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Cheers to WFMU and Now This Sound !

Our good pal April at Now This Sound has posted a terrifically brilliant rant which has kind of set the music blog interwoods on fire by calling for the return of liner notes. I could not agree more. Read on: ************************** It was a part of the deal for me, sometimes consumed before the music was even played. Vinyl had them. CDs had them. Even fricking cassettes had them. And in the pre-internet age when all of the information I sought [...]

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Cheers to DJ Hillfunk for the find!

Devin Miller writes: "I recorded the audio on a $25 mini-jambox I bought at Sears, so forgiveness for the lo-fi and modulation. Musicians with R.L. including 17-year-old Cedric Burnside, Kenny Brown, and Dale Beavers (on bass). This was the second time I saw R.L. and one of four. The visuals is Super 8 film I shot that day (actually the first film I ever shot in my life). Then projected against the wall and captured with my Canon 5D Mark II for digital capture. No post processing or filters used other than cross [...]

Fave new band of the week via Joe Cushley Available via Stag-O-Lee !

Here's yr information from Boss Johnson RE: advance ticket sales for DBF-Bayport . By the way i've seen the line-up and it's as amazing as you'd imagine it would be. For more info and for tickets contact Chris Johnson . The three day festival pass is going to be $150 plus tax. This is 25 bands [...]

Mudlow are finishing up a new album to be called Sawyer's Hope. It's unbelievably freaking great. Until then, here's some old school Mudlow badness: pinhole pic of Mudlow shot by nhungsta ! Brighton [...]

One of my fave record labels, Tompkins Square is releasing a line of 78s: "San Francisco-based record label Tompkins Square announces the first in a series of releases in the 78 rpm 10" vinyl format. The first two will feature previously unreleased recordings from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), and Ralph Stanley. Both 78's will be released as a limited edition of 500 copies on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012. Luther Dickinson plays medleys of Southern melodies on his 78, including "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Beautiful Dreamer" on the A side and [...]

R.L. Burnside at home in Independence, Mississippi, shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop in August, 1978.

Liberated from the always important These Americans

Mix&Dorp, aka Jan Mittendorp- Chief of Black and Tan Records, has a new collection of outstanding new/neu blues interpolations / extrapolations / mixes out now that you just gotta hear. His previous collection Blues+Beat was magnetic. He's refined his processes on Black and Tan Edits to make an outstanding reimagining of the blues. This set remixes or perhaps rather re-beats artists like Boo Boo Davis, Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, Bi Diddley, Howlin' [...]

@ Facebook // OnLine // Twitter // ReverbNation // Drinkify Your pals The Ten Foot Polecats have released the first single from their forthcoming as yet unnamed album. The album oughta be out in early to mid-summer, in plenty of time for The Deep Blues Festival:Cleveland which is slated for September 22nd (and maybe the 21st, too). Btw, Jim Polecat tells me there will be some free tracks [...]

@ Bandcamp // Facebook Turchi is Reed Turchi, boss of North Carolina's Devil Down Records who brought you the new Kenny Brown double-disc set, the Bill Ferris recordings of Mississippi Fred McDowell, a new release by long-time Junior Kimbrough sideman Little Joe Ayers, and a couple other very worthy works. On his first [...]

@ Bandcamp // Facebook They look like a bunch of nice ex-AV nerds but they rock it down and out like it's goin' out of style. Bless this post-Black Keys punk/rock-infected-blues era! The kids are singin' like they went to sleep listening to Danny Auerbach records thru an old transistor radio hidden under their pillow. And that's ok. There is enough lost in that translation that Charlie Patton's War glows blue and bright in the [...]

Possessed By Paul James has a super cool new big 10" vinyl-only release out now on the French label Normandeep Blues . Six tracks recorded live on August 25th, 2011 at the legendary Antones in Austin, Texas. If you know PPJ aka Konrad Wert's work you're gonna be thrilled by this. There is really nothing like a live PPJ show. If you are unfamiliar with the man this is a fine place to start, You'll also want to pick up PPJ's critically acclaimed album Feed The Family ( Hillgrass Bluebilly Records ). [...]

Thanks to Charlie Humphrey of Old Gray Mule for calling my attention to this piece. Posted here without permission from Charles Russo . It has come to pass as a particular sort of historical irony - both poignant and peculiar - that one of the last great southern bluesmen died on the same day that Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf States. R.L. Burnside passed away at the age of 78 in a Memphis hospitable bed, just one of many chapters that came to a [...]

Drinkify provides a drink recipe based on the music you are listening to. Some of the drinks are incredibly spot-on (Black Diamond Heavies and GravelRoad, I'm hangin' with y'all!). Remember to drink responsibly and never with amateurs. Cheers! (T hx tons to Amanda Broadway for the tip ! ) Junior Kimbrough R.L. Burnside [...]

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