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| | | tequila sunrise (usa) #ts 5006/5007 cd jack rose “dr. ragtime and his pals • self-titled” double compact disc set - miss may’s place (2:36)
- revolt (4:06)
- song for the owl (2:10)
- bells (2:13)
- knoxville blues (3:57)
- fishtown flower (2:51)
- dusty grass (4:44)
- soft steel piston (3:20)
- linden avenue stomp (3:28)
- blessed be the name of the lord (3:15)
- walkin’ blues (2:51)
- buckdancer’s choice (3:04)
- levee (3:07)
- revolt (2:57)
- st. louis blues (4:18)
- miss may's place (2:48)
- gage blues (3:53)
- spirits in the house (12:55)
- dark was the night (3:54)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "spirits in the house" |
| may 2008 release ; domestic, small-run tequila sunrisa version of the more globally marketed 2cd on beautiful happiness (infinitely nicer-looking / feeling, i should add ...) - contains a full-length collaborative disc, “dr. ragtime and his pals,” with guest-spots from glenn jones (sounding particularly sprightly), micah “blue” smaldone, and pelt’s mike gangloff & nathan bowles ... this is aided & abetted by the (let’s see ...) third reissue of the excellent “self-titled” jack-set (cd on archive, initially, followed by the same-looking vinyl lp on tequila sunrise here), of which i had this to say ::
november 2006 jack rose set - as jack sheds his fahey-worshipping skin, i find myself getting more and more amped about each subsequent release - first it was the change-ringing 7” on tequila sunrise and now this one; recorded davey graham style in someone’s house / in concert / at home in september 2006 (for the most part.)
this is prime material; jack herein working a slide/travis combo that’s ridiculously solid - his right right-hand timing is so on right now...although there are a few detours into more free-form styles (check the sound-sample of a piece delving into brij bhusan kabra territory - modal slide excursions over a tanpura-like tonal bed - at least at the end there) that make the record for me... |
extremely good deal for such a handsome package (both discs enveloped in a not-too-un-mego-like gatefold folio-dealie ...) - which isn’t to slight the music - some of my favorite work of jack’s together in a handy, reference-able tome ... highly recommended !!! |
| | tequila sunrise press release... |
| ts-5006/5007 jack rose - dr. ragtime and his pals/self-titled 2cd
domestic version of jack rose’s new full length, ‘dr. ragtime and his pals’, coupled with a reissue of last years ‘self-titled’ cd/lp housed in a custom designed and fabricated off-set printed card cover with j-card style obi. limited edition of 1000.
the appalachian trail runs 2175 miles south from mount katahdin in maine to springer mountain in georgia, though there are those who want to stretch it further, into alabama, because the mountains go there. why not extend it? trails are made for that. but there's another appalachian trail, too - one that goes through time, extending from unfinished studios in williamsburg, ny, winding down the grooves of ancient 78's to the 1920's or even earlier, past stephen foster's wet dream to a place beyond the compass of change.
if you're hiking on *that* trail, you're likely to run into a lot of post-grad parsifals with inscrutable hair and de-tuned banjos - these days, you can't swing a cat around without hitting one! but if you're lucky, you might stumble across a clearing somewhere south of lily dale, where revolutionists stop for orangeade and dr. ragtime hangs out with his pals. if you ask him politely, he might offer you a taste of his elixir - made from codeine, sarsaparilla, and goat-gland extract - guaranteed to restore memories that never were. and if you're quiet, he might let you stay and listen to the music: ethiopian novelties, characteristic marches and parlor favorites - bittersweet slices of methodist pie, familiar tunes, at least in those sections where the square dance has not yet been supplanted by the fox-trot.
and if you have a couple of dimes to rub together in your pocket, you'll want to purchase his newest, electrically-recorded phonograph recording, entitled "doctor ragtime and his pals." the doctor, who hitherto has recorded only on his own, is joined here by micah blue smaldone (who has been compared to both tiny tim and kierkegaard), glenn jones (of cul de sac, last seen around these parts urging college students to contemplate the prospect of their own death on a balmy september evening), michael gangloff (late of pelt and the black twig pickers), nathan bowles (also of the black twig pickers as well as the spiral joy band) and the mysterious harmonica dan (from pennsauken, new jersey by way of ethereal caminos).
this release is conjoined with a recording by jack rose, the mike morgan of the american minimalist neo-primitive sub-underground. this recording, entitled "jack rose" - previously available to the buying public only in severely limited forms - is here presented as a bonus to the consumer and perhaps as an act of folly for the producer.
-- charles fourier, tequila sunrise records |
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