^ 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.
― Evan, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― timellison, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ian, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I do run across probably later '40s and '50s country 78s a fair amount.
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
Like there was an Ernest Tubb 78 (with a crack in it) at the thrift store today.
― timellison, Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Evan, Friday, 6 September 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Mmmm... a good iced-tea-style-porch is paradise.
― Evan, Friday, 6 September 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
a new one and some great quality second hand:Daniel Lopatin & Tim Hecker - Instrumental TouristBohannon - The Mighty BohannonChic - C'est ChicGiorgio Moroder - Midnight Express
― willem, Monday, 9 September 2013 08:07 (ten years ago) link
blondes - swisherfactory floor lpsabre - nightdrive to bolland 12"
― dmr, Monday, 9 September 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
this album which is my fave album of the month so far. never heard it before!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B7alymQ6I
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Toy Love - s/tBruce Langhorne - The Hired HandUncle Wiggly - Across The Room and Into Your Lap
― Evan, Monday, 9 September 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
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...
― moe handy, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
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
― moe handy, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
a couple of weeks ago:
louvin brothers - tragic songs of lifedillard & clark - through the morning, through the nightthe white brothers - new kentucky colonels live in sweden
today:robert wyatt - radio experiment rome february 1981johnny dyani - witchdoctor's son togetherroy harper - sophisticated beggar, stormcockmichael 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)
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
now that's what i'm talking about.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard ernie graham, brinsley schwarz, or frankie miller, at least I don't think I have.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 13 September 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
it's "so" nice
― scott seward, Friday, 13 September 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
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...
― ian, Friday, 13 September 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
sweetness
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1009891_10152507206122137_72308284_n.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 13 September 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
man, your shop is so cool.
― ian, Friday, 13 September 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
seriously
― no fomo (La Lechera), Friday, 13 September 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― timellison, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
i like the goodees album. "condition red" was their big one.
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to have everything on Hip records!
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
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)
― timellison, Monday, 16 September 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
this is so great.
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/9bc65496e7a8c10320f55c10fa7409be/4713045.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 16 September 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
witch queen s/tbee gees - spirits having flownlou courtney - buffalo smokejerry jeff walker - bein' free
― dmr, Monday, 16 September 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Z S, Monday, 16 September 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
bein' free <3 <3 <3 <3
― ian, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dmr, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― ian, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
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=DjGnhYPgWTQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFFA0-WXkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-vcxhtM9U
― moe handy, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
moe, did pete give you that charlie brown record? mailed it to him to give to you a few weeks ago.
― ian, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah, thanks dude. i still gotta put some shit in the mail to you...
― moe handy, Monday, 16 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
no rush buddy boy
― ian, Monday, 16 September 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
7 have this
26 want this
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
also:
Robbie Basho - Art Of The 6/12 String Steel GuitarLinton Kwesi Johnson - In DubV/A - Soul Message From Dimona (thanks, ILM Numero Group thread)
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
sounds like a good day!!!
― ian, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
i got my copy of that lester bowie from pete -- good record!!
― ian, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
records thrifted today -plastic bertrandpixieselvis presleybuffalo springfieldsaccharine trustsuburban lawnsiggy pop bootleg (VG some scuffings but nothing deep.)wynonie harris collection on charlyflatt & scruggs
― ian, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
nice! which suburban lawns - the s/t?
― Z S, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link