***"If there was ever an outsider folk record that truly had it all, here it is! This LP from 1974 is impossible to compare with any LP ever (!), but at the same time, can be compared to some of the most visionary folk LPs ever! Picture (if you can) a combination of early Bob Dylan, Skip Spence, the 1st Gordon Bok LP, TIm Buckley, Lou Reed, Peter Drudzien, Ernest Stoneman, Daniel Jonson, Richard & Mimi Farina, Chris Smither & Phil Ochs (!). But is a record all it's own, with unique & classic songs about loner strangeness, fishermen, other 'heady abstract stuff', Provincetown girls & (possibly) the best JFK tribute ever!. THE BEST JFK TRIBUTE EVER! (PLUS!) includes some wild trad songs and the amazing psych folk classic 'In Search of Something'! This was privately pressed in 1974, and unbelievably never reissued until now! This reissue includes a cool bonus track (the only song he wrote & recorded after recording the LP!) and an 8-page booklet with interviews, photos and excerpts from many of his different writings (he is now a well known author!), First pressing of 300 copies with hand-painted covers.
LP $23.95
02/02/2024
***JOSHUA BURKETT returns with a 40-page novella / handmade art book and accompanying CD (Gold Cosmos outtakes). Limited edition of 50 copies with handpainted covers. 'here it is... the full scoop on the creative / weirdo / life! the comings and goings of the artistic span / the dark & light... with strange drawings and the what/not... out now! It's the fiction / non-fiction / story of a certain Mr. Blackbird... straight from / to the antique mini- golf museum of your brain...
BK W/CD $23.50
05/27/2022
On his new album "If You Can't Wander The Waffle, Wonder In Drizzle," Joshua Burkett takes hushed conversations and quietens them further. Listening to it is like reading under a blanket by candlelight. Yet an eerie buzz and hum cloaks the album, a lonesome spirit that's never comfortable or comforting. Burkett is a pioneer of free folk alongside Tower Recordings, Dredd Foole, and Sunburned Hand Of The Man. This "New Weird America" haze from from the early millennium took its cues from the Lorca-era of Tim Buckley, Incredible String Band's playful-yet-uncanny acoustics, the guitar deconstruction of Sonic Youth and John Fahey, and other unclassifiable outsider musics. Free folk is still at the heart of Burkett's music (and he has been at it for more then twenty years) but "If You Can't Wander The Waffle" is stranger than he's ever been. The more you listen, the further away it bobs from you, jealously guarding it's secrets. Joshua Burkett's storytelling is rich, unique, oblique. It is psychedelic without all the technicolor trappings that word implies. It's myth, distortion, and mysticism. Originally released in impossibly small quantities as a CDR, the album has been reworked and mastered, and is now a limited edition LP in a first edition of 300 copies, all with numbered/hand-painted/ collaged covers.
LP $20.25
07/10/2020