I am hurtling through those backwoods in the company of Jesco White and Hasil Adkins, heads lolling and spooling drool, when we hit a fork in the road. A box elder stump with a 7 ½ lb axe embedded straight through its heart. Spitting feathers. Entrails.Well. I just about piss myself when White hops upContinue reading “boone county feet | blisters and grass”
Category Archives: 1956
complimentary: spitting feathers
King K4089. Spitting feathers. In between wads of hardened yellow phlegm, that is. This morning I had to stop at the side of the road and cough into a pile of dead leaves. Like Johnny Pneumonic. Without a car for cover, one’s antisocial behaviour is alarmingly exposed. pneu•mo•nia |njuːˌməʊnɪə|nounlung inflammation caused by bacterial or viralContinue reading “complimentary: spitting feathers”
crumbs of comfort & illusion
The first LP. Recorded For EMI in London, 1956. Rock n’ Roll. Ravi Shankar: sitar; Chatar Lal: tabla; Pradjot Sen: tamboura. ▼ RAVI SHANKAR: RAGA SIMHENDRA MADHYAMAM from “Three Ragas” LP (World Pacific) 1956 (India)PURCHASE THREE RAGAS REMASTERED
rubber biscuit
josie 803. $100. Performed by Charles Johnson; Nathaniel Epps; Shedrick Lincoln; Samuel Strain Jr.; Paul Fulton. Written by Charles Johnson. Released in August 1956 on Josie Records. ▼ THE CHIPS: RUBBER BISCUIT from “Rubber Biscuit b/w Oh, My Darlin’” 45 (Josie) 1956 (US) CLASSIC 45s