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hirty years ago, in a little upstate New York town you’ve probably never heard of, a guitar player and his wife launched a DIY record label that would help change the way people interact with music history, helping to keep vinyl alive in the process. But the story of Sundazed Music isn’t stuck in the past tense. The label is still breathing fire today Surveying the Sundazed journey, founder Bob Irwin says, “We’re an independent label that has remained fiercely independent for 30 years, successful for 30 years, and profitable for 30 years. And I don’t know of many other labels that have done it.” In today’s musical landscape, simply surviving that long would be impressive enough. But by taking the lead in reissuing vintage sounds of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Sundazed changed the game and has never quit upping the ante. Irwin is a lifelong music obsessive from Coxsackie, NY who bought his first 45 (The Beatles’ “Nowhere Man”) at the age of six and started guitar lessons when he was seven. By the late ‘80s he was both the manager and head buyer of a chain of upstate New York record stores and a member of a country band called Rodeo Moon that was starting to stir things up. But both of those pursuits eventually took a back

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seat when Irwin answered the call of music from the past yearning to be heard again. When he started his record store gig in the ‘70s, the domestic reissue market literally didn’t exist. The musical past was a lost world. “If you wanted a Chuck Berry album or a Gene Vincent album,” he explains, “other than used copies, you were bringing them in through Jem or one of the other import distributors at the time.” So when Rhino Records launched, kickstarting the reissue scene in 1978, Irwin watched with keen eyes. Recognizing kindred spirits, he soon contacted them to claim fellowship and offer any assistance he could. Rhino’s Bob Cahill enlisted Irwin as a musical bloodhound, aiding in the hunt for lost master tapes. Ultimately, Rhino’s swift success started leading them in other directions. Cahill and Richard Foos told Irwin that it might be time for him to carry the flame of ‘60s music forward on his own. “That was literally the seed, the genesis of Sundazed,” Irwin remembers. “I knew there was a whole area of music that was now going to be untapped. Rhino was moving out of the area that I was most interested in. It left the playing field wide open for me.” Through his network of industry insiders, Irwin sniffed out original masters by ‘60s garage rockers The Knickerbockers — best known for their 1965 hit “Lies” — in a Nashville tape

vault and decided to make his move. In April of 1989, the Knickerbockers anthology 20 Classics became the inaugural release for Sundazed Music. Bob’s wife, Mary, stepped in to handle the business side of things, and the Irwins eventually dropped everything else to establish a cottage industry and throw themselves into the Sundazed mission. “I knew that our mantra from the beginning was going to be creating wonderfully historic releases,” recalls Bob, “and hopefully providing people with informative liner notes, great photos, etc. – but most importantly the releases had to be fun to listen to.” Though that first release was on CD, Irwin had vinyl on his mind from the start. “We launched the company just at the time that the major labels had started killing off vinyl,” he says, “and it left this whole area for potential vinyl reissues wide open. I wanted to make records. And we were quickly able to acquire many fantastic catalogs simply because it was becoming a discontinued format with most everyone else.” Irwin’s continued close-knit Rhino relationship played a crucial role in bringing classic artists’ catalogs on board. When Rhino acquired an artist’s discography in order to release a best-of, they’d offer him the individual albums to reissue. That’s how everything from

The Meters’ catalog, the Mitch Ryder catalog, to the solo albums of The Who’s John Entwistle wound up under the Sundazed banner. “I think, in some respects, Rhino enjoyed having me close to keep tabs on what we were up to,” laughs Irwin, possibly only half-joking. The label took off, as the reissue market that Rhino created and Sundazed helped perfect came to full flower, a whole new market was created, comprised of collectors hungry for psychedelia, surf music, garage rock, ‘60s pop, and other vintage delights. Seeing the value in music the majors had long since discarded, Irwin was like a kid in a candy store snapping up all the tantalizing treats he could grab. “We’d call up our friends at Warner Brothers,” he remembers, “and say, ‘Listen, can we have the whole Love catalog for vinyl? Can we have the MC5? The Stooges?!?’ They’d usually say, ‘Sure, take it, if you’re crazy enough to do it!’” Not only were they game to do it, with Irwin’s historical savvy and expert ear for mastering, they made it work. Bob’s mastering talents were acquired on the job, with much time spent in recording studios, and by combining a musician’s sensibilities with a fan’s respect. “I think that one of the most important parts of the art of mastering,” he ventures, “is knowing when to leave well enough alone. A great master tape is a great master tape.” Impressed by the Sundazed reissues of The Byrds’ catalog and others, Bob Dylan’s manager even came calling, offering Irwin the vinyl rights to the master troubadour’s catalog. For a very long chunk of time, the only way to get a new vinyl copy of a Dylan album was by becoming a Sundazed customer. “We knew what records were supposed to sound like,” says Irwin, “we were collectors first – we saw where other people were blowing it, and we always tried to do the right thing.” That combination of curatorial knowledge, sonic perfection, and an intimate understanding of the record obsessives community not only helped Sundazed build a loyal, ever-expanding audience, it inspired CBS (soon to become Sony Music) to come calling on Irwin as a producer on their own newly-formed reissue department, a role that kept him insanely busy for 20+ years while he continued growing Sundazed from Coxsackie. “There was a time when I was in Manhattan three days a week, running three studios simultaneously for Sony/Legacy,” he recalls. “What fun! No one does that in the reissue business anymore!” In his time with CBS/Sony/Legacy, Irwin produced and/or oversaw an astonishing 850+ releases for them (including the curation and catalog restoration for Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Sly & The Family Stone–just to name a few). Bob and Mary started wintering in Florida in the 2000s and thought about buying a second home there, from which they could

work remotely. But instead they ended up finding a home in the artistic haven of Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, bringing about another evolution for Sundazed. In 2009 they sold their Coxsackie home and became fulltime Tennesseans, with Bob building a mastering suite at home and eventually finding offices in the historic building that housed RCA Nashville’s legendary Studio A on Nashville’s famed Music Row. Jay Millar was already an important friend to Bob when the Irwins arrived in Nashville. At the time he was working at a Nashville pressing plant, following stints at labels like Universal, Polygram, and Sony. As soon as Bob learned that Millar was looking to expand his horizons he snapped him up. “That’s exactly how the Nashville branch of Sundazed was born,” explains Irwin. “I couldn’t think of a better or more talented person to bring into the fold.” The creative hub of their Nashville office was further solidified with the addition of the music & vinyl manufacturing

mind and passion of Brian Thompson. Around that time, Irwin Chusid, producer, DJ, and friend of Sundazed, was helping to straighten out the estate of avant-jazz legend Sun Ra and steered some of the late pioneer’s music to Irwin (Bob, that is). This provided the perfect opportunity to start a new subsidiary that would feature more exotic, avant, “out-there” releases and also give Irwin the opportunity to show Millar the ropes from scratch. “I was able to show Jay exactly how I approached things,” says Irwin. “Thankfully, he’s adopted that as his label-philosophy and company mandate: trusting your gut; always doing the right thing; content before concept. Have fun, explore, learn, make a little money, always be forthright.” So, the Modern Harmonic label was born. In addition to interstellar jazz, the imprint has played host to a broad range of left-field sounds, including outsider artists like Jerry Solomon, electro-psych mavericks Fifty Foot Hose, and the many fruits of a partnership with Something Weird Video. The latter has unleashed a bevy of B movie soundtracks, including the works of cult-hero film composer Nicholas Carras and much more. Irwin and Millar also decided to bring back the garage-psych oriented BeatRocket label he’d established in the ‘90s to spotlight bands like The Sonics. It’s all in the interest of

making it easier for larger audiences to navigate the Sundazed ecosystem. “If you see the Modern Harmonic label,” explains Millar, “we want people to think, ‘This is gonna be out there, this is gonna be some strange stuff.’ If it says BeatRocket…we want people to be able to see that logo and almost be able to picture what that album sounds like. We think there’s a lot to be said for that brand loyalty. We wanted to make it a little easier to identify what you have in your hands when you’re in the record store.” All throughout its history, Sundazed has led the collectors’ market rather than following it, drawing on deep knowledge to let music lovers know what they’ve been missing, rather than merely catering to their requests. Whether that means kicking off the Skip Spence revival with their 1999 reissue of the Moby Grape singer/guitarist’s cult classic Oar or anticipating the garage-rock renaissance with their 1998 reissue of the ‘60s gem Introducing The Sonics, the label is always leading the way to new discoveries. “To me,” reckons Millar, “Sundazed is both giving you the records you’ve always wanted but couldn’t find, and simultaneously telling you what records you don’t know, but you need.” “The thing that’s always made Sundazed work is passion,” he says. “We’re not just reaching for things because we think they can sell, we’re reaching for them because they’re good and need to be heard.” Irwin confirms his label’s prioritization of classic music over an easy buck. “Over the years, there were many opportunities to make stupid, quick money if we wanted,” he says, “ie: the guys that were selling ‘hair ballads’ on late night TV. That’s never been us. My brilliant wife Mary always ran the business end of Sundazed, and she always said to me, ‘There’s nothing wrong with making a little bit of money a lot of the time.’ And that’s pretty much how this company has always run.” And that’s how it will continue running, with no danger of coming up short anytime in the foreseeable future. “We keep feeding the imaginative-coal into the stove and keep coming up with great ideas,” says Irwin. “We’ve always attempted to be trendsetters. That remains true now; our future-ideas list is as tall as a tree.” These days Irwin has also come full circle by becoming a working guitarist again, with his instrumental quartet, Loco Vibrato. And he’s utilizing that massive record collection he’s been building since he was six by hosting two popular radio shows for WFMU: the weekly Big Planet Noise and the monthly Gin and Orange. But Sundazed is still at the center of his life. And while he’s not the type to do much of his own horn-tooting, after 30 years he’s justifiably proud of both Sundazed’s catalog and its credo. “We did everything to the best of our abilities,” he attests, “with knowledge and integrity all the way.” —Jim Allen

Established by Bob Irwin in 1998 as a vinyl only imprint within Sundazed, BeatRocket has become the savage garage rocking arm of the Sundazed Universe. Now offering most titles on CD as well, BeatRocket tends to stick to the rockers and barrages of angst about shady record execs, watersportspartaking fowl, Crisco parties, and more!

Afterglow

The Debutantes

From chiming folk-rock and the perfumed bliss of lite-psych, to extraterrestrial weirdness and down-to-earth pop, this Oregon quintet created a uniquely strange album with an afterglow that’s already lasted for over 50 years!

Jan McClellan and a rotating cast of Motor City kitties shattered hearts and glass ceilings from ’64 to ’69, busting out three sought after 45s and quietly putting to tape nine more recordings -- together forming the first-ever Debutantes LP! A raucous bundle of raw joy, including a blistering take on the Andre Williams penned “Shake A Tail Feather,” a Stones cut, and so much more!

The Five Americans Early Americans

Blue Cheer The ‘67 Demos

Their early swaggering garage material before these five Oklahoma kids blew the roof off the national charts when they moved to Dallas in 1966 and cut smashes like “I See The Light” and “Western Union” for Abnak.

Traded in dark circles for decades, these raw and rambunctious demos finally got the studio restoration they deserved! Blue Cheer’s primordial recordings display the thunderous power that conceived a genre. Pressed on colored vinyl as a single-sided LP to give you the unadulterated uninterrupted ’67 “in the moment” experience!

The Trashmen Surfin’ Bird

J. K. & Co. Suddenly One Summer

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BR 107 LP

BR 146 LP/CD

BR 148 LP

BR 126 LP

Hailing from the wintry heartland of Minneapolis, the Trashmen achieved cult immortality with a passel of landlocked surf anthems and reckless garage-rock gems, best exemplified by their immortal anthem “Surfin’ Bird.” But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the 1964 album that bears the song’s name!

Ethereal psychedelia - one of the best! Taking cues from the best of the late ‘60s rock scene, with a special nod to the Beatles, Suddenly One Summer is a mature work seemingly years beyond its young creator, 15 year-old Jay Kaye.

The Maze Armageddon

Mourning Reign Satisfaction Guaranteed

BR 138 LP

The advent of ear-splitting, cortex-skewering bands like the Maze really did signal the end of the sixties. But just like that ultimate orgasmic blast during the finale of a great fireworks show, what a perfect way to go. Recorded from September 1967 to March 1968 at Leo Kulka’s Golden State Recorders in San Francisco, this glittering psychedelic diamond is presented here in it’s previously unheard original MONO mix!

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Mourning Reign has been woefully underrepresented on wax-until this platter. We uncovered three powerful 1967 cover versions–the Who’s “Run, Run, Run,” Cream’s “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” and Love’s “Signed D.C.”–to complete a package combining the band’s first, ultra-rare Contour single “Evil-Hearted You”/”Get Out Of My Life, Woman” with all of the fuzz-drenched Golden State Recorders material, like “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Our Fate.”

Oscar & The Majestics

The Road Runners

Rare & Unissued Cuts ‘64-‘66

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The haunted fuzz and ghostly Farfisa of Fresno’s the Road Runners will turn what’s left of your brains to Malt-O-Meal. Results of secret marketing surveys assure us that this unreleased gem is running neck-andneck with the Watchband, the Standells and the Music Machine in the ‘66 Punk Hall Of Fame Marathon!

Blast off! Rescued from the energetic ether, this set of six largely unreleased tracks from Midwest mid-sixties garage heroes Oscar & the Majestics is loaded with heavy riffs, tasty guitar licks, pounding drums, and lots of fuzz. Included here is the hideously rare and ferocious take on a Kingsmen classic, an explosive adjustment to “Shake A Tail Feather,” and even more unearthed gems in Oscar & the Majestics oeuvre!

Ronny & the Daytonas G.T.O.

Southwest F.O.B. Smell Of Incense

BR 119 LP

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A melodic Texas psychedelia fave! Shining a multi-hued spotlight on the heavenly harmonies of Dan Seals and John Colley (soon to become the chart-topping duo of England Dan & John Ford Coley), Southwest F.O.B.’s lone album Smell Of Incense joins their angelic vocals to fuzzdrenched guitar and Farfisa organ.

Nashville-based sun & hot rod songs! Whoa dad! Smell that rubber burn!! When Ronny & The Daytonas cut “G.T.O.”, the all-time “turn it on, wind it up, blow it out” hot rod classic, and an album of similar nitro-burning 1964 scorchers, it was clear the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean had no monopoly on rubber-burning dragstrip rock.

The Shadows of Knight Alive In ‘65! BR 145 LP/CD

Step back while we loudly ’n proudly chronicle the mighty Shadows’ pre-Dunwich days with a newly discovered reel from 1965! It’s a live set recorded at the legendary Cellar teen club in Arlington Heights, IL showcasing our boys’ obvious influences; Stones, Kinks, Link & more...Aggressive performances, unseen photos & detailed liner notes all aid in unraveling the early-edition history of the Shadows of Knight’s wild, R&B-injected ride!

The Sir Douglas Quintet Is Back! BR 124 LP

More Tribe recordings from Huey Meaux’s studios! A 14-track compilation-stuffed with SDQ singles, B-sides and vintage ‘65-’66 Tribe Records material unissued at the time, this is the Sir Douglas Quintet album that never was. Both albums are a double-barreled loving tribute to the scintillating vocal style and songwriting talent of the late Doug Sahm.

The Best of The Sir Douglas Quintet BR 123 LP/CD

Tribe Records and San Antonio’s finest! The ultra-rare original album, with two bonus tracks - features the soulful vocals of Doug Sahm and the signature keyboards of Augie Meyers, and was produced for Tribe Records by Texas studio whiz Huey P. Meaux.

The Sonics Introducing The Sonics BR 114 LP/CD

This is the bar at which garage punk is measured. The Sonics–fronted by Gerry Roslie’s banshee vocals–blowtorched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorchedearth guitar sounds, they created a mind-numbing assortment of Sonics’ classics; find em here!

The Rockin’ Ramrods BR 151 LP

The perfect proto-punk blend of melody and aggression by The Rockin’ Ramrods put a stranglehold on the mid 60s Boston rock scene. This array of hip-shakers includes the iconic original “She Lied,” a thrilling cover of Little Richard’s “The Girl Can’t Help It,” four recently discovered gems making their vinyl debut, and even more sonic onslaughts!

Various Artists The Soma Records Story Vol. 1, 2 and 3 BR 111 LP • BR 112 LP • BR 113 LP

The Soma Record Company of Minneapolis caught the national spotlight by releasing hits from the likes of the Castaways and the Gestures. But “Liar Liar” and “Run, Run, Run” are just the tip of the iceberg. If you’ve always suspected that thousands of great singles from the ‘60s that you’ve yet to hear are lurking in the bushes, guess what? You’re right. Step into the dusty Soma vaults with us–brush aside those cobwebs, if you would–point your flashlight towards the strobe light flickering at the far end of the tunnel and keep walking. When the cool Fender ‘n Farfisa sounds finally grab you by the shirt collar, just keep telling yourself: “This isn’t a dream. It’s what I was born to do.”

NORTHWEST BATTLE OF THE BANDS Various Artists The Northwest Battle Of The Bands - Vol. 1 - Flash And Crash BR 128 LP

This platter–and a barrel of Crisco–is all you need to throw your own Northwest-style teen-dance party! After hitting big with the Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie,” Jerden Records unleashed a passel of Northwest pounders (over 125 records from ‘63-’66 including the original Battle Of The Bands LP), chronicling what might have been the hottest U.S. teen scene of the ‘60s!

Various Artists The Northwest Battle Of The Bands - Vol. 2 - Knock You Flat! BR 129 LP

With 16 more tracks from the Jerden Vaults, all in that inimitable savage, guitar-and-organ-driven ‘60s Northwest fuzz-punk style! In the grand tradition of Flash And Crash, Knock You Flat! features stellar fidelity from the original master tapes, ultra-rare photos, and liner notes by Northwest music expert Neal Skok.

Various Artists The Northwest Battle Of The Bands - Vol. 3 - I’m Walkin’ Babe! BR 135 LP

We dug up enough buried-but-still-screaming, Jerden NW Rock ‘N’ Roll for a third stomping volume, with six previously unissued crunchers! Includes returning champions the Sonics, Don & The Goodtimes, Raymarks, Live Five, Rocky & His Friends, and Heirs, plus new challengers the Ceptors, Tyme’s Children, Galaxies, Unusuals, and more! All mono...accept no substitutes!

Pacific Northwest Juke Box

Pacific Northwest Snuff Box

From the pandora’s box that is the Garland Records Pacific Northwest “Box” series, comes this 40 minute set of juke joint soul stompers! Deep rarities and unreleased sides from the Garland vault.

Deep in the dusty Garland Records vault comes a batch of barnyard stompers and Americana archaeological finds, some rare, most unissued!

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Pacific Northwest Stash Box BR 153 LP/CD

From the thriving hotbed of sixties garage and psychedelia of the PNW and Salem’s orphic Garland Records comes this potent cache of rare and previously unreleased recordings. Chiefly composed of moody and mellow folk rockers and ethereal groovers, there are also a few far-out, heady reconstructions of familiar faces.

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Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box BR 152 LP/CD

The drive’s cranked all the way up and the needle’s fully in the red for this set of garage-punk stompers from Salem’s enigmatic Garland Records. Loaded primarily with originals, plus distorted deviations of select known numbers, all ranging from impossibly rare to previously unreleased!

Founded in 1990 by the late, great Mike Vraney (1957-2014), Something Weird Video is one of the most beloved video labels on the planet, best known for releasing oddball and obscure exploitation classicks on home video that have left a permanent skidmark on popular culture and damaged more than a few genre film enthusiasts’ psyches. The influence of SWV can be seen everywhere—inspiring the work of filmmakers, artists, musicians, and retro trendsetters—to bands and deejays using random imagery and music from the massive catalog of vintage feature films and short subject compilations during performances and events. Even The Cramps and The Ramones recorded songs and named albums after some of the most sleazy movies in the SWV catalog. Acquiring, restoring, releasing films on home video, and running a small mail order company takes creative energy. Yet it seemed important to carve out some time to showcase and celebrate the music that fans have come to associate with SWV and its long legacy. — Lisa Petrucci (Something Weird Video)

Something Weird Spook Show Spectacular A-Go-Go MH-8205 LP+DVD/CD+DVD

Something Weird has exhumed a crypt full of classic Spook Show promos and radio spots monstrously mashed together with fiendish rare surf and garage rock instrumentals. Includes a delightfully deranged DVD featuring “Monsters Crash the Pajama Party” and more bone-chilling freakouts of fright! LP includes a zine style liner note insert!

It’s A Revolution Mother Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8077 LP+DVD

Freaked-out hippies & surly bikers! What happens when someone who sounds like your local newscaster frantically rifling through a slang dictionary narrates a documentary depicting hippie protest, life inside a motorcycle gang, and myriad more sights from the turbulent ‘60s scene? This does!

Something Weird Greatest Hits MH-8087 2LP/2CD

Take an auditory trip through a wacky world of oddball and obscure “classick” exploitation cinema soundtracks from the 1960s and early 1970s, presented by one of the most beloved genre film video companies of all time… Something Weird! Two LPs chock-full of oddities and earworms with great sets of liners and track by track factoids!

The Cyrkle The Minx - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8070 LP+DVD/CD

Plush ‘60s pop-psych soundtrack! The Cyrkle’s Minx soundtrack is laden with their trademark three-part harmonies, intricate arrangements, and paisley-psychedelic sounds. Includes bonus tracks, extensive notes, and features a DVD with the original, outrageous film!

Space Thing - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MH-8085 LP+DVD Sultry science friction grooves! Star Wars wasn’t even a thing yet when David Friedman pounded out this “science friction” back in ’68. The music was upcycled from Friedman’s She Freak by adding space sounds and space moans & groans! This is the first ever soundtrack for this first ever color sci-fi flick for mature audiences. The package features sounds of space, spy tension, Hammond freakouts, a zine with extensive liners from Lisa “Something Weird” Petrucci, supersonic silver vinyl... and a DVD of the awful film!

Across the history of jazz, there is no wilder, more future-forward composer and performer than Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra. Known as much for his wild on-stage persona as his innovative compositions, Sun Ra was the avant-garde bleeding edge of the jazz genre, introducing modal composition and electronic instrumentation before almost anyone else -- not to mention bringing the space age to life with his obsession with all things extraterrestrial. Across more than 50 LPs released in his lifetime, Sun Ra charted a course to space and far, far beyond.

Sun Ra The Cymbals / Symbols Sessions New York City 1973 MH-8083 2LP/2CD

Cymbals has finally landed… and brought a 2nd saucer with it! Originally recorded for the Impulse! jazz label in ’73, Cymbals makes its first legitimate release on vinyl, paired with a second LP of unheard material from the same sessions. Hear Ra’s Baroque soundscapes, electrolytic clusters and dithering Moogs catalyze images of monoliths, space stations, computers malfunctioning and galaxies imploding on pristine red and green vinyl with liner notes by known Ra-fficianado Brother Cleve!

Sun Ra Crystal Spears MH-8082 LP+Poster/CD

Recorded in ’73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in ’75, Crystal Spears (or “Crystal Clear” as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ra’s once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color Sun Ra poster!

Sun Ra Live At Inter-Media Arts

Sun Ra Pathways To Unknown Worlds MH-8084 LP/CD

Travelogue through a cybernetical soundscape! The future rendered here by Ra seems more dystopian than utopian, and these 1975 guided improvisations are imbued with an underlying violence, alternate twists, bank turns, headchoppers, loops, rolls, sidewinders and drops. It’s a dark & glorious journey. Featuring the debut of the complete version of “Extension Out,” Pathways has been exquisitely mastered from the from the original reels!

Sun Ra Astro Black MH-8080 LP/CD

Astro Black has long been known as a cornerstone of the Ra catalog. It is well recorded, features a superb Arkestral lineup, and successfully combines several of the styles in which Sun Ra orbited, from Saturnic jazz to astro-funk. And now it’s finally back in the earthly bins! Pressed on colored vinyl, and packaged with new cover art, with liner notes by Robert Campbell (author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra), and includes a poster insert of the original album artwork!

Sun Ra Thunder Of The Gods

MH-8022 3LP/2CD

MH-8021 LP/CD

Sun Ra The Space Age Is Here To Stay

Sun Ra Exotica

A triple LP (or double CD) of interplanetary perfection! Recorded at the Inter-Media Arts Center in New York on April 20, 1991, and broadcast on WNYC November 9, 1991. On LP for the first time ever. Two full sets totaling almost two hours of Sun Ra, June, and the Arkestra!

MH-8011 2LP/CD

The first-ever collection of Arkestra vocal tracks! 2 LPs (or CD) of vocal performances — audible perfection! Featuring album art interpreted from the work of “the father of modern space art” Chesley Bonestell + extensive liner notes.

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An album of unissued Ra 50 years after it was created! It’s a miraculous gift that this unreleased LPs-worth of interstellar Sun Ra music survived to reach our ears after all this time! It sounds like it could have come from the distant past or future, but it’s also the perfect music for right now.

MH-8012 3LP/2CD

Exotica rhapsodies made for mid-century moderns! Sensuous dreamscapes to transport the listener to the lush tropical environs of the outer reaches of the omniverse! Three LPs or two compact saucers of “Exotic-Ra” bringing you to a lavish cocktail party where space is the place. A rhapsodic pandemonium of Afro-centric rhythms, Latin beats, ostinato grooves, and unissued tunes!

MEETS

JOHN CAGE SUN RA John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert MH-8020 2LP/CD

The avant garde collaboration of mythic proportions! A double LP featuring every minute of the historic 1986 Coney Island John Cage and Sun Ra performance. Includes over 25 minutes of unheard audio and extensive liner notes from show attendee Howard Mandel!

John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Film MH 119 DVD+7”

The never-before-seen in its entirety, visual documentation proving this unreal collaboration did indeed occur. Many falsely claimed that these two never shared the stage together, over 30 years later this VHS evidence surfaced! That VHS has been put to DVD and includes audio commentary by the show’s producer. Also included is a 7” of one of Ra’s blistering numbers from the show and debatably their best silent duet!

John Cage With David Tudor Variations IV Vol 1 and 2 MH-8004 LP • MH-8034 LP

A seminal example of indeterminate music, from an icon of experimental sounds! Modern Harmonic brings you these gorgeous reissues of Cage’s masterpiece, pressed on clear vinyl and wrapped in restored artwork that captures the unique and strange beauty of these headphone classics. Join the avant-garde!

The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra The Saga Of Padani MH-8067 2LP+Coloring book/CD

Avant jazz from Marshall Allen, Fred Frith, Terry Riley, & schoolkids!?! The odyssey of 1990’s 4th, 5th & 6th grade students from novice musicians into an avant garde ensemble–an ensemble that engenders an array of sonic textures which never remain static or stagnant, but flow in a way that it’s always surprising, often startling and astonishing. On many of these imprecise, meditative, ethereal soundclouds of wonder and joy, the children were joined by such luminaries as Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Dave Slusser, and Dave Gordon, Tyrone Hill, & Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra! Among these amazing interplanetary improv pieces are a few Sun Ra covers!

NRBQ Interstellar KST 10-01 10”

Destination Out! A mindblowing ten-inch 33 1/3 RPM slab of wax by NRBQ that finds the revered fivesome latching onto the out-there New Thing jazz pioneered by intergalactic heroes Sun Ra & His Arkestra, including their unique take on “Rocket Number Nine”!

June Tyson Saturnian Queen Of The Sun Ra Arkestra MH-8014 LP/CD

The voice of afrofuturistic science non-fiction! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and varied musical legacies ever to be encountered. Capable of strong, fierce, and emotive vocalizations as well as intricate weavings, her voice transcends genre. This first ever collection affirming June Tyson’s unassailable gravity in Sun Ra’s realm features previously unissued cuts and includes a full color zine-style insert featuring rare photos and extensive liner notes!

The Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra Songs From The Sun Ra Cosmos MH-8089 LP/CD

Scorching renditions of Ra! Garage & soul screamer Barrence Whitfield channels the Saturnian ruler of the omniverse with a soul-tripping exploration of Sun Ra favorites–from the explosive “Nuclear War” to the shimmering exotica of “Love In Outer Space” to the Funkadelicized “Everything Is Space.”

SUN RA 10” COLLECTION

Rocket Number Nine / Ankhnation / Project Black Mass MH-10-104 10”

Among Sun Ra’s most famous and jet-propelled anthems, “Rocket Number Nine” is heard here in one of the earliest renditions from a marathon June 1960 session, with a staggering, swaggering, hip-bop beat. Ignition. Liftoff. “Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus, Zoom Zoom! Up in the air! Zoom! Up!” Paired with originally unknown recordings, including the driving, bossa nova-infused “Ankhnation” from 1959 and “Project Black Mass” from 1962.

The Lady With The Golden Stockings / Spontaneous Simplicity / Love In Outer Space MH-10-105 10”

“Golden Stockings” is a propulsive, forthright groove–a decisive, deep-space, predawn party jam, emitting golden sparks. The title “Love in Outer Space” first appeared in 1962 on the Saturn album Secrets of the Sun. With the emergence of this vocal version and the ascension of the Sun Ra Arkestra’s mid-seventies popularity, onstage the tune became a quintessential Ra anthem, a vehicle for frenzied acrobatics and organ-asmic drum-orgies of hyper ecstatic proportion. Utopian yearnings of space commune Sun Children, escape velocity.

Nuclear War / Outer Reach Intense Energy / Twilight MH-10-106 10”

“Nuclear War,” Sun Ra’s groove-infested x-rated warning, was an early 80s underground hit. Ra and crew expose the deathly horror with deadly serious call-and-response, leavened with funk and a pinch of humor for better digestion, eyes gleaming in a laid-back, lilting, cosmo-gangster-lean. “Outer Reach Intense Energy” and “Twilight” are originally unreleased works, sonically extending the radioactive theme.

SUN RA 7” COLLECTION

Saturn / Mystery Mr. Ra MH-101 7”

El Is A Sound Of Joy / Black Sky And Blue Moon MH-102 7”

Plutonian Nights / Reflects Motion (Part One) MH-103 7”

Our Sun Ra 7” series takes interplanetary anthems from the Ra stratosphere and pairs them with deep or unissued cuts. Usually pairing a vocal cut with an instro! All are packaged in our custom designed space-age envelope style sleeves!

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Johnny Cash Blood, Sweat And Tears

Chet Atkins Hi-Fi In Focus

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Chet Atkins My Brother Sings

Chet Atkins Workshop

The great lost album of country music! Recorded at the then-new RCA Victor Studio B in Nashville, this amazing collection of Chet Atkins with brother Jim on vocals was cancelled before release, and the very few existing copies are now multi-thousand-dollar rarities, with one selling in 2012 for an astounding $8,100!

Chet at home - In Living Stereo! The best-selling album of Chet’s lengthy career! Having set up a home studio in the ‘50s, he would lay down backing tracks at RCA with session musicians, then work at home on his own with unlimited freedom to refine the genesis of Chet Atkins’ Workshop!

With his Presley-like mystique, a strapping baritone voice and songs with universal lunchbucket appeal, Johnny Cash reached one of many career high-water marks with his sprawling 1963 epic, Blood, Sweat And Tears.

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Heralded hip hi-fi from ‘57! A stunning collection showing Chet’s virtuosity and diverse repertoire aimed to satisfy both his core country fans and a pop audience--including the rendition of “Walk, Don’t Run” that inspired the Ventures iconic hit cover.

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George Barnes Country Jazz

George Barnes Guitar In Velvet

A lifetime of lessons in six-string-guitarswing! Jazz-meets-country in an impossibly hot session, ca. 1959! A platter of lightning-fast picking and impeccable taste from the legendary George Barnes!

A colorful collection spotlighting the guitar virtuoso and his octet’s tremendous technique, astounding agility, tender touch, and impressive improvisations!

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Jimmy Bryant The Fastest Guitar in the Country LP 5407 LP

Electrifying ultra-rare album by ‘60s fretboard genius! Fretboard fanatics...fret no more! Here at last is the album that christened Jimmy Bryant with the distinct moniker of “Fastest Guitar in the Country.” While Bryant’s recordings with West established him as a fretboard genius, it was the 1967 release of The Fastest Guitar in the Country that left the disc jockey world wondering if his lighting speed was legitimate. Naysayers were left in awe as they witnessed Bryant’s dizzying technique at a DJ convention in Nashville.

Phil Baugh Country Guitar LP 5535 LP

The best country guitar players can lull you with pretty melodies, keep time with boomchicka-boom rhythm, and when the time is right, open up a can of terrifying whoop-ass in the form of licks so fast and blazing that you’re left wondering if what you heard was real. Phil Baugh was one of those guitar pickers, in fact he might have been the best of his kind.

The Highwaymen Highwayman LP 5551 LP

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The Highwaymen Highwayman 2 LP 5552 LP

Frequently referred to as “the Mount Rushmore of country music,” The Highwaymen--Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson were American country music’s first bona fide supergroup, an epic quartet comprised of the outlaw country!

Johnny Cash Original Sun Singles ‘55-’58

LP 5179 2LP/CD To hear Johnny Cash’s swaggering Sun Records-era material is to marvel at one of the primal source-streams of what was fast becoming the headwaters of rock ‘n’ roll. Cash’s craggy, lunchbucket vocals on gleaming original versions of songs like “Cry! Cry! Cry!,” “Get Rhythm,” “Big River,” and “I Walk the Line,” backed by the signature guitar style of Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant’s steady bass, are really just the tip of the iceberg corralled on this stunning collection.

Charlie Feathers Charlie Feathers

SEP 10-174 10” Crazy, coveted sounds from legendary wildman Charlie Feathers! Includes all eight of his King sides as originally issued in ‘56 & ‘57--now rare and pricey 45s and 78s--with new notes from Colin Escott. The complete King Feathers singles, mastered from the original mono masters!

Leon McAuliff Swingin’ Western Strings Of Leon McAuliff MH-8059 LP

Legendary Hall of Famer Leon McAuliff’s long-lost platter of delicious rural-route steel guitar and twin fiddle sounds, mixed with a frenetic, rockin’ country band on cuts—a southern stew steeped in the Houston native’s Texas roots!

Buck Owens and His Buckaroos Together Again/ My Heart Skips A Beat LP 5555 LP

Prime Buck! The sound of a country music superstar hitting his stride, a collection of his best material (and biggest hits!) performed with the incendiary Buckaroos—his long-time band replete with the Telecaster talents of legendary axeman Don Rich alongside Owens’ own fire-filled guitar work. A must-have LP, pressed at RTI.

Slim Willet Texas Oil Patch Songs MH-8008 LP

Drillin’ & Drivin’ Rig Ringers! Country singer and disc jockey Slim Willet’s ode to tool-pushin’! Texas Oil Patch Songs was issued in 1959 by the artist on his own Winston label, and now is an impossibly-rare LP to dig up–and this Modern Harmonic edition is faithful to the original, including all twelve tracks, liner notes, and restored artwork! And on petro-blue vinyl!

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Pete Drake The Fabulous Steel Guitar Sound Of Pete Drake MH-8057 LP

The sound of Nashville nightlife, circa 1962! Steel guitar pioneer Pete Drake slides and glides through a glimpse of what Music City instro sounds were like mid-century—the kinds you might hear at any neon-draped honky tonk—including everything from sexy-swing to country-cool on a dozen original tunes.

The Louvin Brothers Love And Wealth: The Lost Recordings MH-8038 2LP/2CD

A rich, spectacular addition to the Louvin legacy, Love & Wealth: The Lost Recordings presents 29 new recordings (plus a warm, spoken audio letter from brother Ira) originally captured as songwriting demos in the ’50s, then filed away for the next six decades. More than just quick takes on new tunes, these are fully realized performances that rival the best of their official discography! This treasure chest of legendary recordings has been mastered by Joe Lizzi and Bob Irwin, cut by Kevin Gray, and pressed onto flawless RTI vinyl! Those two LPs comfortably rest in a stunning gatefold jacket (they even have printing IN the pockets), with euro-jacket inner sleeves all featuring copious notes from music historian Colin Escott and stunning photos from the Country Music Hall of Fame!

Buck Owens and His Buckaroos On The Bandstand LP 5554 LP

At his ‘64 best! On The Bandstand was a top 10 charter in ‘64 for the honky-tonker, one of two concurrent top-selling albums he had that summer! The nascent Buckaroos magic is here in an early configuration featuring long-time Owens sideman Don Rich, turning in a solid selection of originals and tastefully-chosen covers.

Strut My Stuff Obscure Country & Hillbilly Boppers

MH-8051 2LP/CD We done dug deep for some cuts that are guaranteed to dill your pickle! This ‘eres been cut by Kevin Gray and sounds so good she’ll leave ya grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet tater! Plus Olaf Jens done did some hand art all over this gatefold jacket and G-Minus Mark done filled it with words!`

“Little” Roy Wiggins The Fabulous Guitar Artistry Of “Little” Roy Wiggins MH-8058 LP

Pedal steel virtuoso “Little” Roy Wiggins presents a collection of Hawaiian-themed instrumentals, showcasing his tone, touch and approach in the guise of a tour through the islands, circa 1964!

Johnny Cash Live At Town Hall Party 1958 LP 5170 LP

Johnny Cash

Live At Town Hall Party 1959 LP 5171 LP

The birth of country cool! This was the young, feral Cash, full of piss, vinegar and sly orneriness. These historic documents, sourced directly from the 1958 and 1959 kinescope reels, capture Cash in his most revolutionary days, laying the bedrock of all that was to come.

Wanda Jackson Live at Town Hall Party 1958

SEP 10-171 10” Just turned 21 and beautiful beyond words, Wanda Jackson ripped through a red-hot, live Town Hall Party rockabilly session in 1958 that helped define the parameters of this raw, young music.

Eddie Cochran

Gene Vincent

Merle Travis

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Live At Town Hall Party 1959

Following in the footsteps of our ultra-cool Johnny Cash Town Hall Party LPs are three more live-in-the-studio sessions from ‘58-’59, featuring Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Merle Travis. Taken from Tex Ritter’s legendary Town Hall Party television series, our LPs capture rockabilly legends Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and guitar-picking icon MerleTravis at the absolute top of their games, each playing incredible live material—and never before released on vinyl. If you missed the TV coverage more than 45 years ago, here’s your chance to breathe in the sweet magic of these historic sessions!

MICHAEL NESMITH Michael Nesmith and the First National Band Magnetic South LP 5512 LP

Nesmith’s country rock cornerstone! The heralded (true!) solo debut of Michael Nesmith! Magnetic South features the artist’s hybrid of cowboy-’n’-western country music and rock sensibilities, highlighted by “Joanne,” one of the earliest singles with the California-country sound to become a major hit record.

Michael Nesmith and the First National Band Loose Salute LP 5513 LP

The second LP from Michael Nesmith and the First National Band! Loose Salute features the country-rock pioneer’s hit single “Silver Moon” alongside dreamy, near-psychedelic studies on western motifs and melodies, funky swamp sounds, and straight-up country readings in the inimitable Nesmith style—a strong, sophomore salute!

Michael Nesmith and the First National Band Nevada Fighter LP 5514 LP

The final installment in Michael Nesmith’s American Trilogy, Nevada Fighter chronicles not only our great nation, but the fragmentation of his First National Band. Recorded from August 1970 through January of 1971, the album augments the original band’s line-up (Red Rhodes, John London & John Ware – who had disbanded before release) with guest musicians such as James Burton, Ron Tutt, Joe Osborn & Glen D. Hardin.

The Byrds Sanctuary: Rarities

The Byrds Sanctuary II

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The ringing sound of the Byrds - a band that created at least three rock ‘n’ roll genres (folk-rock, raga-rock and country-rock) would make any red-blooded music fan reach for the nearest tambourine to beat the jingle-jangle daylights out of it. Sanctuary collects all of the best rarities, alternate takes and 45-only sides into one goose pimple-inducing package, guaranteed to make anyone with a pulse “Feel A Whole Lot Better.” Most tracks have never before appeared on vinyl!

Sanctuary II collects outtakes and unissued material from the legendary Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Bros. and Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sessions.

The Byrds Sanctuary IV

The Byrds Sanctuary III LP 5066 LP

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Volume IV spotlights the legendary Nashville sessions for The Byrds’ landmark 1968 album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Spurred on by new member Gram Parsons, the Byrds traveled to Nashville to fashion the innovative country/ rock blend that’s been part of American musical culture ever since. Sanctuary IV collects all of Gram Parsons’ vocal takes for the first time, as well as other revealing outtakes and intimate rehearsal versions - all of which perfectly document the creation of an album unlike any other! The Byrds

Laden with outtakes, alternate versions and rarites from the Ballad of Easy Rider and Untitled sessions, the third volume of our Sanctuary series spotlights Clarence White’s fretboard genius.

The Byrds The Preflyte Sessions

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Before turning rock ‘n’ roll on its ear in the spring of ‘65, the Byrds spent countless hours creating and refining their unique sound at L.A.’s World Pacific Studios. Hear history literally in the making as McGuinn, Crosby, Clark, Hillman and Clarke record newborn, spine-tingling versions of classics-to-be like “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “You Won’t Have To Cry,” “I Knew I’d Want You” and “Here Without You” as well as lost gems such as “The Reason Why,” “Tomorrow Is A Long Ways Away” and “You Showed Me” (later a smash for the Turtles).

The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man

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This longplayer is so bountiful it almost doubles as a Byrds greatest hits, volume one. Unavailable for over 40 years, we’re forever proud to have presented the first ever reissue of this monumental recording in its original, highly-sought-after mono incarnation, mastered directly from the original Columbia Recordings analog mono masters, with perfect artwork restoration!

The Byrds Fifth Dimension LP 5199 LP

By 1966, the Byrds had powered up like a mammoth Atlas rocket with their third album, Fifth Dimension. This amped-up new sound– immediately dubbed raga-rock due to the Byrds’ newfound fascination with the music of Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane–is best exemplified by “Eight Miles High,” yet another national pop smash, and “5D (Fifth Dimension),” both swirling, multi-hued masses of sonic energy on an interplanetary scale.

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Live At Royal Albert Hall 1971 LP 5189 2LP/CD

Rescued from a tape that had sat forgotten in McGuinn’s climatized garage for decades, this stellar 1971 set, featuring live versions of the current band’s studio faves (“Lover of the Bayou,” “Chestnut Mare”) as well as adventurous reworkings of Byrds classics (“Mr. Tambourine Man,” “My Back Pages,” “Eight Miles High,” “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star.”) might be the most accurate and stirring live performance yet of the legendary Los Angeles combo. By 1971, the guitar interplay of McGuinn and White had become a jaw-dropping highlight of their live performances,as had their stripped down, acoustic mini-set and peerless four-part vocal harmonies. The Byrds

Turn! Turn! Turn! LP 5198 LP

The Byrds’ second album of 1965 led off with the heroic Los Angeles quintet’s second chart-topping single, “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” the song that placed them squarely on top of the mountain of a U.S. rock scene, feverishly bubbling away in answer to ‘64’s British Invasion. The alchemical number, with lyrics straight out of the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes, was a perfect fit for a growing hippie counter-culture about to turn the world upside down.

The Byrds Another Dimension

SEP2 10-168 2x10” A creative zenith in the Byrds’ career, these fascinating Fifth Dimension sessions deserve closer scrutiny than they’ve previously been afforded. Alternate instrumental takes and extended experimental workouts give essential insight here into the songs’ final versions.

The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday LP 5200 LP

Younger Than Yesterday, the Byrds’ fourth album–and in some people’s eyes, the pinnacle of their art–wastes no time, bursting out of the gates with still another national smash, “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star.” Spotlighting the jazzy trumpet of Hugh Masekela, this paean to outrageous rock stardom was a highlight of the Byrds’ appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival, possibly the most thrilling gathering of the musical tribes, ever.

The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo LP 5215 LP

With one mighty swing of the axe, the Byrds changed not only the face of rock ‘n’ roll but country music, as well. Tired of dipping a toe into the genre, McGuinn and Hillman added International Submarine Band singer Gram Parsons and drummer Kevin Kelley and went for total immersion. The repertoire featured country classics by the Louvin Brothers (“The Christian Life”) and Merle Haggard (“Life In Prison”), as well as honky tonk weepers cut by George Jones (“You’re Still On My Mind”). Parsons soon split to form the Flying Burrito Brothers, but it sure was nice while it lasted!

EX-BYRDS Gram Parsons Another Side of This Life

The Byrds Notorious Byrd Brothers LP 5201 LP

The Byrds pull no punches kicking off their fifth album, 1968’s The Notorious Byrd Brothers, with “Artificial Energy,” a devastating haymaker aimed at the go-fast generation. In the blink of an eye, they’re into the most beautiful baroque folk-rock ever created, the Carole King/Gerry Goffin-penned “Goin’ Back.”

The Byrds Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde LP 5072 LP

A key transitional touchstone in The Byrds’ canon, 1969’s Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde was the next stop in the band’s pioneering country-rock trajectory and the first album by the post-Gram Parsons lineup. With McGuinn at the helm of a stellar new edition of the band featuring guitar god Clarence White, drummer Gene Parsons, and bassist John York, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sees The Byrds bridging the gap between the psychedelic flights of the group’s mid-’60s albums and the down-home, country-based style developed only months earlier with Sweetheart of the Rodeo.

International Submarine Band Safe At Home

LP 5112 LP/CD LP 5076 LP/CD Sessions for Safe at Home were completed 13 previously unheard demo recordings of in December 1967, with a possible release Gram Parsons, country-rock pioneer and date of February 1968. However, Parsons former member of the Byrds and founding abruptly left the group prior to the album’s member of the Flying Burrito Brothers. release in order to join The Byrds, who Featured here is Parsons, singing and playwere busy recording their own country rock ing acoustic guitar, recorded from March album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Parsons’ 1965 to April 1966 at the home of his departure upset Hazlewood and caused the release of Safe at Home Winter Haven, Fla. friend, Jim Carlton. to be delayed. Eventually released after the group had ceased to exist, the album was initially overshadowed by Parson’s work with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his solo records. It’s now recognized as a must own and among his best.

Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers

LP 5062 LP/CD On the first solo album by an ex-Byrd, Gene Clark doesn’t stray too far from the nest. Cut in 1966 upon Clark’s departure from the iconic L.A. combo, with current Byrds Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke forming the rhythm section, and spotlighting brothers Vern and Rex Gosdin, a pair of former bluegrass pals of Hillman’s who chime in with sweet harmony vocals, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers stands as one of Clark’s supreme achievements.

Gene Clark White Light LP 5345 LP/CD

Gene’s departure from the group in 1966 was met with critical anticipation and commercial indifference. However, the resulting album White Light, remains one of Gene’s most accessible and much-loved recordings among fans and critics, topping several domestic Best Album of the Year lists and being voted “Album of the Year” by rock critics in the Netherlands.

Gene Clark and Doug Dillard The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

LP 5344 LP/CD Groundbreaking album that helped define country-rock! In 1965 Missouri-born Gene Clark was riding the crest of unprecedented success and adulation as a member of the Byrds.

Gene Clark Roadmaster LP 5346 LP/CD

Legendary Gene Clark album assembles abandoned 1972 sessions and more! By 1972, singer/songwriter Gene Clark had settled into a new life in Mendocino far from the intrusive media glare and fan adulation that still surrounded someone of his stature as a former member of the Byrds. However, he still owed A&M Records one more album. ...wow, what an album!

Bob Irwin & The Pluto Walkers The Throwaway Age

Link Wray Jack The Ripper LP 5192 LP

With his rawboned and ravaged instrumentals from the early ‘60s, Link Wray single-handedly made the guitar the ultimately cool instrument of choice for a whole new generation. Link created the blueprint for everyone from the Kingsmen to the Cramps with his flame-throwing sound!

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Behind its snazzy faux-movie-soundtrack cover art, The Throwaway Age’s sonic smorgasbord encompasses dragstrip swagger, board-busting surf stylishness, swinging sitar-jangle, biker-flick punch and international intrigue. Also featured on the album are four memorable tracks by the Pluto Walkers’ mysterious alter-ego outfit El Futuro Sonidos, who offer moody, lilting acoustic textures with a Latin touch and a tropical twist. Btw, Bob doesn’t know this is in here.

Jim Campilongo The Best Of Jim Campilongo Volume One LP 5561 LP

Riveting six-string slinging! Campilongo flexes the extremes of his instrument and amplification in jubilant trips through explosive technique and free-rock verve. The cuts were selected by the guitarist from his story so far, featuring tracks from a previously unreleased session, and pressed at RTI!

Freddy King Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King LP 5364 LP

All-instrumental LP from the guitarist idolized by Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others. Originally released on the legendary King label, it remains one of the most influential guitar albums of all time, and demonstrates why King remains a guitar icon.

Freddy King Freddy King Goes Surfin’ LP 5423 LP

Freddy surfs the fretboard for a wild instrumental ride. ...oddly the same ride he took for Let’s Hide Away And Dance Away! That’s right, change up the artwork add some crowd noise and you’ve got a surf record!

John Mayall and The Blues Breakers Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton LP 5371 LP

1966’s seminal Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton marked John Mayall’s emergence as a major recording artist, as well as his commercial breakthrough. The 12-song LP, considered by many to be the most influential British blues album of all time, marked the official introduction of Mayall’s long-running, ever-evolving combo the Bluesbreakers.

King Strings King-Federal-DeLuxe Guitar Grooves 1949-1962 LP 5490 LP

John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, and more on a blistering comp. Selected from the crown jewels of the rich King-Federal-DeLuxe discography, King Strings features rocking, socking guitar instrumentals from the Cincinnati-based family of labels cut between 1949 and 1962, programmed for power! John Mayall and The

Blues Breakers Crusade

LP 5373 LP/CD “John Mayall’s fabled albums with Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor have been reissued before, but these discs, re-mastered from the original mono masters, sound absolutely glorious (whether on CD or vinyl).” -Pete Prown (Cream)

The Animated Egg Guitar Freakout LP 5260 2LP

The late L.A. session guitar genius Jerry Cole has long been worshipped for his work with everyone from the Beach Boys and the Byrds to Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley and by surf fans as the leader of the Spacemen. But unbeknownst to many, Cole was also the driving force behind the Animated Egg, a fictitious band whose lone, self-titled 1967 LP is one of the greatest psychedelic exploitation records ever!

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Jeff Beck Beck-Ola LP 5311 LP

Jeff Beck Truth LP 5310 LP

Jeff Beck’s position in the pantheon of great electric guitarists is indisputable. As visionary a musician as Jimi Hendrix, Beck made his name as the second of three hall of fame stringbenders for the legendary Yardbirds (following in the “Slowhand” shoes of Eric Clapton and preceding the pre-Zep/session gigging Jimmy Page). Known for his blistering leads and the wild chances he took as one of the first axemen to widely employ feedback during a solo, Beck immediately launched his solo career upon leaving the Yardbirds in 1967. Together with vocalist Rod Stewart and multi-instrumentalist Ron Wood on bass, he cut a pair of albums that expanded on the greatness of his previous work.

bo diddley Bo Diddley Bo Diddley’s Beach Party

Bo Diddley Bo Diddley

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No doctoral thesis will explain Bo Diddley, the man or Bo Diddley, the album. You won’t find the answer in some scholarly article called The Epistomological Roots of “Diddy Wah Diddy” or something like that, in your dog-eared copy of the Journal of the American Institute of Ethnomusicology. Bo Diddley just is.

Bo Diddley Have Guitar Will Travel

Bo Diddley Bo Diddley Is A Lover

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Good Lord. Bo Diddley came out with all guns blazing on his floor-rattling romp from 1960, Have Guitar Will Travel. The LP would become a blueprint for SO much great rock ‘n’ roll that followed. Really... Who in the hell wouldn’t be inspired by hearing this opus that followed on the heels of Bo’s devastating first two albums???

He plugs in, kicks off a scorching guitar riff. The band falls in. And the place goes totally batshit. Miraculously, someone thought to bring along a tape recorder. The result: Bo Diddley’s Beach Party, the absolute pinnacle of vicarious musical thrills. Presented in its original, glorious, Distort-O-Phonic mono, this sweaty grungefest kicks ass from start to finish.

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Delivering a devastating punch to rock’s early ‘60s doldrums, Bo Diddley Is a Lover bursts at the seams with Bo’s uncompromising, rockin’ beat. Yep. Industry and the government may have cleaned up fellow ‘50s rockers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis and Gene Vincent, but they didn’t get to Bo -- a defiant rocker to the core.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground

LP 5466 LP/CD Originally released as part of MGM’s “Golden Archive Series,” this 1970 album is a terrific sin-and-salvation selection from the first three VU albums – just the kind of thing to take along to a desert island or to the end of the world.

The Velvet Underground The Quine Tapes VU 4002 6LP Box Set

Moe Tucker I’m Sticking With You: An Introduction To Moe Tucker MH-8073 LP

The unmistakable beat of the Velvet Underground was malleted out on the unconventional kit of Moe Tucker. Her (at times) childlike, fallen angelic voice also shines on some VU fan favorites. Here Moe reinterprets some Velvet gems, sometimes playing all instruments, other times accompanied by the likes of Jonathan Richman, Jad Fair, Kim Gordon and more.

The Velvet Underground The Verve/MGM Albums

VU 4003 5LP Box Set A definitive document of the live Velvet This beautiful, deluxe boxed set gathers Underground. Captured on tape by Robert the rare mono versions of the band’s first Quine in San Francisco and St. Louis bethree studio albums along with the superior tween May and December of 1969, the remono version of Nico’s Chelsea Girl and a cordings feature the Velvet Underground’s definitive edition of the band’s unfinished final lineup of Reed, guitarist Sterling fourth album! Mastered by Bob Irwin, cut Morrison, drummer Moe Tucker and bassist by Kevin Gray, and pressed at RTI, this Doug Yule. collection is an essential purchase for the discerning vinyl devotee.

R. Stevie Moore Phonography LP 5333 LP

Phonography was lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore’s first vinyl release - only 100 copies were pressed in 1976. The album (including a slightly larger 1978 pressing) barely earned the artist lunch money. But Phonography has since become the cornerstone of the Do-It-Yourself movement, while establishing Moore as the Granddaddy of home recording. Both Rolling Stone and Spin have proclaimed it one of the most influential independent releases of the past 50 years.

Dennis The Fox Mother Trucker MH-8025 LP

“Like seeing God in a burst condom stuck to the tailpipe of a rusty pimpmobile, finding out Jesus stole your mama, looking for the meaning of life in a puke pile by a truckstop motel - kinda scary how real this dude is! Deep level real people music that sounds like no other LP in the universe. Everything about this sound could not possibly add up in anybody else’s mind, but Dennis has put a new place on the map.” - Paul Major (Enjoy The Experience)

Gundella The Hour Of The Witch

Iceberg Slim Reflections

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Make someone love you, discourage an unwanted suitor, and more - with the power of witchcraft! Finally, this obscure LP of spells reappears! A descendant of the green witches of Scotland, part of a Detroit area coven, and author of multiple books and a newspaper column helping solve everyday problems from the Wiccan perspective, Gundella helps you test your psychic powers, make ritualistic candles, and mold wax dolls. She’ll define witchcraft & magic, and teach you how to cast your own spells!

Jerry Solomon Past The 20th Century

Reflections is the very explicit beat-jazz birth of gangsta rap. A former pimp turned author, Iceberg Slim wrote Pimp: The Story of My Life, believed by some to be the highest selling book by a black author ever! On Reflections, the Red Holloway Quartet makes the bed, then Slim rhythmically speaks his prose like a bass note beat poet in what became the birth of the bad, dark, none-too-taboo tales of the street that inspired a subgenre of music: gangsta rap.

Jerry Solomon Virginity For All: Private Press 45s 1966-1969

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Early ‘70 outsider psych opus! Seemingly unable to find an immediately-available niche in the outside world, Jerry Solomon spent the ‘60s & ‘70s carving his own niche and world into the grooves of records. Gone are the wobbly rock ‘n roll beats of Jerry’s earlier contributions, and in their place are droning minor-key melodies, irregular percussive jabs, toy piano strums, and impenetrable lyrics delivered by his self-overdubbed and echo-laden vocals. Original copies were sold on the streets by Jerry himself and trade for four figures if you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to sell one.

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The rarity and bizarre content of Jerry Solomon’s releases have music connoisseurs clamoring for them, though he funded, wrote, recorded, and self-distributed his uniquely fascinating music for no reason other than to simply put it out there. Equal parts strange, entertaining, and foreboding, Jerry’s music is always engaging, and one can’t help but feel these recordings offer a glimpse through a murky portal into the unadulterated creative experience. Approximately fifty years after their initial release, this set collects some of the weirdest and most compelling recordings from the 20th century.

Alan Munson One Man’s Journey MH-8079 LP/CD

One Man’s Journey is a compilation based on Alan Munson’s real life happenings, a blend of singer-songwriter music and his experiences, accompanied by beautiful guitar and voice. It would be unfair to place Munson’s music in a single genre — it’s a fusion of mellow psychedelic folk rock with the amazing atmosphere of the times.

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Gabor Szabo The Best Of Gabor Szabo

Cal Tjader Solar Heat

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MH-8036 LP

Exotic jazz guitar mastery! Gabor Szabo’s singular style and authentic sound is on full display across a set of original and choice covers highlighted by unusual instrumentation and ingenious arrangements.

Sultry Tjader jazz! Vibraphone legend Cal Tjader in a burning 1968 set of jazzed-up pop chestnuts and original bossas like the delicious “Fried Bananas”!

Ranny Sinclair Another Autumn

MH-8043 LP/CD Breathy, beatnik, Brubeck! Soaked with the vibe and essence of NYC in the ‘60s and seasoned with a rich variety of styles from whispery, beatnik pop to moody & magnificent jazz, folk and soul. Uniformly brilliant, soft, sexy soundscapes!

Various Artists Jazz For Hi-Fi Lovers MH-8069 LP

Mid-mod jazz joy! A smart set of beat-era jazz, beautifully programed and compiled for the hi-fi in your home!

Al Cohn Cohn On The Saxophone MH-8030 LP

A swingin’ beat-gen jazz classic! Sax-man Al Cohn, best known for his work with Zoot Zims, has all the pots bubbling in this classic 1956 LP. Five stars in Downbeat? You bet!

Jimmy Raney Visits Paris MH-8031 LP

Ooh-la-la: fretboard virtuosity in the city of love! The legendary Jimmy Raney flies high on this 1955 LP, recorded weeks after he was voted “No. 1 Guitarist” in Jazz Hot magazine.

Dick Garcia A Message From Garcia MH-8078 LP

Jazz guitar autodidact struts his stuff while the likes of Bill Evans, Gene Quill, and John Drew try to keep up! The combination of Bird, Christian, and his own peronality meld here in Dick’s own swinging style. Jack Burger

The End On Bongos MH-8002 LP

Exotica bongos and jungle beats! A 1957 lounge classic from Mr. Bongos! These often-sampled, vibrant-yet-chill sounds bring you big jungle drums, bongos, congas, flutes, strange animal noises, and more!

Barney Kessel Live At The Jazz Mill 1954 MH-8007 LP/CD

Barney Kessel Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol. 2 MH-8049 LP/CD

Unearthed tape from a jazz icon! Thanks to a 21-year-old with a tape machine, we can all experience the majesty of guitar legend Barney Kessel at his 1954 best!

Paul Tanner Music For Heavenly Bodies

Tak Shindo MGANGA!

MH-8033 LP/CD Stellar good vibrations from the inventor of the Electro-Theremin! Recorded just two days after inventing the Electro-Theremin; the debut of the instrument that added space sounds to an iconic ‘60s pop classic!

MH-8019 LP/CD

Afro-Asian Exotica! Jungle beats and lush arrangements from the famed film and television composer.

Moon Express Prophetic Spirit MH-8029 LP+7”/CD

Blazing sitar, crazed percussion; a 50 year old mystery! Paul Arnold and Tsvia & the Followers weave peculiar music that ebbs and flows with unusual time signatures, sonic baths of wild, exotic percussion and other fascinating and hypnotic sounds, all under Arnold’s booming narratives and Tsvia Abarbanel’s spellinbinding, out of this world vocals.

The Alan Lorber Orchestra The Lotus Palace

Attilio Mineo Man In Space With Sounds MH-8027 LP/CD

Taxi to tomorrow with this saucer of space-age sounds! Sound, sustain, and silence unite, polyrhythmic Hammond organs and xylophones round off a cosmic eruption. Created for the 1962 World’s Fair, this LP bundles beautifully textured space sounds with period-perfect narration.

MH-8097 LP

Orchestrated by legendary producer Alan Lorber, this talented cast of musicians weave their way through Eastern-influenced and psychedelic interpretations of pop gems and some way-out-there originals, in an album touted as the first in fusion of raga and jazz.

MUSIC TO STRIP BY Mundell Lowe Blues For A Stripper MH-8028 LP/CD

Beyond hip! From cool jazz to hard bop. A stellar example of “jazz noir,” Mundell’s guitar is relentlessly vibrant and engaging in this swingingly cinematic score comissioned for the 1962 sexploitation classic, Satan In High Heels.

Mel Henke 77 Sunset Strip-per MH-8010 LP

All that meat and no potatoes! 12 sexed-up double entendre laced gems from 1962’s La Dolce Henke and bonus romp “77 Sunset Strip-per”!

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Bobby Patterson My Thing Is Your Thing: Jetstar Strut From Bobby Patterson MH-8214 LP

Dynamic Dallas soul singer Bobby Patterson cut some seriously sizzling sides in the mid ‘60s, including the James Brown rebuttal “Mama’s Got A New Bag Too,” the pugnacious original “Knock Out Power Of Love,” and the rambunctious funk of “T.C.B. Or T.Y.A.”!

Chuck Jackson I Don’t Want To Cry LP 5426 LP

A concept album dedicated to songs about crying, with Jackson covering mentor Jackie Wilson (“Lonely Teardrops”) as well as an early Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition (“I Wake Up Crying”). Audibly in command, Jackson’s vocals blend seamlessly with Luther Dixon’s arrangements, resulting in an astonishingly accomplished album.

Chuck Jackson On Tour

Little Willie John Fever

LP 5427 LP

MH-8055 LP

In the original liner notes for Chuck Jackson on Tour (1964), Bob King describes Jackson “a man with pent up talent.” Consequently, this LP is the sound of that talent erupting all over the stage of the famed Apollo Theater, the same venue where Jackson had been discovered a few years earlier.

In his brief 30 years, Little Willie John left one hell of a legacy. Fever is Willie’s defining artistic statement, including all his biggest hits, capturing him in his prime and making his legacy crystal-clear.

James Brown Love Power Peace

Johnny “Guitar” Watson MH-8054 LP

LP 5470 3LP

James Brown’s magnum opus! Love Power Peace is the sound of the Godfather and his youngblood J.B.’s (including Bootsy and Catfish Collins) electrifying a crazed Parisian audience on March 8, 1971.

The original Stratocaster showman, who set the sandards for flash and guitar virtuosity. This self-titled 1963 King LP contains killer late ‘50s and early ‘60s material like his signature tune “Gangster Of Love”!

Lula Reed Blue And Moody

The Crystals Twist Uptown

An arresting, singular chanteuse, Lula Reed beat out 50 other contestants in an audition for Sonny Thompson’s band at the Toledo Auditorium. Following her victory, 22-year old Reed trekked down to Cincinnati with future husband Thompson to record for Syd Nathan’s King Records.

The Crystals’ first LP Twist Uptown, originally released in the summer of 1962, occupies an important position in Phil Spector’s remarkable body of work. As the first full album produced by Spector and the first LP to be released on his legendary Philles label, it’s a crucial cornerstone in the building of the fabled Wall of Sound.

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LP 5428 LP

Eddy Senay Eddy Senay Hot Thang Step By Stop MH-8046 LP/CD

MH-8088 LP/CD

“How do you describe Eddy Senay’s music? Instead of going in-depth on the guitarist’s technique and genre, it’s a lot easier to show the cover of the 1972 LP Step By Step and say, ‘This is what he sounds like.’ The cover photo, featuring Senay in a zip-up butterfly collared sweater and newsboy cap complete with pompon sitting on the steps of a redstone Detroit church, sums up the artist and his sound. It has all the accoutrements of the era resting on the solid foundation of the Motor City and its musical background. ‘[I] said we didn’t want to be too technical or overly fancy,’ recalls Senay. ‘We want to keep it simple, funky, and plain. We want to keep it as raw as we possibly can get it.’ And as listeners of his two understated classic albums can attest, what you see is what you get.” – Kevin Herron (Wax Poetics)

The Crystals He’s A Rebel

The Meters Zony Mash

LP 5409 LP

LP 5087 LP/CD An entire album filled with vintage rarities and non-album B-sides by the Meters, all glittering gems by New Orleans’ wizards of slinky funk. Zony Mash finds the Meters at the top of their game with a rump-rolling concoction that will have you moving in three different directions at once!

The Mighty Sparrow The Slave

The Shirelles Baby It’s You

Although it was assembled quickly in 1963 to take advantage of the chart success of its eponymous title anthem, the Crystals’ second album is a near-perfect summation of this seminal girl group’s effortless appeal and the surging majesty of Spector’s production genius.

MH-8202 LP/CD The prolific and incendiary Sparrow creates calypso sounds so mighty that they’ve won him multiple titles of Calypso King in his native Trinidad!

The Shirelles The Shirelles And King Curtis Give A Twist Party LP 5437 LP

And what a party it is! The album’s eleven tracks mix scorching instrumentals with vocal numbers, never once stopping for air. Curtis’ gritty sax tone combines with The Shirelles’ dulcet harmonies for a one-of-a-kind sound that will have everyone in the house on their feet, wearing through shoe leather.

LP 5436 LP

A hit-filled album from the original girl group! Baby It’s You features 12 outstanding songs, including the single “Soldier Boy” which topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Bettye LaVette Do Your Duty LP 5208 LP

For many longtime LaVette devotees, her recordings for the Silver Fox label, and its parent company SSS International, rank with the artist’s finest work. Do Your Duty collects the 11 classic solo sides that LaVette cut for Silver Fox and SSS in 1969 and 1970, including her beloved R&B hits “He Made a Woman Out of Me” and “Do Your Duty.”

SOUL COMPILATIONS Various Artists My Goodness, Yes! Soul Treasures From The Silver Fox Label LP 5570 LP

Formed by Shelby S. Singleton, Jr. and the eponymous platinum-haired brother of Kenny Rogers, Lelan, the short-lived Silver Fox Records unleashed a string of R&B and Soul smashes including Bettye Lavette’s saucy “Do Your Duty,” Detroit chanteuse Gloria Taylor’s irresistible rave-up “You Got To Pay The Price,” and hard-driving, sizzling grooves from Hank Ballard, Eddy Giles and more.

Various Artists Out In The Streets Again: The Soul Sounds Of Scepter Records LP 5549 LP

A vault’s worth of solid gold treasures! Nearly all the cuts included here are legendary, high-dollar 45s, presented in their original–and danceable–mono mixes.

Various Artists Shake What You Brought! Soul Treasures From The SSS International Label LP 5572 LP

Southern soul sizzlers from Nashville! Some serious swagger emerged on Shelby S. Singleton’s SSS International label, including the funk-soaked, Allen Toussaint-penned “There’s A Break In The Road,” Mickey Murray’s relentless “Sticky Sue,” Bettye LaVette’s standout revival of “Piece Of My Heart,” and more sensational workouts!

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OTIS REDDING Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul

Otis Redding In Person At The Whisky A Go Go

LP 5063 LP

Otis Redding’s fifth album more than lives up to that grandiose monicker. The last solo album that the artist would complete prior to his death at the age of 26, this 12-song set demonstrates how Redding combined raw talent and boundless charisma with a restless creative spirit that drove him to expand his horizons beyond the traditional boundaries of contemporary rhythm and blues.

Otis Redding The Soul Album

LP 5133 LP

Otis Redding’s live performances are legendary for their raw, sweat-soaked intensity. For those of us not fortunate enough to have seen the legendary soul icon on stage, this is the next best thing. Recorded in April 1966 at Los Angeles’ Whisky A Go Go, this is the only live recording of Otis in a small club setting, and it’s a scorcher, capturing the spellbinding fervor that he generated on a nightly basis. Otis Redding

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

LP 5132 LP

The aptly titled 1966 release The Soul Album is one of the most beloved LPs in Otis Redding’s catalogue, and a powerful evocation of this singular soul icon’s massive talent and impressive versatility.

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Otis Redding Live In Europe

Otis Redding The Dock Of The Bay

LP 5134 LP

Otis Redding’s first live release was recorded in March 1967, on the now-legendary Stax/Volt tour of Europe, on which Otis and company demonstrated that soul is a universal language. Backed by the erstwhile Stax studio combo Booker T. and the MGs and the Memphis Horns, the Big O rises to the historic occasion, delivering incendiary, emotion-charged readings of iconic tunes!

Considered by many soul connoisseurs to be Otis Redding’s finest and most fully realized LP, 1966’s Otis Blue delivers a compelling encapsulation of all of the qualities that made Redding the greatest soul performer of his era.

LP 5172 LP

When Otis Redding recorded “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” in late 1967, the singer knew that the song was a milestone in his creative evolution. But before Redding got the chance to explore his new direction, he was killed, along with most of his backup band the Bar-Kays, in a plane crash while on tour. Released just a few weeks after his death, the song shot to Number One on the Pop and R&B charts, eventually winning Redding a pair of posthumous Grammy awards.

Otis Redding & Carla Thomas King & Queen LP 5069 LP

As Stax Records’ top male artist, it was only natural that Otis Redding would team up with Stax’s top female singer, Carla Thomas. The soulful twosome generated considerable musical sparks on this 1967 release, which produced a pair of sizzling hit singles, the sassy “Tramp” and a hard-driving reading of Eddie Floyd’s “Knock On Wood.”

Booker T. & The MG’s Soul Dressing LP 5042 LP

Booker T. & The MG’s Green Onions LP 5079 LP

Booker T. & The MG’s And Now! LP 5043 LP

Booker T. & The MG’s Hip Hug-Her LP 5080 LP

When Booker T. & The MG’s hit the pop charts in 1962 with the laid-back, deep-grooved, soulful sounds of “Green Onions” they would create the road map for the enormously successful, Memphis-based Stax Sound that would captivate the entire world for the rest of the decade. Keyboardist supreme Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Duck Dunn and drummer Al Jackson also served as the house band for the Stax label whose roster included such soul legends as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Eddie Floyd and Carla Thomas. Universally admired, the sound forged by Booker T. & The MG’s remains as timely today as when it was first created.

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Sly & The Family Stone A Whole New Thing

Sly & The Family Stone Dance To The Music

LP 5143 LP

By the time Sly Stone, former producer/ talent scout for Tom Donahue’s Autumn records, decided to step out front and form his own band in 1967, he knew exactly what the music business needed: a multi-racial, boy-girl outfit that skillfully blended elements of soul, rock, jazz and funk. Sly & the Family Stone’s debut, A Whole New Thing, didn’t completely tip Sly’s hand, but it got the ball rolling in the right direction by adding fuzzed-up guitar to soulful vocals, a tasty horn section, occasional protest lyrics and just enough Golden State psychedelia to make Sly’s groundbreaking work unmistakable. Sly & The Family Stone

LP 5144 LP

When the irresistible sound of “Dance To The Music” lit up the nation’s airwaves in early 1968, it was obvious that Sly Stone’s “whole new thing” was about to blow everyone’s mind sky-high. This live-wire chart smash used the time-tested “introduce the band” technique to showcase trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, Sly’s brother/guitarist Freddie Stone, saxman Jerry Martini, Sly’s sister/pianist Rosie Stone, bassist Larry Graham and drummer Greg Errico—all from different cultural/racial backgrounds.

Sly & The Family Stone Stand!

Life LP 5145 LP

By late 1968, the third album by Sly & the Family Stone absolutely blew the roof off the building. Life sounded so tangibly real it almost seemed like it was cut live. The title track, along with “Love City,” “Plastic Jim,” “Into My Own Thing” and especially “Dynamite!” signaled a perfect alliance between Sly’s multi-influence, far-reaching musical vision and the burgeoning hippie ballroom community, already spreading like lawn daisies throughout the land. Sly & The Family Stone There’s A Riot Goin’ On LP 5147 LP Since it took almost two years to make, the fifth album by now bonafide superstars Sly & the Family Stone had everyone salivating in anticipation. Needless to say, Sly did not disappoint! 1971’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On finds the Bay Area-based genius getting funkier than before, even as his artistic vision becomes darker.

LP 5146 LP

Stand!, the fourth album from Sly & the Family Stone, could have almost pulled double-duty as a greatest hits package for the band. Laced with sure-fire winners, this 1969 LP put Sly and Co. firmly on the road to super-stardom. Four of the album’s seven songs, including the Hall of Fame tracks “Everyday People” and “I Want To Take You Higher,” shot straight into the national charts. Sly & The Family Stone

Fresh LP 5148 LP

Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973’s Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut “If It Were Left Up To Me” for their 1985 Clinton-produced LP Freaky Styley.

The Challengers Go Sidewalk Surfing! LP 5324 LP

The Challengers were one of the first–and one of the best–of the California surf combos. They were also one of the most prolific, turning out a series of ultra-cool LPs that stand with the surf genre’s most beloved recordings.

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The Champs Go Champs Go! LP 5532 LP

All analog! The Champs are responsible for one of the best instrumentals ever recorded, the ultra-infectious “Tequila.” Their Tex Mex longplayer is full of driving guitar and propulsive rhythms, accompanied by the punctuating persistent sax sounds of Chuck Rio (who penned the boozy bruiser that became their biggest hit).

DICK DALE Dick Dale and His Del-Tones Singles Collection ‘61-65 LP 5248 2LP

This collection fills a crucial void in the Dick Dale catalog: here are 28 wild ‘n killer single sides from the Deltone and Capitol labels, featuring rare 45-only tracks and unique mono single versions of such iconic Dale classics as “Let’s Go Trippin’,” “Miserlou,” “The Wedge,” “Mr. Eliminator,” “Secret Surfin’ Spot” and his legendary theme song, “King of the Surf Guitar.”

Dick Dale and His Del-Tones Surfers’ Choice

LP 5291 LP/CD The one that started it all in 1962! On his debut album, Dick Dale managed to capture on tape the ferocious surf sound he was creating for over-the-top audiences at the Rendezvous Ballroom. Songs like “Let’s Go Trippin,’” “Miserlou Twist” and “Surf Beat” helped define the surf genre and send untold aspiring guitarists in search of their own Stratocasters and Fender Showman amps.

Dick Dale and His Del-Tones King Of The Surf Guitar LP 5292 LP

All hail the king! Dick Dale’s 1963 sophomore album finds the master axeman hitting his stride with a high-energy set that showcases both his revolutionary guitar work and his gutsy vocals.

Dick Dale and His DelTones Checkered Flag LP 5293 LP

After establishing his credentials as the King Of The Surf Guitar, Dick Dale turns his attention to the dragstrip on 1963’s Checkered Flag. Drawing inspiration from California’s car culture, Dale’s supercharged guitar work drives such high-octane numbers as “The Wedge,” “Grudge Run” and “Night Rider.”

Dick Dale and His Del-Tones Mr. Eliminator

Dick Dale and His DelTones Rock Out With Dick Dale And His Del-Tones Live At Ciro’s

LP 5294 LP

1964’s Mr. Eliminator, the second album of hot-rod songs from Dick Dale, is another fuel-injected fun ride down the asphalt LP 5296 LP aisle! Once again, Dick shreds his way America’s first guitar hero tears it up on through scorching guitar instrumentals stage! As beloved as his vintage studio like “The Victor, “ “Nitro Fuel” and the recordings are, the live stage is where Dick tenacious title track. Dale made his reputation as his era’s most innovative and exciting guitarist. This 1965 album captures Dale and his longtime combo the Del-Tones at their rocking peak, shredding up a storm at the fabled Hollywood club Ciro’s.

The Vettes Rev-Up!

The Catalinas Fun Fun Fun

MH-8068 LP

LP 5329 LP

Drag-Strip tested! A fantastic West Coast rarity, Rev-Up! is a mono masterpiece filled with harmony-laden hot rod vocals and powerhouse instrumentals! This little deuce is guaranteed to leave skid marks!!!

A Sea For Yourself Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8035 2LP+DVD/2CD

Legendary surf/funk/psych soundtrack plus a DVD of the original film! Created by an incredible aggregation of California music royalty–Rick Henn, Dennis and Daryl Dragon, plus other friends–this ultra-scarce soundtrack for Hal Jepsen’s 1972 film.

An all-star studio supergroup featuring legendary producer Terry Melcher, future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, and fabled Wrecking Crew members Hal Blaine, Jerry Cole, Steve Douglas, Leon Russell, Billy Strange, and Tommy Tedesco, the Catalinas lived up to their impressive pedigree. The Innermost Limits Of

Pure Fun

Original Soundtrack Recording

LP 5519 LP/CD Groundbreaking filmmaker George Greenough chose The Dragons for this soundtrack to Innermost Limits of Pure Fun; for they had been itching to do a project where they could really let themselves GO. What you’re dealing with are surf instrumental musicians on a par unmatched, a few years after the trend, getting a chance to really dig in.

Thom Starr & The Galaxies South Bay Surf: Anthology 1963-1964

The Tornadoes Beyond The Surf: The Best Of The Tornadoes

LP 5246 2LP/CD LP 5500 LP/CD Legendary unheard surf guitar from ‘63Nobody from the tidal wave of surf combos 64! South Bay leged Thom Starr was one inundating Southern California in the early of surf music’s most talented guitar heroes. ‘60s did it any gnarlier than the Tornadoes, Rightfully revered by surf devotees, Thom in hot water immediately for titling an early Starr & The Galaxies’ greatest work is single “Shootin’ Beavers.” Whatta sound!!! featured here! Whatta band!!!

The Ventures Play Telstar LP 5386 LP

The Ventures

Walk, Don’t Run Vol. 2 LP 5390 LP

The Ventures

The Ventures On Wild Things! LP 5393 LP Stage LP 5391 LP

The Ventures

Super Psychedelics Hawaii Five-O LP 5394 LP

The Ventures

Another Smash LP 5398 LP

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The Ventures The Colorful Ventures LP 5399 LP

The Ventures

Mashed Potatoes And Gravy LP 5400 LP

If ever there was a “band that launched a thousand bands,” it would be the Ventures. Founded in Tacoma, Washington in 1958, their guitar-based instrumental sound would prove hugely influential, inspiring countless followers to pick up a guitar, bass or set of drumsticks and try to emulate their heroes. As these musical neophytes would soon learn, it wasn’t as easy as it initially appeared. The Ventures were masters of tone and technique, deftly arranging their instruments in a seamless approach that was instantly recognizable. Because they were an instrumental group, their songs needed no translation, which resulted in a huge worldwide following. While many rock bands have claimed to be “big in Japan” over the years, the Ventures were the country’s first rock superstars and they maintain a devoted worldwide following to this day. With over 100 million records sold, they are the best-selling instrumental group of all time.

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Alexander “Skip” Spence Oar

LP 5030 LP/CD “ . . . Oar is the ultimate auteur record... nothing less than a spiritual and psychic journey . . . This reissue represents the definitive upgrade . . . a labour of love with copious notes, great pictures, added material and a clearer reconstruction of the original mix . . . Oar remains as fresh as the moment when it was recorded. The perfect distillation of psychedelic heaven and hell, it can now take its place as one of the all-time great rock albums.” —MOJO

Various Artists More Oar - A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album MH-8072 2LP

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Modern Harmonic presents the first ever vinyl edition of More Oar – A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album. In addition to the full album–which features covers from Robert Plant, Beck, Mudhoney, Tom Waits, and others–this edition features the wild skeletal recording of “Little Hands” by The Flaming Lips that was originally intended as a collaboration with Robert Plant. A double LP pressed at Third Man, this set also includes liner notes from the original album’s producer.

Blues Magoos Psychedelic Lollipop

LP 5300 LP/CD The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with a major smash, hitting the Top Five with the brash garage-punk anthem “(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet.” That tune is just one of the multiple pleasures of Psychedelic Lollipop, notable as one of the first albums (along with the 13th Floor Elevators’ debut) to use the word “psychedelic” in its title.

Alexander “Skip” Spence AndOarAgain MH-8086 3LP/2CD

AndOarAgain provides unparalleled access to what David Fricke calls “the most harrowing and compelling artifacts of rock & roll’s most euphoric era,” across three dozen unheard tracks! A triple LP pressed at RTI, AndOarAgain features nearly two hours of unheard music on the way to Oar along with roads not taken that both clarifies and muddies the enigma of how psychedelic legend Alexander “Skip” Spence determined the final state of his iconic masterpiece.

Bow Street Runners LP 5029 LP

Flushed from Fayetteville, North Carolina-where they thought they could remain comfortably obscure-by our release of their only album, the Runners have recently re-surfaced. Issued in ultra-limited quantity by B.T. Puppy in 1970-and now changing hands for sums more familiar to NASDAQ-this is an other-worldly blend of sweet female blotter acid harmonies, hypnotic Farfisa and high-octane fuzz guitar histrionics.

Blues Magoos Electric Comic Book

LP 5301 LP/CD The Blues Magoos launched their recording career with the LP Psychedelic Lollipop. The equally impressive Electric Comic Book refines the band’s mix of rock ‘n’ roll and day-glo psychedelia. That punchy yet playful approach animates such distinctive numbers as “Pipe Dream,” “Rush Hour,” “There’s a Chance We Can Make It” and “Albert Common Is Dead.”

C.A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell

LP 5510 LP/CD Evolving from the local circuit into a hellish beast of keyboards, lysergic lyrics, trippy guitars and even subtle trumpet parts, the C.A. Quintet’s vision of the netherworld glowed in flaming orange, red and yellow as their instincts took over. Kicking off with the chilling psychedelicized keyboard-led instrumental title track, the album singes the psyche of the listener with an array of atmospheric beelzefuzz on “Colorado Mourning,” sitar-like solos intertwining with fuzz and horns on “Underground Music,” and the more benevolent Lucifer on “Smooth As Silk,” which swirls with keys and harmony vocals to underscore a brilliant melody.

Captain Beefheart It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Fever Tree Fever Tree

LP 5318 LP/CD Fever Tree’s lone hit single, the haunting 1968 tribal anthem “San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native),” perfectly captured the spirit of the psychedelic era. One of the period’s most distinctive debuts–the quintet was adept at perfectly incorporating psychedelic, jazz and classical influences into their work.

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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s second album of gloriously disjointed avantrock/blues and free-jazz skronk, presented just as nature—and the Captain—intended. Even after more than 40 years, this music is still hopelessly ahead of its time—or, as one-time Magic Band member Ry Cooder once described it, “right on time.”

Condello Phase 1 LP 5464 LP

Psychedelic masterwork Phase 1 features a young Bill Spooner (pre-Tubes) on guitar, the album flows and trickles through your mind with more saturation than Lucy and her diamonds in the sky -- picking up a few nuggets, boulders, and pebbles in the emergent violet haze. The phases of this pricey rarity -- mastered from the original analog reels and pressed on lush vinyl by RTI -- are guaranteed to put your mind into a psychedelized headswirl trip that you’ll want to take again and again.

Fifty Foot Hose Bad Trips MH-8091 LP

Bad Trips collects the Cauldron demos, outtakes, and other rarities that complete the story of a band too far ahead of its time to last. Includes both versions of their multi-speed composition “Bad Trip.” From the pre-Hose tracks of boldly atonal, proto-psychedelic freakout music to early versions of songs that would land on their opus, Bad Trips brazenly displays how Fifty Foot Hose changed the landscape of rock and experimental electronic music.

Jefferson Airplane Volunteers LP 5280 LP

1969’s Volunteers, whose release coincided with Jefferson Airplane’s performance at the Woodstock festival, is one of the group’s most popular albums. It’s also one of their most explicitly political efforts, calling for revolutionary action and countercultural unity on such memorable anthems as “We Can Be Together,” “Wooden Ships,” “Eskimo Blue Day” and the album’s iconic title song, with the band members’ formidable musicianship augmented by guest players Jerry Garcia and Nicky Hopkins.

Joseph Stoned Age Man LP 5463 LP

Brandishing his guitar like a Cro-Magnon’s club, Joseph mixes his fuzzy licks with meat-grinder vocals as he loudly ruminates of fattened snakes, fish heads, mountains, cavemen and gumbo in the maddest peyote hallucination Alley Oop never had. Long revered among collectors, this fine slab o’ rock is cut by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI!

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Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron MH-8090 LP

An electronic rock band wasn’t even an idea when Fifty Foot Hose released their landmark debut album at the end of 1967. Their fusion of psychedelia and electronics resulted in a truly trailblazing sound. Cauldron stands as a signal achievement that laid the groundwork for genres that didn’t even exist when it was released. Pressed at Third Man Pressing on custom colored vinyl and featuring a zine-style insert with liners by FFH electronics mastermind Cork Marcheschi and the original sleeve reinterpreted to a centerfold!

Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids LP 5272 LP

This unlikely collaboration produced a oneof-a-kind sonic experience that exemplifies the spirit of psychedelia while sounding like no other record of its time, mixing primal vocal chants and insistenttribal rhythms with proto-funk guitar and bluesy piano on such memorably titled tracks as “H-O-P-P Why?,” “The New Messiah Coming 1985,” “Empires of the Sun,” and “A Mind Blown Is a Mind Shown.”

Jefferson Airplane Crown Of Creation LP 5279 LP

Released in the fall of 1968, Crown of Creation found the ever-evolving Airplane moving towards a heavier, more concise approach on such tunes as “Greasy Heart” “In Time,” “If You Feel” and the soaring title number. The band’s folk-rock roots are reflected on Slick’s whimsical “Lather” and the David Crosby penned “Triad,” and the album culminates in grand style with “The House at Pooneil Corners,” one of the Airplane’s most epic excursions. The resulting album vividly captures the spirit of its time, and stands as a powerful testament to Jefferson Airplane’s brilliance.

Iggy & The Stooges Raw Power LP 5269 LP

If there’s ever been an album that lives up to its title, this is it--Iggy and the Stooges’ apocalyptic, high-octane bombshell, Raw Power! At times this searing, end-of-the-world death platter--home to such proto-punk frontal assaults as “Search and Destroy,” “Shake Appeal,” and “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell”--even threatens to surpass its beyond-appropriate moniker.

Love

Love Da Capo

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After gigging around the Los Angeles scene for three years, Arthur Lee was ready for something different. Inspired by seeing The Byrds live, he decided to merge their folk-rock sound with the driving r&b he had been playing to create a new group, dubbed Love. Recruiting guitarists Johnny Echols and ex-Byrds roadie Bryan Maclean, bassist Ken Forssi and drummer Alban “Snoopy” Pfisterer, Love began recording their eponymous debut LP in January 1966.

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1967’s Da Capo captured Love in a transitional phase, evolving from the frenetic garage folk of their debut album to the lush, psychedelic textures of their third release, Forever Changes. Da Capo’s first single, the tremolo drenched rave-up “Seven & Seven Is,” is a direct link to the energy and verve of the debut and rightfully became a garage-punk classic.

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As Arthur Lee entered the studio to begin the sessions for 1969’s Four Sail, he was the only remaining band member from the previous three LPs’ lineups. Enlisting the aid of Frank Fayad on bass, George Suranovich and Drachen Theaker on drums and Jay Donnellan on guitar, Lee launched a marathon recording session.

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By far the most ominous-sounding of the Bay Area’s 1960s psychedelic bands, the music of Berkeley’s Mad River comes across like a spiraling, acid-spiked descent into hell. With a raw, garagey style marked by Lawrence Hammond’s quavering vocals and the interlocking exchanges of guitarists David Robinson and Rick Bockner, Mad River’s sound conjures a darker, more menacing version of Quicksilver Messenger Service or early Country Joe and The Fish.

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Neighb’rhood Childr’n

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Blistering rockers with wispy melodies, Buddhist chants with wild-eyed psychedelic anthems: all part of the unique acid-folk vision of LA’s Music Emporium, led by keyboard virtuoso/singer Bill “Casey” Cosby.

Not only is their record hideously hard to find, it’s amazingly groovy coming from four kids from a rural background. Dyan’s voice has the earnest zeal of a young Grace Slick, and the complex arrangements run the table from acid-soaked tripsichord to fiery anthems meant to spur on a new generation of street-fighting men as well as lonely navigators of the mind.

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Paper Garden

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Their debut LP plus a dozen unreleased brownies, marinated in influences as mind-splintering as the mushroom folk/ rock blast of the Jefferson Airplane as well as the feel-good pristine pop of the Turtles. Spun gold from the original session tapes!

The Five Americans Progressions LP 5568 LP

The hits kept on coming from heroic Dallas fivesome The Five Americans with their third longplayer, 1967’s Progressions. Both “Zip Code” and “Evol-Not Love” careened up the charts as The Five Americans squared off on live stages throughout the Deep South with artists such as the Doors and Jefferson Airplane – and more than held their own against the best American rock ‘n’ roll had to offer!

The Druids Of Stonehenge Creation

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Experience the harpsichord-enhanced pop genius of “Lady’s Man,” orchestrated gems like “Way Up High,” the fuzz-pop-psych of “I Hide,” and Eastern grooves on “Man Do You” and “Raining.” With influences of the early Bee Gees and Brill Building pop also shading the proceedings, the album’s kaleidoscopic essence permeates every note - right down to the ultra-cool color-burst cover likely drawn under a pseudonym by Australian artist Martin Sharp of Disraeli Gears fame.

The Chocolate Watch Band

The Inner Mystique

LP 5307 LP/CD The Inner Mystique, the hypnotic second album by the Chocolate Watch Band, takes up exactly where its sacred predecessor left you: looking for your perfect match at the local Love-In. When Watch Band lead singer par excellence Dave Aguilar grabs you by the lapels and tells you “I’m Not Everybody Else,” you have no choice but to believe him.

The Electric Prunes Singles 1966-1969

LP 5523 2LP LP 5331 LP/CD The Electric Prunes perfectly bridged the edgy, This band and album have gained imfuzz-fueled garage-rock of contemporaries like mensely in stature and prestige among gathe Blues Magoos and the Thirteenth Floor rage-psych aficionados and ‘60s devotees, Elevators with a diligent, progressive studio craft with original copies of Creation becoming reminiscent of the Beatles and Beach Boys. This sought-after collectibles. Our release is gatefold double-LP set compiles the legendary mastered from the original analog tapes Prunes’ single sides - all of which magnificently and featuring complete original cover art. helped draw the road map of American Psychedelia, ‘66-’69!

The Guess Who Shakin’ All Over!

The Kaleidoscope A Beacon from Mars

The Kaleidoscope Side Trips

The Knickerbockers Jerk and Twine Time

LP 5247 LP Wielding a battery of exotic instruments that With the help of Guess Who guitarist Randy once adorned a thrift-shop front window (bazouBachman, we’ve gathered 24 of The Guess ki, oud, vina, saz, doumbeg), the Kaleidoscope Who’s hardest-hitting recordings from ‘63was every bit as multi-hued and subject-to’67. With many tracks in true stereo and a change as the telescope full of bright bits of handful of cuts that hadn’t seen daylight colored glass the band was named after. If there for more than 30 years, Shakin’ All Over! had been a prize for the most eclectic psycheis the ultimate distillation of the seismic delic outfit, L.A.’s Kaleidoscope would have had it stashed on a shelf--between sound of the early Guess Who! the hookah pipes and the bowling trophies--in the band’s rehearsal space.

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Like a mind-boggling combination of Summer of Love acid-rock, goodtime saloon music and a Middle Eastern jam session, Side Trips, the debut album by Kaleidoscope, stood out, even in the eye of the psychedelic hurricane, as something altogether different! Staffed by a hall of fame roster of multi-instrumentalists--David Lindley, Chris Darrow, Solomon Feldthouse, Chester Crill (aka: Fenrus Epp) and John Vidican.

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The Lies LP, recorded in Hollywood with songwriting contributions from the likes of Glen Campbell, Jim Seals and Jerry Fuller, surrounds its iconic title hit with an eclectic assortment of tunes, including the catchy melodic gems “I Can Do It Better” and “Just One Girl,” the widescreen pop experiment “I Believe in Her” and distinctive renditions of the durable standards “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Harlem Nocturne.”

The Leathercoated Minds A Trip Down Sunset Strip LP 5357 LP

The Leathercoated Minds’ 1967 release A Trip Down the Sunset Strip is a one-of-a-kind artifact of the psychedelic era. Originally conceived as an exploitation item, it nonetheless emerged as an enduring musical statement, thanks to the talents of those involved, particularly then-unknown Oklahoma-bred guitarist J.J. Cale. “

The Litter $100 Fine LP 5504 LP

How do you top The Litter’s godlike ‘67 longplayer, Distortions? Well, you don’t. But leave it to The Litter to deliver the equally essential (not to mention hopelessly rare) ‘68 follow-up, $100 Fine. From the ultra-explosive album opener, “Mindbreaker” (where the Distortions sound now takes on Blue Cheerlike heaviosity) to the LP’s epic finale; a nine-minute, ambitiously retooled “She’s Not There,” $100 Fine ranks as one of its era’s masterpieces.

The Missing Links Unchained LP 5422 LP

Must own ‘65 Aussie garage rarity with bonus 7” EP! This slice of vigorous vinyl became one of the most prized acquisitions for garage punk fans the world over, with each successive wave of Down Under musical malcontents spreading its legend.

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Jerk and Twine Time emphasizes the raw immediacy of the Knickerbockers’ origins as a live band. Beyond the dance-craze anthem “Jerk Town” and the venerable R&B instrumental “Twine Time,” the set offers a memorable mix of the British Invasion, R&B and Motown covers that dominated the band’s live repertoire at the time, with memorable renditions of the Zombies’ “She’s Not There” and the Kinks anthems “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night.”

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We went straight to the original Challenge analog mono masters and compiled Rockin’ With the Knickerbockers! This amazing album is a true celebration of one of the most criminally underrated groups of all time. Loaded with their best singles and album cuts, it’s Rockin’ from beginning to end! Litter The

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Fans of amped-up, ramped-up, balls-to-thewall rock ‘n’ roll already have this on their shelves. Headlined by two red-hot, stonecold killers, “Action Woman” and “Soul Searchin’”--both penned by producer Warren Kendrick--Distortions is arguably the greatest private-press garage band album of the era.

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California rock legend Gary Usher, is an exquisite progressive pop opus, combining breezy melodies, ambitious baroque arrangements, stirring psychedelic touches and angelic vocal harmonies to create a suite-like concept album that perfectly captures the optimistic mood of the time in which it was made.

Morly Grey The Only Truth LP 5349 2LP/CD

Veiled in mystery, enshrined in the psychedelic hall of fame and shielded behind a towering wall of collectors’ greenbacks, the reputation of Morly Grey’s 1972 masterwork The Only Truth is beyond dispute. But, accessibility to this Shroud of Hard-Psych Turin has been another matter, impeded by the near-impossibility of obtaining an original pressing and the absolute plethora of shoddy bootlegs.

The Paisleys Cosmic Mind At Play LP 5109 LP

The Paisleys’ mystical, brooding album, Cosmic Mind At Play, makes its first ever legit vinyl re-release! Produced by Warren Kendrick (The Litter, The Electras), we proudly present the full, swirlingly-psychedelic portrait of these dark Minneapolis

The Remains Live 1969 LP 5557 LP/CD

A little crunchy, slightly distorted, extremely wild, and just perfect! “There’s Nothing else in The Remains world as wild as this one. We were on fire…on the brink…” - Barry Tashian (The Remains)

The Rising Storm Calm Before... LP 5550 LP/CD

“Calm Before... remains one of the finest and most important LPs by a US ’60s group, never mind one that was still attending high school when it was released on the privately-pressed Remnant label. From a cache of moody ballads to highly-charged, all-out flashing teen rock, everything here is broodingly and sensationally played out, including highly-personalised covers of Love’s ‘Message To Pretty’, ‘In The Midnight Hour’ and The Remains’ gold-plated nugget ‘Don’t Look Back’.” - Shindig! Magazine

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The Remains

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They’ve been called “America’s Lost Band.” Actually, the Remains were not so much lost as they were woefully under-appreciated. Meeting at Boston University in 1964, they were soon drawing capacity crowds at The Rat. Led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Barry Tashian, the Remains were an incredibly tough four-piece with talent and chutzpah to spare. The Remains

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Ever wish you could travel back in time and be in the thick of the 1960s rock explosion? Well, until an actual TARDIS is perfected, this album is the next best thing. Recorded in the wee hours of May 26, 1966, A Session with the Remains is a noholds barred romp through their club set, captured live-to-tape in Capitol Records’ studios.

The Runaways The Runaways MH-8093 LP/CD

Cherry Bombs Of Icon & Influence! After snatching a record deal due to the brute strength of a single rehearsal, The Runaways proceeded to change the face (and gender) of rock and roll with the release of their 1976 debut. Full of tough, snarling tales of misbehavior and anthems of offbeat adolescence, the album established these juvenile idols and remains a source of inspiration for the next generation of rebels. Includes the delectable “Cherry Bomb,” “American Nights,” a venomous VU cover, & so much more!

The Shadows Of Knight Gloria

MH-8094 LP/CD LP 5034 LP/CD Queens Of Punk Glam & Noise! Arriving While the English bands were busy mere months after their initial assault, crafting their interpretation of American The Runaways crank up the intensity on blues, The Shadows of Knight, in their their dominant second album, paintown words, “re-added a Chicago touch” ing stark pictures of teenage rebellion to the Brit sound. The resulting music, across a stunning set of originals. This dubbed “blues-punk” was a high-energy final album featuring original vocalist mix of Chess and Cheshire, Chicago meets Cherie Currie, Queens Of Noise displays advances in The Runaways’ London in a back alley garage. Lead singer Jim Sohns could snarl songwriting and playing while keeping their take-no-prisoners attitude like Howlin’ Wolf and move like Mick Jagger, a wicked combination totally intact. guaranteed to generate pandemonium. It did. The Shadows Of Knight The Standells Back Door Men Dirty Water LP 5035 LP/CD LP 5546 LP/CD 1966 was a busy year for the Shadows of The Standells’ Dirty Water album, their first for Knight! Hot on heels of their hit ‘66 debut Tower Records, was primarily recorded away from album and monster single “Gloria,” they their Hollywood home base. Producer Ed Cobb released their second long player, Back picked a Seattle studio and engineer Kearney Door Men, before the year was out. It was Barton (the Sonics), unwittingly unleashing the another combustible collection of blazing savage Pacific Northwest Sound on the rest of blues covers and smoking originals. the country. As Standells founding member Larry Tamblyn tells it, “It really was the Standells raw.” The results include crushing classics like “Little Sally Tease,” “Medication,” and “Why Did You Hurt Me.” The Standells The Standells Why Pick On Me Try It LP 5547 LP/CD LP 5548 LP/CD For their second Tower album, Why Pick On Built around the banned title track, Try It Me, the Standells received a significant sonic is a tale of two (LP) sides; one a cohesive boost with the move to American Recording step into super-charged ‘67 Standells Company. The drum tracks on this album Soul, the other a bet-hedging exercise that are simply not to be believed, the bass drum compiles possibly the strongest material sound possibly registering on the Richter of the band’s career. Latter includes the scale. Here the Standells build on their classic Standells style, either at its most strengths with tough originals from producer pulverizing (“Barracuda,” “Riot on Sunset Strip”) or now one foot into Ed Cobb, equally-hard driving outside material (“Black Hearted Woman,” “Mainline”), and notably, the emergence of Larry Tamblyn as a songwriter psychedelia (“All Fall Down,” “Did You Ever Have That Feeling”). It (his “Mr. Nobody” arguably the album’s highlight). provides the perfect bookend to the Standells’ legendary Tower Re cords era albums.

The Strawberry Alarm Clock The Best Of...

The Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints

The Strawberry Alarm Clock Wake Up... It’s Tomorrow

The Strawberry Alarm Clock The World In A Sea Shell

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LP 5308 LP/CD The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock is a The Strawberry Alarm Clock made musical vintage collection from 1970 that includes history with its first single, the infectiously key tracks from all four of the band’s alpsychedelic “Incense and Peppermints,” bums, “Incense and Peppermints” among which topped the singles charts in Decemthem--plus the rarely heard non-LP singles ber 1967. It remains one of the Aquarian “Desiree” and “Starting Out the Day,” now Age’s most enduring anthems. And as the on vinyl. California combo’s debut LP demonstrates, there was a lot more to the Strawberry Alarm Clock than their iconic trademark hit.

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Wake Up...It’s Tomorrow, The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s second album, is what many fans consider the most ambitious musical statement of the band’s career. Includes “Tomorrow,” “Sit with the Guru,” and the haunting “Pretty Song from Psych-Out,” theme of the cult-classic film of the same name, on premium RTI vinyl.

The Third Bardo I’m Five Years Ahead Of My Time

World In A Sea Shell: More gentle grooves and soaring voices! An adventurous mixture of psychedelia and lush pop, The World In A Sea Shell includes “Love Me Again,” a nod to their earlier, harder sound, plus “Sea Shell,” “Barefoot in Baltimore” and other day-glo psych masterpieces on vinyl.

The United States of America

LP 5211 LP/CD The United States of America, led by respected modern classical avant garde musician Joseph Byrd, cut a wide swath through the 1968 world of rock, just then comfortably settling in to its backwoods dreams of country-rock to find the debut U.S.A. album howling like an infant terrible on its front doorstep. At the center of the U.S.A.’s fiercely experimental universe were the icy-cool vocals of the beautiful Dorothy Moskowitz, keeping this tumultuous sound from spinning out-of-control in every direction. Almost predictably, the U.S.A. disbanded before it could record a second album, but its brilliant, self-titled effort was certainly one for the ages. We The People

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The quality of the Third Bardo’s work far outweighs its quantity, as evidenced by the band’s ongoing influence in the decades since it vanished from the scene. Such mind-meltingly brilliant garage-psych nuggets as “I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time,” “Rainbow Life” and “Lose Your Mind” captured the imaginations of subsequent generations of fans, inspiring covers by such combos as the Cramps and the Nomads.

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With its mind-altering, waltzing-through-hotasphalt take on the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On” scorching the ‘67 charts, Vanilla Fudge burst to the forefront of all the “heavy” new combos. The group’s debut disc is relaunched here in its rare and unique mono mix, a decidedly different and more powerful listening experience than the more common stereo release.

Too Much Noise

LP 5251 LP/CD Garage fans agree: We The People’s raging, tough-as-nails punk tracks “Mirror of Your Mind” and “You Burn Me Up and Down” rate among the era’s best. But believe it or not this band was capable of even more. Along with the above two hammer-down classics, Too Much Noise collates everything the seminal--and surprisingly diverse--Central Florida outfit cut for the Challenge label during the band’s mid-’60s heyday, including the raga-rock fave “In the Past” (covered by the Chocolate Watchband) and the tender folk-rock ballad “(You Are) The Color of Love.”

Ultimate Spinach Ultimate Spinach LP 5560 LP Behold And See

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LP 5553 LP The Spinach’s self-titled debut album is now considered a psychedelic classic, but it’s the group’s second record, Behold and See, that is perhaps their finest achievement. Ostensibly a concept album, it’s centered around lead singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist Ian Bruce-Douglas’ cynical worldview. He skewers “normal” society with all the fervor of Zappa and all the surreality (and insanity) of Bob Markley on songs like “Visions of Your Reality” and the four-part “Suite: Genesis of Beauty.” Add in the lush, floating vocals of Barbara Jean Hudson, fuzz guitar and some great late-60s psych jangle and you’ve got the formula for an unhinged classic that stands up to the best of the non-coastal psych sounds of the late-60s.

Jan & Dean Save For A Rainy Day

LP 5417 LP/CD When Jan Berry was injured in a terrible auto accident in 1966, partner Dean Torrence did his best to keep the duo’s name alive. A concept album featuring songs about rain with sound effects of a thunderstorm linking the tracks, it was an adventurous departure from the duo’s past work.

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Dreamy psych baroque folk! Released just a year after her vocals graced Leonard Cohen’s debut, Nancy Priddy’s lone album is a sweeping odyssey across avant garde arrangements rife with experimental pop instrumentation and adorned with her sublimely delivered psychedelic poetry.

The Daisy Chain Straight Or Lame

LP 5358 LP/CD The female quartet known as the Daisy Chain came roaring out of Southern California’s Orange County just in time for the Summer of Love. They disappeared from the scene almost as abruptly as they arrived, but not before leaving behind a stunning artifact of dayglo hippy trippiness and weirdness!

The Left Banke Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina

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Linda Perhacs’ sole 1970 LP: an essential, ethereal psychedelic-folk masterpiece!

Tandyn Almer Along Comes Tandyn

LP 5406 LP/CD The lost pop-psych classic of the ‘60s! A stunning collection covering a wide stylistic range, a resounding confirmation Almer’s harmonic genius. After one listen, you’ll understand why Tandyn was always the smartest guy in the room.

The Feminine Complex Livin’ Love

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Nashville’s first all-female rock ’n’ roll band, the five teenage girls comprising The Feminine Complex, created a new template for the genre with the release of their 1969 album. This expanded edition includes a second disc of demos and originally unissued tracks, all of them making their vinyl debut!

The Left Banke The Left Banke Too

LP 5376 LP/CD The Left Banke Too emerged from a turbulent period of the band’s brief but eventful The Left Banke’s 1967 debut album Walk history. Despite the success of their 1967 Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina is widely regarddebut album Walk Away Renee/Pretty ed as one of the greatest debut albums of Ballerina, the Left Banke’s lineup splintered the ‘60s, thanks to frontman Steve Martin’s soon after its release. They regrouped and evocative lead vocals, the haunting harmorose to the occasion for The Left Banke Too, nies of band members Tom Finn and George crafting a musically inventive, emotionally evocative set that’s every bit Cameron, the ambitious songwriting of keyboardist Michael Brown, and as magnificent as its predecessor. exquisite, classically-influenced arrangements that were unlike anything else in popular music at the time. LP 5375 LP/CD

Wendy & Bonnie Genesis

LP 5258 LP/CD One of the most remarkable unheard albums of 1969, Genesis, the sole release by San Francisco-based sisters Wendy and Bonnie Flower, has emerged as an acclaimed pop-psych touchstone. With melodic confections laced with radiant sisterly harmony, the breezy Brazilian splashes and soft-rock strains convey a sophistication that belies the artists’ tender ages (Wendy 17, Bonnie 13).

DONOVAN Donovan Mellow Yellow

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Donovan’s fourth album, 1967’s Mellow Yellow, is a dynamic transitional effort that finds the singer-songwriter-guitarist expanding his artistry into rewarding new areas. In addition to the sing-along title hit, which famously inspired a persistent urban legend regarding the recreational consumption of banana peels, Mellow Yellow encompasses acoustic introspection, crafty art-pop, bittersweet insight, beat poetry, and a fond nod to British folk icon Bert Jansch. Donovan

By 1966 Donovan had evolved beyond his initial folk troubadour style and fully embraced the budding “flower power” movement. Finding inspiration in jazz, blues, world music and West Coast U.S. rock, he partnered with top UK producer Mickie Most and arranger John Cameron to capture the sound he was pursuing in his mind.

Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven

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With 1968’s The Hurdy Gurdy Man, Donovan delivered one of his most fully-realized Donovan’s 1967 release Wear Your Love works, with a psychedelic/progressive edge Like Heaven is one of his brightest and as well as an exotic Eastern flavor that most upbeat albums. It finds Donovan reflects the influence of his then-recent in mostly electric mode, and taking an trip with the Beatles to India to study with increasingly active production role that he Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-an experience that would maintain for the rest of his career. helped to inspire Donovan to renounce drug use and encourage his fans to try meditation instead of chemical consumption. Donovan Barabajagal LP 5433 LP In addition to being one of Donovan’s edgiest and most ambitious releases, 1968’s Barabajagal was the most commercially successful album of his career, reaching #4 in the U.S. and remaining on the Billboard album chart for more than a year. With instrumental backup by the Jeff Beck Group, Barabajagal features an imaginative array of sounds that showcase some of Donovan’s most adventurous compositions.

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The Incredible String Band

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Beginning as a duo in Edinburg, Scotland, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer sought to stretch the boundaries of contemporary folk music from the start. After adding additional guitarist Mike Herron, they created a pioneering example of what later became know as psychedelic folk, and an instant hit with adventurous music consumers. Incredible String Band The

The Hangman’s Beautiful

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For their second album, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron recruited Pentangle’s Danny Thompson on double bass, Nazir “Soma” Jairazbhoy on sitar, Licorice McKenzie on vocals/percussion and John “Hoppy” Hopkins, proprietor of London’s famed UFO Club, on piano to help them realize their vision. Daughter

The 1968 release of The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, the third International String Band album, was met with wide acclaim, both critically and commercially, reaching #5 in the UK. Sitar, oud, panpipe, jaw harp, water harp, penny whistle, chananai, harpsichord and gimbri merged with traditional folk instruments in a multi-tracked musical extravaganza. This audacious aural experience proved to be heavily influential on the band’s contemporaries.

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Margo Guryan’s honeyed voice and gorgeously sweet songwriting has become a favorite of the soft-pop set. As a successful songwriter, her compositions have been recorded by the likes of Jackie DeShannon, Spanky & Our Gang, Astrid Gilberto, Claudine Longet, Oliver, Cass Elliot, Glen Campbell, Saint Etienne and Harry Belafonte. She’s influenced everyone from the Wondermints to Belle and Sebastian to Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (who listened to Take A Picture while writing Juno).

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The Lovin’ Spoonful

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The Lovin’ Spoonful

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One of the first homegrown American bands to achieve prominence in the heady days of the British Invasion, the Lovin’ Spoonful effortlessly bridged commercial success and musical credibility, merging good-timey pop-rock tunes with material that showcased the band members’ folk, blues and jug-band roots. The effervescent foursome of frontman John Sebastian, guitarist Zal Yanovsky, bassist Steve Boone and drummer Joe Butler formed in 1965 and quickly made their name on the Greenwich Village club scene. Before the year was out, the Spoonful had already signed to the Kama Sutra label and scored their first Top 10 hit with “Do You Believe in Magic?” The band continued to storm the singles charts with such infectious tunes as “Summer in the City,” “Daydream,” “You didn’t Have to Be So Nice” and,” “Nashville Cats,” while making memorable albums that’showed off Sebastian’s songwriting prowess and the band’s varied instrumental talents.

The Monkees More Of The Monkees

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In August 1966, the world met the Monkees (and vice versa) as their debut single, “Last Train to Clarksville,” was released and bought them a ticket to ride straight to the top of the charts! With debut of their television show just weeks later on September 12th, the group suddenly found themselves with a huge fanbase, clamoring for more music. They answered that call on October 10th with the release of their debut album, The Monkees, which topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks. Featuring songs written by Boyce & Hart, David Gates, Goffin & King and Mike Nesmith, among others, it was a stunning entry into the ridiculously rich contemporary music scene.

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In December 1966, over repeated objections by series musical supervisor Don Kirshner, the Monkees made the move from lip-synching TV combo to live performing group, making their concert debut in Hawaii. While on tour, the band was surprised to see the release of their second album, More of the Monkees, in January 1967. Kirshner had not consulted the band on the album’s selections or even notified them that it was to be released. Mike Nesmith was particularly incensed and dismissed the entire project, particularly the cover pictures which had been collected from a fashion spread the group shot for J.C. Penney. This incident added to a growing rift between the group and Kirshner, which would come to head in a contentious meeting later in the month.

The Monkees Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.

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Kirshner was dismissed and the group won their battle to be the sole creators of their recorded output. Uh-oh--now what?!? Kirshner had built a multiplatinum machine, using outstanding songs from writers like Neil Diamond, Boyce & Hart and Goffin and King. He had carefully staffed the sessions with the cream of studio musicians, the same people who played on countless other artists’ hit sessions. How were the Monkees going to follow that? Nesmith and Peter Tork were adequate players but their guitar prowess wasn’t keeping Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco up at night. Mickey Dolenz, while possessing a distinctive rock voice, was a neophyte drummer still learning his way around the kit. And Davy Jones, who was an impeccably trained vocalist, had little to offer in the way of instrumental skills. How was this fledgling band going to make an album? By all rights, resulting album should have been awful. However, Headquarters was anything but awful. In fact, it was great! The Monkees

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After making most of Headquarters on their own, the Monkees broadened their outlook for their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., bringing in select session players to assist them in recording. This album marked several changes for the group, the most immediately noticeable being Mike Nesmith’s increased vocal contributions. He sings lead on five of the album’s tracks, while Mickey Dolenz, the band’s previously dominant lead vocalist, sang only three. But what a trio of tunes! Mickey memorably voiced “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” another hit from the pens of Goffin & King and one with surprisingly sharp social commentary. Climbing to #3 on the pop charts, it featured a blazing, “Paperback Writer”-style guitar riff that fit seamlessly alongside the other rock hits of the day. The single’s B-side, “Words,” also with a Dolenz lead vocal, became a hit as well.

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1968 was a turbulent year for the Monkees. Their television series, which had debuted as a huge hit two years earlier, was cancelled in February. The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees, released after the cancellation in April 1968, was their first album not to reach #1 on the Billboard chart. Internally, their group dynamic was changing, too. While they had previously collaborated on recording sessions as a unit, increasingly each Monkee took to working in a separate studio, away from the other band members (shades of the White Album, coincidentally also released in 1968). Yet, as the White Album proved, group members working individually could still deliver a brilliant album and such was the case with The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees.

Date Bait - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8201 LP+DVD

A jazz & rock rumble! Nicholas Carras’ powerhouse score for this angst-filled flick is a tapestry of sounds from fast, jazzy pieces, dark and suspenseful moments, breezy traveling music, and the optimistic ending. The soundtrack also features the earworm of a title cut that will have you pappa do do wah-sing along. Included here is a zine-style insert and a DVD of the outrageous original film, with a special Modern Harmonic edit made to sync with your LP!

High School Caesar - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MH-8200 LP+DVD

Bongo jazz stylings & reprehensible ruffians! The true starring role in High School Caesar is the dark and tense compositions, and wild, bongo-driven percussion of the Nicholas Carras score! This soundtrack collects three rare, blistering rockers featured in the film, and delinquent lines of dialog from the harrowing tale along with the prime cuts of the score. This deluxe package includes a zine-style insert and a DVD of the outrageous original film, with a special Modern Harmonic edit made to sync with your LP!

Mr. Peters’ Pets - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8016 LP+DVD

A jazzy romp through the titillating ‘60s. On Mr. Peters’ Pets, composer Nicholas Carras ventures deep into the bongo-crazed percussion world of exotica! This is a jubilant jazz record with serious swagger.

She Demons - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8207 LP+Poster

A tympani symphony of demonic mayhem! Nicholas Carras’ soundtrack for this 1958 “horror” film adds a much needed shot of drama and excitement to the wide range of bizarre charms captured on screen. Carras employs thundering tympani and a small ensemble for an enthralling score, highlighted by a drum-propelled dance and Oscar-worthy dialog. Pressed on demon green vinyl and includes a menacing movie poster!

Missile To The Moon - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MH-8208 LP+Poster

Theremin doppelgänger fueled space exploration! While this 1958 sci-film may have been a rather careless construction (and heavy on the cardboard) there was clearly more thought involved in hiring Nicholas Carras, whose score is equally thunderous and evocative. Strings accentuate the bevy of space beauties and the sounds of electric violin are manipulated to create otherworldly and theremin-like space sounds, all celebrated in an orbit of delectable dialog. Pressed on rocket red vinyl and includes a movie poster!

Doll Squad - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack MH-8213 LP+DVD

Buxom badass beauties save the world in this Ted Mikels ’73 spy classic that is rumored to have inspired Charlie’s Angels. Nicholas Carras builds the suspense, tension, and swagger in this departure from some of his other work. Closing out the adventure is the Bond-ish vocal cut “Sabrina” which is sure to be a spy anthem. This gem includes dialog from the film and a DVD of it too! Complete with a MH edit to sync to your LP!

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