The thread for discussing the amazing Life Is A Problem comp on MISSISSIPPI records

man, i want the tapes. maybe it's in response to the records having become so internationally lusted after.

the traveling echoes song on oh graveyard is beautiful!

i don't think it's made it to ny yet, but i used to hear the traveling echoes on sinner's crossroads: such a great, apposite group name.

the host of sinner's crossroads is credited (along with mike m) with "providing tracks and education"

still waiting on our box of graveyard :(

d'you know if you're getting the earth groove lp too?

we've got Earth grooveeeee. which we kinda were stupid for getting from Forced Exposure, but whatever. other stuff coming soon? come by soon, schlump

for sure. you can be my official PREFERRED RETAILER of msx stuff. i tried to see if you had the animal collective record a couple of nights ago but it was late + you were closed. if you wanna bump this thread when oh graveyard's in, i'll come pick up.

the host of sinner's crossroads is credited (along with mike m) with "providing tracks and education"

i have a big bag of post-it notes i used to scrawl things down on when i started listening to fmu, and i know there's a url on one for a site kevin nutt used to mention - it's raregospelsides.com or something, and was the source of bunches of stuff he used to play i think. will post it up if i can find it. it is an INSPIRATIONAL show and i am a DEVOTIONAL listener.

http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=840

This is only tangentially related to this thread, but recently I've been listening to the Rev Rice/Rev McGee LP on Eden records, which is a lot of really good material packaged in a sort-of lazy way. Thorough in one way, in that it cites all musicians & recording dates but doesn't provide any context or analysis in liner notes. This is an issue that amtst brought up on the more challenging ms records thread, and I don't take it as seriously as him, but I'm pretty much always of the sentiment that the more info the better. But anyway, that Rev. D.C. Rice & Rev. F.W. McGee record is really good.

I need --need-- a copy of the Eden Records comp "Early Country Gospel" (or something similar?) with lots of Two Gospel Keys material.

i think some of it's the register of the notes; fahey was mentioned in some light in the other thread, and his notes for american primitive strike a balance of being super informative but totally enthusiastic, ie on the rhythm track for 'woke up this morning with my mind on jesus'.

mississippi tape above is fantastic, by the way - great martin luther king lament, lovely quartet stuff, surprise lightnin hopkins blues. whether or not they surface in the same way, what are the others like?

fahey is far and away just a plain better writer than most of the folks who have written liner notes for the various 78 reissues of the seventies.

great great great mississippi tape....but what's the song between "Jericho" and "All Things Are Possible"?

in some cases with document releases (e.g. the lonnie farris thing) there just isn't very much info to go around!

but yes document is supremely lazy.

not as lazy as jsp can be; their "legends of the country blues" thing is actually a carbon (digital) copy of CDs from other labels (e.g. document's complete recordings of bukka white); pop in one of the CDs from that collection and itunes will think it is something else.

i guess "lazy" isn't the word for a label that aimed to (and nearly did) release the full brunt of af-am vernacular music pre-WWII on CD (and much country music besides). but they did cut corners with liner notes and mastering to achieve their goal. granted, their (nominal) market was different than mississippi's: they saw themselves as producing "reference copies" of historical material for libraries.

btw back when arhoolie was distributing document CDs (and before the file-sharing era), if you were at a radio station you could get any document CD for $9 and any arhoolie CD for $3. a fucking bonanza.

you can get any document LP that arhoolie still has kicking around for $5 apiece. the prices of their LP stock vary by number of copies remaining.

(that's how i got the aforementioned Rev. Rice/Rev. McGee record, as well as a nice Roosevelt Sykes comp, a few comps of obscure female blues singers, a Charlie McCoy LP etc.)

do you just email arhoolie or is it through the down home record store?

Crumb Bros killing me today

You can get a catalog by emailing them. It's not up to date, but I got some great stuff that way.

btw new yorkers we got the new MS comp in today. sleeve, send me a regular e-mail at dr.carl.sagan at gmail, i couldn't respond to your webmail.

i bought the ms comp a couple of weeks back and left it round someone's house. this serves me right for abandoning ilx championed retailers :/
i'm still in the state of mind where if i see them i assume they're about to sell out, but maybe this isn't the case anymore.

another tape here http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=897
popular soul music

thx ian!

i visited the shop in portland today - so great.

picked up the "i woke up one morning in may" comp and a few tapes - "cumbia discos fuentes", "ibi na bo 60 africa 70" and "chaabi music from al-maghrib". now i need to get a tape player!

what is that new comp? i dont have that one yet!

yeah woah what?
tapes sound enticing too.

oh wait look:
January 15, 2009 - The "I Woke Up One Morning In May" LP is the final release that I will receive from Mississippi Records before I close the distro. The folks over at Mississippi Records are going to start doing mail-order for their upcoming releases (starting with their next release which is due out in mid/late February). They will be setting up an email update list for mail-order customers. I will post more info as soon as they are ready to start compiling the email update list.

Sequel to our Last Kind Words compilation. All country blues
recorded between 1927-1934. Features favorites such as Memphis
Minnie， Lottie Kimbrough & Robert Wilkins. This slab also has a few of our favorite obscurities like Little Hat Jones and Louie Lasky. Fourteen
songs- All Classics!!! Full color beautiful cover in the stylish
Tip-On sleeve.

the lottie kimbrough side on last kind words is something else, the guitar playing.

The folks over at Mississippi Records are going to start doing mail-order for their upcoming releases (starting with their next release which is due out in mid/late February). They will be setting up an email update list for mail-order customers.

Thank God, about time, etc.

they could pretty much have my card details to do with as they please right now, like a subscription.

seems like the tapes are popping up online; i'm most curious about the really exotic ones (though like anyone could listen to funnel of love all day)

LOL: http://cgi.ebay.com/V-A-SET-OF-8-COMP-CASSETTES-ON-MISSISSIPPI-RECORDS_W0QQitemZ380097037349QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_Cassettes?hash=item380097037349

gimme a break

Cheap!

blame p***p and a***g!

spiritual singers LP out on forced exposure!

i didn't realise the spiritual singers was a mississippi release. it is super excellent (and a little bit insane).

well that sounds perfect

Tapes 1 + 2 here: http://bigstates.blogspot.com/2009/01/mississippi-records-cassette-series-vol.html

3+ 4: http://bigstates.blogspot.com/2009/01/mississippi-records-cassette-series-vol_22.html

Other stuff (lipa kodi, liap, spiritual singers, etc.) on the blog too.

http://bigstates.blogspot.com

downloaded the spiritual singers stuff - excellent! now i'm going to go buy the LP.

well, i'm going to go buy it when new jersey isn't covered in six inches of ice.

whoa spiritual singers LP is not what i expected! much more band-y than i expected...

i just wanted to mention that i have the comp listed in the title of this thread and it's outta sight

lookin forward to hearding more!

i just ordered Fight On, Yr Time Ain't Long cuz I couldn't find Life Is A Problem

have i made a mistake

xxp about spiritual singers -- also the guitars sound super-clean like the music i hear in salvadorean restaurants

i think life is a problem is better, but you wont be disappointed. fight on is so goddamn tight.

you'll be totally pleased i think, gbx. it's from a slightly earlier era than Life Is A Problem, but really nice.
(though honestly it might be my least favorite sleeve design they've done so far?)

another thought about the spiritual singers LP. i read the shaggs reference in the blurb on the internet, but its more like an african RAINCOATS to me

oh excellent

its more like an african RAINCOATS to me

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