SOMETIMES

DO THE RIGHT THING

BOOGIE SHOES

Alex Chilton -Like Flies on Sherbert Session from Greg Spradlin on Vimeo.

DANCING IN THE RAIN

FUCK WALKING

Scoot on the wild side.

SHINDIG!

COOL WAVE

Aunt Sally, ca. late 70's



Malaria! ca. early 80's

MORE ASKEW

After we posted that mysterious Ed Askew track, Ed himself got in touch to explain that the song was titled "Boy in a Hat" from a home recording session from 1984 called Imperfiction. Turns out Ed has quite a few unreleased recordings, some of which, Imperfiction included, may indeed see proper release. Until that happens, he's kindly offered to share a tune called "Mr. Dream," taken from an early 70's radio performance. Listen below.

MORNING DEW

Written by 21-year old Canadian folkie Bonnie Dobson in 1962, "Morning Dew" was apparently inspired by the film version of Nevil Shute's apocalypse drama "On The Beach." Fred Neil released an appropriately austere version in 1964, followed by Tim Rose's drastic psych-rock/blue-eyed soul arrangment in 1966. From there, "Morning Dew" became kind of rock standard, with versions submitted by everyone from Lee Hazelwood to the Grateful Dead to Nazareth and Devo

Bonnie Dobson's 1962 original:



Fred Neil and Vince Martin:



Tim Rose's definitive 1966 version:



Lee Hazelwood:



Devo:

SHE OWNS THIS

From the T.A.M.I. Show, ca. 1964.

MISSISSIPPI RECORDS: FIHAVANA

Recorded by Charlie Brooks in the late 1990's and pressed in a 3-LP edition of 200. Apparently, he kept them under his bed until a chance meeting with the Mississippi Records guys, who agreed to distribute 160 copies for Record Store Day. Mississippi plans to press a single-LP version of this release; it should be available from our friend Adam next week.

Sides 1 and 2. Vocals
Sides 3, 4, 5, and 6. Marovany, Misc. Instrumentals

THE FLYING LIZARDS

Download here.

LOOK AT EVERYBODY'S FACES

From the 1994 film Wildwood, N.J.

MASHUP

FEELS LIKE SUMMER

ED ASKEW

Our friends at Monsters & Dust posted this mysterious Ed Askew song a while back. Little is known about Askew; he's from Connecticut, bummed around the NY folk scene in the late 60's, played a 10-string Martin tiple, and recorded two LPs for the legendary ESP-Disk label (only one of which saw proper release). Anyway, here's the song. If anyone out there's got any info (the title would be a great place to start), we'd love to have it.


Download it here.

JIM LO SCALZO: GHOSTS IN THE HOLLOW

A video/photo essay chronicling the dead mining towns of Appalachia by Jim Lo Scalzo.

SHAKE SUGAREE: ELIZABETH COTTEN

RIP: ALEX CHILTON

BAPTIZED: THE CLEFS OF CALVARY

Save Me, 1962


It's Religion, 1963