Madlib
Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note
2003
Blue Note Records
*** noteworthy
Hip-hop influenced “invasion” of the Blue Note catalog, hopefully angering some purists but more likely giving Blue Note fans something fresh to enjoy with the catalog, likely turning some jazz fans on to hip hop, and introducing old jazz to some young hip hop fans.
Highly recommended for fans of Mr. Madlib and his band of aliases.
— winch
Porch Ghouls
Bluff City Ruckus
2003
Roman/Columbia (CK 87033)
Produced by Greg Cartwright and the Porch Ghouls
Executive producer: Joe Perry
Debut (and apparently only) long player from this Florida/Memphis outfit, garage blues and back-porch electric Memphis stomp, letting the Tennessee hillbilly come through without sounding like rockabilly. Unlike their previous EP of mostly covers, all these songs are credited to band members.
It’s not a great album, just a good one, noteworthy 21st Century garage, produced by Greg Cartwright (Oblivions, Reigning Sound), released on Joe Perry’s Roman label . (The Aerosmith / Reigning Sound connection!)
— winch
LINK TO SELLERS:
Recommended 21st century garage…bare wire garage punk stomp from California …clean as an ashtray at 2 AM in the backyard lot of some dive bar on the edge of town.
NYC garage stomp, the guy doing the lead vocals, the first of two sets, the sound coming from the South but with that East-Coast R&B swagger, taking cues from the best years of rock and roll: 1954 – 1963.
— winch (author of Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s and the two-part novel Junk Like That)
http://www.eight-track.com/Eight_Track_Publishing.php
http://www.amazon.com/Winch/e/B00MGBTVLU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1419746463&sr=8-1
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