NASHVILLE, TN Jack White’s Third Man Records to release the complete life-works of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and The Mississippi Sheiks on vinyl in chronological order. Now here are the final, the 4th installments. (The last works of Mississippi Sheiks will be released on two 12″ vinyl.) These performers were enormously popular in their time.

Charley Patton (1891-1938), the most influential delta blues guitarist was such a big star that he did’nt wander all over the Mississippi Delta in contrast with fellows. He performed on pre-organized shows only. He drove the public crazy with his playing and tricks.

with his wife, Bertha Lee (1902-75)

Poor Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959) lost his eyesight in his childhood. Soon after lost his father, then his mother, so went whither he could. Wandered in Georgia with his 12 strings guitar. His records were frequently released between 1927 and 35, but under different names because he signed exclusive contracts with concurrent labels… It was a generally established custom in that time. After his record of 1949 he became itinerant musician again. In 1956 a record shop owner recognized him at a corner in Atlanta. The man lured him to his shop with a bottle of corn whiskey. During some shows his last tracks were recorded there.

The Mississippi Sheiks trio had records between 1930-36. Everybody knows his greatest hit: Sitting On The Top Of The World. One of them, Bo Carter made a solo career with such unambiguous, expressive songs as Please Warm My Wiener!

Their songs were played and covered by rich and poor,
but the original performers lost behind the covers. They are.

The Great Delta Blues Broadcast on RNR666 Radio

The Gories were an influential garage rock trio between 1986 and 92 in Detroit. In the beginning the members hadn’t any musical experience except Mick Collins, and they had to teach themselves how to play a very primitive rhythm & blues and 60s proto-punk influenced garage rock. Later Collins (guitar) has founded The Dirtbombs, Dan Kroha (guitar) founded the Demolition Doll Rods. And now here is a song, recorded at a house party in 1988

The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 – LP by Third Man Records. There are some covers: John Lee Hooker, the Stooges etc.

The Gories are reunited since 2009, so they’re an influential garage rock band again.

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„We had our first band practice on a Saturday in 2009 and then played our first show on a Thursday near after. We’re a grunge band, must be.” OK, I don’t argue about it. They are from New Zealand

T54 – In Brush Park LP by Flying Nun

After his second album Seasick Steve won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act in UK in 2007. Then he made an all sold out UK tour, included performances at the Royal Albert Hall, The Edinburgh Queens Hall, the Grand Opera House in Belfast or the London Hammersmith Apollo. He was 66 at the time of breakthrough.

Before the success he was an itinerant street musician in France and Scandinavia. His first album, entitled Cheap, was released in Norway in 2001. He arrived to Europe from USA, where he was born in 1941. At 8 he learned to play the guitar from K.C. Douglas, who worked at his grandfather’s garage. K.C. was influenced by the great delta blues musician, Tommy Johnson. K.C. had a big hit in 1949, the Mercury Boogie. It was later renamed to Mercury Blues

Seasick Steve would be a hobo, travelled by freight trains sure, and worked as a seasonal farm worker, but sometimes joined various travelling shows. In the 1960s he started touring and performing with fellow blues musicians. Then he worked as session musician, studio engineer and producer for lil independent labels around Seattle in the 90s…

Some fellow musicians of his new album: John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin, bass, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, organ), Jack White (White Stripes) and Luther Dickinson (Black Crows, guitar)…

Hubcap Music LP by Third Man (USA) & Fiction (UK, Europe)

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Max and Mara. Max has been a part of various projects, most notably Brotman and Short, his current solo work as Business Etiquette. Mara is known as Group Rhoda. „We love drum machines, waves, echo and space. Who doesn’t?”

Less Ness LP by Dark Entries

A garage rock specialist, Reverend Beat-Man about the Spanish Way y Los Arrrghs!!!:  „totaly out of control, Way y los Arrrghs Plays the 60’s Garage Punk as Autentic as it’s get but it’s still new wild overdrived Fuzzed Out. I Send them to CIRCOPEROTTI studios in Gijon (…) the Egeneer was Caling me up and sed.. what the fuck they just came and using a hell a lot of Drogs and they don’t have any lyrict.. they are totally Punks… a view days later he called me up again and sed: BEAT-MAN THIS IS THE BEST SPANISH GARAGE PUNK BAND OF ALL TIME !! the lyrics are ultra funny and fucked up !!!!”

Todo Roto LP by Slovenly

You can listen to the previous album here     Free download: Live at WFMU in 2009

S/W Euro Tour from Spain to Belgium and back in October

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The vinyl and analog maniac Jack White has built a „live records direct-to-acetate” system. There are no overdubs, no post-editing, there is only an engineer, who mix it in real time. Watch! & listen to a track from Melvins – Live At Third Man Records LP

Hey, there are two drummers in the band!

NASHVILLE, TN Jack White’s Third Man Records to release the complete life-works of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and The Mississippi Sheiks on vinyl in chronological order. These performers were enormously popular in their time, but their songs are almost unlistenable for the ears of today.

Charley Patton (1891-1938), the most influential delta blues guitarist was such a big star that he didn’t wander all over the Mississippi Delta in contrast with fellows. He performed on pre-organized shows only. He drove the public crazy with his playing and tricks. Lot of his songs were recorded between 1929-30 and 1934.

Poor Blind Willie McTell (1898-1959) lost his eyesight in his childhood. Soon after lost his father, then his mother, so went whither he could. Wandered in Georgia with his 12 strings guitar. His records were frequently released between 1927 and 35, but under different names because he signed contracts with concurrent labels under different names. (It was a generally established custom in that time.) After his record of 1949 he became itinerant musician again. In 1956 a record shop owner recognized him at a corner in Atlanta. The man lured him to his shop with a bottle of corn whiskey. During some shows his last tracks were recorded there.

The Mississippi Sheiks trio had records between 1930-36. Everybody knows his greatest hit: Sitting On The Top Of The World. One of them, Bo Carter made a solo carrier with such unambiguous, expressive songs as Please Warm My Wiener!

Their songs were played and covered by rich and poor,
but the original performers lost behind the covers. They are.

The third items of series are coming soon.

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“If I ever try to play anyone your music they just assume I’m on drugs for wanting to listen to it. “

Cough Cool – 29 LP by Bathetic

You can find 2 free download albums here

 
Pokey LaFarge is a talented musician, songwriter and bandleader from the Mid-West. He and his band play a wonderful mix of early jazz, string ragtime, country, blues and western swing.

Central Time. LP  by Third Man Records

You can listen more LaFarge songs here

„The Underwear Heads were long-rumored to have been a made-up band. Evidence of their existence over the past 30 plus years had been reliant upon a picture sleeve for a single that never came with a record. The legend of the U-Heads extended far-and-wide as „the sleeve without a record.” Truth of the matter is that vinyl was pressed for the release, but due to a manufacturing error all copies were defective and were unceremoniously sent to the garbage dump while some sleeves managed to slip out into the wild.” (…) John instantly claimed he’d not heard someone utter the band’s name since 1983. (…) an early-generation master was located in Australia and the world is finally privileged to hear the Tangmania EP.” Six self-recorded songs from 1980 on 7” by Third Man Records

Tangin

The RockFire Funk Express was formed by three afro-Americans brothers in Detroit. In 1973 they recorded two songs for a single. The release day is today. Because of the band changed name and style by influence of an Alice Cooper show. The new style is called proto-punk today (yes, they were the pre-Bad Brains) and the new name would be Death. The Columbia Records president Clive Davis implored the band to change its name, but they refused. So their first album (recorded in 1974) released in 2009. Their only one single was self-released before the next style and name change which was in 1977. The Death transformed into a gospel-rock band: 4th Movement. (The Bad Brains was founded in same year.) Then they transformed into a reggae band. The Death has become famous in 2009. The doc film is very coming soon

and the second album is on the way. But there is a new guitarist because one of them died in 2002. And then RockFire Funk Express before Death:

People Save the World, 7″ by Third Man

By the way, their story has begun 9.2.1964. On that day the Hackney brothers were sat down by their father to witness The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The following day David found a discarded guitar in an alley…

p.s.: Bobby Hackney’s three sons play garage rock in the Rough Francis