Very rare compilation released by London Records (catalog # SES 97015) of regional blues artists appearing at the festival.  This copy is a promo/demo and is in good shape. Tracklist: SIDE ONE 1. Judge Boyshoy Blues – Furry Lewis 2. John Henry – Furry Lewis 3. Hoist Your Window And Let Your Curtain Down – Joe Callicott 4. On My Last Go Round – Joe Callicott 5. Right... read more

Very nice copy of this 1969 blues gem.  Released by Capitol – catalog # ST-409.  Gritty and raw, this is McDowell’s first “electric” album. Tracklist: SIDE ONE 1. Baby Please Don’t Go 2. Good Morning Little School Girl 3. Kokomo Me Baby 4. That’s All Right Baby 5. Red Cross Store SIDE TWO 1. Everybody’s Down On Me 2. 61 Highway 3. Glory... read more

Ultra-rare Dylan bootleg on vinyl.  Issued in 1970 by Black Cloud Productions.  The double album features a combination of live tracks, outtakes, B-sides, rare studio sessions, etc. Tracklist: SIDE ONE 1. Wade In The Water 2. Cocaine 3. John Birch Society Blues 4. Who Killed Davey Moore 5. The Eternal Circle 6. He’s Only A Hobo 7. Door 103 8. I’m Ready SIDE TWO 1. I’ll... read more

A best of DVD compilation from years 2 and 3 of the Makeshift Music co-produced concert/festival benefiting the Church Health Center.  The film features exclusive live performances from Snowglobe, The Magic Kids, John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives, River City Tanlines, Antenna Shoes, Al Kapone, Lord T and Eloise, The Coach and Four, J.D. Reager, Two Way Radio, Jason Freeman, Jeffrey... read more

SEALED copy of the extremely hard-to-find Jim Dickinson-produced compilation of Memphis music and artists.  Featuring rare cuts from Alex Chilton (Big Star, Box Tops), Mud Boy & the Neutrons, Furry Lewis and more! Tracklist: SIDE ONE 1. Walkin’ Down Beale Street – Sid Selvidge 2. Hernando Horn – Fred Ford 3. Beale Street Blues – Grandma Dixie Davis 4. Big Fat... read more

The brand new album from Memphis’ favorite roots-pop chanteuse.  Features contributions from a host of well-known local musicians, including Dave Cousar, Paul Taylor, Rick Steff (Lucero), Nahshon Benford (Lucero, Snowglobe), and Jonathan Kirkscey (Mouserocket).  FOR A LIMITED TIME, ALL COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Tracklist: 1. Damn Love Song 2. You Can’t Keep Me 3. Red... read more

The sophomore release by Memphis’ own John Paul Keith.  Released on the Fat Possum subsidiary label Big Legal Mess. Tracklist: 1. Never Could Say No 2. You Devil You 3. Anyone Can Do It 4. Songs For Sale 5. Afraid To Look 6. The Man That Time Forgot 7. I Think I Fell In Love Today 8. Dry County 9. Somebody Ought To Write A Song About You 10. Bad Luck Baby 11. I Work At Night 12. The... read more

Rare full-band cuts from the great Tunica, MS-born blues harpist/one-man-band. This album is alternately known as “I’d Rather Be an Old Woman’s Baby Than a Young Woman’s Slave.”  LP is in the original shrinkwrap.  Released by Fortune Records # FS 3011. Tracklist 1. I’d Rather Be an Old Woman’s Baby Than a Young Woman’s Slave 2. Good Things Come to My Mind 3. Baby Stop... read more

Ten More Years: Shangri-la Records cd spans the time of 1989 through 1999, documenting the first ten years of naïve Shangri-la Projects madness. The collection features the greatest hits of the 1990s by bands as diverse as 611, the Grifters, the Simple Ones, Strapping Fieldhands, the Memphis Goons, Citizens’ Utilities, Doug Easley, and even the legendary Mr. Will Roy Sanders. A great... read more

All Music Guide sez: Lucero’s Nobody’s Darlings is the sound of the Replacements, 20 years later, a little more sober, and from Memphis instead of Minneapolis. In other words, the band’s occasional feints toward country music and electric blues come off with a lot more credibility and just as much enthusiasm. Just like the Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me,... read more

All Music Guide sez: 1372 Overton Park might be Lucero’s major-label debut, but the Memphis-based band retains all of their rough-and-tumble indie charms. Gruff-voiced frontman Ben Nichols still sings about people with dead-end lives: the type of characters whose “heroes are the losing kind.” But Nichols definitely finds ways to make these troubled souls... read more

The Memphis Flyer sez: A bit of a stop-gap product while waiting for LaVere’s full-length follow-up to the still-going-strong Anchors & Anvils, Died of Love is a five-song, 22-minute hodgepodge of an EP: two traditional songs, two covers, and a new version of the A&A standout “Washing Machine.” There are none of the songwriting surprises here that animated... read more

All Music Guide sez: The simple arrangements add to the album’s left-of-center appeal, with steel guitars, fiddles, and guitars whipping up a lazy mixture that falls somewhere between old rock and country with perhaps a touch of jazz thrown in. At one moment, LaVere and company cover Tex-Mex (“Overcome”), the next, funky rock (“People Get Mad”). Even on a fairly... read more

All Music Guide sez: Telecaster-wielding John Paul Keith has been rattling around the fringes of the roots rock arena since around 1994. He has racked up hundreds of smoking shows with a variety of outfits including the V-Roys, one of his earliest, with little to show for it. The Knoxville, TN based guitarist/vocalist moved operations to Memphis in 2005, took a few years to put together a... read more

All Music Guide sez: Every bluesman needs a catch phrase. Mississippi Fred McDowell’s was, “I do not play no rock & roll.” Well, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans isn’t strictly a blues guy, but it is one of the ingredients in his long-simmering musical stew (along with folk, country, bluegrass, and rock & roll). His catch phrase — at least for the purposes of this... read more