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

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
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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

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??? 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).

oh i

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― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ

just got what was going on here

ha: listening to oh graveyard for the first time: i will never be able to listen to the sensational happy travelers theme without expecting a kevin nutt voiceover.

wow this spiritual singers record is pretty great.

any news on the mississippi e-mail list mentioned above?

'last kind words' just got reissued

abner jay LP is amazing & the michael hurley "armchair boogie" LP should be out v v soon.

which side of the 7" do you like better ian

oh sorry i did not respond to your msg last night
i think i like the uptempto kinda rockin one more, but i forget which one it is. depression?

me too i like that one better

um so does anyone have a decent rip of the spiritual singers lp? (i have the lp but would like to have it for portable use as well.) found one online but it's poor quality and all the songs cut off early.

got my armchair boogie today, and no comic book! wasnt there supposed to be one??

hoping armchair shows up in the next few days.
don't you have an original already pete? with a comic??

ok so they nixed the comic book for cost reasons

and yes yes i do have an orig w comic BRAGGIN

the reish looks awesome btw, with new michael hurley labels, and maybe a whole new painting for the back cover?

just got 'i woke up one morning in may'

haven't listened to it yet but the abner jay is really something, all the print outs etc. i have royally decided that it is way uncool for them to have taken the intros out, but that's based on over thinking rather than listening. i don't think regenerating his image or recontextualising him or whatever is worth the judgement call of actually bowdlerising what he created.

can't wait for armchair boogie anyhow.

"um so does anyone have a decent rip of the spiritual singers lp?"

Look in the Jan. archives here: http://bigstates.blogspot.com/

i think i like the abner jay LP about 25% as much as i like the 7"

xp thanks a lot! i'll check it out when i get home.

coming soon:
the rats -- intermittent signals
bishop perry tillis - in times like these

abner jay record is grand. i'd only heard his stuff patchily before but hearing vietnam etc on record makes me like it. i still want the seven inch (and missed out on that second portland seven inch way back, i guess forever: bummer) but haven't seen it anywhere.

i think this is michael hurley props rather than ms props, but armchair boogie's lovely. so nice having penguins to play whenever i please.