PoB Soundsystem VI: Po-Boys.
Brought a haul of records from New Orleans, played all night for an oyster po-boy. Crabby Jack made us do it.
NEWS
Big Up David Lee & Ann Sexton: Carolina Soul on NPR.
On June 8, Bachelor Jason Perlmutter and fellow researcher Josh Davis spoke to Frank Stasio on the State of Things on NPR. They discussed the history of African American record shops in the Carolinas, and of course, David Lee–subject of our upcoming compilation of his songs, Said I Had a Vision–was an important part of the conversation.
PoB Soundsystem V: Full Frame Filmmakers’ Party, Saturday, April 10, 2010.
To tide you over until our late summer/early fall release date–which will hopefully feature release parties both in the Triangle area and in Celeveland County, North Carolina–please accept the following recording of a Soundsystem appearance at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Saturday Night Filmmakers’ Party in Durham on April 10.
PoB Soundsystem IV: March Madness/Bachelor Birthday Edition.
We promise that the site will look a lot less laconic soon–in the meantime, please enjoy our most recent Soundsystem recordings, from Thursday, March 25, 2010, the very day of one Bachelor’s birthday. It got a little jazzy this time, and dirty too…
PoB Soundsystem III: Post-Valentinian.
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.
“I’d like to play for God to see what kind of comments he would make.”
Sunday morning listening: gentle ’70s stuff from Salisbury, North Carolina, courtesy of the mysterious Casey.
The Exciting Singing Mellerairs, Plus Friends.
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.
“Dumb Dee Dumb”: Shoutout to Don Camp.
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.”
Bachelors Soundsystem II: New Year, New Men.
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.
If Everybody.
Big Weekend for The Bachelors. We decided on a title for the David Lee compilation of Impel/Washington Sound/SCOP releases: “Said I Had Vision,” a line appropriated from the D. Lee original “Vision,” as performed by Joe Brown and the Melleraires.