2013 scores

^ This record is awesome, actually. I've never been hugely grabbed by anything else I've heard by them, but this one is killer to me.

not scores, but i placed my bids today on the latest 78rpm auction from County Sales --
#25 OK-45158 Scottdale String Band $18.00
#35 OK-45188 Scottdale String Band $18.00
#39 OK-45250 Hershel Brown $26.00
#84 CO-15043 Burnett & Rutherford $8.00
#93 CO-15187 Burnett & Rutherford $16.00
#94 CO-15205 Leake Co. Revelers $16.00
#100 CO-15334 Skillet Lickers $12.00
$135 SIL-5082 Hill's VA Mountaineers $14.00
#149 MW-7346 Arthur Smith Trio $8.00
#153 PER-12820 Carolina Ramblers $16.00
#165 CQ-7269 Alex Gordon $16.00***

*** Alex Gordon is a pseudonym for Frank Jenkins Pilot Mountaineers.

I look through 78s so much and really rarely see any old-time folk/country/blues. I suppose it's because I'm in California.

Found these country 45s in really nice condition today for 25 cents each at the thrift store:

Charlie Louvin - "Think I'll Go Somewhere and Cry Myself to Sleep" ('65)
Webb Pierce - "The Man You Want Me to Be" ('70)

If I knew more about great old time folk/blues/country 78s I would look more because I loooove that sound. I just don't know enough about it to browse. Plus I rarely encounter any...

there are reaaallllly not many string band records outside of the south. i've found one ever in NY. moe handy has found a few in the bay area i think, but even there it's more post-war and western swing stuff than my fave jams.

I hardly ever find country 78s, ever, it's always big band or easy vocal jazz. But I sometimes get discouraged while looking through stacks of 78s and give up. I always look for coral or king records and never see those labels. I love hillbilly bop and never find any.

Yeah, I do run across probably later '40s and '50s country 78s a fair amount.

Like there was an Ernest Tubb 78 (with a crack in it) at the thrift store today.

Trying to figure out what kind of town is just right in order to find actual interesting records in the thrifts and antique shops that haven't already been cleaned out.
Too small or removed: only ever was garbage
Too big and hip: only garbage remains

...generally

i'm going up to white plains today to look at some records.
if i get there early i might hit the salvation army and goodwill stores in town.
will be sure to report back my findings.

i expect: CSNY, Joan Baez, Fiddler On The Roof.

aside: whenever i think of white plains, i think of the Hit Man stories by Lawrence Block. His broker lives in White Plains, in a big old white house with a nice front porch, perfect for sipping iced tea.

Mmmm... a good iced-tea-style-porch is paradise.

so is killing ppl for money, apparently.
i really like the Hit Man books cuz they make a big deal out of the collecting impulse -- the hit man (Keller) is also a stamp collector and he ruminates from time to time on its essential meaninglessness/weirdness of desire for rare things with no real function.

a new one and some great quality second hand:
Daniel Lopatin & Tim Hecker - Instrumental Tourist
Bohannon - The Mighty Bohannon
Chic - C'est Chic
Giorgio Moroder - Midnight Express

blondes - swisher
factory floor lp
sabre - nightdrive to bolland 12"

this album which is my fave album of the month so far. never heard it before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B7alymQ6I

Toy Love - s/t
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand
Uncle Wiggly - Across The Room and Into Your Lap

re: the 78 convo i missed the other day, the only time i found (well, tbh, my friend found them and texted me... i wasn't even there) pre-war string band shit in the bay was at the garage sale of r. crumb associates so that was a lucky fluke. pre-war hick and blues shit seems almost primarily a southern thing (maybe some chicago / mid-west for blues) which makes sense since most migration of southern folk happened during and after the war... that said, tons of great honky tonk and western swing and post-war blues 78s in cali...

this record shreds you guys. kinda in a ernie graham / brinsley schwarz / frankie miller vein but american. stoked to trade for a sealed copy yesterday at the KUSF swap.

http://www.bsnpubs.com/london/london/660.jpg

a couple of weeks ago:

louvin brothers - tragic songs of life
dillard & clark - through the morning, through the night
the white brothers - new kentucky colonels live in sweden

today:
robert wyatt - radio experiment rome february 1981
johnny dyani - witchdoctor's son together
roy harper - sophisticated beggar, stormcock
michael chapman - wrecked again, playing guitar the easy way (with instruction booklet)
various - matchbox days (late sixties uk country blues comp with mike cooper, jo-ann kelly, wizz jones, etc)

now that's what i'm talking about.

dude, ian, i kinda want to keep that record. its no nice. i'm gonna take a hundred bucks worth of my records to the store to justify. unplayed promo. with a promo sheet with a nice note written by one of the dudes. and then another handwritten note by someone else that basically says: sheesh this is bleak.

I've never heard ernie graham, brinsley schwarz, or frankie miller, at least I don't think I have.

it's "so" nice

no worries!! i can't be buying records now anyway. keep that shit.
i only want fiddlin music, cuz it's in my price range.

also: brinsley schwarz "silver pistol" is such a fuckin great record...

sweetness

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1009891_10152507206122137_72308284_n.jpg

man, your shop is so cool.

seriously

Wasn't even going to so to the swap meet this morning, but I did and ended up with this stuff for seven dollars:

Loretta Lynn - You're Looking at Country ('72)
Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton - Just the Two of Us ('68)
Herman's Hermits - "There's a Kind of Hush" b/w "No Milk Today"
The Tornadoes - "Bustin' Surfboards" b/w "Beyond the Surf" ('62)
Bobby Powell - "That Little Girl of Mine" b/w "C.C. Rider" (Whit, '65)
Don (Soul Train) Campbell - "Campbell Lock" b/w "Campbell Lock (Instrumental)"
The Goodees - "Jilted" b/w "Love Is Here" (Hip, '68)

The Don Campbell one is a funk record. He was a Soul Train dancer who did a dance called the Lock.

The Goodees one is a knockout. Not on Youtube, unfortunately. Closest thing I could compare it to is maybe the Feminine Complex.

i like the goodees album. "condition red" was their big one.

I'd like to have everything on Hip records!

Only a couple of references to "Jilted" on ilx. This is one:

I just got a comp with this on it - IT IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER RECORDED, CONTEMPLATED, OR DANCED TO, BY MAN OR BEAST!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, January 30, 2006 8:52 AM (7 years ago)

this is so great.

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/9bc65496e7a8c10320f55c10fa7409be/4713045.jpg

witch queen s/t
bee gees - spirits having flown
lou courtney - buffalo smoke
jerry jeff walker - bein' free

Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than A Death In The Family (unofficial release on the Phoenix label)
Erik Satie (played by Frank Glazer) - Piano Music (3LP boxset, doesn't seem to be listed on discogs anywhere)

bein' free <3 <3 <3 <3

never heard it! I only have a best of Jerry Jeff on CD. you find anything good at that stoop sale on the way to Lavendar Lake?

this was from that one guy's semi-permanent weekend stoop sale at 7th and Union. he's a little bit overpriced but usually has some good stuff.

i got a few things from the park place stoop sale -- it was my buddy miggy selling some of his excess stock. he's an ebay dealer mostly. i didn't get anything for myself, but some stuff to flip at the brooklyn flea record fair in a few weeks

jacob, you should check out:
brinsley schwarz - first 4 LPs (esp. silver pistol)
ernie graham - s/t (backed by brinsley schwarz)
frankie miller - once in a blue moon (also backed by brinsley schwarz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGnhYPgWTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFFA0-WXks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-vcxhtM9U

moe, did pete give you that charlie brown record? mailed it to him to give to you a few weeks ago.

yeah, thanks dude. i still gotta put some shit in the mail to you...

no rush buddy boy

I got a 13th Floor Elevators 45! Beautiful record, in great shape.

http://www.discogs.com/13th-Floor-Elevators-May-The-Circle-Remain-Unbroken/release/1216383

FUCK YEAH

7 have this

26 want this

also:

Robbie Basho - Art Of The 6/12 String Steel Guitar
Linton Kwesi Johnson - In Dub
V/A - Soul Message From Dimona (thanks, ILM Numero Group thread)

sounds like a good day!!!

i got this today and its really nice. mine is japanese though.

http://www.discogs.com/George-Russell-Sextet-Guest-Don-Cherry-At-Beethoven-Hall-II/release/2422638

also this which i dig.

http://www.discogs.com/Lester-Bowie-Fast-Last/release/1050559

also this that i was enjoying mightily tonight.

http://www.discogs.com/Billy-Harper-Black-Saint/release/1570867

i got my copy of that lester bowie from pete -- good record!!

records thrifted today -
plastic bertrand
pixies
elvis presley
buffalo springfield
saccharine trust
suburban lawns
iggy pop bootleg (VG some scuffings but nothing deep.)
wynonie harris collection on charly
flatt & scruggs

nice! which suburban lawns - the s/t?