Delta Swamp Rock forthcoming Souljazz compi

Somewhat surprising direction for a Souljazz compi
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=22999

does this mean that hipsters are discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd? & Allman Bros, Barefoot Jerry, Area Code 615?
Do wonder what the next step will be, discovering the groove in protostoner sludge rock or something? Though this does seem to want to conect to Muscle Shoals which is more directly connected to soul/r'n'b.

Anyway looks interesting, Southern Rock for the dancefloor. Some good bands on there methinks. Just discovered this on the back of the latest Wire and not sure if a photo of The Allman Bros would otherwise grace the pages of that zine.

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd — The seasons
2. Barefoot Jerry — Smokies
3. Joe South — Hush
4. Bobbie Gentry — Papa Won't You Let Me Go To town
5. Area code 615 — Stone Fox chase
6. Duane And Greg Allman — God Rest His Soul
7. Cher — I Walk On Guilded Splinters
8. Cowboy — Please Be With Me
9. The Allman Brothers — Ain't Wasting No Time
10. Link Wray — Be What You Want to
11. Boz Scaggs — I'll Be Long Gone
12. Lynyrd Skynyrd — Comin' Home
13. Bobbie Gentry — Seasons Come, Seasons Go
14. Leon Russell — Out In The Woods
15. Tony Joe White — Polk Salad Annie
16. Barefoot Jerry — Come To Me Tonight
17. Duane And Greg Allman — Morning Dew
18. Dan Penn — If Love Was Money
19. Linda Ronstadt — I Won't Be Hangin' Round
20. Waylon Jennings — Big D
21. Big Star — Thirteen
22. Bobbie Gentry — Mississippi Delta
23. Travis Wammack — I Forgot To Remember To Forget
24. Johnny Cash — If I Were A Carpenter
25. Billy Vera — I'm Leaving Here Tomorrow, Mama

Information

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. SHIPS FOR 25 APRIL 2011.

Monster double CD pack with a whopping 68-page book accompaniment/Two volumes of seriously heavyweight vinyl gatefold and 8page insert.

Featuring The Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more!

Delta Swamp Rock is an interstate southern road-trip through the United States of America where country, rock and soul met at the crossroads - an exploration of the musical and cultural links between the cities of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville in the 1960s and 70s.

At the start of the 1970s, a new type of music emerged out of the southern states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Southern rock, the creation of young blue-collar white Americans, blended rock, soul, country and blues music together to present a new vision of the south – a post-civil rights southern identity complete with a celebration of the regions natural landscape and its way of life.

The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomised the definitive southern rock groups – a mixture of blues-rock and country with a southern rebelliousness and attitude. Unfortunately both The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were to be struck by tragedy, which would affect the movement’s rise and fall.

The backstory to southern rock is the fact that a number of the people involved in its creation had been central to the production of southern soul music in the 1960s mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, and the small town of Muscle Shoals (population around 10,000) deep within the bible-belt, liquor-free, deeply segregated state of Alabama, creating 100s of R&B hits on an almost daily basis.

Here in Muscle Shoals, with its proximity to Memphis and Nashville, an all-white group of in-house musicians, (famously referred to by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ as the ‘Swampers’), created countless classic soul records for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Clarence Carter and more during the 1960s.

This album charts the rise and fall of southern rock from its funky swamp roots in southern soul to its phenomenal success in the first-half of the 1970s, including its influence on Nashville’s ‘outlaw’ country and tracing it right back to the arrival of rock and roll in the 1950s - the first meeting of black and white American music at the crossroads.

CD One/Volume one vinyl is tracks 1-13. CD Two/Volume two vinyl is 14-25

Stevo

"does this mean that hipsters are discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd? & Allman Bros, Barefoot Jerry, Area Code 615?
Do wonder what the next step will be, discovering the groove in protostoner sludge rock or something?"

don't you read ilm?

it's a great link wray pick

I saw Tony Joe White live a few years back in a small club with only 40 or so people there. Enjoyable but not amazing live--"Polk Salad Annie" is a great choice though.

thanx to soul jazz for finally validating my taste in music.

i could have made a way better comp. they should have asked me to compile it. johnny cash?

gross

lmao @ whiney

hope they consult me when they do their 'bearsville remembered' retrospective...

some thoughts, for those who actually want to GET INTO THIS instead of treating it like a joke (which it is.)

--the allman brothers get three tracks & bobby gentry gets two, but larry jon wilson & bobby charles are absent? maybe they were recorded at the wrong place or with the wrong dudes to be included (i dunno sj's criteria for selection) but they're conspicuously missing. espesh with the larry jon stuff on drag city coming out recently & being well-received etc. and what about the marshall tucker band?

--if someone buys this comp cuz they like big star, they will be disappointed.

--these aren't expensive records, for the most part. unless there's something weird i'm unaware of. i guess not so common in the uk.

--who is the band

--i'd like to be consulted when they compile the texas volume as well; feel my insight into the jerry jeff walker catalog would finally be put to some use.

Lol at big star being included. Real delta swamp shit

just notice this, weird,I wondered what inspired soul jazz to compile this? It's not a bad mix of songs though, a few odd choices like repeating 3 groups and then there's Cher and Bob Scaggs? An overview of Crazy Cajun records would've been nice.

a little talk of it over here SOUL JAZZ HAS FINALLY VALIDATED MY TASTE IN MUSIC
it is sort of a weird selection. but what the hell if it was playing at a bbq or something i would not complain.

and then there's Cher and Bob Scaggs?

To be fair, Cher's covering Dr. John and her version of that song is really, really good.

well yeah, it's a good cover, but why not a few lesser known Capricorn guys like Alex Taylor or even two Cowboy songs instead of two Lynyrd Skynyrd ones? I think this might be the oddest Soul Jazz comp to come out considering the wealth of music they had to pull from. Including Johnny Cash is like saying we really need to fill some room here...

Good tracks but yeah. I expected more. A lot of repetition in artists. Normally rely on soul jazz to fill in blanks in knowledge with stuff I don't know or remind me of good launchpad bands to delve into.

is there a resource for these kind of tracks? The swamp pop Tony Joe White stuff is awesome IMO (I'm probably alone here) and I crave more.

Maybe it was royalties that kept them from really digging and expanding their selection.

This compilation though not neatly related is far better and really tugs at my heartstrings.
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"i could have made a way better comp. they should have asked me to compile it"

I actually did a similarly-themed mixtape last year and frankly it was a lot better.

"The swamp pop Tony Joe White stuff is awesome IMO (I'm probably alone here)"

No, but I'm his one and only fan in Padova, Italy - I just think that the inclusion of Polk Salad Annie was a bit lazy.

"Black Panther Swamps" would've been pretty awesome.

It's a really good comp. I sold a copy of it to David Mi11iband at our school fair on Sat. Had to talk him into buying, mind.

"Swamps would you hide me?/ Hide me from the law"

Great song!

"Night of the mossacin" and "Bakwoods preacher man" could have been a good choice too.

The Troubled Troubadours comp (like many of those Omni cd's) is extraordinary - Marty Robbins' The Chair is unbelievable.

I sold a copy of it to David Mi11iband at our school fair on Sat.

For real?!?

For real. He had no idea what he was buying; was just being a good punter.

Probably put it on expenses anyway, but somehow that tale gladdens my heart.

Okay, I know shit all about this music, but I've been playing this comp quite a bit. I love it for similar reasons I love dust-encrusted disco music, especially the track "Smokies".

had this in the archive for a few years which i suspect is in a similar area

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DLYfQz4oL._SS400_.jpg

Nick Gravenites : Killing my love (05:17)
John & Beverley Martyn : Sweet honesty (08:11)
Honk : Hesitation (04:09)
Martha Valez : Aggravation (05:21)
Ten Wheel Drive : Tightrope (05:13)
Elkie Brooks : Spiritland (03:22)
Redbone : Come and get your love (04:56)
Gino Vannelli : People gotta move on (03:21)
Odyssey : Battened ships (02:57)
Larry Morris : Who do we think we are fooling? (05:30)
Savoy Brown : That same feelin' (03:39)
Chicago : Happy cause I'm coming home (07:27)
Mighty Baby : Egyptian tomb (05:31)
Classics IV : Spooky (02:48)

compiled by bill brewster, and includes an extra cd of 'fatcamp' edits where bill ups the level of funkiness.

love it

^

fuck. that is EXACTLY what I want.

"No, but I'm his one and only fan in Padova, Italy - I just think that the inclusion of Polk Salad Annie was a bit lazy."

I met the guy when I was living nr Nashville. His wife was good friends with my dad I think, or at least came in his shop. Cool fucker.

Yeah, same here - I am totally green on a bunch of this stuff, so for me it's been a total blast to discover it all. I mean, I only knew Area Code 615's "Stone Fox Chase" because it was sampled for a Bubba Sparxx song, and the only Lynrd Skynyrd I had on my iPod was as the backing track to Geto Boys' "Gangster of Love." So I guess it's weird for Soul Jazz, who usually do deeper crate digging, but as an intro for people for whom this is a mostly alien world, it's amazing.

(two x-posts)

(Also, thanks for the tip - I just ordered the Troubled Troubadors comp.)

cheers for the link Jacob. I'm going to have a good trawl through your blog next week when I have some downtime.

Do funkified country artists like say: Tony Joe White, Joe South & Larry Jon Wilson count as part of this Delta Swamp Rock thing?

Anyways here's some recommendations of this sort of thing (I might be off and this might be in fact different genres)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWJuxYKlXnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxvh16Ky_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4o1kSJp5U0

Is there a thread for country-funk / swamp-rock music? I think I remember posting some of this elsewhere :P

This is the highlight in the souljazz compilation for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfprfHA3GFA

you know this may spur the folks @ emi to sort out a proper bobbie gentry reissue campaign at last.
there was supposed to be a 2 cd set compiled by bob stanley (of course!), a couple of years ago that put together originals on one cd, and cover versions on another.
i got skinny promo cd-rs at the time, but it now seems that the full release never got to the shops due to some trouble with the tracklisting or something.

http://vimeo.com/16338258

Cher doing I walk on gilded splinters is great. Beefy as fuck.

Trying to find a d/l of that Spiritland comp (preferably with the edits) but no avail. CD seems to be unavailable in the UK and US is Vinyl only.

Do funkified country artists like say: Tony Joe White, Joe South & Larry Jon Wilson count as part of this Delta Swamp Rock thing?

I want a load of swampy disco funk slow as fuck edits of this sort of thing.

I want a load of swampy disco funk slow as fuck edits of this sort of thing.

Yes. I wonder if there's much dancefloor crossover stuff here. Swamp Disco would be amazing.

I had a crack at some edits but haven't found the time to get too deep into it. Think there's one on IMM somewhere. I'm sort of surprised that Todd Terje hasn't done something swampy yet.

that cher track is proper ace, and was featured on a cherrystones compilation that came out a few years ago on david holmes 13 amp records. subsequently, has been a playlist fave for years.

re spiritland : guess i got lucky then as it was a bargain bin find (uk based), that i picked up purely on bill brewsters involvement.

[message me owenf, sure we can sort sommat out .. ]

I want a load of swampy disco funk slow as fuck edits of this sort of thing.

I have an edit of the Tony Joe White song I posted upthread. It's not particulary different from the original but I'll upload when I get home as I can't remember where I got it from and it wasn't an official release.

Oh found it: http://www.coolinthepool.com/downloads.html
Uploaded 12 Oct 2008

this is a pretty dope comp in that swampy new orleans style

http://www.discogs.com/Godsy-Zeus-Swamp-Bait-70s-Reptile-Rock-Deep-Fried-Bayou-Boogie/release/2810100

do you guys like this one? it's good.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MKmKyfetI3Q/TcXVbAEaX9I/AAAAAAAADgg/Ytnp1p7cdxc/s1600/jim+ford+-+harlan+county+1969.jpg

Those Country Got Soul compilations from a few years back were good for this sort of stuff

Yeah Jim Ford would've made a great choice on this! His voice reminds me of Don Covay. He really blurs the line between soul/funk and southern rock, only Travis Wammack comes close to doing as good a job as Jim Ford does.

Ian did you say Drag City reissued Larry Jon Wilson?? His records aren't rare, I see them everywhere. But, I'm always behind with these things.

think they put out like a recent larry jon wilson recording a few years back? not the old stuff.

I guess I should start paying attention to Drag City again.

Yeah, the Larry Jon on Drag City was recorded a few years ago or something? Almost all solo acoustic, really great. There are a few Larry Jon records I still need--have "Let Me Sing My Song To You" and "New Beginnings."

Hey Ian have you heard this japanese Bearsville box set?
http://theband.hiof.no/albums/bearsville_box_set.html

Jacob, you feel like picking up some Larry Jon for me then? they never make it up to NYC.
And agreed on Travis Wammack. keep wishing someone would reissue his first two Capricorn records at least.

though I was psyched to buy it at their shop when i was in London, I felt a bit lukewarm about this comp. how you can mess up such an exquisite vein of music with unnecessary Johnny Cash and Big Star entries is beyond me. But I think (perhaps) that Soul Jazz's licensing scheme is what torpedos so many of these things. plus that they never seem to make 'em listenable front to back for whatever reason.

Like Ian said upthread, the omission of this guy is unforgivable. Listening to the record in the texas heat with old fashions makes for a nice lazy saturday afternoon.
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/606/bobbycharles.jpg

Another strange omission was Doug Kershaw. You can't get more country swamp rock than that guy.

I have heard just about all of the music on this comp. I have a burn of all the Dan Penn singles from the '60s and '70s--the one here is from Nobody's Fool, Bell, '73, and the stuff I have that's never been on CD is choice indeed. Larry Jon Wilson: I've talked about him before and own the original Monument LP of New Beginnings. Omni just out that plus his second Monument LP on one CD, with the usual half-assed Omni liner notes (they didn't even talk to Rob Galbraith, who lives right here in Nashville and whom I ran into by chance a few weeks ago--he didn't even know Omni had done the reissue!

And this kind of attitude informs this Soul Jazz comp, the selections for which I find somewhat incomprehensible. "Polk Salad Annie" and "If I Were a Carpenter"? Big Star's "Thirteen"? Why not the Box Tops' "Fields of Clover" or Alex Chilton's "Just to See You" or Terry Manning's "Guess Things Happen That Way," or Jerry Lynn Williams or...Larry Jon Wilson? I'm not sure what point they're trying to make. Merrilee Rush doing "Hush" (on Bell, recorded at American, ripe for rediscovery) or Sandy Posey doing "Hey, Mister." Waylon Jennings? I think the English perceive it all as some wonderful country-soul continuum and they really don't see why Big Star's "Thirteen" doesn't belong here at all. Among other things. In other words, I find this a total ripoff of a comp. The Area Code 615 LPs have been out of print for years, since the Koch reissue, and it's time someone did a twofer. Likewise Moldy Goldies, the Bob Johnston session-man covers project from '66 done in Nashville after Dylan gave them some good speed and LSD.

and, meant to say that Merrilee and Sandy Posey and many others would have been perfect for this comp. You can get the Bobbie Gentry records. The Dan Penn singles really ought to be reissued by someone, but then they'd just do it and not even talk to Dan Penn, who lives right up the road from me in Nashville.

are these the dan penn singles you have? http://skydogselysium.blogspot.com/2010/04/dan-penn-singles-demos.html

Tons of people ripping on this comp because of what it's not - the definitive genre guide for people who know it inside out anyway. What it is: a grab bag of great music, from a label that doesn't normally do this sort of thing, and which might therefore get some people listening to some of this music for the first time. I'm certainly no expert on this music, but I'm not a complete know-nothing, and it's been one of the most enjoyable albums of the year for me.

I'll agree, though, that Thirteen seemed like an odd inclusion given that it's neither little-known nor part of any country-soul continuum.

are these the dan penn singles you have?

Yeah. I interviewed Dan last year and played him some of it. One track on there he didn't remember doing--
"could be me, but I'm not sure..." I also have Blue Light Lounge and Junkyard Junky, which are nice record.

and yeah, I suppose it's not a terrible thing to have these tracks on one Soul Jazz comp. I just don't get why it exists, and I don't believe in paying $18.99 to have some guy with taste and knowledge no better than the average ilXor curate my life.

edd, is that you?
shopping at the physical Soul Jazz shop in London (where i bought the comp), it was kinda weird the reverence and exorbitant price tags they had on some shitty country records.
think that the reason the Bobby Charles would've been left off is because of the stunning new 3CD set that Rhino Handmade is doing of that Bearsville album (with all the unreleased stuff). same goes for Jim Ford and probably Larry Jon Wilson tracks.

I'll agree, though, that Thirteen seemed like an odd inclusion given that it's neither little-known nor part of any country-soul continuum.

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it seems more like an oblique reference to alex chilton's tenure in the box tops, if anything. odd.