David Lee lent us some beautiful photos and ephemera related to his career as a songwriter, performer, producer, label owner, and record store proprietor. Some of this material, plus much more, will certainly find its way into the David Lee Legacy LP notes and artwork.
Here, finally, is some imperfect documentation of the inaugural Paradise of Bachelors Soundsystem Party, in the form of live mixed vinyl deejay sets presented as two m4a files, originally broadcast at Fuse in Chapel Hill, in the Old North State, on the balmy night of September 24, 2009.
We’ve been talking with J. Hawkins of Pensacola about reissuing some of the acerbic, whiskey-soused, barefootin’ Flor-Noir honky-tonk on his 1980 debut LP “One Eye Open,” released on his own Partying Fools Productions–in our opinion one of the great label names, which also features one of the great record cover illustrations of the ages (see above.)
Charlotte, North Carolina, August 2, 2009. Ivan Ray Sturdivant and Cecil Roosevelt Sturdivant (February 6, 1925 – September 28, 2009).
We at Paradise of Bachelors have just returned from our first label fieldwork trip, visiting David Lee and Bill Allen in the Shelby, North Carolina area on Saturday and Ivan Sturdivant in Charlotte on Sunday.
