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Jeffrey Evans: Iv'e Lived a Rich Life |
| | Every bluesman needs a catch phrase. Mississippi Fred McDowell's was, "I do not play no rock & roll." Well, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans isn't strictly a blues guy, but it is one of the ingredients in his long-simmering musical stew (along with folk, country, bluegrass, and rock & roll). His catch phrase -- at least for the purposes of this recording -- is "I've lived a rich life." That he has, and it's what the album is all about. Yet even by Evans' idiosyncratic standards, it's an unusual one. (The "Monsieur," incidentally, attached itself to his name sometime after the demise of the Gibson Bros.). You might be expecting a collection of acoustic ballads, but that isn't what's going on here. I've Lived a Rich Life is, instead, more like an oral biography or music history lesson (Evans refers to it as a "workshop"). Recorded in the parking lot of Shangri-La Records in Memphis, TN, he talks about his life (both personally and professionally) and illustrates the story with snippets from his catalog and those of his favorite artists. The end result is more talk than music, but Evans is a natural raconteur. The casual fan may be left a bit flummoxed by the proceedings, but the dedicated Evans aficionado is sure to find I've Lived a Rich Life to be quite an interesting and amusing -- let alone insightful -- affair. ---by Kathleen C. Fennessy |
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Jay Reatard: Matador Singles '08 |
| | "In this short span of time, Reatard has cranked out more memorable songs than some acts do in their whole careers" --Pitchfork
For the six months leading up to this release, Matador has put out a limited edition 7-inch by Memphis boy wonder Reatard. Each generated more attention, but was released in a progressively more limited run, starting with 3,500 copies for the first and ending with 400 copies for the sixth. This package collects all six (excluding the Deerhunter track on #4), plus one extra song. Each tune is a perfect snarling pop-punk gem. |
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Ross Johnson: Make It Stop!: The Most of Ross Johnson |
| | Career-retrospective from possibly the ultimate anti-careerist! Legendary nutsoid drummer for Tav Falco's Panther Burns, heard ranting on Alex Chilton's Like Flies On Sherbert... yeah that's him on Baron Of Love Pt 2! Includes his Sugar Ditch recordings, Adolescent Music Fantasy stuff with Jeff Evans, tracks with REM's Peter Buck in Our Favorite Band (dig "My Slobbering Decline" and "Rockabilly Monkey-Faced Girl"), tracks with the Young Seniors, Ron Franklin, and more more more!
Superb booklet as well, with essays from Ross, It Came From Memphis' Robert Gordon, John Floyd, and Andria Lisle. |
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Lord T and Eloise: Chairmen of the Bored |
| | Letter to the Bored
We hold this to be self-evident, that all men and women are endowed by their Creator with a certain unalienable Crunkness — That to secure this Crunkness,understandings are instituted among men and women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the listeners, that such crunk be of good and noble quality — That whenever any Form of crunkness becomes foolish or destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new crunkness. For prudence, indeed, dictates that when a long train of such musical abuses and usurpations occur, it is the right, it is the duty, of noble-minded crunk men and women to join together in unity to evict such blandness, and provide in themselves the new Guards for the future security of Crunk.— Such has been the patient sufferance of the watchful eyes of thos MCs who have congregated together here now--these generals of the jaded, these Chairmen of the Bored--and of those men and women who follow their lead, all rising in direct defiance to the establishment of a bland and tiresome musical Tyranny. To prove this, let these Tracks be submitted to a candid world.
Welcome, ye Chairmen of the Bored! |
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Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre: Smothered and Covered |
| | Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre are back and more pissed off than ever than ever with their second release. This is cowpunk at it's finest, with a style that mixes late 70's outlaw country with early 80's punk rock. If you love Black Flag just as much as you love Waylon Jennings, Smothered and Covered is the cd for you. |
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Al Green: Lay It Down |
| | Lay It Down with 11 tracks by Al Green. Friends laying it down with Al Green are Anthony Hamilton on the opening album title track and on 'You've Got the Love I Need'. Corinne Bailey Rae sings with Al on 'Take Your Time' and John Legend joins in on 'Stay With Me (By The Sea)'. |
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Jay Reatard: Blood Visions |
| | Unbelievably Amazing Pop Genius!
By Philip L. Ringler
In my opinion Jay Reatard's "Blood Visions" is the single most cohesive, unfathomably tight, sinister, and disturbingly brilliant pop record ever made. Every track is simultaneously a polished diamond and a catastrophic train wreck. All of the rock n' roll thematic standards are represented: unrequited love, lament, loss, anger, murder, death, and redemption. When Jay Reatard sing/yells "Missing You" you really believe he misses someone, perhaps a bit too much. Although this record transcends the usual comparisons, it could be said that a eight headed hydra monster including the heads of
Roy Orbison, Screaming Lord Sutch, Graham Lewis (Wire), Jim Weber (New Bomb Turks), Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerry Roslie (The Sonics), Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats), and GGlen Danzig. But the entire record was recorded by Jay Reatard alone! This isn't just some master musician wanking his glowing guitar, but a conceptual mastermind who uses his talents in a brutally cohesive fashion.
If you have a pulse, or even if you don't, you should own this pop masterpiece before the world explodes in a heap of blood and glass and feathers. |
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