The first reissue of the 1981 private press countrydelic masterpiece by Johnny Cash’s friend and stage manager Chance Martin, In Search sounds like some unholy pot likker of Waylon and Funkadelic. Gatefold package includes 33 photos of the mythic Dead End Nashville scene, a download coupon, and a 13,000 word oral history with the storytelling artist.
The much anticipated, full-length, full-band follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2011 album Poor Moon (PoB-02), these 11 exquisite songs about faith, family, and an ill-prophesied future represent HGM’s most ambitious and urgent work yet, conjuring dark, half-remembered dreams. (ON SALE)
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.
