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

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

SOLD

btw i sent those mixtape links to my mom and she LOVES them

i love the mississippi records i have, but wtf at "funnel of love" being on that first mixtape?! (which is totally in print and wanda is, last i checked, still alive and collecting royalties) i mean up until now i haven't had a ton of issues with their loosy goosy business model but that is kind of bullshit IMHO.

i know i shouldnt be that flipped out by it, but it just popped up on that girl sounds lost and found box so it isn't like it's a hard to find OOP gem or anything.

Ummm, are people really upset about what's on a 90 minute cassette tape, only for sale at one record shop, that costs THREE DOLLARS at the store (shhhhhhhh no one tell the people who spent $80 apiece or whatever on eBay)???

It really matters whether that song is out of print or not?

well yeah, it kind of does. also, kind of an invitation for an illegal distribution lawsuit from dudes that seem to be smarter than that to me.

i mean, why the fuck pick one of the only wanda jackson songs to get a recent high profile re-release? it just seems like really poor judgement to me. (admittedly, this would be less problematic without ebay auctions and blog downloads making it way more visible than it just sitting on the counter in a store somewhere).

i mean, i'm with you sorta, JJ, but it doesn't seem like that big a deal

besides my mom loves wanda jackson, and is digging the mixtapes, which means maybe i can trick her into taking me out to dinner or something

i am in favor of you getting free dinner, FWIW. (btw mr gbx, i have "life is a problem" and "i dont feel at home in this world anymore" if you want to hear them some time.)

Coming Soon:
Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie
Abner Jay - True Story
Bishop Perry Tillis
Rats - Intermittent Signals

the abner jay sleeve is BONKERS

abner jay is bonkers. his intros are like a badmouthed bo diddley. is it a social music thing?

those four look great (& where'd you see the sleeve, 69?).

ps attention ian, i am totally going to cave and hit up other for new mississippi unless you toast the new fruits of your store here asap

i just googled -- not sure what is social music, what is change records, etc etc
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/aleit/IMG_2087.jpg

Rats - Intermittent Signals

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

yeah i hear thats the best of the three!

abner jay is not social music, nope -- but it is great, and will come with a 7"! i think the cover might be a little different, and the decision was made actually to not have any intros; my understanding is the intent is to showcase how great his music is as he's often miscast as a sort of novelty act.

i personally love the dixie cup joke intros -- "what do you give a elephant with diarrhea?" "plenty of rooooom!" etc. -- but i understand that decision and it's gonna be a great one. really hard to find any abner jay albums, though my least favorite, the stephen foster one, is not so hard to come by.

are these feb releases, mike?

yeah, i think so! i believe they'll all be back in 2-3 weeks.

next 2-3 social musics out by end of march, it looks like -- probably june brides, jamaican gospel, and either straight str. group or liap pt. 3...

i'm still waiting on lipi kodi/love is love pt 3. it's been forever. mississippi records doesn't care about black people. is LIAP 3 like future-gospel or something?

i wanted to play i'm so depressed by abner jay out somewhere soon and was dithering over cutting out the intro ... i can see where they're coming from.

liap 3 is... well we'll see. there is some debate at the moment as to what exactly will wind up on there but i think it'll be pretty good.

i wouldn't hold my breath for any more african comp.'s -- just track down the original bootlegs of the stuff, john storm roberts's african comp.s on original music. man those are soooo good.