a couple years ago:

Gads! Calling it quits early tonight. I had the good fortune of tracking down some hard to find tunes by Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, then ruined the mood by trying to take it further and running across a Greek rockabilly blog that only served to remind me how entirely cliche modern rockabilly has become. We need to face it, rockabilly is all but dead. I wouldn't say completely gone, because there are still a few true practitioners out there, but by and large most new stuff is crap.

So, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (who some refer to as SSKHKH for brevity but I choose not to because I happen to like dragging your ass through reading Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her over and over again) were the great find of the night. They were a Japanese three piece, and their stuff is kind of hard to define. Kind of like Sonic Youth, not quite as dense but with a similar crunch, without getting overly arty. I ran across a five song EP, from 1996, a decent enough introduction. Just know that their stuff does not pop up very often, other than YouTube, so dig in. Here's a good live video from a reformed (I think) six member version of Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her in 2014. Hang in there through the :42 intro, then decide.

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Listen:
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her – Fly EP (zip) at Egg City Radio
Five songs:
It's Good It's Real
Fitting (Motorhead and Fuck version)
I'm A Diva
Choking
If I happen to Fall Down (In Your Arms)
Video:
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - Coma at YouTube
Visit:
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, A Retrospective at Louder Than War Good profile.

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 54

Holy shit! I just realized that I haven't been in a record store since the pandemic started. Over a year! That is the longest I've been out of record stores since I was twelve years old. I'd become so used to shopping for essentials only (grocery stores, hardware stores) that I forgot about the most essential thing I shop for!

If you're like me, nothing beats buying music in record stores. Downloads just don't cut it, nor does browsing online for physical product. You need to see a mass of records, you need to flip through bins, and if the store has used bins, start at the 99 cent bin. (I found The Fabulous Wailers in a 99 cent bin in a record store where the proprietor had his head too far up Bjork's ass to notice his mistake.) So, the tiny local shop is on my list for this weekend.

That brings me to tonight's double feature. A movie and a read. The first is a documentary about Tower Records. Tower Records was a global chain that started in the Bay Area (San Francisco). When they opened their first store in San Diego, the chain may have had a half dozen branches, but their buying power allowed them to price everything so low that the independents couldn't compete. That wasn't on my mind as a teenager. What was on my mind was the immense inventory. When you went into Tower you were likely to find shit that you wouldn't see elsewhere. A lot of music that you didn't even know existed. One time when I was there all four members of NRBQ were browsing in different areas of the store (they had a gig that night about thirty miles away). There they were, the bass player just feet from where I pulled their first LP from about ten years earlier. If you're familiar with NRBQ, you know the breadth of taste that they share (their first LP had covers of songs by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Sun Ra, Eddie Cochran and Bruce Chanel). So, yeah, my browsing there was such that friends wouldn't go with me because it was hell getting me out. Before the store closed for good, I would shop for at least a couple hours every Saturday.

The other thing tonight is an oral history of Amoeba Records. I think they're up to three stores now (two in the Bay Area and one occupying the former home of the Tower Records on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, a short walk from the Whisky A Go-Go.) I've only been to their San Francisco store, but it passed the litmus test. They had bin cards for both the Japanese band Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, and the Nomads, a band from Sweden. Over the course of two days I spent eight hours browsing their racks. What they had over Tower was used records. Again, soup to nuts.

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Tonight's feature:
All Things Must Pass at YouTube Documentary about Tower Records
Read:
An Oral History of Amoeba Music, ‘The Greatest Store in the World’ at Fifty Grande

IT'S STONER ROCK SOMEWHERE

Ah, Big Maybelle. I love her music. Her story is kind of typical. Started out singing gospel, began singing rhythm and blues, blah, blah, blah, recorded for Savoy and Okeh, blah, blah, blah. That could describe any number of singers. I was in need of a factoid.  Then I remembered, she was the first to record "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", two years before Jerry Lee Lewis. You can take that home in a doggy bag.

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Listen:
Big Maybelle - That's A Pretty Good Love mp3 at Soul Garage This rules.
Big Maybelle - Quitin' Time mp3 at Soul Garage
Big Maybelle - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (streaming) at YouTube

LOCK DOWN THEATER NIGHT 53

Here's one I haven't seen. I haven't read a synopsis, but my guess it's about the FBI snooping around John Lennon. Regardless it's one I've been wanting to see so you're stuck with it. I did make a valiant effort to find a song or two and all I managed to find was an oddball about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It's by an aspiring singer named Rainbo and was written in response to the cover of the Lennon/Ono LP Two Virgins where they appear on the cover, full frontal, butt naked, plumbing exposed for all the world to see. The singer never made it, quit music and went back to her real name, Sissy Spacek.That Sissy Spacek.

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Listen:
Rainbo - John, You've Gone Too Far This Time mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Tonight's feature:
The U.S. vs. John Lennon at YouTube

HOP WILSON. ME NEITHER.

Sometimes a cool photo will suck you in. That's what happened here. The above image, Hop Wilson. Never heard of him but the photo intrigued me. First stop was YouTube. Seeing that photo, I'm thinking early country and western, pedal steel. Nope. Blues, and upon closer inspection it's a lap steel on a stand. After listening to a couple, the verdict: the sound is good, it's raw, it's different and it's worth hearing. Some of the licks are almost like Hawaiian style lap steel playing. A little looser then the blues slide guitar you're used to hearing. That alone is reason enough, just to hear a different approach. Truth be known, I would have found any excuse to post a proto-shakers type instrumental by a band called Hop Wilson and His Chickens.

Note: Finding mp3s on blogs is getting harder these days, so you'll have to do with some YouTube versions. Myself, I aim to go buy some of Wilson's stuff, which reminds me to plug the record sellers at Discogs. I don't know about you but I try to avoid the big guys like Amazon. Discogs not only has all the credits for different releases but also has has record dealers offering most of them for sale, which is handy. Sometimes the prices will vary wildly with some dealers charging reasonable prices and others trying to take advantage of people willing to pay any price, whether or not a record is all that scarce or collectable. In Wilson's case you can get 45s (pricey) but there are compilations priced like regular used LPs (around twenty bucks).

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Listen:
Hop Wilson - My Woman Has a Black Cat Bone (streaming) at YouTube
Hop Wilson and His Chickens - Chicken Stuff (streaming) at YouTube
Hop Wilson - Rockin' In The Coconut Top (streaming) at YouTube

DAMN GREEDY GEEZERS AND DAMN JUMPSUITS.

Well, what we got here is a few videos of the Stones showing the change in four key years, from 1968 to 1972. These was the transformation from the Brian Jones era to the Mick Taylor era. I chose these because the quality is good on all three. The first one is from the Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus. It was originally filmed for a TV special, it didn't get an an official store release until 1996. It also featured Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and The Dirty Mac, a hastily formed supergroup with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards (on bass!), Mitch Mitchell, Ivry Gitlis (violin) and Yoko Ono ("vocals"). The Stones performed six songs on the show, but I'm only including one because it kind of shows the door starting to close on Brian Jones. His attendance at recording sessions was getting sporatic, his behavior more erratic and his contributions to the band getting to be less frequent. Drugs. Showing him on stage during "Sympathy For The Devil" playing only maracas, I had all sorts of jokes lined up. "Man, that cat could play anything, even maracas!" "Hey, one-upped by a Monkee, Davy Jones could do the maracas AND sing." Jones was clearly on his out. He died less then seven months later.

The next cip is from 1971, the song "Midnight Rambler". Including this one because it just shows that every band, including one at the top of their game, can drag a song out to a length that is totally unnecessary. The studio version of "Midnight Rambler" is already long, over six minutes, but they tack on another three minutes here and it is not needed. But, hey, back with two capable guitar players, there are a few tasty licks.

The last clip is from the film "Ladies and Gentleman, the Rolling Stones" a film of their 1972 U.S. tour. Before I go further, that one big truth: Jumpsuits do not look good on anyone. There are a few obvious exceptions (mechanics, astronauts, race car drivers, Devo), but, man. Particularly the tight jumpsuits. That's fucking REO Speedwagon mentality right there. Blech! And yet, from Elvis, to Jagger, Steven Tyler, fucking Ted Nugent! It's one shark jump after another. It's just fucking awful. And exhale. Anyway, this one because your rarely see Keith Richards singing "Happy" and even more rare is seeing him sing it right around the time it was released. The transformation is complete. This was the last time the Stones really mattered. In just a few years they'd lose Mick Taylor, pick up Ron Wood, lose Bill Wyman, and get Darryl Jones. This leads me to another damn tangent. Why isn't Darryl Jones an official Rolling Stone? He's toured with them and recorded with them since 1993...I just did a search. It's fucking money. That is still a bad answer. How about some respect? Man, fuck them.

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Video:
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil at YouTube Rock 'n' Roll Circus, 1968
The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (Live, Marquee Club) at YouTube 1971
The Rolling Stones - Happy (From "Ladies & Gentlemen") at YouTube 1972

PARTY WITH ME PUNKER

Henry Kaiser has be floating just outside my listening sphere for years. I don't think I have anything by him but I know the name. I've seen it a thousand times. I know he plays guitar and is affiliated with free jazz, experimental and arty music. You know, the brainy genres. Now comes an outfit called "A Love Supreme Electric", with Kaiser and four others, one of them Mike Watt.

How Watt got together with Kaiser is anybody's guess, but then again, is there anybody he isn't connected to? As the bass player with the Minutemen he was around the whole SST crowd (Black Flag, etc) but the amount of clout he had became apparent when he released his 1995 solo LP,  Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? I doubt any bass players have had as many familiar names as guests on a single LP. On that record: Frank Black (Pixies), Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill) Adam Horowitz (Beastie Boys), Dave Grohl and Kris Novolesic (Nirvana), J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) Cris and Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets), Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Evan Dando (Lemonheads), Pat Smear (Germs), Henry Rollins, Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)., Paul Rosseler (Screamers) and a shitload of other namess that that I don't recognize. That was in 1995. I think I've been over all that before. I mention it now just to illustrate what a big net the guy has. Oh, and he went on to play in the reformed Stooges.

So, Kaiser and Watt get together with three other dudes (Vinny Golia, John Hanrahan, and Wayne Peet) and cover Coltrane. It works. Here's a couple videos of what appears to be different line ups of Kaiser's outfit.  It's cool, if you're not such a tight ass to think of it as blasphemy. There's also a link to the Bandcamp page for the project (more samples) and just for good measure, a couple Coltrane originals.

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Listen:
John Coltrane - Acknowledgement mp3 at Get The Curse
John Coltrane - Resolution mp3 at Drummer World
A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations at Bandcamp Samples and downloads/CDs for purchase.
Video:
Henry Kaiser : Weekly Solo #22 : A Love Supreme Electric at YouTube
Henry Kaiser : Weekly Solo #31 : John Coltrane's 'Meditations'  at YouTube

JUST IN CASE.

Some people are obsessed with getting every single release that their favorite artist(s) releases. I know plenty of people like that. I'm not one of them. So when someone posts a Skatalites 45 that I've likely not heard, I snag it. They recorded a shitload and I'm not sure a complete discography exists. Coxsone Dodd, who released the bulk of their stuff, didn't even have a complete discography of his record labels. Bottom line, if the link died next week I might not ever hear it again. If you're into the Skatalites don't blink.

Note: Over at Groove Addict, if you're in the U.S. the link that says "Link" won't work for you. Click on the one that says "uloz". Once at Uloz, there are two download buttons. I did the free slow download and it took less than a minute. It's a rar file with two mp3s.

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Listen:
The Skatalites - Full Dread (streaming) at YouTube
The Skatalites - Full Dread (download) at Groove Addict

THE SMALL TOWN ROCKER

Well, I gave it another go, played rockabilly roulette at Rocky 52 and ended landing on Alvis Wayne, an early rockabilly dude out of Paducah, Texas. Never heard of the place, so I thought I'd take a look-see. Holy shit. The place is like a ghost town. The population in 2000 was only 1,498. By 2019 it had dwindled to 1,278. I took a look at the street view, boarded up storefronts and empty. There were cars on the road, but not a soul in sight as I traveled virtually through the town. The homes were in decent shape, as were the gas stations and one of four motels that I came across. But the town has seen better days. And it produced Alvis Wayne.

Wayne has a familiar story. Grew up listening to Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, blah, blah, blah, got a guitar at age ten and was playing professionally by the age of twelve. Ended up almost as a footnote when rockabilly fiends in the UK took notice of his old records, blah, blah, second wind, blah, signed with Rollin' Rock Records in the mid-seventies, two albums  and then sporadic appearances and another LP in 2000. Here's a few. I gotta go look into what the fuck happened to Paducah.

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Listen:
Alvis Wayne - Swing Bop Boogie mp3 at Rocky 52
Alvis Wayne - Sleep Rock-a-Roll, Rock-a-Baby mp3 at Rocky 52
Alvis Wayne - Don't Mean Maybe Baby mp3 at Rocky 52
Visit:
Paducah, TX at Google Maps

OH, I'M SO SCARED...POSEUR.

There I was, over at Rocky 52, intent on playing rockabilly roulette. That's where I look for any artist tagged as rockabilly. It's gotta be A) a name I don't recognize, B) old, as in not one of those newer rockabilly outfits with all that Dixie regalia, C) little or no backing vocals. Really, they can ruin a potentially brilliant record. and D) something wild. Preferably with a scream or two and some good guitar. It's like Russian roulette with shittier odds. But, you don't die.

Sometimes I hit pay dirt right away. Other times I get distracted. Like tonight. Keith O'Connor was listed as "US Rock 'n' Roll singer from Indiana", Close enough I thought. Clicked and the first song was only so-so. Then I saw that as a member of the Torkays he did a song "Karate". It was substantially better. Then I thought I remembered an old post that had a bunch of karate themed songs. After rummaging around some old posts, a link to our ol' buddy, The Probe. Sixteen karate non-chartbusters.

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Listen:
The Torkays - Karate mp3 at Rocky 52

Chop Chop - 16 Karate oddballs at Probe Is Turning-On the People Sandy Nelson, Travis Wammack, Dave and Ansel Collins, and others. Enough to make me forget what I was doing.

THE "IS THIS DIET?" LOOK.

I can only think of one Gene Pitney record that I own, a 45 of "Town Without Pity". A great song, kind of a downer with a noir feel to it. I never bothered going any further with him. I know he had other hits, I just can't remember any right at the moment. But I do remember that he wrote "Hello Mary Lou", a hit for Rickey Nelson, and "He's A Rebel", a hit for the Crystals (produced by Phil Spector). Both were favorites of mine long before I knew who Gene Pitney was.

Pitney's versions of "Hello Mary Lou" and "She's A Rebel" are below. They're interesting to hear but, man, they pale in comparison. Not even close. Poor ol' Pitney. I was hoping the songwriting credit for "Town Without Pity" would be his redemption. Not to be. Some other dude.

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Listen:
Gene Pitney - Town Without Pity mp3 at Fimoculous
Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Gene Pitney - Hello Mary Lou mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
The Crystals - He's A Rebel (streaming) at YouTube
Gene Pitney - She's A Rebel mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People

FUCK YOU DEATH. DAN SARTAIN LIVES.

Aw shit. Dan Sartain has died. It happened a few weeks ago but I just heard about it. He was only 39. This one hits me a little harder than most musician deaths. I didn't know him, and although I really love his music, not to the point of running out and buying everything. That said, there's a couple things that make me stop and reflect. One is the circumstances of how I came to know his music. Many years ago, I was working as a grunt on a job site. The mason on the job needed someone (me) to clean the old mortar on the bricks so they could be re-used (it was a historical building). A few months later I was in my local watering hole, and I ran into the mason. When I asked how he ended up there he told me his daughter was one of the bartenders. After having met her, I soon met her boyfriend, John Reis, guitarist and singer for Rocket From the Crypt.

A few years later Reis started his own label, Swami Records. As I'd found out after getting to know him, we had similar tastes in music. Any friend that has a record label and has similar tastes also has my attention. One after another I road tested the artists on the Swami roster.

When I got to Sartain, I realized that this Sartain guy was the type of person I'd like to have a beer with. (Oh, that table would be crowded. Also sitting there, Ted Williams, Miki Dora, John Steinbeck, Hasil Adkins, Raymond Chandler, Dick Dale,..yeah, you know, the regular drinking buddies. "Hey, who let Duchamp in here?!? Get 'im a drink, would you Picasso?") After seeing a couple interviews, Sartain kind of reminded me of my brother in his self-effacing sort of humor and acute bullshit detector. To wit, of Jack White he said "He was a fucking dick. That man is uncool." How succinct are you going to get? Even if the subject was someone else, those two sentences are pure poetry. Then there's the Hasil Adkins question. Asked what his favorite Hasil Adkins song is, his answer would have been my brother's exact words,"'No More Hot Dogs,' stupid! What the fuck else would I choose?"



Apparently since he had slicked back hair and favored hollow bodies, he was assumed to be rockabilly by some, and about that he referred to the rockabilly crowd as fantasy driven, "picking their teeth with swithblades" and here's the kicker "like MC Hammer never happened." I laughed my ass off. That juxtaposition is hilarious.

There are other reasons why he's seated with the other heavy hitters. He's worked regular jobs, delivered pizza, worked in a record store and after touring big venues with the Hives and the White Stripes and releasing a few records, he took over a barber shop. Enough of the blabbing. Here's some of his music. If you like it you outta buy some. There's a digital compilation that contains all of his albums, one hundred songs, for twenty bucks at Bandcamp. Here's a few to sample. Do check the 46 minute film, Dan Sartain Lives: The Motion Picture, posted in 2014.

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Listen:
Dan Sartain - Flight of the Finch mp3 at Kolledge Daily
Dan Sartain - Boxcutter in My Boot mp3 at Xtrmntr 

Dan Sartain - Tiger Man mp3 at Xtrmntr
Dan Sartain - Telegram Sam mp3 at Xtrmntr
Dan Sartain - 19 more songs at Xtrmntr Click on the song titles to download.
Watch:
Dan Sartain Lives: The Motion Picture at YouTube 2014, 46 minutes
Visit:
Dan Sartain GoFundMe for funeral expenses and his five year old daughter
Dan Sartain obituary at NME

Dan Sartain obituary at AL.com
Dan Sartain - Bnmdcamp page
Dan Sartain channel at YouTube

LIVE FROM THE BACK OF THE HALL CLOSET

I just ran into a live set of Neil Young and Crazy Horse from 1976. I'd posted it as the last link in a list of several on a post in 2012. I never bothered to really listen to it. It's actually pretty good. I've got to slow down and smell the roses around this dump.

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Listen:
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Down By the River (live) mp3 at Visible Voice
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cinnamon Girl (live) mp3 at Visible Voice
The whole set:
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA at Visible Voice 11/22/76 The Full set, individual or as a full set.

HAUNTED FRANKIE VAUGHN RESPONDS

There's a letter making the rounds online. An alleged rejection letter sent to Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music from Polydor Records. I say alleged because it's been posted a lot in the past twenty four hours. Yesterday was April 1st, April Fools Day. I normally wouldn't regard it as fake, because I couldn't care less one way or another. But in looking for a high resolution version, I ran into an alleged response from Bryan Ferry. There is a line in the response that make me think both are jokes.

"If you really must, at least make sure it's on a REAL Polydor letterhead, you thick twat, otherwise I might think it's another late April Fool." Scans of both letters can be seen here.

Like I said, I really don't give a shit. It's just a good excuse to post some Roxy Music stuff. This way....

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Listen:
Roxy Music - The Bogus Man mp3 at Tumblr
Roxy Music - Do the Strand mp3 at Self Starter Foundation (?)
Roxy Music - Re-Make Re-Model mp3 at Rock Town Hall
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain mp3 at  Rock Town Hall
Cover:
Mudhoney - Editions of You mp3 at I Am Fuel You Are Friends
Video:
Roxy Music - Editions of You at YouTube
Visit:
Both letters, side by side at some his dude's Twitter

AH YES, THE OL' ETHIOPIAN PARTY JAMS TRICK.

I had a hankering for some Mulatu Astatqé. Dang me if it didn't become an Ethiopian smorgasbord. It hits the spot when you're in the mood for something that you didn't know that you were in the mood for. Foreign. Exotic. Cool. Here's a mix and a handful of of songs. Eat up.

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 Listen:
Mulatu Astatqé - Yekermo Sew mp3 at Oh Color Me In
Mulatu Astatqé - Yegelle Tezeta mp3 at Tumblr
Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex - Yeharerwa mp3 at Soul Safari
The Mix:
In Ethio Mood Again - Mix by Nicky mp4 (via Mediafire) at My Passion For Ethiopian Music
Song list here.
In Ethio Mood Again - Mix by Nicky (streaming) at Mixcloud Song list here