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i got some dope 78s from my friend john today, including a narmour & smith record that came from Crumb's collection.

Got a nice og copy of The Four Tops on Top ('66 - has "Shake Me, Wake Me" on it) for a dollar at the swap meet yesterday. Another great sounding Motown mastering job!

someone brought a copy of the mountain bus album into the store. some radio station graffiti on the cover, but the vinyl is clean. gonna keep it. also a super-clean WLP copy of the eclection album on elektra. sounds amazing. also a copy of the Just Vandy album. cover ain't so hot cuzza the radio thing - stickers/writing - but the vinyl is really clean. i might keep it. nice record, but not like a mind-blowing record. femme folk from 1972.

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same label that put out the mason album:

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i've wanted that mountain bus for years but can never bring myself to spend money on it.
i'd be happy with an affordable copy of the akarma reissue at this point.

paying a lot of money for old akarma vinyl is just ridikkilus to me.

yeah, it's dumb. but if i found a copy for $20 i wold buy it, i guess. especially cuz the mountain bus one comes with a bonus LP.

20 bucks is fine. when i see them for 50 or higher though!

byron has an old boot of that spirit of the lotus juice album or whatever that your friend just put out and its like 50 bucks. and i wanna tell them that there is a new reissue but i always forget to.

lol. i had that bootleg, sold it before the reissue came out, and even then i think i only got like 25 bucks or so.

scored the Rita Lee S/T yesterday for 4 bucks, that made my weekend

:D

the limpest of ssw collections just rolled through my local goodwill. i had to stop myself from buying 2nd and 3rd copies of unsellable stuff i love (jonathan edwards, jd souther, etc.). this dude was a total kindred spirit.

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i love the west records. in a weird way.
is that david wiffen at the bottom?

yeah, it's a double. you need?

i've had the west a couple times and always sold it but i've been so into the ron cornelius record the last couple of years that i figured i had to give it another shot when the price was right. still looking for the 2nd west record to give it another go 'round as well...

nope, i've got the wiffen. love it.

i think the 2nd one is the west record with a version of "july you're a woman"? love their version of that great song

i love the west albums. i was just playing that record on top the other night. the dude on a&m. that's good stuff! would be totally happy to find that stuff at the thrift store.

i was listening to judy mayhan the other night too! i want that libby titus album. or i want to hear it anyway.

god i can totally see that blonde beardo sitting at the table on the cover of that one album. even though you can't see him in the picture. forget his name. not a great album.

i like casey kelly too. i like a lot of this stuff.

haha. yeah, that one's a bit of a stinker. roger troy. it looked like it had swamp-funk potential with a penn/oldham track but it's pretty doo doo mid-70s soft soul and stinky r&b.

judy mayhan is pretty interesting. i guess she has a bunch of records but i don't think i've seen any of them before. rad and unexpected cover of one of my fave tracks on the first little feat lp.

oh, and i'll try to remember to rip the libby titus someday soon. haven't jammed it yet so i can't comment on its quality.

libby titus is okay, casey kelly good too.

slim pickings of late:

holy modal rounders - good taste is timeless (sundazed reissue)
john fahey - the transfiguration of blind joe death (transatlantic issue, so very good)
sir douglas quintet - best of (early eighties takoma release, really like some of the stuff on here, so going to have to explore their releases some more)
les percussions de strasbourg - americana (compositions by varèse, chávez & cage, nz press, so no nice shiny silver prospective 21e siècle cover, oh well!)

Does that Fahey come with the book? I found the same copy at an antique store but it was missing that :(

i think only the original US pressing on Riverboat had the book, on that Fahey rekkerd.

i actually scored that fahey x2 (sold the more knackered copy to my brother at a slight profit), and (as above) no books, though you can read the liners on johnfahey.org (written by a pre-canned heat al wilson, apparently).

whoops, make that johnfahey.com

Oh! This is what I was remembering... are these components mismatched?

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/390510279018/JOHN_FAHEY__TRANSFIGURATION_OF_BLIND_JOE_DEATH__1968_TRANSATLANTIC_LP_w_BOOK

Yeah it looks like the Riverboat version says so along the bottom of the cover. And the book in the link above says Riverboat on it as well.

*cover of the record sleeve (looked it up)

went to the library sale I mentioned on the "should I buy this" thread, some pretty good scores, will break it down later. 2 full boxes of 78s for $10. Tampa Red! Eartha Kitt! almost a whole box of Okeh that I bought w/o looking that is not as good as I had hoped. "Ya Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Aroun'" by Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, I kinda just grabbed whatever had cool indie labels. about 100 all told.

Fun! I wonder if that sort of thing happens around here in NJ, never thought to look into it.

also found a 78 by William Baranco & His Rhythm Bombardiers ("Night & Day b/w "Weeping Willie") featuring a "C. Mingus" on bass - is this who I think it is?

sorry WILBERT Baranco

yes, yes it is.
http://www.jazzdisco.org/charles-mingus/catalog/

i think my copy of 'you gotta quit kickin my dog around' is on columbia.. what a great record. interested for sure in what the OKeh's are! some great stuff on that label.

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man, i played hooky from work yesterday and hit the north bay with pete and zack. so much fun. highlights include:

bob marley - soul rebels og on upsetter
the maytals - from the roods og on trojan
heptones & friends - now generation og on jogib
chris darrow - s/t
tim buckley - starsailor
ann peebles - i can't stand the rain

lowlight:

pete finding my longtime want, terry telson - while in exile, with the wrong LP in it

i think my copy of 'you gotta quit kickin my dog around' is on columbia.. what a great record.

I only knew it cause I heard Michael Hurley play it once! it's not the kind of tune you forget.

<3 chris darrow <3

bought a ton of 45s today. couple thousand? maybe 3000. picking up the rest next week. sight unseen! i love 45s. and i don't even collect 45s. but i really love them. i love looking at them. i love playing them. i love selling them. guy i have bought from in the past is moving to florida and needs to get rid of stuff. i called his brother last year - i've bought stuff from his brother before too. he's a nice guy. they both are. they used to be pro party deejays in the late 70's and on into the 80's. - and said hey got anymore records and how about your brother? good timing. i put the bug in his ear. glad he didn't call any of the sharks where they live. they are sharky around there. anyway, he ended up with some radio station's 45s - a goodly amount anyway - and i love them. not all of them. but i love enough of them. almost all 60's and early 70's. rock and soul and pop. all over the place. i have a serious love for 60's rca promo 45s. and warner brothers too. oh heck i love them all. white label sugar magnolia is a beautiful thing.

also got a couple of dozen 50's R&B 78s in various conditions along with the 45s. and some decent LPs. and apparently the mother of all elvis LP collections. we'll see when i get over there next week. and 45 racks! he has a ton of sports stuff that i have no interest in. like, a million baseball cards and all that.

finally snagged a copy of Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda.

From the liner notes in the gatefold: "Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandadaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore."

will do alice!

love that record so so much, was it one of those nice "limited" reissues?

went to a not very exciting record show in connecticut with maria and the kids. we were gonna sell there but then decided not to. we would have done well cuz it wasn't very exciting and my shiny goods would have stood out from the dusty boxes of unpriced stuff that a lot of lazy dudes had. i got tons of cheap stuff for the store though. and lots of nice - mostly 70's jazz - stuff for me. but most importantly i got a PRISTINE unplayed promo copy of Bongo Rock - still in the shrink! - for 40 bucks. nobody else was gonna buy it. i don't think. i couldn't resist. nicest copy ever. gonna keep it. most i've spent on a record in a while. but some things are essential to own. i bought a lot of the jazz i'm keeping from the same guy. he had great prices and nice stuff. my friend andy was there and i got some good stuff from him too. most stuff there though was either trashy trash or priced dumbly. or not worth getting at any price. but i can always manage to find cool stuff. i would have cleaned up there though. couldn't help thinking that the whole time i was there...

Went through probably 500 records in the back of a thrift in DC on Saturday am, had six for the guy who got cute on pricing (wanted $2 each, despite the fact I had a bunch of singles) -- coughed up $2 per for one 12" (Leroy Smart, 100% of Love) and one LP (West Indian Record Mart presents Reggae Explosion) and left the rest on the counter.

DC is rough for thrifts, I hear crazy stories from estate sales but don't have a car.

okay, other stuff i got yesterday since i have a rare quiet moment on a monday morning:

harvey mandel - shangrenade (janus - 1973)

michael white's magic music company - go with the flow (abc - 1974) (awesome!)

eddie harris - come on down! (atlantic - 1970)

bobby hutcherson - waiting (blue note)

jimmy castor - C (long distance) (this is great and i can't believe i'd never heard/seen it.)

chuck hammer - guitarchitecture (guitarchitect enterprises - 1981) (this is so cool and demented. special thanks to lou reed and david bowie. "not made in England")

jayson lindh - cous cous (metronome)

southern contemporary rock assembly - the ship album (atlantic - 1972)

lani hall - sun down lady (a&m - 1972)

reverberi - stairway to heaven (ua - 1977) (reverberi version of stairway as good as jimmy castor's on jimmy's C album.)

the rainbow band - s/t (elektra - 1971)

nucleus - snakehips etcetera (sire - 1975)

jimmy ponder - illusions (abc - 1976)

gene ammons - velvet soul (prestige - 1964)

hampton hawes - a little copenhagen night music (arista freedom - 1977)

the two sides of hampton hawes (jas - 1977)

bobby hutcherson - the view from the inside (blue note - 1977)

jimmy james and the vagabonds - you don't stand a chance if you can't dance (pye - 1975)

kool and the gang - open sesame (de-lite - 1976)

alphonse mouzon - by all means (pausa - 1981)

gene ammons - angel eyes (prestige - 1965)

eddie harris - how can you live like that? (atlantic - 1977)

kenny burrell - sky street (fantasy - 1976)

eddie harris - bad luck is all i have (atlantic - 1975)

tom scott - rural still life (impulse)

marek grechuta & anawa - korowod (muza) (trippy polish stuff!)

michael longo - 900 shares of the blues (groove merchant - 1974)

valdy - s/t (a&m - 1972)

there's a track on the chuck hammer album called "Guitolocaust" where he plays 9 guitars. that's all you really need to know. amazing homemade blast of a record.