We’re elated to announce the addition of guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn to the growing Paradise of Bachelors roster. His forthcoming trio record Time Off, slated for release in late Spring 2013, finds him in the good company of longtime collaborators John Truscinski (drums) and Justin Tripp (bass), deploying his signature virtuosic guitar style framed by the most commanding vocal performances he’s yet committed to tape.
Happy New Year, friends of Paradise! Welcome to our new website, which we hope you agree is a vast improvement. We’re excited for 2013, a year when we’ll be growing the label significantly and releasing a number of deep-digging reissues as well as some exciting releases by contemporary artists. However, the news today is that we are now accepting pre-orders for PoB-05, the first-ever reissue of the harrowing, choogling 1983 album by the Red Rippers.
Paradise of Bachelors presents the first reissue of the obscure 1983 LP by Vietnam vet country-boogie band the Red Rippers. Get chooglin’, soldier.
A 45rpm collaboration between Hiss Golden Messenger and Elephant Micah, two of their generation’s most compelling songwriters.
The first-ever reissue of the sole eponymous album by American Indian activist and songwriter Willie French Lowery’s interracial swamp-psych band.
Paradise of Bachelors presents the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers. Written and recorded by Navy pilot Ed Bankston, the album’s nine battle-scarred country-boogie/psych dispatches chronicle the experiences of Bankston and his fellow vets during the Vietnam War and back home. (ON SALE)
Paradise of Bachelors is pleased to announce the first-ever recorded collaboration between Hiss Golden Messenger and Elephant Micah, featuring two of their generation’s most compelling songwriters and lyricists. (ON SALE)
Paradise of Bachelors is honored to celebrate the life and music of influential American Indian (Lumbee) songwriter, singer, and guitarist Willie French Lowery (1944-2012) with the first-ever reissue of the sole eponymous album by his interracial North Carolina swamp-psych band Plant and See.
Composed and arranged by Head Messenger M.C. Taylor at his home in the rural Piedmont mill town of Pittsboro and recorded with longtime collaborator Scott Hirsch in New York, California and North Carolina, Poor Moon offers a moving culmination of the spiritually-charged song cycle commenced the critically acclaimed Bad Debt album. (OUT OF PRINT)
Paradise of Bachelors is proud to release the first-ever anthology of the eclectic, excellent, and highly collectable music of David Lee. Over the course of three decades beginning in the late 1950s, this unheralded songwriter, musician, producer, and entrepreneur released fourteen 45s and two LPs on his Impel, Washington Sound, and SCOP labels, run out of his Washington Sound record shop in Shelby, North Carolina.
