December 2011
3 posts
2011 best of.....
Michael Hurly - Fatboy Spring (Mississippi Records/Secret Seven)
Michael Hurley - Blue Navigator (8-Track re-issue Mississippi/Secret Seven)
Nothing really new here from Hurley. The Lp is a release of recordings by two of Hurley’s early 70’s groups Automatic Slim & the Fatboys and Sheriff Mocus & the Deranged Cowboys. The quality of the recording varies from track to...
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John Fahey - Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You-The Fonotone Years (1958-1965) -Dust-to-Digital
I’ve yet to dig through the entire boxset which consists of 5 discs but what I have has been Fantastic. Most of these are Fahey’s earliest output of what would become the cannon of solo guitar recordings that all others follow. Fonotone Records was run by Joe Bussard out of Frederick,...
Heirloom Records best of 2011...
“[…]That night I met someone who would be very important in my musical education. He was engineering in the studio and cooking burgers in the Dairy Queen. He had a Robert Mitchum hair cut and a slow humorous style…He was one of the coolest people I ever met. He was Packy Axton.” – Jim Dickinson
This stuff is long past due. His mom being Estelle Axton the AX in the latter part of the Stax...
