LP $25.45
01/01/2001
***Nine raw and honest tracks from the late rural Mississippi bluesman Payton. Upbeat and accessible songs sung with a voice that swings from James Brown soul to Solomon Burke R&B and back to classic Delta blues. Recorded live at Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint and features the drumming of SAM CARR of the JELLY ROLL KINGS. Payton was born April 12, 1937 and died on May 19, 1997. He lived in a shotgun shack with no phone and no a/c, and whenever the fields were dry enough for tractor tires, he was working in them.
LP $26.95
06/22/1999
CD $12.75
06/22/1999
***BACK IN STOCK!!! R.L. Burnside's album Too Bad Jim is a record worth owning. “I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head.
LP $26.95
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CD $14.25
09/23/1997
***BACK IN STOCK!!! "...we went into the backwoods of the Delta, where there was an illegal Sunday Juke Joint run by Junior Kimbrough, who was a contemporary of Muddy Waters...The whole thing was extraordinary - like an IV introduction to the blues." - Bono (of U2)
LP $26.95
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CD $14.25
08/20/1998
***BACK IN STOCK ON BLACK VINYL!!! UMO was initially conceived by New Zealand native, Ruban, to release some tracks via a Bandcamp page to promote his limited addition vinyl in 2010. He pieced a band together, with a skilled producer, Jake, on bass and a brilliant teenage drummer named Julian to fill out the band. They are based in Portland.
LP $26.95
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A reissue of the infamous late Kimbrough's second album. Raw rocked, and laid bare blues recorded at Junior's juke joint and produced by Robert Palmer.
LP $26.95
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***A stunning 100-plus-page book of photographs of the musicians on the Fat Possum roster—R.L. BURNSIDE, JUNIOR KIMBROUGH, T-MODEL FORD, SOLOMON BURKE, etc.—much of it beautifully shot by award-winning shutterbug DAVID RACCUGLIA. Packaged with JOE SACCO's classic story "The Rude Blues" presented as a stand-alone comic book (first printed in Details Magazine), and a double-CD—the first disc is a seven-track collection of new remixes and unreleased tracks from R.L. BURNSIDE, the second features an hour of tunes taken from the label's deep catalog. Hard bound and released in a limited edition of 4,500 copies. Beautiful, and worth every penny.
BK W/2XCD $24.25
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***When I’m Called is Jake Xerxes Fussell’s richest work to date, a slate of warm instrumental textures abetting his glowing guitar and weathered baritone. It sees him returning to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. When I’m Called is produced by James Elkington, mixed by Tucker Martine, and features contributions from Elkington (guitar, piano, dobro, synth, organ, pedal steel, mandola, harmonica, arrangements), Blake Mills (guitar), Joan Shelley (vocals), Ben Whiteley (bass), Joe Westerlund (drums, percussion), Robin Holcomb (vocals), Anna Jacobson (horns), Jean Cook (strings), and Hunter Diamond (woodwinds).
LP $28.85
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