What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

[paul secor]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Edited October 19, 2013 by paul secor

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Coo lummy!

Todays miscellaneous collection of vinyl includes the LP that I've had longest (since '65)

James Brown - Grits and soul - Smash (mono)

Dizzy Gillespie - Bahiana - Pablo (Polydor UK)

Lynn Hope - Tenderly - Imperial

Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi (Island UK)

now

Donald Vails Choraleers - Yesterday, today, forever - Sound of Gospel

Fans of George Clinton's bands will wish to be informed that Gary Shider is on guitar. Very Detroit production by Armen Boladian, who owned Sound of Gospel, Eastbound & Westbound & Watts Club Mozambique. The Choraleers are a Detroit choir.

Here's track 1 side 1 - 'When we all get to heaven' with THE most splendid performance by a gospel coloratura soprano I've ever heard - Delores Taylor-Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9OpoLfk7E

MG

[Deepak]

John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (stereo Van Gelder)

[B. Clugston]

Johnny Dyani, African Bass (Red). Nice album of solos and duos with Clifford Jarvis.

[Deepak]

Old and New Dreams - S/T (nice version of Lonely Woman)

[jeffcrom]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Wow- thanks for the info. I had always assumed that Bluestown was a little Southern label. I knew that Trix was Pete Lowry's label. I've got some of his CDs and LPs, but I think it's cool that he also issued blues singles.

Coo lummy!

I heard that, Bubba! (Which is, I think, the way we say the same thing down here.)

Edited October 20, 2013 by jeffcrom

[jazzbo]

I love these lps Flora did for Milestone.

Sounds so good tonight!

[Homefromtheforest]

Miles Davis "four and more" (USA Columbia 2-eye)

Embryo "embryo's rache" (Germany, united artists)

Stan Tracey "free an one" (UK, Columbia)

[king ubu]

[king ubu]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Lots of vinyl this afternoon.

Aretha - I never loved a man the way I love you - Atlantic (Canada)

Georgia Mass Choir - Yes, he can - Savoy

Then a bunch of Fela

Authority stealing - Kalakuta (orig, complete with pressing fault for which Fela apologised on the sleeve and Young African Pioneers newspaper)

Gentleman - EMI Nigeria (Creole UK)

Confusion - EMI Nigeria (EMI UK)

Coffin for head of state - Kalakuta (French edition, but you can't tell which firm was responsible)

S E Rogie - Palm wine guitar music - Rogiphone (Cooking Vinyl UK)

MG

[Deepak]

Bud Powell - Verve 57

[Cactus Bob]

The Four Brothers . . . Together Again!

Vik

[Cactus Bob]

The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus

Bethlehem BCP 65

Edited October 21, 2013 by Cactus Bob

[Cactus Bob]

Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi

Verve

[uli]

[tomatamot]

David Sanchez - Five Track Sampler

[Deepak]

Clifford Brown, Max Roach - Live at the Bee Hive

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This evening's vinyl

Slim & the Supreme Angels - Why was I born (not the Torme song ) - Nashboro

Rev Isaac Douglas & the Savannah Community Choir - Stand up for Jesus - Creed twofer

MG

[sidewinder]

Pat Martino 'El Hombre' (OJC)

[uli]

Buster Williams something more

[imeanyou]

Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons 'The Cry'

[clifford_thornton]

One of the greatest jazz records of the '60s.

[imeanyou]

One of the greatest jazz records of the '60s.

No argument from me. Nice clean King Records pressing, sounds fabulous.