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More/New Townes

Posted by Lou Novacheck on April 9, 2013 at 2:17pm 1 Comment

Just received this from Omnivore Recordings. Edited to eliminate extraneous material. Edit further if desired.

20130409- What Time Is It? - Edited
Omnivore Recordings

Now that winter is over, it's time to check in and let you know what's happening here at Omnivore Headquarters. Lots of information to put a spring in your step. And ear. But, don't actually put a spring in your ear. You should never put anything in your ear, except your elbow.

We couldn't be happier about the love everyone has given to our first Townes Van Zandt release, Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions 1971-1972. Because that material was taken from the time he was working on arguably his two seminal releases, we've decided to add to the story. Coming May 21, we're proud to reissue High, Low and In Between (1971) and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972). In addition to being available on newly remastered CDs, they will be on vinyl for the first time in decades. Colored, 180 gram vinyl for the first pressing, to be exact! Both the digipak and LP will feature liner notes from Grammy® winning scribe Colin Escott. Did we mention that first pressing was on colored vinyl? Orange for High, Low and clear for Late Great. These are the prefect pieces for a Townes trifecta.

S.Q. Reeder - Pomp and Circumstance

Posted by madeline burke on April 5, 2013 at 6:00am 0 Comments

S.Q. Reeder - Pomp and Circumstance

 

Let's say you were around in the early days of rock and roll, and one night you just happened to catch the act of a flamboyantly-pompadoured, black performer, pounding on the piano and singing with utter abandon. Little Richard? Not necessarily. You might have been watching Steven Quincy Reeder, performing as his alter ego, Esquerita.

Reeder, who sometimes called himself Eskew (or SQ) was one of the pioneers on the R&B side of early rock and roll.



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Via Allmusic -

With a six-inch pompadour, brocaded shirts, rhinestone shades, and a rhythmic, belligerent style of piano playing, Esquerita was the original Little Richard, years before Mr. Penniman tutti-frutti'd his way to stardom. Working around the Dallas-New Orleans circuit in the early '50s, Esquerita's shot at the big time came when Capitol Records decided they needed their own version of Little Richard, after signing their answer to Elvis,…

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Everybody's Polish on Dyngus Day!

Posted by madeline burke on April 1, 2013 at 8:41am 0 Comments

Everybody's Polish.

Dyngus Day is here!

It's nine o'clock in the morning.

Let's have another beer!!!

( verse from the local anthem of Dyngus Day)

 

The Grateful Dead - Beer Barrel Polka -



In old Poland, the day after Easter was a sort of secular continuation of the Easter festivities, with more feasting and drinking. At a time when the Lenten fast was a lot more strict than it is now, two consecutive days of feasting wasn't excessive. And what must have been a pre-Christian spring ritual was incorporated into the celebration. On Dyngus Day, young men would get up early and awaken young women by dousing them with water and spanking them on the legs with willow switches.

This somewhat bizarre practice has at its core the pagan spring rite of pouring water and switching oneself with willows as a means of cleansing, purification, and making things right with Dingen -- the god of nature. It also commemorates Poland's conversion to Christianity and the baptism of Prince Mieszko in 966 A.D.

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Vouti O Roonie McVouti O Zoot! - Slim Gaillard

Posted by madeline burke on March 22, 2013 at 12:02am 0 Comments

 

 

Slim Gaillard was a charismatic, jive-talking carnival of a man who was the quintessential bebop-era hipster in the 1930s and 1940s. Gaillard's frequent use of his own invented hip language was at once dizzyingly funny and warmly inviting. Gaillard, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, crossed musical paths at one time or another with countless bop heavies, from Ben Webster to Charlie Parker. In his compositions, he utilized humour not for cheap laughs, but rather for surprising and often surreal juxtapositions of sounds. Far from being slight, the results are richly humane, and have inspired everyone from the '50s Beat authors to '90s neo-swing bands.

"One of the most eccentric vocalists ever to hit the jazz scene, Slim Gaillard became a legendary cult figure thanks to his own privately invented jive dialect "vout," a variation on hipster slang composed of imaginary nonsense words ("oreenie" and "oroonie" being two other examples).noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout". (In addition to speaking 8 other languages)

African Jive…

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Stupefaction - Cocksucker Blues

Posted by madeline burke on March 21, 2013 at 9:14am 3 Comments


We've run it before, and we'll run it again...as long as it keeps popping up online.
Watch it while you can.

http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2013/03/cocksucker-blues.html

Happy Birthday Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Posted by madeline burke on March 19, 2013 at 8:36am 0 Comments



Clarence on tour with The Beatles 1964


Clarence Henry got the nickname "Frogman" from his gravelly vocal performance on "Ain't Got No Home" which was released this day in 1956.  Clarence has toured with some of the best including a tour in 1964 with The Beatles and later with James Brown.  He continues to perform to this day and prefers agents to call him directly to do business.  "Ain't Got No Home" has been featured in several movies including Diner, Lost Boys and Casino.  Check out the smash hit here...
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Stupefaction Movie of the Week: The Chess Records Story (2011)

Posted by madeline burke on March 18, 2013 at 4:33am 0 Comments

Following last week's Record Row - the Story of Chicago Soul and R&B from 1997, here's another Chicago special: The Chess Records Story which originally aired in 2011. Watch it below - four videos in one playlist. Hat tip to Groovesville USA.

Thanks again to - http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2013/03/movie-of-week-chess-records-story-2011.html

Happy Birthday Yank Rachell

Posted by madeline burke on March 16, 2013 at 8:29am 3 Comments

James "Yank" Rachell was the primary exponent of blues mandolin, although he also played guitar, violin, harp and sang expertly well. Born on a farm outside Brownsville, Tennessee, Yank Rachell picked up the mandolin at the age of eight, mainly teaching himself; an early encounter with "Hambone" Willie Newbern early on helped him as well. Rachell began to work dances with singer and guitarist Sleepy John Estes in the early '20s. In early 1929, he co-formed the Three J's Jug Band with Estes and pianist Jab Jones. The Three J's Jug Band were an instant hit and managed to work the dances during the lucrative jug-band craze in Memphis and traveled often to Paducah, Kentucky. The group recorded 14 sides credited jointly to Estes and Rachell for Victor for 1929 and 1930.



After the record business was flattened by the depression, the Three J's broke up. Estes and harmonica player Hammie Nixon went on to Chicago to seek their fortune in the nightclubs, but Yank Rachell decided to try his hand at farming and also worked for the L&N Railroad. Ironically, it was Rachell who was next to record -- during a stopover in New York Rachell teamed up with guitarist Dan Smith and laid down 25 titles for ARC in just three days, though only six of them were issued.



Shortly before the ARC date, Yank Rachell had discovered a kid harmonica player that he believed had real talent, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson. They worked together at the Blue Flame Club in Jackson, Tennessee starting in 1933. In 1934 Williamson went north to Chicago. With the success of Williamson's first Bluebird dates of 1937, Rachell decided to join Sonny Boy in Chicago for sessions in March and June of 1938. Yank Rachell also contributed four sides of his own to each session, and then 16 more in 1941…

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Happy Birthday Ry Cooder

Posted by madeline burke on March 15, 2013 at 8:29am 0 Comments

Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material encompass an incredibly eclectic range of North American musical styles, including rock & roll, blues, reggae, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Dixieland jazz, country, folk, R&B, gospel, and vaudeville. The 16-year-old Cooder began his career in 1963 in a blues band with Jackie DeShannon and then formed the short-lived Rising Sons in 1965 with Taj Mahal and Spirit drummer Ed Cassidy. Cooder met producer Terry Melcher through the Rising Sons and was invited to perform at several sessions with Paul Revere & the Raiders. During his subsequent career as a session musician,…

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