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The Silver Tongued Devil And I Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“The moment country music was born, it started dying — at least according to a particular substrate of purists. For decades, they have dug in their heels for fiddle, for mandolin, for harmonies. Every so often, they get a win, pulling the rope over to their side in the endless tug-of-war between country music that incorporates the pop trends of the day (for both creative and commercial reasons), and country music that prioritizes mining the music’s widely mythologized tradition.

Marty Stuart was one of those artists. On 1982’s Busy Bee Cafe, the singer and mandolin player flaunted his real country bona fides via both his prodigious picking and the gaudy talent among the album’s personnel — earned in the course of a career that had already, apocryphally, lasted a decade in spite of the fact that Stuart was just 24 years old when the album was released. Far from being an appetizer to Stuart’s eventual commercial success, Busy Bee instead showcases his deep reverence for his musical forebears, radio playability be damned. The folksy release falls in line with a persistent strain of traditionalism even more than it does the commerce-minded revivals of Strait and Skaggs — a strain that endures today, fueled in part by inspiring performances like those captured on this album.”

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Kris Kristofferson

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Infamous Angel Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kris Kristofferson was the true country outsider, a man who single-handedly pushed the genre leftward, changing forever the perception of its songwriters, its performers and its message. He was long-haired, anti-war and sang songs with drug use, sex and violence always lurking as dangers in the margins, at a time when Waylon and Willie were wearing sweaters and playing golf on their album covers. He was the outlaw, in a genre that would soon have people recording his songs, and co-opting his vision for a new version of country, to much greater financial success.

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Iris Dement

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Fruit Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Infamous Angel is the stunning debut from country singer-songwriter Iris DeMent, and the VMP Country Record of the Month for January 2022. It’s pressed on exclusive 180g Cloudy Blue vinyl.

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The A's

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

High Top Mountain 10th Anniversary Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amelia Meath and Alexandra Sauser-Monning have been sharing the stage for upwards of fifteen years; they have now come together for a new band called The A's. Their debut album, Fruit, shares a beautiful ten-song collection that features covers of folk songs, lullabies, ballads and more. The album includes their rendition of “He Needs Me,” the Harry Nilsson and Shelley Duvall classic from 1980’s Popeye along with standouts like the ballads “Swing and Turn Jubilee,” “Copper Kettle,” “Buckeye Jim” and others. Fruit is a glimpse a deep collaboration and friendship between the two artists and bandmates.

Limited to 400 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of The A's Fruit is pressed on 1LP Banana Yellow vinyl at Citizen Vinyl. The album will arrive in gatefold direct-to-board, hand-numbered jacket. It's mastered by Patricia Sullivan of Bernie Grundman Mastering.

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Sturgill Simpson

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Music From Grizzly Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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High Top Mountain certainly leaned traditional, but it also set the precedent that Simpson was not an artist content to coast, was not someone just trying to write the easiest song to ride to the top. He was willing to put in the work, and hire $25,000 worth of studio time and band members to make his vision a reality, and didn’t very much care what happened next. Only that he’d done it. Freedom, as a famous country singer once wrote for Janis Joplin, is just another word for nothing left to lose. The most free performer we’ve had these last 10 years is Simpson, who took a trip to High Top Mountain and never came back down.

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Richard Thompson

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Lessons For Mutants Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Richard Thompson's Music from Grizzly Man accompanies the acclaimed documentary, Grizzly Man, following the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, a documentary filmmaker, environmentalist and bear enthusiast.

This VMP exclusive record is pressed on 1LP standard weight Smoke vinyl at Independent Record Pressing. This reissue is remastered by Bob Olhsson. Limited to 1,000 copies, Music from Grizzly Man will arrive in a foil stamped and numbered gatefold tip-on jacket.

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Johanna Warren

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Spur Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lessons for Mutants marks a shift in Johanna Warren's art and life, from the constant touring, the pandemic and moving to rural Wales. The album began with the same sessions that spawned her previous work, Chaotic Good, and continued into the UK as she was surrounded by a landscape of sheep, cows and plants. The album reflects a theme of metamorphosis in these moments of change for the artist.

Limited to 300 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Johanna Warren's Lessons for Mutants is pressed on 1LP recycled vinyl at Optimal Media Production, mastered by Sarah Register. The record will arrive in a single direct-to-board, hand numbered jacket along with a download code.

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Joan Shelley

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Willie Nelson And Family Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kentucky-based folk musician Joan Shelley returns to No Quarter Records with her newest album, The Spur. The album was written between the fall of 2019 and 2020 during the peak of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and recorded the following spring of 2021 while Shelley was pregnant. Shortly afterwards, Shelley married her long-time musical partner and now-husband Nathan Salsburg.

Of the album, Shelley said, ‘’The Spur is the result of a period of opposite extremes: of intellectual hyper-connection and physical isolation. This album will forever be fused with the memory of our marriage, the birth of our child, and the intense joy despite the darkness.''

The record is co-produced by both Joan Shelley and James Elkington, and features Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, British novelist Max Porter and Nathan Salsburg.

The VMP exclusive edition of The Spur will arrive on a 1LP Silver Fox vinyl in a single direct-to-board foil stamped and numbered jacket with a printed inner sleeve. It's mastered by Josh Bonati of Bonati Mastering.

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Willie Nelson

Phases And Stages Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sound-wise, 1971’s Willie Nelson & Family is no different than the 11 studio albums that precede it: They are awash in the Countrypolitan sound, with strings, horns and backing singers. But the version of ‘’Sunday Mornin,'' complete with its guitar solo — one of the first on Nelson’s legendary Trigger guitar — feels like the first act of defiance and a statement of intent. ‘’If Kris Kristofferson can do this, I can do it too,'' Nelson seemed to be saying. Within 18 months, he’d be in New York making Shotgun Willie, free to follow his muse wherever he went, cementing Kristofferson’s outlaw country jumpoff point. And that’s why Willie Nelson & Family is such an interesting artifact: It’s the last album Willie made in his ‘’Before'' timeline; it’s the point where he started putting it all together and asserting his creative ideas in tangible ways.

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Willie Nelson

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Honky Tonk Heroes Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Willie Nelson wants it known, despite being divorced twice and married thrice before writing the album — including one that was spurred by his second wife finding a maternity ward bill from his eventual third — that Phases and Stages is and was not autobiographical. “The overall theme was not a reflection of my own life,” he said in his 2015 biography It’s A Long Story: My Life. “I was simply making up a story. Sure, I’d gone through breakups and heartaches of my own. What human soul hasn’t?” But when you make an album like Phases and Stages, the most devastating, humanistic divorce record of all time — and be beaten by an ex-wife after she sews you into your sheets — people begin to believe the album is about you and your ex-wives.

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Waylon Jennings

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Stand By Your Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“On Honky Tonk Heroes, Waylon Jennings had no one else to answer to, and the joyful mess of the album testifies to the kind of magic that can happen when you finally cut a lifelong misfit loose.
Honky Tonk Heroes isn’t Jennings’ first great album, but it was the first that captured his wild-hair energy instead of attempting to tame it. It belonged completely to him. It was so liberating that it would unleash a series of triumphs. This is the birthplace of the iconic 1970s Waylon, the one who would go on to slalom across the rest of the decade on a series of increasingly brilliant albums and mountains of cocaine. Waylon Jennings transformed himself into the Waylon, the leader of a movement forever altering the perception of country music in America.”

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Tammy Wynette

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Montevallo Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Knowing Tammy Wynette’s troubled history, and with 50-plus years of social change since the recording and release of Stand By Your Man, it’s difficult to hear the album and not want to scream: Tammy, get out of there; you’re so much better than him! But that’s not to say that the album, which ascended to No. 2 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and earned a Country Music Association Album of the Year nomination in 1969, isn’t worth listening to. Wynette’s mournful voice, described by her longtime producer Billy Sherrill as ‘husky and soulful and tearful and dynamic,’ was made for songs like these; frankly, so were her real-life experiences. ‘She lived it, you know. She lived every tear every-body ever heard her sing,’ Sherrill once said of Wynette, and he assembled talented musicians to match her delivery in lush, Nashville Sound-era style.”

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Sam Hunt

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Houston Kid Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Much of Montevallo was deceptive in its simplicity, hiding era-defining songwriting talent and a whole new mode of country crossover behind a seemingly easy-to-replicate formula of marrying traditional country instruments with programmed beats and slick, dynamic melodies. Its velvet revolution won Hunt years of radio dominance and anticipated a tidal wave of what’s been termed “boyfriend country” — legions of imitators who took the singer’s gently flirtatious tack and R&B influences to their cloying extremes. Plenty in Nashville didn’t see Montevallo as a changing of the guard, and even after he’d become a country megastar wrote him off as either a novelty, insufficiently capital-C Country, or both. When confronted with resistance about his own mode of widening country music’s lens Hunt has tended to return to the root of the issue, which runs much deeper than a simple disdain for pop music in country or concern about preserving some of its imagined “authentic” past.

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Rodney Crowell

LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Pins And Needles Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The conventional way of talking about The Houston Kid, Rodney Crowell’s 2001 release and the greatest achievement of his 50-year career, is autobiographically. From this way of thinking, the album pretty straightforwardly looks at Crowell’s life growing up in the poor, white working-class parts of Houston, Texas in the 1950s and 1960s, the only child of J.W. and Addie Cauzette Crowell’s tempestuous, dysfunctional union. Hearing The Houston Kid this way isn’t wrong, of course, but it is incomplete.

For starters, if it’s Crowell’s actual life story we’re after, we’d be better off reading Chinaberry Sidewalks: A Memoir, the book project he began around the same time but didn’t publish until 2011. For another thing, The Houston Kid’s details and effects are autobiographically inspired, sure, but also rife with exaggerations, omissions and flat-out fictions. You know, art.

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Natalie Hemby

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Back To The Country Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As a Nashville resident, Natalie Hemby has graced stages as a country singer and songwriter since she was 19. Fully immersed in the music scene, Hemby has since written songs for numerous artists and has appeared on the writing credits for artists such as Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Lady Gaga and a score of other artists. Hemby won two Grammy Awards, including one for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper film A Star Is Born.

In 2019, she joined Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires to create the quartet The Highwomen, with whom she released her second album. Pins and Needles sees Hemby’s return to a solo album, fully flaunting her singing and songwriting capabilities to the forefront for her latest imaginative, soul-touching album.

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Loretta Lynn

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Neon Blue Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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‘’Loretta Lynn had started working on her 25th studio LP, Back to the Country, in 1972. Its eventual opening track, ‘’The Pill,'' was a song about the birth control pill and the freedoms it could give a woman from — but not limited to — a philandering husband. At first, it was put in Lynn’s back pocket after a recording session when the label deemed it too controversial to release. The label was right, of course. It was controversial. But they were wrong about the consequences of releasing a song so polarizing. Though radio stations across the country banned ‘’The Pill,'' that only made it more alluring to fans who helped boost its sales, making it one of her biggest sellers of all time. Lynn may not have been close to being one of the “outlaw” musicians of the late ’60s — not decked in leather nor caught smoking weed with Willie Nelson — but you could easily argue she was among the most outlaw of them all.''

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Joshua Hedley

John Michael Montgomery Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Joshua Hedley's sophomore album goes forward in time from his debut's 1950s and '60s country ballads. Neon Blue explores the early 1990s territory of country while still having Hedley's modern flare.

Hedley said, “The last bastion of country music was the early 1990s, roughly 1989 through 1996. You could turn on the radio and immediately know you’re hearing a country song. You could still hear steel guitar and fiddle. But there was a hard fork around 1996 or ‘97, when country veered off into pop territory. Neon Blue asks, 'What if that fork never happened? What if country kept on sounding like country?'”

The album is co-produced by Jordan Lehning and Skylar Wilson, and mixed by Kyle Lehning.

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John Michael Montgomery

Ocean Front Property Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Remembrances of ’90s country largely reduce the genre to the twin pillars of Garth and Shania, with a wholesale writing-off of the artists who made the genre as commercially successful as pop in the early-to-mid ’90s. And while it might not be the most beloved period among country connoisseurs — the 2010s and the ’70s seem to be the ordained decades — the era’s artists are worthy of reappraisal, its albums way more charming and enduring than they’ve been given credit for. John Michael Montgomery is a symbol of an era, but it’s also 10 songs of earnest, open and, most importantly, fun country music that you can absolutely love like that."

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George Strait

LP | 1987 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

Groover's Paradise Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1987 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ocean Front Property, the 1987 multi-Platinum smash-hit from George Strait, is the VMP Country Record of the Month in December 2022. Celebrating the record's 35th anniversary, our edition is pressed on 180g "Am I Blue" colored vinyl with lacquers cut...

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Doug Sahm

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Groover's Paradise' is the third studio album from Doug Sahm, and the VMP Country Record of the Month for April 2022. It's here on AAA 180g "Texas Sunshine" colored vinyl, with lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Ryan Smith of Sterling Sound.

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Just Because I'm A Woman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Coat Of Many Colors Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What’s most apparent, though, across Coat of Many Colors — through the pain, the work, the heartbreak and even the cruelty — is Parton’s complete, undying adoration for life and the people in it. “Early Morning Breeze,” a track that subtly veers into psychedelic folk, is a spiritual meditation that observes and appreciates the simplicity of an early morning walk through a meadow and a moment of prayer. Album closer “A Better Place To Live” takes time to imagine what an actively kinder world would look like. Bold and brilliant “Here I Am,” in retrospect, serves as a much more definitive, and more fitting, introduction to her self-driven rise than a simple “Hello, I’m Dolly.” Sung almost exclusively in Dolly’s unhinged all-out belt, the song’s a pipe-showcasing testament to the simple power of showing up: lending a hand, offering an understanding ear, knowing how much love you’ve got to give and shelling it out indiscriminately.

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9 To 5 And Odd Jobs Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 2003 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dolly's 2003 star-spangled masterpiece features "God Bless The USA," "Go to Hell," "Color Me America" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." If this album doesn't make you say "MURICA" nothing will.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Dolly Parton's For God and Country is pressed on "Red, White and Bluegrass" vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 2LPs will arrive in a widespine, reverse board, numbered jacket.

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Hello, I'm Dolly Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Folksinger Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Hello, I'm Dolly' is Dolly Parton's debut album and the Vinyl Me, Parton Record of the Month for October 2023. It's pressed on 180g Flame Galaxy vinyl with AAA lacquers cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Dave Van Ronk

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

You Belong There Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Dave Van Ronk was bemused by the title of this album. He didn’t think of himself as a folksinger and had mixed feelings about what he wryly called ‘the Great Folk Scare’ of the 1960s. And yet, he was a central figure on that scene and this album was instrumental in shaping a new sense of what it meant to be a folk musician. A generation of guitarists took him as a model and honed their skills on his arrangements of ‘Come Back Baby’ and ‘Cocaine Blues,’ and his masterful reimagining of older traditions made him a defining voice of the folk-blues revival, showing that a young, urban performer could reshape songs from rural sources into modern, personal statements that were as rough and honest as anything from the hills or prairies.”

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Daniel Rossen

Lonely Weekends Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As the lead vocalist of Grizzly Bear and a founding member of Department of Eagles, Daniel Rossen has long been steeped in the spotlight alongside bandmates. You Belong There is his debut solo album, written across an isolated location in upstate New York and in Santa Fe with Daniel Rossen performing almost all of the parts on the album. The album explores themes of adulthood and the adventure of new possibilities. After all, a solo album is a new adventure in itself.

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Charlie Rich

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Still Life Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After recording demos with Sam Phillips that he considered "too jazzy" Charlie Rich was given a stack of Jerry Lee Lewis records to study and "come back when [he got] that bad". The single "Lonely Weekends" hit Top 30 and earned a gold record for selling one million copies. The album features classics such as "C.C. Rider," "You're Gonna Be Waiting" and "Apple Blossom Time."

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Charlie Rich's Lonely Weekends is pressed on Sky Blue vinyl at Softwax Record Pressing. The AAA 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board jacket.

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Carson McHone

Superstar Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Still Life, Carson McHone’s third album and first release with Merge Records, quivers like a tightrope, with songs about existing within the tension of the in between and surviving beyond the breaking point. These are stories of sabotage, confusion, and surrender. The album is a testament to the effort of reaching, sometimes flailing, for understanding and for balance. Still Life invites us to gasp at our own reflection and acknowledge the unsettling beauty in this breath.

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Caroline Rose

Buck Owens And His Buckaroos

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With one foot in a bucket of painfully earnest reflection, and the other in a pool of the sick, sunny oddball pop satire she does so well, Caroline Rose wrote, recorded and produced Superstar in her 10’x12’ home studio and on a portable rig she’d set up in green rooms while touring behind her 2018 album, LONER. The album’s first track finds its protagonist the recipient of an accidental call from Hollywood’s glamorous Chateau Marmont hotel, which they take as a sign to leave everything behind and pursue their star-studded destiny. What ensues is an indulgent, glistening sonic wonderland located at the crash site of innate personal aspiration and a bloated, absurd and fickle collective definition of success, fame and the artist in the era of late-capitalism. Superstar is a double-edge examination of the destructive and motivating forces of the human ego in a time and place that stokes its most aggrandizing desires, all wrapped up in brilliant, wonky modern earworms and a world as shiny as it is unsettling.

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Carnegie Hall Concert Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Waging Peace Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“In the first 75 years of Carnegie Hall being in operation, country music was an intermittent guest in the hallowed hall. In March 1966, however, a country band from Bakersfield, California, took to Carnegie Hall’s stages at the peak of their powers, as only the second country band to headline a show there, and ultimately released — outside of At Folsom Prison — the most important live country album ever. An album that proved many things between its two sides: that country music had an audience around the world already, and that the artist behind the album’s gamble on himself and his sound proved that you didn’t need to go to Nashville and sell out to sell big. With Carnegie Hall Concert, Buck Owens and His Buckaroos entered the pantheon of country music, becoming part of its very fiber, and altered the way it was considered in big cities and at record labels.”

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Alex Williams

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Continental Song Cit)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alex Williams became recognized as a one-to-watch outlaw country artist, drawing comparisons to Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson for his signature, cavernous vocal and gritty, go-your-own-way charisma. Now, following his major label debut in 2017 (Better Than Myself / BMLG), he returns with his sophomore record, Waging Peace.

“Before I made my first record, I had not toured. I had no road band and a very slim amount of experience in the studio,” Williams adds. “These past 4 years since leaving Big Machine to become fully independent, and the release of Better Than Myself has been a whirlwind. I’m very glad that I waited 5 years to make another record because it’s given me time to really find my voice as a songwriter, experience life on the road and all the pain and joy that has come my way in more ways than one.”

Limited to 300 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Alex Williams' Waging Peace is pressed on Clear vinyl at The Vinyl Lab. The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, autographed and numbered jacket. It was mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Mastering.

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Peter Bjorn Thisell

Visseltofta Folkfest

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Nonesuch)

Rhiannon Giddens

You're The One

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Nonesuch)

Yasmin Williams

Acadia

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Rhino)

Texas Tornados

Now Playing

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (By Norse Music)

Kalandra

A Frame Of Mind

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Still Valentine's Day 1969

Sandy Bull

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (No Quarter)

Consequences Of The Crown Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sandy Bull was an American folk musician who rose to prominence with a series ofalbums on the Vanguard label in the 1960's and 70's. Still Valentine's Day 1969 ispulled from two live shows recorded at The Matrix in San Francisco in 1969 with Bullplaying shimmering electric guitar and oud, accompanied by tape loops. Previouslyavailable on CD, but now out of print in all formats - this is the first ever vinyl pressingand includes the original liner notes from Byron Coley.

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Shelby Lynne

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Monument)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Sony Music Nashville/Columbia)

Megan Moroney

Am I Okay?

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1974 | JP | Original (RCA)

Harry Belafonte

Concert In Japan

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Nathan Bowles Trio

Are Possible

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Sky Crunch)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Are Possible" is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurray (CAVE) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an expansive, ass-shaking confabulation of ideas.Music is time in redux: Are Possible"s many moments in time carry details from all over the place. Rex brought a rhythm to the table after drumming on buckets at work, Casey provided a bassline that redirected a previous jam, Nathan brought in a song he"d been fucking with forever and they figured it out together. Their diversity of sources moves easily within the arrangements, rendering a far-ranging set of feels, from transcendental to new country funk to good ol" jazz and the folk-rock, even - all of it drawn out exquisitely when they mixed at Electrical Audio in Chicago with the delicate hands of Cooper Crain upon the faders. The Nathan Bowles Trio have done their due diligence, passing their music through time and space on their way to now.

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Jim Lauderdale

My Favorite Place

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Long & Lonesome Letting Go

Jim Lauderdale

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Sky Crunch)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Petaluma)

Cody Dickinson

Homemade

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Sunset Blvd)

Willie Nelson

Texas Willie

LP | 1972 | DE | Original (Warner)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2CD Set / 40 songs - Contains 20 Tracks not available on CD or Streaming. The breadth and scope of Willie Nelson’s career is staggering.
He first established himself as part of a new generation of progressive country songwriters in the early ‘60s. Here are the obscure and rarely heard demo recordings he made prior to signing to Liberty and before RCA. All of these recordings are both musically and historically significant. Includes "Man With The Blues," "Misery," "Undo The Right," "One Step Beyond," "Any Old Arms Won't Do," "Blame It On The Times," "The End Of Understanding," "Slow Down Old World," "A New Way To Die," "Home Motel," "Right From Wrong," "Slow Down Old World," "Happiness Lives Next Door," "I Feel Sorry For Him," "Where My House Lives," and more.

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America

Homecoming

LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1972 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Trifold cover and vinyl are close to NM.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Sounds Of Silence

Handpicked Songs 1955-1962

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Record is close to NM.

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The Louvin Brothers

LP | 2011 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

LP | 2020 | SE | Original (Sing A Song Fighter)

Skator

År

Release: 2020 / SE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2008 | DE | Original (Morr Music)

Sin Fang

Clangour

Release: 2008 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Spacebomb)

Nadia Reid

Out Of My Province

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Anti-)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Original inner sleeve. Tiny wear.

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Ben Harper

Winter Is For Lovers

10" | 2013 | US | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Clear vinyl!

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The Civil Wars

To Be Determined

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 2020 | DE | Reissue (Metal Blade)

Primordial

Imrama

Keep Me On Your Mind / See You Free Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Violet black and white splatter vinyl!

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Bonny Light Horseman

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Cris Jacobs)

Cris Jacobs

One Of These Days

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neil Young with Crazy Horse

World Record

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Reprise)

Tokyo Boogie Woogie Boogie Woogie Age Re-Edit & Remix

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Cover and vinyl are close to NM. With insert.

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Kasagi Shizuko

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Nippon Columbia)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Magokoro Brothers / Sokabe K

Heihei Boogie / Kaimono Boogie

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Nippon Columbia)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Scha Dara Parr / Konishi Yas

Oshare Middle / Tokyo No Yane No Shita

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Nippon Columbia)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Room 41 Orange Swirl Vinyl Edition

Paul Cauthen

LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Lightning Rod)

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mystra)

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cauthen first earned his reputation as a fire-breathing truth teller with the acclaimed roots rock band Sons of Fathers, but it wasn’t until the 2016 release of his solo debut, ‘My Gospel,’ that he truly tapped into the full depth of his prodigious talents. Rolling Stone called the album “a triple-barreled blast of Texas country, soul and holy-roller rockabilly delivered by a big-voiced crooner,” while Vice Noisey dubbed it “a somber reminder of how lucky we are to be alive,” and Texas Monthly raved that Cauthen “sound[s] like the Highwaymen all rolled into one: he’s got Willie’s phrasing, Johnny’s haggard quiver, Kristofferson’s knack for storytelling, and Waylon’s baritone.” The album landed on a slew of Best Of lists at the year’s end and earned Cauthen dates with Elle King, Margo Price, Billy Joe Shaver, and Cody Jinks, along with festival appearances from Austin City Limits and Pickathon to Stagecoach and Tumbleweed. He followed it up two years later with ‘Have Mercy,’ an EP that prompted Rolling Stoneto dub him “one of the most fascinating, and eccentric, new voices in country music” and NPR’s Ann Powers to proclaim it “the year of Paul Cauthen.”

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Robert Gebelein

Uncle Bobby's Record

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Minimum Table Stacks)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If there was ever an outsider folk record that truly had it all, here it is! This LP from 1974 is impossible to compare with any LP ever (!), but at the same time, can be compared to some of the most visionary folk LPs ever! Picture (if you can) a combination of early Bob Dylan, Skip Spence, the 1st Gordon Bok LP, TIm Buckley, Lou Reed, Peter Drudzien, Ernest Stoneman, Daniel Jonson, Richard & Mimi Farina, Chris Smither & Phil Ochs (!). But is a record all it's own, with unique & classic songs about loner strangeness, fishermen, other 'heady abstract stuff', Provincetown girls & (possibly) the best JFK tribute ever!. THE Best JFK Tribute Ever! (PLUS!) includes some wild trad songs and the amazing psych folk classic 'In Search of Something'! This was privately pressed in 1974, and unbelievably never reissued until now! This reissue includes a cool bonus track (the only song he wrote & recorded after recording the LP!) and an 8-page booklet with interviews, photos and excerpts from many of his different writings (he is now a well known author!), First pressing of 300 copies with hand-painted covers.

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Midnight Mines

Since My Baby Left Me

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Lolipop)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Avant-garage clang and clatter from a UK/Italian duo operating at the margins of the DIY guitar underground. Heavy tape manipulation and random noises rub up against primitive song structures and repetitive melodies. Features members of Black Time (In The Red) and Virvon Varvon (Girlsville Records). Pressed in an edition of 300 copies, housed in a reverse board sleeve with two inserts: 12 page digest-sized zine and 8x10 hand-numbered print. "Dark mod thump, fuzz wallop and heavy kraut rumble, with the makeup of the surrounding material recalling other UK brainiacs like THE Rebel and the most industrial aspects of THE Fall. Highly recommended."—Mitch Cardwell, Maximum Rock & Roll

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Jordan Jones

And I You

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Bonsound)

Shaina Hayes

Kindergarden Heart

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (La Ruche)

Joe Bel

Family Tree

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2002 | EU | Reissue (Anti-)

Tom Waits

Alice

Lines Parts One, Two & Three

Release: 2002 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Still sealed. Reissue.

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The Unthanks

3x10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Rabble Rouser Music)

New Masters Limited Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Records are close to NM.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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Cat Stevens

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Helidon)

Sedmina

Melita & Veno Dolenc

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1968 | DK | Original (Metronome)

Robert And Iain

Alliance

Release: 1968 / DK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (No Quarter)

James Elkington

Me Neither

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Me Neither is a 29 track double album of instrumental guitar music. While juggling a number of other projects James Elkington began writing "music for which there was no purpose." It became a new way of working for him - waking up each morning and improvising and recording the first thing that came into his head. "The only rules I gave myself were that I should make most of the sounds with a guitar, changing the speed or processing the recordings afterwards to get the effect I was looking for." Before long he had an albums worth of material. About mid-way through the second album Elkington had a liberating thought: he was making his own version of library music "if you're writing library music, you don't have to know what it's for - that can be someone else's job."

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Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical

2LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Luaka Bop)

Sling Shot To Heaven Silver Vinyl Edition

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First released in 1989, these songs represent but a small sampling of the fruits of a flowering in Brazilian creativity. The innovations in structure, lyrics and arrangements, combined with a very restrained but heartfelt intensity, are unique to Brazilian pop music... and in their own way, are as radical, seductive and beautiful as the best english language pop

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Richard Edwards

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Profound Discomfort)

The Lion For Real, Re-Born Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The definitive, reimagined, version of Sling Shot To Heaven.

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Allen Ginsberg

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Shimmy Disc)

Vinyl Child / Queen Coyote Turquoise Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Allen Ginsberg, the voice of a generation, fierce, gentle, profoundand profane, paired with music created especially for his work, bysome of the guiding lights of Jazz in the modern era - MarkBingham, Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, and others. Allmasterfully coordinated and produced by the mad scientist ofcollaborations, Hal Willner.First released in 1989, this time capsule surges forth into the nowwith 8 additional tracks never included on the original release.These are timeless works, a garden of eden on vinyl to wanderthrough repeatedly, guided by the founding father of Beat Poetry.Graced by an irresistible coda co-written with Shimmy-Discfounder Kramer, his lyrical mantra of "Don't Grow Old".

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Dirty Dollhouse

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Discos Fantastico)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dirty Dollhouse is the multi-genre music of Philadelphia-based artist Chelsea Mitchell, a folk chanteuse with classical training and a retro-pop composer with a soft spot for country. After releasing her first lo-fi EP, Married in the Aviary, Mitchell received the Tri-State Indie Vocalist of the Year award and the lyrics to her song Nobody's Daughter were showcased in American Songwriter Magazine. Her follow-up EP, 25 Shades, saw a departure from traditional folk and embraced a Nashville vibe while 2017's full-length album Vinyl Child was a mixture of darkly contemplative pop songs and quiet, intimate confession. Drawing from many muses has produced a uniquely diverse catalogue, but it has also made it near-impossible to pin down who Mitchell sounds like. In sultry-toned moments you might hear Nicole Atkins, a soft bird-like peak could make you think of Kacey Musgraves, and a certain belt may summon Brandi Carlile. Though her vocals range from soft twang to unabashedly operatic, it would suffice to say that Mitchell's songs all fit under the same 'singer-songwriter' umbrella as her lyrics weave a diary page to life and her band expands on structural simplicity with subtle grace. As bassist Joshua Machiz, drummer Eric Lawry, and lead guitarist August John Lutz II are now full-time members, Dirty Dollhouse has found a new and exciting momentum, opening for rising stars like Nikki Lane and Amanda Shires and playing to a wider audience.

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Grupo Celeste

El Fabuloso

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Baby, You're The Man Who Would Be King

Jerry Joseph

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmo Sex School)

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Portland"s Jerry Joseph is a bonafide "triple-threat", a prolific and accomplished songwriter, a powerful singer and a memorable performer. In his four-decade career; as a solo artist, with the Jackmormons, supergroup Stockholm Syndrome, his two-piece The Denmark Veseys, his beloved 80s cult band, Little Women, or most recently with Drive-by Truckers backing him; he has continuously toured the world, including such unlikely locales as Lebanon, Israel, Kurdish Iraq, India, Cambodia and Afghanistan, and released a steady stream of albums.Baby, You"re The Man Who Would Be King was recorded in NYC and produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, and features a band made up of some of New York"s best players.

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Tim McGraw

Standing Room Only

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1990 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pressed on colored vinyl. Color unknown. Not on label.

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Nagat

Eyoun El Alb

What's My Name (1967-1970)

Release: 1990 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First-ever Vinyl Release OF Cult 1980 Cassette-only Album BY Egyptian Singer Nagat EL Saghira, Curated AND Annotated BY Disco Arabesquo. Includes Production BY Egyptian Funk Legend Hany Shenouda
Following the highly-acclaimed "Sharayet El Disco" compilation, Wewantsounds is delighted to team up with Disco Arabesquo for the reissue of Nagat El Seghira's cult 1980 album "Eyoun El Alb"
Originally released only on cassette on the Egyptian label Soutelphan, the album has since become a sought-after classic on the Arabic groove scene and this is the first time it is released on vinyl. Consisting of four tracks, the album features two tracks produced by Hany Shenouda whose group Al Massrieen is a reference on the Arabic disco funk scene.
Remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio in Paris, the album features the original cassette artwork plus a two page colour insert featuring liner notes by Disco Arabesquo.
When it comes to Arabic Divas, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz and Warda usually take the lead in the poll list. But in her native Egypt, singer Nagat Al Saghira comes very close to this triumvirate. Born in Cairo in 1938, Nagat began singing when she was still a child gaining her stage name "El-Saghira" ("the young one") at this occasion as she started giving concerts at the age of seven, pushed by her father, the famed calligrapher Muhamad Hosny (Nagat's half-sister is the renowned actress Soad Hosny).
Nagat quickly rose to fame in the late forties and became an essential part of classic period of Arabic music, interpreting songs by such titans as Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Baligh Hamdy and Kamal Al Taweel. She also sang the works of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani whom she introduced to a mainstream audience. Nagat started singing shorter songs but then upgraded to longer ones, often performing/recording them live as it was the trend in the 60s and 70s.
One such song is "Eyoun El Alb" ("Eyes of the Heart") which makes up the whole of Side 1 of the original cassette. Written by Mohamed El Mougy and Abd al-Rahman al-Abdouni, Eyoun El Alb is a love song made up of several distinct sections enhancing Nagat's hypnotic singing, accompanied by a percussion-heavy, traditional Egyptian orchestra.
Side 2 is the "diggers" groovier side featuring two floaters,"Bahlam Ma'ak" ("I Dream with You") and "Ana Basha El Bahr" ("I Adore The Sea") produced by cult Egyptian musician and producer Hany Shenouda, whose albums with his group Al Massrieen are highly sought after on the Arabic funk and Disco scene. One Al Massrieen track features on the "Sharayet el Disco" set compiled by Disco Arabesquo who notes that "Hany Shenouda had made waves with his new musical style that weaved in western funk and disco sounds into Egyptian music"
Both tracks feature an infectious slow-burning groove and incorporate funk influences with fat bass and lines of synth and clavinet that adds a funky tone to Nagat's soft singing. The third track "Fakra" ("Do You Remember") brings the best of both world with a syncopated rhythm and arrangements that are slightly more traditional than the Shenouda-produced tracks.
Originally released in Egypt on Cassette in 1980 on the venerable Soutlephan label, the album is now making its vinyl debut on Wewantsounds annotated by Disco Arabesquo and remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio in Paris for the joy of Arabic funk and Global beats worldwide.

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Henson Cargill

LP | 2023 | Original (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes! * Full dynamic range 2023 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes! * Limited Edition 500 LPs – 250 ‘Plastic People’ Red LPs! / 250 ‘Gnashville Nihilist’ Black LPs! (randomly inserted) From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'... Stellar songs, heartfelt performances, the finest Nashville players and the greatest set of tonsils to ever wrap themselves around Activist Country-Pop... Here are the almost forgotten masterpieces of Henson Cargill, sourced directly from the Monument Records vault and presented together for the first time on LP. Hear Henson's smooth baritone lambast apathy ('None of My Business'), chide neglectful parenting ('Skip A Rope'), ponder the byzantine tableaux of love ('Four Shades of Love'), dismiss the space race and dissect de-evolution ('Going Backwards') and name-check both Adolph Eichmann and Cecil B. DeMille in one very lysergic song ('What's my Name?'). Across 1967-1970, Cargill pioneered a unique and radical New Nashville Sound. Swinging, dobro-led shuffles with controversial, cosmic/striking themes and insightful lyrics. Dystopian and defiant anti-war laments. Tender and timeless brooding ballads of regret. Wise, worldly and weary. 16 prime cuts of Psyche-Gnashville brilliance. Witness the Hillbilly Zen of 'Row Row Row', the Apocalyptic revelations of 'This Generation Shall Not Pass' and the acerbic disestablishmentarianism of 'Reprints (Plastic People)'. Nashville 1967, something was in the water and Henson Cargill drank his fill.

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Hillbillies In Hell: Wake Me Up! Brimstone And Beauty From The Nashville Pulpit (1952-1974)

LP | 2023 | Original (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* SEE Dan Johnson spy Four Horsemen Riding Fast! * Hear Rhys Evans catch THE Devil Train! * Witness The Revelators Quartet and the great power of the Atom Bomb! * Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia! * Full dynamic range 2023 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes! * Limited to 666 copies! * 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Armageddon Red’ LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Soul Apocalypse’ Splatter LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Purgatory Black’ Black LPs! Raw Revelations for Rapturous Times... In this era of tumult and strife, shadow and light...take these seeds and let them grow. Apocalyptic Visions and Luciferian Combat, Armageddon Fever Dreams and Biblical Torments, Restless Redemptions and Ultimate Resurrections. Some collected from the acclaimed and out-of-print 'Hillbillies In Hell' series, some newly unearthed into the light of day, some burning with Evangelistic passion, some bountiful with the beauty and peace of the Final Light - all presented in this all-new volume. Spiritual Sleeper Awake! This world is but a kingdom of veils... Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies In Hell: Wake Me Up!' is your Good Book through the uncanny valley of the End Times - a dusty clutch of Hellfire Preachers, Satanic Traps and Tests, Diabolic Jousts, Backwoods Mountain Messiahs, Plagues and Pestilence, the Creator's Smite and God's Blazing Light. A deep catacomb of marginal 45s - some of these sides may be familiar, some are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your proselytic listening pleasure.

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Traces Of Illusion Compiled By Skyrager

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Spacetalk)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Yuma Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Gold Vinyl Edition

Justin Townes Earle

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Bloodshot)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New West)

Rodney Crowell

Chicago Sessions

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Nancy & Lee Again Fanclub Edition pressed on Got It Together Again Gold Vinyl Edition

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

33,59 €* 41,99 € -20%

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* LP available on Standard Black Wax plus Special Limited Color Editions
* First ever reissue of Nancy & Leeâ€™s 1972 classic
* Includes bonus tracks â€œMachine Gun Kellyâ€ and the previously unreleased â€œThink Iâ€™m Coming Downâ€
* Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMYÂ®-nominated engineer John Baldwin
* Vinyl pressed at RTI
* Beautifully packaged and expanded gatefold LP featuring a 20-page booklet
* Q&A with Nancy & GRAMMYÂ®-nominated reissue co-producer Hunter Lea
* Never-before-seen photos from Nancy Sinatraâ€™s personal archive
* CD housed in a digipak and featuring a 28-page booklet
* 8-track also available
* Actual LP pressing color may differ from mock-up image

Light in the Attic Records is proud to present the next installment of the _Nancy Sinatra Archival Series_ with the first ever reissue of the classic 1972 album _Nancy & Lee Again_. Recorded during a 1972 reunion between Nancy and the enigmatic Hazlewood, the album contains some of the pairâ€™s most enduring and ambitious duets including the epic â€Arkansas Coal (Suite),â€ the sensual â€œParis Summerâ€ and the incredibly powerful Dolly Parton-penned â€œDown From Dover.â€ Equal parts daring, psychedelic, cinematic, and sweet, _Nancy & Lee Again_ reveals with each track a timeless, natural chemistry between two artists who would remain influential for generations to come.

_Nancy & Lee Again_ is available in a variety of formats, including vinyl, CD, 8-track, and digital. The vinyl LP, pressed at Record Technology, Inc. (rti), is presented in an expanded gatefold jacket and is accompanied by a 20-page booklet, featuring an array of photos from the legendary singer, actress, and activistâ€™s personal collection, as well as in-depth Q&A with Nancy Sinatra, conducted by the reissueâ€™s Grammyâ®-nominated co-producer, Hunter Lea (also available in the CD package). All formats have been beautifully designed by Darryl Norsen of D. Norsen Design, and include two bonus tracks, â€œMachine Gun Kellyâ€ (first time on vinyl) and the previously unreleased â€œThink Iâ€™m Coming Down.â€

In addition to the black vinyl pressing, a selection of colorful variants can be found exclusively at NancySinatra.com, LightInTheAttic.net, independent record stores and select online retailers.

A limited-edition merchandise capsule, including a custom chain stitched denim jacket, embroidered pillow, canvas tote and apparel collaboration with LA-based Midnight Rider will accompany the release at Nancyâ€™s Bootique at *NancySinatra.com*.

Nancyâ€™s impact on fashion, music, and culture will also be celebrated at Modernism Week in Palm Springs this February with three events, including a roundtable discussion featuring Kii Arens (Visual Artist), Alison Martino (Vintage Los Angeles), Hunter Lea (Record Producer), Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew), and Amanda Erlinger (daughter of Nancy Sinatra, and co-author of the book _Nancy Sinatra: One For Your Dreams_), a double decker bus tour featuring audio commentary from Nancy at notable locations, and a Nancy Sinatra Tribute street party on Arenas to close out the weekâ€™s festivities.

*more About _nancy & LEE AGAIN_:*

The incongruous, yet glorious, creative partnership between Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood was well underway when the two singular artists reunited to record 1972â€™s _Nancy & Lee Again_, a follow-up to their bestselling duet debut, _Nancy & Lee_. Nancy, the eldest daughter of Frank Sinatra, had been working with the Oklahoma-born songwriter since 1965, when she topped the pop charts with â€œThese Boots Are Made For Walkinâ€™.â€ Over the next five years, the two artists forged a prolific relationship in the studio, with Hazlewood writing and producing many of Nancyâ€™s solo hits. Soon, the duo found success with a series of duets, including â€œSand,â€ â€œSummer Wine,â€ and â€œSome Velvet Morningâ€ â€“ all of which appeared on their highly-influential 1968 debut.

Not long after the critical acclaim and chart success of Nancy & Lee died down, however, Hazlewood unexpectedly relocated to Sweden, leaving his musical partner in the proverbial dust. America, meanwhile, was in the midst of a cultural shift, as the Vietnam War waged on. By the turn of the decade, the musical landscape had changed significantly. â€œTrivial music and not profound music became unimportant,â€ recalls Nancy, speaking to Hunter Lea. â€œIt was a tough time.â€ And yet, despite the circumstances, the stars somehow aligned for the duo to record some of their most magnificent music together.

Returning to Los Angeles for the project, Hazlewood â€“ who reprised his role as producer â€“ chose to take a new direction with the duoâ€™s sophomore album. Nancy recalls, â€œIt was more dramatic; it was more fun to do, more challenging to doâ€¦. It was more grandiose.â€ For the lush, orchestral arrangements, they collaborated with Larry Muhoberac (an original member of Elvis Presleyâ€™s TCB band, whose early â€˜70s credits also included Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, and Lalo Schifrin) and Clark Gassman, who had worked on Hazlewoodâ€™s 1970 LP, _Cowboy in Sweden_. Backing vocals from brothers John and Tom Bahler, who remain two of the most recorded singers in history, added additional texture to several songs.

The big sound that Nancy describes above is exemplified in the albumâ€™s cinematic opener, â€œArkansas Coal (Suite).â€ Clocking in at nearly six minutes long, the dynamic overture tells the tale of an ill-fated coal miner (sung by Hazlewood), while Nancy adjusts her vocals to sing as both the minerâ€™s daughter and his wife. Hazlewoodâ€™s knack for vivid, nuanced storytelling shines throughout _Nancy & Lee Again_, particularly in â€œParis Summer,â€ which details the conflict that a married woman faces, as she engages in a passionate affair. Another highlight is the country-inspired hit, â€œDid You Ever,â€ which was released as the albumâ€™s lead single. After it landed at No.2 on the U.K. pop charts, the song served as an alternate title track in several countries, including LP pressings in the U.K., Germany, and Canada.

One of the most emotionally-charged moments on _Nancy & Lee Again_ is a cover of Dolly Partonâ€™s â€œDown From Dover.â€ The heartbreaking tune tells the tale of a pregnant teenager, who has been abandoned by her lover and her family and ultimately gives birth to a stillborn baby. While Partonâ€™s 1970 version was sung from the teenagerâ€™s point of view, Hazlewood and Sinatra transformed the country song into a duet. Hazlewood, who offers the manâ€™s side of the story, sings in a notably deeper octave than his signature baritone.

Another poignant selection is â€œCongratulations,â€ which describes a soldier coming home from Vietnam. â€œHis face has grown old and his eyes have grown cold/And they tell you of where he has been/Congratulations, you sure made a man out of him,â€ Hazlewood sings, pointedly. Nancy, who performs as the vetâ€™s wife, argues that the song had a deeper meaning for her duet partner. â€œLee started out a hawk, he was an army guy, so he was all for the war in the beginning. We didnâ€™t talk about it, but at some point, he changed radically. â€˜Congratulationsâ€™ was almost like an apology from him. I donâ€™t want to put words in his mouth, but it was as though he was saying â€˜Iâ€™m really sorry.â€™â€

The song â€œFriendship Trainâ€ could also be interpreted as an apology of sorts â€“ this time to Nancy. â€œYou've been hurt and I've been hurt/Now we're living pain,â€ the tune opens. When Hazlewood moved to Sweden without telling his longtime musical partner, Sinatra was understandably upset. â€œI felt pretty betrayed. I mean, who does that? Who just up and disappears like that? Iâ€™ll never understand it,â€ she reveals. But the uplifting duet â€“ a slice of â€˜70s pop perfection â€“ offers reaffirming words of love between friends. â€œ[Lee] felt things very deeply and tended to express his feelings in song instead of in real life,â€ explains Nancy.

The 10-track album closes with the stripped-down â€œGot It Together.â€ Backed by an acoustic guitar, the song is equal parts playful and candid, as the duo has an impromptu, spoken-word conversation about their lives. â€œI wish that weâ€™d quit getting so old,â€ laments Nancy, who later shares her wish to have children (she would do so in the next few years). Hazlewood, meanwhile, attempts to remedy his past wrongdoings â€“ this time asking his partner, â€œCan I go back to Sweden?â€ With that, Nancy gives her blessing.

This definitive reissue of _Nancy & Lee Again_ also includes two bonus tracks. Both are stylistic departures for the duo â€“ but fit right in with the psychedelic pop of the era. The first one, â€œThink Iâ€™m Coming Down,â€ is a harmony-filled reflection on a toxic relationship. â€œI think that was one of [Leeâ€™s] drug things. I donâ€™t mean that he used drugs; I mean that he was trying to be part of that culture. Trying to be hip,â€ explains Nancy, who delivers an emotive vocal performance on the solo track. Also included is â€œMachine Gun Kelly,â€ penned by a staple of the 70s singer-songwriter movement, Danny Kortchmar (James Taylor, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt). Recorded several months after the release of the album, the song found Nancy reuniting with Billy Strange, who arranged many of her solo albums, as well as Nancy & Lee. Sinatra and Hazlewood first performed â€œMachine Gun Kellyâ€ during their residency at Las Vegasâ€™ Riviera Hotel in February 1972 (later released as a concert documentary on Swedish television). While the recording has long remained a career favorite of Nancyâ€™s, it would be decades before it was officially released.

_Nancy & Lee Again_ remains a creative high point in the careers of Sinatra and Hazlewood and, upon its release, garnered rave reviews from Billboard, _Record World_, and _Cash Box_, among others. Yet, _Nancy & Lee Again_ never received the spotlight it so utterly deserved. â€œWe didnâ€™t have label support at all in those days,â€ recalls Nancy. â€œWithout the strength of a label, records die. We were old. We were old-fashioned. We were just not what was happening. Itâ€™s a very ageist kind of business.â€ Nevertheless, she adds, â€œI think itâ€™s a very good album. I think itâ€™s timeless.â€ Now, after years of being a sought-after rarity, this gem in the Sinatra-Hazlewood canon can finally get its due.

Five decades later, Nancyâ€™s legacy only continues to grow, as new generations discover her impressive catalog (which boasts nearly 20 studio albums â€“ her duets with Hazlewood among them â€“ and dozens of charting singles, including the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice). In 2020, Sinatra was recognized by her peers when â€œThese Boots Are Made For Walkinâ€™â€ was inducted into the Grammyâ® Hall of Fame. That same year, Sinatra partnered with Light in the Attic for *Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkinâ€™ 1965-1976*, a definitive survey of her most prolific period. Lita has also reissued Sinatraâ€™s classic debut, *Boots*, and her iconic, 1968 album with Lee Hazlewood, *Nancy & Lee*. The label looks forward to celebrating Nancy over the coming years with a variety of special releases, exclusive merchandise, and more.

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Closing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career “Ol’ 55” (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You”. Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.

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“Wild Boy …” is a reissue of the well-known 2016 release curated by Brian Chidester, renowned researcher and biographer of Eden Ahbez. Especially for this album, Brian wrote an interesting text about Abi’s life, which definitely became the decoration of the release. With the new 2020 re-release, we went a little further and kept what is commonly referred to as studio cuts. It’s a few more minutes in the studio with ahbez himself, full of emotion and life. In addition, to the delight of fans, the edition includes an additional composition Nature Boy (Mantovani Orchestra). Especially, it is worth noting the outstanding mastering prepared from practically decomposed tapes by the Grammy-nominated Jessica Thompson, which guarantees the deepest and warmth possible sound. Jessica a huge ahbez fan and we’re highly appreciated for what she has done to save his music for the future. Eden Ahbez is definitely at the origin of psychedelic music and this release can be taken as further proof. Over the past twenty years, the iconic figure of the world’s first hippie Eden ahbez has become famous primarily for his 1948 song “Nature Boy”, praising universal love, and his amazingly solo album from the 1960s called “Eden’s Island” – one from the first concept albums in the history of music and probably the first psychedelic music album. “Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez” deepens understanding of the origins of the psychedelic movement in the 1950s. The disc contains a musical selection of works by Eden ahbez himself, written by him in the period after Nature Boy. The inclusion of songs such as “Palm Springs” – Ray Anthony Orchestra and “Hey Jacques” by Erta Kitt gives the listener the chance to discover for the first time the little-known recordings of world-famous artists composed by Eden ahbez. Through “Wild Boy” and “Surfer John” you can hear the author’s handling of absurd rock and exotic experimentation, as well as sweet psychedelic pop like Monterey (with Paul Horn on flute). Overall, Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez offers an overview of the lost works of 1949-1971 with seven unpublished recordings and eight rare singles.

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On 12 February 1949 an angry mob stormed into the centre of the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, burning the offices of the city’s main newspaper and its oldest radio station to the ground.

On that tragic day Radio Quito had just broadcast a local adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. The novel – first published in 1898 and famously adapted into a radio series by Orson Welles – is one of the earliest stories to depict a conflict between mankind and a hostile race of extra-terrestrials. The large audience - not understanding that it was pure fiction - believed that intergalactic intelligence had invaded the country as all hell broke loose. Thousands began running the streets of Quito looking for shelter, chaos broke out, causing a deadly stampede. People blamed the broadcaster for the tragedy, formed a dense crowd and stormed Radio Quito, setting it ablaze. Several musicians, who were there performing, were killed.

In the decades after the second world war, outer space was on everyone’s mind and the ‘space race’ of the 1950s and 60s not only produced groundbreaking efforts to launch artificial satellites, send space probes to Mars and land a human on the moon, it also had a huge impact on the movie and music industry which was taking advantage of the world‘s fascination with space voyages and lunar missions to create instruments capable of mimicking imaginary interstellar sounds. These synthesised space effects that captivated the imagination of a whole generation of young Ecuadoreans coincided with a period in which workers and musicians from the provinces started flocking to Quito and to the commercial port of Guayaquil, some hoping to find regular work, others looking to break into the musical big leagues by getting hired by one of the prestigious urban radio station. These artists brought riches of rhythms to the major Ecuadorian cities who would soon witness the explosion of what would be known as “Andean Cumbia”.

That fusion, of tropical electronics mixed in with Andean melodies and lyrics describing the cruel reality of migrant workers, achieved massive success. And so while budding Ecuadorian UFOlogy lead to widespread extraterrestrial sightings, Ecuadorian musicians began released various albums consisting of traditional music combined with synthesisers in order to bring their traditional music into the space age. One of these musicians is Polibio Mayorga who had travelled 160km from his hometown of Chisalata to Quito where he showcased his talent as he championed the art of modernising his region’s ancestral rhythms - Huaynito, Sanjuanito, Albazo and many others - using the latest in electronic instruments.

After 4 years with Los Locos del Ritmo, one of Ecuador’s most popular bands, Polibio joined Fadisa (Fabrica De Discos S.A) in 1973 as a solo musician and songwriter before becoming their musical director a year later. While there he would team up with saxophonist extraordinaire Olmedo Torres, and for 10 years they would compose and arrange hits, not only for themselves but also for their fellow artists in the Fadisa family. Although Fadisa had countless labels in their roster, the jewel in their crown was Rondador and it was on that imprint that Polibio would release “Ponchito de Colores” and his famous album “La Farra Está Aquí”. With their novel use of Moog synthesiser, both become huge hit records and were broadcast constantly by Cosmopolita and Marañón de Quito – the two major radio stations of the capital. This led to a surge of interest in Andean cumbia, and the subsequent record sales helped to revive the country’s flagging music industry, turning Polibio into Ecuador’s most influential musician.

Polibio has never considered his music to be “tropical psychedelia” - although he thinks it would make a good name for a band. He has the sense of humour of a genius and the ability to make anyone laugh, yet he remains discreet, eloquent and humble … but as a musician he is daring and visionary, with an intrepid, vigorous style almost impossible to imitate. More than perhaps any of his peers, Polibio Mayorga established a unique place for himself at the vanguard of tropical music.

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