Krampus Day Sale: 20% off through December 13th + Grammy Nom News.

*A studious Krampus peruses our Grammy-nominated liner notes to* *Terry Allen’s* Pedal Steal + Four Corners.

Annual Gruß vom Krampus Sale: 20% Off PoB Catalog through December 13th.

It’s hard to believe, but today is the ninth anniversary of our very first release, Said I Had a Vision: Songs of David Lee, 1960–1988 (two songs of which appear in the Oxford American‘s new South Carolina Music Issue.) Just in time, we’ve just received our first Grammy nomination (Best Album Notes), for our own Brendan Greaves‘s exhaustive book accompanying Terry Allen‘s Pedal Steal + Four Corners compilation (see here for details). So there are ample reasons for celebration (despite, you know, everything else poisoning the world).

Enter coupon code KRAMPUS during checkout for a 20% discount.

And of course, ’tis also the season to give records to beloved friends and family (and to yourself too). In lieu of the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we prefer to observe Krampus Day (honoring the Central European folkloric anti-Santa critter). Once again the dark, anarchic spirit of Krampus feels particularly apropos for the End Times denouement to 2019 that we are all currently enduring, but the December 5th holiday also conveniently coincides with Repeal Day (the end of Prohibition in the U.S.) Raise a glass to New Days!

To celebrate, all catalog items in the PoB store* will be discounted 20% through Friday, December 13th (spooky). (*Please note that the discount does not apply to pre-order albums or products already on sale.)

To receive the discount, visit our online store from now until 11:59PM EST on Friday, December 13th and enter the coupon code KRAMPUS during checkout.

Although we can’t guarantee it, all U.S. orders placed by December 11th should ship in time to arrive by Christmas, if that’s your thing. As always, U.S. orders totaling more than $70 ship for free!

While you’re shopping, get caught up on any Paradise of Bachelors releases you missed this year by checking out our Paradisiacal Playlist on Spotify or Label Focus playlist on TIDAL. Follow us for more playlists curated by PoB artists and staff!

2019: Just Another Year in Paradise

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Terry Allen’s Grammy-Nominated Pedal Steal + Four Corners

$14.00 – $34.00

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Speaking of celebrating, what a surprise (the pleasant kind) to wake up last week to our first Grammy nomination (Best Album Notes), for our very own Brendan Greaves‘s extensive book accompanying Terry Allen‘s Pedal Steal + Four Corners, his collection of radio plays and long-form narrative works. This project was a massive curatorial undertaking for us (the book is 33k words), so this recognition is quite gratifying. Many thanks to the Academy, to our collaborators, in particular Secretly Distribution, Brendan’s editor Sal Borriello at The Reading List and transcriber David Smith, and of course to our friend Terry for entrusting his wild work to us. Gird yourselves for a whole lot more of it.

The thing about a Grammy nomination for Best Album Notes is that, unlike the audio, the notes are only accessible to those who have purchased the album. But we’d like everyone to discover this dimension of Terry’s work, so for a limited time, you can download and read the album book in its entirety here, for free, including Brendan’s essay “‘The Radio … and Real Life’: Pedal Steal, Four Corners, and Other Panhandle Mysteries of the Wind.”

You can see the list of formidable fellow nominees here.

Pre-Order Terry Allen’s Just Like Moby Dick

$10.00 – $41.00

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Iconic and iconoclastic Texan songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, his first set of new songs since 2013’s Bottom of the World, features the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton (Dylan, Bowie, Blaze), Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines; and co-writes with Joe Ely and Dave Alvin. The connections to Melville’s masterpiece are metaphorical and allusive, as elusive as the White Whale. The masterly spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything), Just Like Moby Dick casts its net wide for wild stories, depicting, among other monstrous things, Houdini in existential crisis, the death of the last stripper in town, bloodthirsty pirates (in a pseudo-sequel to Brecht and Weill’s “Pirate Jenny”), the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the “American Childhood” suite), a vampire-infested circus, mudslides and burning mobile homes, and all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells.

The deluxe tip-on gatefold 2×LP package features lyrics, color labels, high-res Bandcamp download code, three sides of music, and a fourth-side vinyl etching artwork by Allen. The gatefold CD edition includes a six-panel lyrics insert with different artwork by Allen.