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

this three-week lag between new sets of releases is INFURIATING

where is your record shop ian?

some of my favourite junior stuff's totally different from the elasticated blues stuff. would love to hear him playing alone a little more, what's it like?

saw mississippi alumni tara jane o'neil play a couple of nights ago with a guy playing the abner jay record between sets: made me wish i had that lone seven inch that came out.

ELASTICATED?

our store is in brooklyn. it is not really mine, i don't own it.

which one in brooklyn?

Academy Record Annex, 96 North 6th Street, Williamsburg. Near the Bedford avenue L train stop.
www.academyannex.com

what is a "tip-on" sleeve and why is it worth mentioning in every album description?

it means oldstyle heavy cardboard.

schlump was that the Fontanelle gallery show?

i always thought tip on meant the effect of having been stickered, so was totally disappointed when abner/fight on came in JUST PLAIN OL HEAVY BOARD. looking forward to perry tillis.

- ELASTICATED?

elasticated is 1000% the correct word to describe junior kimbrough/tav falco style electrified blues guitar wriggling.

- Fontanelle gallery show?

ahh, i don't think so; is that one of the ones she's just played? this was market hotel ny. have seen her a bunch of times lately; it was nice. first play of the new record seemed kinda underwhelming but i think it's nice now, hazy and sleepy, like a bleary eyed morning or nighttime record. have you just caught her somewhere?

Yeah. Portland show a few nights back. Nice.

Academy Record Annex, 96 North 6th Street, Williamsburg. Near the Bedford avenue L train stop.
www.academyannex.com

― ian, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 7:15 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

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Best record shop in the NY area, methinks! One that helped me greatly directly/ indirectly in compiling the new YETI CD too, so -- yay!

I'm finally readying a handful of proper SOCIAL MUSIC releases, by the way -- one of them will just be 200 copies, others in runs of between 300 and a thousand. Miss. Records will be distro'ing. Man, everything takes longer than you think it will!

Also, I just finished my first draft of the Tompkins Square CD box set all in the vein of LIFE IS A PROBLEM -- as it stands it's 4 hours, 3 CDs, 80 songs. We'll see hwo it goes after we finish with licensing, clearing, etc. everything. It'll still probably be called FIRE IN MY BONES.

stoked

That Irma Thomas one mentioned way upthread is great and I still like her live. Just saw her in DC outdoors at a free fest.

I have Last Kind Words LP now it is great

The Anglin Brothers

this should be a postcard

Cecil Barfield?

Is he the king of "mush-mouth country blues"? And is the Mississippi release available?

The MS release is available, and he is certainly the king of post-war mush-mouth country blues.

i picked it up a couple of days back but haven't listened yet. also the drawing on the front looks a little too much like a police sketch. i haven't played perry tillis much since buying it so am a little curious to see how this holds up. i wonder if there are any more comps on the way?

ian n@goski's first MS project, STRING OF PEARLS, a comp of international 78's, is coming next week!

that's awesome-

i dug up some info-
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=158524239&blogId=485860193

and this great discography which really makes me wish i was keeping up with the tapes. can't wait for string of pearls-

also: how is the spooky dance band record from way back?

just got "don't feel at home in this world", which is fantastic, and was excited to see caresser's "edward the viii" -- one of my favorite calypso songs. folks who like should check-out rounder's "roosevelt in trinidad" comp. it also includes a bunch of the songs that van dyke parks covered on discover america (originals kill vdp's versions) and the great "m.c.c vs west indies" which is essentially the play by play of a cricket match.

what ever happened to that string of pearls thing -- i can't find it anywhere. and what about the 'Mortika: Music of the Greek Underworld " thing?

String of Pearls was delayed, but my shop got our copies in this week so it should be more widely available soon...

(Am, if you can't find it locally & want to order a copy from us e-mail academymailor✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧; i forget the exact price, but pretty cheap.)

uh, make that-- academymailorder at gmail dot com

hmm, maybe i'll do that -- my local record shop has a bad track record with getting stuff special order. do you guys have a catalogue online so i can order other stuff?

we have a very badly organized (blame the blogging software) catalog at academyannex.com.

also you could e-mail me directly if you want. we have a bunch of old stock of County Records stuff that's not on the interwebz that you might be interested in--fiddle stuff mostly.

i'm visiting the store in a few days which i'm super psyched about, but THIS is even better

yeah sheesh i saw that. pretty amazing stuff tbh!!

the guy is wearing a hat. it is like the labcoat of graphic packaging enterprises.

made my second visit of the year to the store. so great. thanks for that link.

there's a couple of punk reissues out with the new comp too i believe. i wanna load up on tapes!

that String of Pearls comp looks good -- anyone heard it?

yeah it's fantastic, and unlike most of the previous MS releases it contains a really informative insert.

also really like the Mata La Pena comp of course.
And excited for the forthcoming Hurley "Parsnip Snips" reish.

All I can listen to lately are my Hurley records and I NEED MORE!!!
Will keep my eyes peeled for this reissue you are speaking of.

trip maker did you get the last one? "Ancestral Swamp"? It's really great.

We have it at the community radio station, I believe. I think. I hope? Well, shouldn't be hard to get if not. I'm a total believer in Hurley now.

the one w/ ida isn't so great, i think. i also think the down in dublin album is sort of dull. but otherwise you can't go wrong w/ hurley.

what's up next for mississip' anyway?

i think the new one with Ida is great!

I think the next project from MS is a double LP box set of rebetikos.

there's a new shelley stone lp just out ... more hurley i thought?, maybe. mata la pena is rad (sisters yodelling especially) so more trad stuff would be nice.

doesn't really belong here but in the cluster of mississippi related/distro'd labels, etc: whatever the name of the new release on domino is, mainly instrumental organ drum and vocal chanting tracks - is giving me a lot of pleasure

I missed out on Mata La Pena

really loving the Dog Faced Hermans LPs these days.

haven't heard the Snock Con Ida but I think it is on hold at the record store for me.

hurley/ida isn't mississippi, no?