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I heard there was a new Patty Waters restrospective CD that just came out. Has anyone heard this or have info on it? It apparently goes up to 1979. And while we're at it, how does "College Tour" compare to the first album, and has anyone heard anything about her recent live reunions w/ Burton Greene (I think these happened)?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno abt this cd, but for you trainspotters out there, her version of "black is the color of my true love's hair" can be heard on the soundtrack of go! go! second time virgin

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

is the soundtrack to go! go! second time virgin something you see often?! (i love the opening song with the "henry miller and norman mailer...no see you again" line.)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

is the soundtrack to go! go! second time virgin something you see often?!

if you rent the movie...

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, so. thought maybe someone had done a cd.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 6 September 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and "college tour" is much more abstract and odd than the first one but not as intense as "black is the colour". sort of sounds like one of those odd records on vanguard (malachi's "holy music" or stomu yamashta). if you're eyeing one of the cheap copies at prex, get it. i can practically guarantee you won't be disappointed.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 6 September 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Retrospective of what exactly? As far as I know she only made two records and then disappeared for 20 odd years and then made a comeback third album!

ok here's my thread on her, from the archives:

Patty waters: c/d

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 6 September 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

College Tour is mostly pretty quiet, similar to Side One of Patty Waters Sings, with nothing as hair-raising as "Black Is the Colour", but there are a few tracks in the 5-minute range that are pretty "out there".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I mentioned buying the new retrospective the other day. It's called "You Thrill Me" on Water and came out a month or so ago. It's made up of tapes, acetates, etc. spanning 1960-1979. No screaming. Sound quality is pretty good, even for items coming from dubious sources.

Starts with a beer commercial, includes some takes with Tom Wilson producing (includes some pretty funny studio banter) and so on. Liner notes by Ghost's Masaki Batoh, Byron Coley and Patty herself.

I think I saw it listed over at the Forced Exposure website. Again, it doesn't have anything like Black or Wild Is The Wind, but it's very nice.

― dlp9001, Monday, 6 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Should add that her two ESP albums are also available via eMusic. www.emusic.com.

― dlp9001, Monday, 6 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

cool. also, has there been an ILM thread that discusses the more obscure of the ESP releases? What are the Mij, Alan Sondhiem, etc. records like? Emerson's Old Timey Custard Suckin' Band anybody?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago)

here's a complete discography link: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/esp.htm

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Mij is great!! the yodelling astrologer! How could it NOT be great??

Ed Askew is pretty reet too. But Mij is better. And Erica Pomerance blows that favorite of silly hipsters, Perhacs, out of the water. But the Pomerance hasn't received a high profile recent reissue, while the Perhacs has, hence the latter gets the luv. That's just the way it works.

Patty Waters is great, of course. I still have my copy of the Cadence where she was interviewed. Great, great interview.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago)

mij is fairly crazed folk music with caterwauling vocals (not totally dissimilar to the out-there moments of "basho sings").

perhacs and pomerance are totally playing different games, both are worth hearing. 'high profile,' heh.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

oh, I forgot to mention: El Sabor you are my hero for namechecking MALACHI. Awesome record

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah what is that? the folk music Vangaurd label?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Actually I think MALACHI came out on VERVE, n'est-ce pas?

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Also it had the guy from Red Crayola who was NOT Mayo Thompson playing on it, if I remember correctly...

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago)

The Sweet Pie thing is OK. Sorta Fugs-y barrelhouse blues. Cromagnon is amazing! One of the better lesser-known ESP releases, IMHO. Both Alan Sondheims are really good, but quite different from one another in many ways. The Ronnie Boykins joint is really good, and the 7th Sons is some dandy ragadrone.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago)

figured all this talk deserved it's own thread

ESP Disk: Search & Destroy

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago)

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