Country 40s-70s / Bluegrass
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Gray Billy - Nowhere To Go (But Out Of My Mind) (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewYksi vuoden kovimmista julkaisuista. Suurin osa on alkuperäisensti julkaistu vain promonoina.
Previously unavailable on vinyl for more than 50 years, this rare collection of tracks presents a wealth of hits that helped define country music in the ‘60s – and beyond!
If you don’t remember Western Swing in its heyday, or the first generation of Texas Honky Tonk, you may not know Billy Gray. Aside from a select group of music aficionados and musicologists, Billy Gray’s name and significant contributions to country music and western swing have simply gone unrecognized for far too long.
Musically, there were many shades of Billy Gray. Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Performer, Arranger, Bandleader. Whether on stage or in the studio, Billy Gray personified what this music was – and still is – all about.
Billy played behind some of Country Music’s biggest names – Hank Thompson, Ray Price and Willie Nelson – served as Thompson’s and Price’s bandleader – and built quite a following in his own right with his own bands, The Western Okies, The Nuggets and The Cowtowners.
Billy Gray, together with the legendary Hank Thompson created a wealth of hits that helped to define the country music of an era, and beyond, helped launch the career of future rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson, and greatly influenced the future sound of country music.
— Joe Hopkins
Rarely heard tracks from the personification of country, western swing, and Texas honky-tonk!
Reissued on CD for the first time!
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Gray Billy - Nowhere To Go (But Out Of My Mind) (LP)
€33,00Quick ViewYksi vuoden kovimmista julkaisuista. Suurin osa on alkuperäisensti julkaistu vain promonoina.
Previously unavailable on vinyl for more than 50 years, this rare collection of tracks presents a wealth of hits that helped define country music in the ‘60s – and beyond!
If you don’t remember Western Swing in its heyday, or the first generation of Texas Honky Tonk, you may not know Billy Gray. Aside from a select group of music aficionados and musicologists, Billy Gray’s name and significant contributions to country music and western swing have simply gone unrecognized for far too long.
Musically, there were many shades of Billy Gray. Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Performer, Arranger, Bandleader. Whether on stage or in the studio, Billy Gray personified what this music was – and still is – all about.
Billy played behind some of Country Music’s biggest names – Hank Thompson, Ray Price and Willie Nelson – served as Thompson’s and Price’s bandleader – and built quite a following in his own right with his own bands, The Western Okies, The Nuggets and The Cowtowners.
Billy Gray, together with the legendary Hank Thompson created a wealth of hits that helped to define the country music of an era, and beyond, helped launch the career of future rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson, and greatly influenced the future sound of country music.
— Joe Hopkins
Rarely heard tracks from the personification of country, western swing, and Texas honky-tonk!
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Sir Douglas Quintet - Texas Tornado: Live From the Ash Grove Santa Monica 1971 (RSD) (LP)
€27,50Quick ViewThis previously-unreleased live set hasn’t ever been available and makes its debut on this vinyl release. Features The Sir Douglas Quintet hits ”She’s About a Mover” alongside the later ”Mendocino” with six more party starters. The band came out of the box swinging in 1965 with the international hit ”She’s About a Mover” fronted by Doug Sahm alongside Vox organ player Augie Meyers and a trio of talented musicians. They quickly established a fanbase in Texas before relocating their mix of regional Mexican conjunto and British Invasion flash to San Francisco. Touring frequently, the Quintet was in top form when they visited the legendary Los Angeles nightclub the Ash Grove in 1971 for this performance.
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Harris Emmylou - Stumble Into Grace (LP)
€35,00Quick ViewAvailable on vinyl for the first time. This edition is on bone white vinyl. Harris offers her second disc of original material and is joined by such guests as Linda Ronstadt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Gillian Welch, and Jane Siberry. Newsweekdeclares, ”Her stellar voice takes on new depth when tied to songs this personal. ”
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Blaze Foley - If I Could Only Fly / Let Me Ride in Your Big Cadillac (7 single/EP)
€25,00Quick ViewBack in 1979, Blaze Foley presented his first single. If I Could Only Fly / Let Me Ride Your Big Cadillac was released by short life label Zephyr Records and A side song became one of most loved songs from Blaze. The 7″ became a high collector’s item and Mapache Records brings for the first time a stand alone reissue of this legendary 45 r.p.m. record.
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Various - Hillbillies in Hell Omnibus – An Encyclopedic Compendium of Hades’ Greatest Hayseed Hits (LP)
€40,00Quick ViewDue to Faustian Demand… The Vaults of Hell open once again… This Diabolic collection assembles dusty favourites from the acclaimed and out-of-print Hillbillies In Hell series with previously unsighted subterranean jewels in an all-new Necrotic Experience. Witness this daemonic carousel of broken Nashville delights – Brazen Voodoo Rituals, Satanic Trysts, Apocalyptic Cataclysms, Premature Burials and Beastly Jousts. Sometimes grim, sometimes beautiful – this extraordinary anthology of knowns and unknowns, battered Opry legends, Hollyweird Prophets and forgotten backwoods-poets features tales of Battlefield Laments, Swamp Trash, Psychotic Aberrations, Windswept Revelations and Gospel Tribulations. Originally waxed in often penurious amounts, these Troubled Troubadours sing of Spectral Hamlets, Smothering Sociopaths, Mesmeric Voodoo Dolls, Fatal Hovels, Barbiturate Addictions and Rapturous Transmigrations. Years in the making – ’The Hillbillies In Hell Omnibus’ is your best travelling companion through the caverns of regret and the trails of temptation – a musty clutch of Luciferian Combats, Deathly Processions, Murderous Rampages, Mountain Messiahs, Drugged Delusions, the Creator’s Smite and God’s Blazing Light of Redemption. A dank crypt of marginal 45s – some of these sides are familiar, some are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your primal listening pleasure.
Limited to 666 copies
222 (randomly inserted) Redemption Red
222 (randomly inserted) ‘Night Of The Demon
122 (randomly inserted) ‘Necrosis’ Black
100 (www.scareflair.com exclusive) 7th Circle of Hell’ Private Member’s Edition -
Various - Now Sound of Nashville: Psychedelic Gestures In the Country Music Experience (1966-1973) (LP)
€40,00Quick ViewFrom the people who brought you Hillbillies In Hell… Sitars, Fuzz Guitars and LSD sugar cubes… a Lysergic collection of Forgotten Nashville. Hayseed Moog Hoedowns, Psyche Teen Meltdowns and Wild Weed Compounds. All cut on Music Row by serious Nashville players in comfortable suits. Eight Miles Higher than a Haystack – you’ll witness melting, Dali-esque cakes, Apocalyptic Flower Power driven by banjos and fiddles, Floating Bongo Lullabies and Crazed Nashville Knock-Off Ersatz Exploitations. Something was in the water… and Music City USA record executives were happy to drink it. Gongs crashed, mandolins soared and for a short time Nashville studios cranked out Arresting Angst-Ridden Backwoods Anthems, Reverberant Redneck Reincarnation Revelations and Acid-Laced Hillbilly Protest Folk. Some velvet morning… a long, long ago – Country Music met the Long-Haired Wastrels by the river and birthed these 16 Transcendent Hillbilly Nuggets. Years in the making – ’The Now Sound Of Nashville’ turns on, tunes in and drops out to that brief Ergot Reign when Pedal Steel met Psyche Out and the Hayseeds went Hallucinogenic. All for your therapeutic listening pleasure
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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 10 – Nine Pound Hammer (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewJATKOA! To this day black artists in C&W are still considered pretty much a novelty or an exception. The term Country Music was coined in the 1940s because the earlier term Hillbilly Music was deemed to be degrading. Many tracks here are classic C&W songs, a lot are great numbers that were released as R&B.
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Various - On The Honky Tonk Highway With Augie Meyers & The Texas Re-Cord Co. (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 26 tracks. Total playing time pprox.. 79 min.
For this CD, Bear Family Records® delves into the 1970s, when Texas country music, blues and redneck rock collided with West Coast hippie culture.
One of the essential protagonists: Augie Meyers from near San Antonio, Texas – musician, cult figure and label operator, who spiced the releases of his Texas Re-Cord Company (1975-’80) additionally with Tex-Mex Dance Hall Music and Western Swing Polkas.
More than 15 tracks for the first time on CD!
In total, Augie Meyers released some 30 singles and seven albums, and British music historian Martin Hawkins has selected 26 tracks of them.
This is the first time that a proper tribute to the achievements of Augie Meyers and the bands and musicians on his TRC label has been released.
Carefully transferred from the best possible sources and remastered for your listening pleasure, plus an extensive booklet with many illustrations and photos: a great little piece of Texas music history.In the 1970s era of country rock, the Texas Re-Cord Company stood out from the crowd. It was a time when country music and blues and redneck rock all collided with west-coast hippie-ness.
But the TRC was based in Bulverde near San Antonio, where Augie Meyers’ Western Head Band added a good dose of Tex-Mex dance hall music and western-swing polka to the mix. Meyers was, and is, a lanky, bearded, laid-back character with a waist-length pigtail and a reputation in San Antone music that’s longer even than that.
Meyers’ Texas Re-Cord label issued some thirty singles and seven albums between 1975 and 1980, and much of the music has not been reissued since. This 26 track CD puts that right. The Texas Re-Cord Co. is ‘finally in lights,’ to quote one of their LP titles.
Of the 26 tracks here, 17 are from rare 45 rpm singles and 9 are from albums. The tracks include:
*12 by Augie Meyers himself, honoring the country traditions of the Texas honky-tonks and the early western-swing bands but with added Mexican and polka influences. Augie’s featured here on vocals and variously on guitar, piano, accordion, and his Vox organ which defined the sound of hits like She’s About A Mover and Mendocino in the ’60s.
*3 from another Texas legend, Doug Sahm, the man who formed the very successful Sir Douglas Quintet with Augie before the Re-Cord Co. days, and then in the 1990s formed the Grammy-award winning Tex-Mex supergroup, the Texas Tornados, with Augie, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jimenez.
*3 fine vocals by Carol Meyer, who ran the label with Augie from their farm and helped co-ordinate their tour bus trips on the honky tonk highways out of San Antone.
*Other artists in this CD include the magnificently chaotic Mexican rockers El Molino with singer Joe Carrasco, ‘Wild Man’ Ray Liberto (Johnny Cash’s brother-in-law), the Mex-accordion star Domingo Saldivar, western-swing piano legend Al Stricklin, Augie’s longtime friend Publio Casillas, and singer Denny Ezba who first employed Augie in The Goldens.
*Among the company’s successes were Augie’s single High Texas Rider and his album ‘Live at the Longneck,’ a relaxed session in front of a very lively crowd at the San Antonio music venue part-owned by Augie.
*Standout songs here include Deed To Texas, Dynamite Woman, Baby Baby, Mezcal Road, Just Because, Meet Me In Seguin, and Down In Mexico.
*The rarest disc here is the first single made by the legendary Buckboard Boogie Boys – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Tomorrow Will Do It Again.
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Nelson Willie - Both Sides Now (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewCountry music fans, get ready for a treat with the first-time release of Willie Nelson’s ”Both Sides Now” on CD. This classic album, originally released in 1970, features timeless hits such as ”Both Sides Now” and ”I’m A Memory.” The album showcases Willie Nelson’s unique blend of country, folk, and pop, and his iconic, soulful voice. The album has been remastered for optimal listening pleasure and is a must-have for any Willie Nelson fan. The CD release also includes never-before-seen photographs and liner notes from the artist. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own a piece of music history.
