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

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.

man, i haven't heard that abner jay, but i love "swaunee water and cocaine blues." it's true that he's often miscast as a novelty act by Irwin Chusid voyeur types, but the music is awesome. Way more exciting than most one-man-band acts imho.

anyway, we got the new MS records in yesterday. I was expecting something very different from Spiritual Singers, but it's great. and of course morning in may is too. that robert wilkins track is great. he's one of my favorite country blues guitarists, and his voice is so mellow. and "rope stretchin blues" is surely thee standout blind blake track.

Mike- do/will you have a web presence for Social Music? Through Yeti maybe?

Those of us who don't live in Portland anymore need to know! Keep up the good work-

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John Storm Roberts wrote his own album review on AMG. Gave himself 4 1/2 stars.

Sometime this year not only will YETI have a real website but I'll def. get a site together for the tape/CD-R and LPs I'm doing, yes. Just restarted the 'Buked blog today and I'm sure I'll mention goings-on there, as well.

I'm not in general a CD guy but I have to say right now I'm so psyched about this FIRE IN MY BONES 3 disc set I'm doing of raw/ weird/ blues/ lovely and strange gospel for Tompkins Square that I'm sure I mentioned upthread. Just so nice to have a large canvas like that!

And I checked your blog, which is great but FYI: In my mind, 'Fight On' is *not* a companion to 'LIAP' -- in that I came up with much of the material for LIAP where FIGHT ON was completely put together by Eric and Warren, the two owners of Mississippi. I like FIGHT ON a lot but if I were to try to come up with a predecessor to it I'd pick different songs. Then again, so much of that stuff is available, widely -- from dozens of Document discs to 'Am Primitive' and the Dust to Digital 'Babylon' set. This is why 'LIAP' was fairly novel, I think -- postwar gospel of that sort, stuff that carries on in the sanctified/ more raw type tradition, has not been collected as much. Or is not as well known, anyway.

I'll have to look for that JSR review, that's hilarious. I wish his book were better. Damn, he had a great label though. I want to do an indie rock reissue series that looks just like those covers...

Thanks for the info. I gathered you weren't really involved in Fight On... I'll make a note on the Blog.

Last time I was at Mississippi (three weeks ago), Eric mentioned that Warren may be putting together a mail-order operation for them. Do you know anything about the time-line/potential reality of this? Knowing Eric, it seems a little unlikely to me. At this point, I'm either getting records from the 'net or calling the shop on weekends and having Eric set aside any new releases so that my brother can come in, buy them, then mail them to me. A less circuitous endeavor would be welcome.

Ohh yeah I should get this info. out to everyone!

It's not a website just an old fashioned email list which will announce all Miss. releases and you'll be able to order them directly using Paypal as they come out. A def. step forward!!! I'll make sure I have the right email address then post it once this does get going -- I think it'll be starting real soon.

you dudes are insane! its been like 3-4 records a month for a while now!

The email list sounds cool -- I'd love to just subscribe to Mississipi Records ...

it'd be great if they had a postman, like one of those guys on bikes in bresson films who cycles around leaving loaves of bread in everyone's mailbox. the mississippi man is here! new records from the mississippi man!

"rope stretchin blues" is surely thee standout blind blake track.

― ian, Friday, January 30, 2009 6:01 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

this song is sooooooo good

twelve days with no new MS records??? this is horrible.

although one of the holes in my collection, the evolutionary jass band LP, just went for $57 yesterday on eebs. jeez.

^ let the hole remain

yeah?

downer-indie "jazz band" version of GSYBE!, if that floats yr. boat. mine sank.

you mean jackie-o motherfucker?

i like JOMF

oh i

oh

??? maybe i'm missing something here. get that jefrey & michael came from from the one band to the other.

only JOMF i really know = flat fixed, change and the magic fire music/wow! comp. all seem much wilder, weirder than EJB. plus more emotionally affecting when that's the intent, as on change

EJB have yet to approximate their unbelievable live performances on a record. They probably put on one of the best shows I've seen in the last five years at Halleluwah I, but I just can't get into the CD or tour LP (is that what's supposedly on MS? I had no idea).