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

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?

yeah, it's not. it's on gnomonsong.

ah yeah i looked it up, excited to hear hog of the forsaken again. the rebetika box is up on forced exposure just so yalls know. & the shelley stone record came out real nice. mata la pena still spinning favourably in my house

illustrated & annotated discography

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/sounds/miss_records/

anybody seen a copy of that Madagascar box? I sure haven't. I did buy (another) copy of Hi Fi Snock Uptown though. Would love to have The Ex/Tom Cora on vinyl but I already have the CD...

The Madagascar box is not actually a box, it's three LPs in a heavy-plastic jacket... it's a long listen but there are some great moments. if i had a camera i'd take a picture for you.

Some scans (+ download) here: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=3163

those mississippi soul and rocksteady mixtapes are manna if you need to fix up your house or paint walls or put up drywall or something like that.

i'm really curious to see a tracklisting of the kinks ones.

fihavanaha thing was super rare, no? think it got some discussion in the rolling vinyl thread. i don't think i'll ever see one. i managed to wean myself offa buying these thinking that overstreet and clara weren't essential, and then i heard them and realised that yeah i'm going to have to buy them. the tapes just KEEP ON GIVING, too.

the Clara Rockmore is so outside of the usual Mississippi world, but it's SO BEAUTIFUL.

i hate to harp on this but while these guys have superb taste and i don't begrudge anyone for liking these LPs or buying them, almost all this stuff is otherwise easily available in more legit fashion.

maybe not the fihavanaha. i should have picked that up, but honestly i don't expect that i'd be listening to it much. the greek 2 lp thing is great though the graphic design of the box is horrid (looks like they used chicago font on a dot matrix printer or something, ugh).

i enjoy downloading their cassette mixes, some of them (like the "classical music for normal people" or whatever it is) are just astonishingly good.

to some degree I agree with you, but their reissues of Dog Faced Hermans and The Ex and The Rats and such (which probably aren't really your thing) are fully band-sanctioned, remastered, and not available anywhere else. Same with all the Michael Hurley records. So ymmv I guess.

also that rocksteady tape is solid gold

i think we all agreed to raise the legitimacy issue every six months and then beat each other into the ground with details of arcane licensing agreements and scholarly fall out from the orchestra regional de keyes lp, no?

the samba tape's my favourite; volume forty looks promising too. and they put out something with this poster recently: what's not to like. this stuff still makes up like 25% of what i listen to, and informs belated digressions into dead moon and other stuff afterwards.

the Clara Rockmore is so outside of the usual Mississippi world, but it's SO BEAUTIFUL.

yeah. i actually downloaded and let it play through once, having just heard kind of 'incidental theremin score music' whenever it had been on in the background; it sounds lovely. fortunately the single artist lps seem to last a little longer now, so i'll pick them up.

how do i shot the rocksteady tape?

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=1483

almost all this stuff is otherwise easily available in more legit fashion.

But yer not a format fetishist like a lot of the MS records devotees I assume. An original of that Fred McDowell record is expensive! And that Joseph Spence too! etc.

This might be as good as music gets.

hey ppl - what are yr fav missippi records tapes? i love the fuck out of these btw

Beautiful Dynamite
Samba Triste
Time Is Longer Than Rope
Everything Crash
In A Crowded Station

favorite:
http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mrc_12_cover.jpg

runners up:

http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mrc-003_cover.jpg
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mrc_vol5_cover_art1.jpg