Raw, ragged, and righteous tag-team live PA recorded on February 25, 2010. Rare Carolina soul and gospel abound as usual, and a keen instrumental set brightened proceedings. Other exotic taxa include Boot Cut, Critter Jams, Tropical Hot Dog Night, and a healthy dose of Mature Country.
Sunday morning listening: gentle ’70s stuff from Salisbury, North Carolina, courtesy of the mysterious Casey.
As promised, we’ve prepared a multi-media posting about the early days of Joe Brown and the Singing Mellerairs–originally known as the Melloaires and later as (The Exciting) Singing Mellerairs or Singing Melleraires–complete with scans of several great pieces of ephemera straight from Mr. Brown himself, and intermingled with choice tidbits from our afternoon interview on January 24, 2010.
The scene: Carolina legend Arthur Smith’s studio in Charlotte, c. 1961. Local teen sensations the Constellations have prepared three songs to record for release on Impel Records: a new version of “I Got a Woman,” “How I Love My Baby,” and “I Need Somebody.”
After a two-month holiday hiatus–Final Thursdays are apparently rife with holidays–the Paradise of Bachelors Soundsystem returned for a winter Paradisession at Fuse on January 28, 2010. We covered a lot of musical ground that night, but rest assured that you will find some ear medicine among the soul, country, and rawk sets, including some recently acquired rare artifacts alongside the classics.
