It's a Continental Drifters trifecta – biography, 'Best Of' & tribute album!

Watch an interview with Sean Kelly who penned the Continental Drifters book "White Noise & Lightning" out now.  

White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of The Continental Drifters

Omnivore's new Continental Drifters release White Noise & Lightning is a 15-track CD/11-track LP collection of material spanning their career produced with full cooperation from the band.

“There have been plenty of unquestionably great bands throughout history, but a relatively small number of those bands have a real distinctiveness to their sound and makeup. Once you get to know the Continental Drifters, it becomes apparent that they possess that rare singularity.” — Sean Kelly from his liner notes

 

Continental Drifters are a congregation of like-minded, creative musical souls, whose other bands just happened to include The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The dB’s, The Cowsills, and more. From their 1992 debut single “The Mississippi” through 1994’s eponymous debut, 1998’s Vermillion, 2001’s Better Day, and Nineteen Ninety-Three (recorded in 1992 but released a decade later), the Drifters’ lineup may have been fluid, but their sound has always been instantly identifiable, comforting, and fantastic.

White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters paints the story of the band. The 11-track LP and 15-track CD (featuring a previously unissued scorching 12-minute live version of “Who We Are, Where We Live”) follows the journey across their entire career. It will be released in conjunction with the publication of Sean Kelly’s White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story (coming September 27 from Cool Dog Sound) which chronicles the 10-year journey of the Continental Drifters and follows the band through years of cross-country moves, lineup changes, industry highs and lows, marriages, divorces, and dozens of classic songs.

Just as Kelly’s authorized biography of the band tells the story of a critically acclaimed, commercially overlooked band that became so much more, White Noise & Lightning is not only a great place to start for the uninitiated, but is the perfect soundtrack for this legendary proto-Americana band. 

Get a copy of White Noise & Lightning: The Best of the Continental Drifters directly from Omnivore Recordings right here. Check out the CD tracklisting (with four more songs than the vinyl version) below followed by an interview with biographer Sean Kelly and a few Continental Drifters performance clips. There's also a link to a Continental Drifters chat about the new releases on Facebook moderated by Brett Milano on Sunday (September 29) at 6 pm Eastern. 

WHITE NOISE & LIGHTNING: The Best of Continental Drifters CD:

THE RAIN SONG

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TRANSCONTINENTAL HIGHWAY

DALLAS

MEZZANINE

INVISIBLE BOYFRIEND

MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

THE MISSISSIPPI

GET OVER IT

MIXED MESSAGES

DON’T DO WHAT I DID

TOMORROW’S GONNA BE

NA NA

PEACEFUL WAKING

DRIFTERS

WHO WE ARE, WHERE WE LIVE (Live at the Court Tavern)

The Drifters and author Sean Kelly discuss the new book White Noise & Lightning right here. 

LINKS

Coachella Valley Weekly Continental Drifters

Offbeat Various Artists: We Are All Drifters

Expanded vinyl issue of the Kelly Willis alt-country gem "What I Deserve" on the way

Omnivore marks the 25th anniversary of the Kelly Willis classic "What I Deserve" with an overdue vinyl issue boasting five bonus live tracks!

Here's the scoop from Omnivore HQ...

25th Anniversary expanded edition available on CD and for the first time on vinyl. Both formats include 5 live bonus tracks.

While gigging in Austin, Texas, in the late 1980s, Kelly Willis developed a strong fan base. Among her fans were other Texas musicians like Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. Griffith introduced her to producer Tony Brown who signed Willis to MCA Records. Soon, she would find herself in the films Thelma And Louise and Bob Roberts, as well as receiving a nomination as Top New Female Vocalist at 1993’s Academy of Country Music Awards. After three records on MCA, and an EP on A&M, Willis finished her fifth release and signed with Rykodisc, who released What I Deserve in 1999.

Featuring originals by Willis, three co-writes with The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, and songs by Paul Kelly, Paul Westerberg, Nick Drake, Dan Penn, and more—What I Deserve became her highest charting album to date, hitting #30 on the Country charts and #24 on Heatseekers Albums. It is also now revered as a landmark release in Alternative Country and Americana circles—with good reason.

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary, What I Deserve returns—expanded with five previously unissued live performances of songs from the album recorded November 14, 1999 on Mountain Stage. In addition to an expanded CD reissue, the release sees its first appearance on vinyl as a double LP! In addition to the 17 tracks (appearing on both formats), the packaging contains lyrics and new liner notes from Peter Blackstock (No Depression, Austin American-Statesman), all done with Kelly’s approval.

What I Deserve has always deserved another look and listen for those who may have missed it the first time—what you deserve is to lose yourself in Kelly Willis’ incredible What I Deserve and celebrate 25 years of this landmark album. Pre-order a copy of Omnivore's expanded reissue of What I Deserve directly from the label right here. 

Watch the release trailer and a couple of Kelly's performances of songs from the album (including a lovely rendition of Nick Drake's "Time Has Told Me" from a Sessions at West 54th show back in 2000), a more recent Live at  the Levitt stream, a 1992 appearance with Jerry Jeff Walker on The Texas Connection and an informal chat about nothing in particular with fellow singer/songwriter Jack Ingram from 2022 below. 

KELLY WILLIS – WHAT I DESERVE 

TAKE ME DOWN

WHAT I DESERVE

HEAVEN BOUND

TALK LIKE THAT

NOT FORGOTTEN YOU

WRAPPED

CRADLE OF LOVE

GOT A FEELIN’ FOR YA

TIME HAS TOLD ME

FADING FAST

HAPPY WITH THAT

THEY’RE BLIND

NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD

Previously Unissued Bonus Tracks

LIVE ON MOUNTAIN STAGE, NOVEMBER 14, 1999:

WHAT I DESERVE

NOT FORGOTTEN YOU

CRADLE OF LOVE

HEAVEN BOUND

FADING FAST

Omnivore's new Steve Young 3CD set boasts 34 unissued live tracks!

Check out a couple of Steve Young's live recordings from the 3CD set Stars In The Southern Sky out now via Omnivore. 

Here's the scoop from Omnivore Recordings...

Singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Steve Young (1942-2016) was a pioneer of “country rock” and of “outlaw country,” two movements that transformed mainstream country music and impacted other genres of American popular music.

Several generations of artists—country music’s new traditionalists during the 1980s, alternative country acts in the 1990s, as well as those associated with Americana music in the current century—broadened their audiences by merging country music with elements of other music genres. All those musicians have been indebted to Young and such contemporaries as Gram Parsons and Gene Clark, who collectively demonstrated how to integrate country music with other music genres (rock, pop, folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and gospel).

Young, a Southerner, recorded more than a dozen distinctive albums, but none was more fully realized than his 1975 album Honky-Tonk Man. Recorded at the acclaimed Minneapolis studio Sound 80 and released by Mountain Railroad Records, a small independent label based in the Upper Midwest, Honky-Tonk Man documented the musical world of a complex if largely misunderstood artist during the peak of his powers.

Now, Honky-Tonk Man returns (also available in its original form on vinyl for the first time in three decades) as part of Stars In The Southern Sky—a 3-CD/Digital collection highlighting that monumental 1975 era. Packaged in a slipcase, featuring a 40-page booklet with rare photos and new liner notes from Honky-Tonk Man Producer Stephen Powers and Ted Olson (who both oversaw the set.) The whopping 47-track set contains Honky-Tonk Man, “Stanley And Henry” (Young’s collaboration with Jim Post from Post’s 1978 I Love My Life album) and 34 previously unissued live tracks including standards and original material including Young’s classic “Seven Bridges Road” (a 1980 hit for the Eagles using Iain Matthews’ Michael Nesmith produced version as a template, and also covered by Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, Rita Coolidge and more.)

So, revisit the origins of Country Rock, Outlaw Country, and Americana. Sit back and enjoy the Stars In The Southern Sky! Get a copy of the Steve Young's Stars In The Southern Sky 3CD set right here. Check out two live performances following the tracklisting and the teaser trailer below. 

 

Steve Young – Stars In The Southern Sky

DISC 1 – HONKY-TONK MAN:

HONKY-TONK MAN

BRAIN CLOUDY BLUES

ROCK SALT & NAILS

ROCKIN’ CHAIR MONEY

RAMBLIN’ MAN

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN

TRAVELING KIND

SALLY GOODIN’

ALABAMA HIGHWAY

VISION OF A CHILD

WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH BEFORE

THE WHITE TRASH SONG

STANLEY AND HENRY Jim Post with Steve Young [Bonus Track]

DISC 2 – STEVE YOUNG LIVE:

LONG WAY TO HOLLYWOOD

RAGTIME BLUE GUITAR

SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD

MONTGOMERY IN THE RAIN

BRAIN CLOUDY BLUES

LONESOME, ON’RY AND MEAN

RAMBLIN’ MAN

HOME SWEET HOME REVISITED

ONE WOMAN MAN

NO PLACE TO FALL

DRIFT AWAY

DON’T THINK TWICE (IT’S ALRIGHT)

GONNA FIND ME A BLUEBIRD

HOBO BLUES

GO TO SEA NO MORE

TRAVELING KIND

THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA

DISC 3 – STEVE YOUNG LIVE:

THE WHITE TRASH SONG

TOBACCO ROAD

THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED

ALL HER LOVERS WANT TO BE THE HERO

CORRINA, CORRINA

ROCK SALT & NAILS

OLD MEMORIES (MEAN NOTHING TO ME)

YOU DON’T MISS YOUR WATER

LOVE PLEASE COME HOME

SAN FRANCISCO MABEL JOY

MY SWEET LOVE AIN’T AROUND

ALABAMA HIGHWAY

BACKSLIDER’S WINE

EAST VIRGINIA

MANY RIVERS

WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH BEFORE

MIDNIGHT RIDER

Dr John's Atlantic singles comp "Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya" issued by Omnivore

The 26-track Dr. John singles collection Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya – issued as a limited RSD 2LP set – is out on CD April 26.

Here's the scoop...

Dr. John has proven to be one of music’s foremost generalists, a primary-care cat whose practice extends back some 60 years. The awards (six Grammys and counting) and accolades validated the quality of his output, but it’s the range of what he’s done that truly impresses. These Atco and Atlantic sides were clearly the right-place right-time recordings. They put Dr. John on the map and into the ears and minds of music enthusiasts the world over. —excerpt from liner notes by Gene Sculatti

Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr. lived an extraordinary life, from which we all benefitted. His combination of New Orleans R&B, blues, jazz, funk, and rock permeated the musical landscape of the late ’60s and beyond. While quite young, he was influenced by piano players, including Professor Longhair. As a teenage musical prodigy, Mac was a songwriter, arranger, A&R guy, and a producer for Ace Records, running sessions with legendary artists. During the 1960s, as a “first call” Los Angeles studio musician, he honed his chops doing session work for artists including Sonny & Cher, Canned Heat, and Frank Zappa.

Years later, he developed his persona of Dr. John The Night Tripper and his 1968 debut album, Gris Gris, was a phenomenon, attracting fans across the musical spectrum. Its “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” has been covered by The Allman Brothers, Cher, Paul Weller, The Neville Brothers, and was a centerpiece of Humble Pie’s classic Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore.

More singles and albums followed including “Iko Iko” (from Dr. John’s Gumbo) and “Right Place Wrong Time” (which hit #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973.) Both Gris Gris and Gumbo were listed on Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time, and Dr. John performed In The Right Place’s “Such A Night” at The Band’s 1976 farewell concert—immortalized in The Last Waltz. He would go on to win six Grammy awards and in 2011 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by John Legend.

Now, his singles from those early and influential Atco/Atlantic years have been collected on Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: Singles 1968–1974. 26 sides of pure musical medicine from Dr. John. Available as a 2-LP on double Opaque Purple Vinyl for Record Store Day (CD to follow), the packaging contains liner notes from Gene Sculatti. Featuring the hits “Right Place Wrong Time,” “Iko Iko,” “Such A Night,” and rare single edits of other classics, Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: Singles 1968–1974 is not only the right place to start your Dr. John journey, but the perfect place to relive the classic Atco/Atlantic albums. 

Get a copy directly from Omnivore Recordings right here. Check the track list below followed by the title track and a collection of Dr. John interview footage.  

Dr. John – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: Singles 1968-1974 

GRIS-GRIS GUMBO YA YA Dr. John The Night Tripper

I WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS (Part I)* Dr. – John The Night Tripper

I WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS (Part II)* – Dr. John The Night Tripper

MAMA ROUX – Dr. John The Night Tripper

JUMP STURDY – Dr. John The Night Tripper

THE PATRIOTIC FLAG WAVER (Mono Short Version)* – Dr. John The Night Tripper

WASH MAMA WASH – Dr. John The Night Tripper

LOOP GAROO – Dr. John The Night Tripper

IKO IKO*

HUEY SMITH MEDLEY: “HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE” “DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT” “WELL I’LL BE JOHN BROWN”*

WANG DANG DOODLE

BIG CHIEF

A MAN OF MANY WORDS – Buddy Guy with Dr. John & Eric Clapton

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL (Edit)

STACK-A-LEE

RIGHT PLACE WRONG TIME

I’VE BEEN HOODOOD

SUCH A NIGHT

COLD COLD COLD

TRAVELING MOOD

SAME OLD SAME OLD

LIFE

(EVERYBODY WANNA GET RICH) RITE AWAY

MOS’ SCOCIOUS

LET’S MAKE A BETTER WORLD

ME – YOU = LONELINESS

Watch the reunited Continental Drifters play in New Orleans

Susan Cowsill & Vicki Peterson got together to play two Continental Drifters tunes for Steppin' Out and a Chickie Wah Wah show.

Grab a copy of Omnivore's 2CD Continental Drifters' rarities set Drifted: In The Beginning & Beyond right here.

The Baseball Project previews Grand Salami Time with "Journeyman"

Steve Wynn, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey & Linda Pitmon return with Grand Salami Time! on June 30th via Omnivore. Listen to "Journeyman"

Here's the scoop from Omnivore HQ...

In 2008 they busted out of the box and easily reached first with their Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails. The Baseball Project was on base and immediately posed a threat to go further. In 2011, they moved on to second with some wildness aptly called High And Inside. They were halfway home. Three years later in 2014, the quintet of Big Stars moved on down the line to the aptly titled 3rd, an epic double dip delight of craftsmanship and savvy.

And there they stayed. For nine long years at the hot corner, but we’re happy to say that The Baseball Project is finally coming home, scoring big and touching ’em all with their fourth album Grand Salami Time. The scoreboard is lighting up and the fireworks are illuminating the sky.

Speaking of reaching home, this album is a homecoming of sorts, as the band recorded and produced the album with none other than the legendary Mitch Easter. BBP members Peter Buck and Mike Mills’ made their first albums with Mitch back in the early ’80s with a swingin’ little combo called R.E.M.

Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn kept busy themselves, busting out new tunes with the Minus 5/Young Fresh Fellows (Scott) and The Dream Syndicate (Steve), while stockpiling a passel of penned poetics about the national pastime, many co-written with Peter. Mike adds a new classic of his own about doctored baseballs called “Stuff.”

Linda Pitmon, who along with Peter and Scott has been part of a steady rhythmic nucleus, bashing out epic rock platters with Filthy Friends, (Alejandro Escovedo, Luke Haines & Peter Buck), is back driving the ship from behind her mighty drum machine.

All in all, a fancy pedigree but, as Wynn points out, “this is our only band that plays stadiums”—true story as The Baseball Project has performed full sets along with the National Anthem and “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” at major league parks in Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and more minor league and spring training fields, as well as having thrown out some exceptional first pitches (nothing but strikes!) as well.

It’s all part of an unusual arc and fun story of a band whose first gig was an appearance on Late Night With David Letterman followed by a festival in a medieval Spanish city. For a quintet that has seemingly done everything over the years with their other bands, The Baseball Project always offers new and uncharted experiences.

The album was recorded at Mitch Easter’s fabled Fidelitorium Studios in Kernersville, North Carolina, with the entire band performing live together in the same room, a joyous experience that seemed impossible to imagine only one year before. Mitch adds guitar on a few tracks and the record also features appearances by Stephen McCarthy (The Long Ryders) and Steve Berlin (Los Lobos).

In the meantime, the band will be out on the road throughout—when else?—the upcoming baseball season. And we all know they’ll find their way home. Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it’s Grand Salami Time!

Available on CD, Digital, and as a double-LP (with an etched 4th side), Grand Salami Time is the home run music fans have been waiting for. Packaging features stories behind the songs from band members, and makes Grand Salami Time more than a game—it makes your season! 

You can pre-order The Baseball Project's forthcoming album, Grand Salami Time! from Omnivore right here. Listen to "Journeyman" followed by the album trailer clip below. 

 

Night Crickets share new video for "A Free Society"

Check out A Free Society shot by Ramzi Abed and starring Night Crickets' David J, Victor DeLorenzo & Darwin Meiners. 

Expanded version of Bobby Cole's rare A Point Of View album due in April

Bobby Cole's tough-to-find 1967 album is sought after for the club cooker "A Perfect Day" which you can hear below. 

Here's the scoop from Omnivore Recordings:

Bobby Cole's A Point Of View LP on Concentric 

Frank Sinatra walks into a bar...

Well, Frank called it a “bistro,” and Jilly’s on 52nd Street even had matchbooks that when opened read, “My favorite bistro — Frank Sinatra.” Jilly’s also featured Frank’s “favorite saloon singer,” Bobby Cole, who held court there for many years. His other gigs around New York landed him a recording contract with Columbia, but the 1960 release from the Bobby Cole Trio, while well reviewed, failed to gain traction. It featured no original material from Cole, and was essentially a recorded version of his Jilly’s act — one hard to capture on LP.

Judy Garland walks into a bar . . .

In 1964, and after hearing Cole’s performance of one of her favorites, Cy Coleman’s “You Fascinate Me So,” Garland invited the New York jazz singer to become the new musical arranger for CBS’s The Judy Garland Show in Los Angeles. When that show ended, Cole returned to New York and Jilly’s.

Jack Lonshein, whose day job was creating album covers for artists including Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young (and eventually Big Brother & the Holding Company and The Amboy Dukes!), was a friend of Cole’s. He knew Bobby’s magic, and original songs, were what the jazz world needed. Taking things into his own hands, A Point of View was released on Lonshein’s own Concentric Records, and as can happen, no matter how well received and reviewed a record is, finding a copy was half the battle for fans. A Point of View made waves in the boroughs, was raved about in Billboard and Cash Box, and then disappeared — but became a coveted prize by those who experienced it. Artists including Freddy Cole (Nat’s brother) and Tom Jones all covered material from it.

A Point of View now returns 55 years later, fully authorized by the Estate of Bobby Cole. Produced for release by Grammy®-winner Cheryl Pawelski and lovingly remastered by Grammy®-winner Michael Graves, this new version presents the original release, plus 13 previously unissued bonus tracks drawn from sessions likely intended for a follow-up release that didn’t happen. A fascinating and thorough essay from Grammy®-nominated writer Randy Poe tells the story of Cole, the scene, and the music.

The CD and Digital versions of Omnivore's deluxe reissue of Bobby Cole's A Point Of View are set for April 15, 2022 which you can pre-order here, with a double-LP version slated for Fall of 2022. 

Check out the track listing following the album release trailer and the soundclip for "A Perfect Day"

 

Bobby Cole – A Point Of View

1. Status Quo

2. The Name Of The Game Is Trouble

3. Lover Boy

4. You Can’t Build A Life On A Look

5. But It’s Spring

6. Heat

7. You Could Hear A Pin Drop

8. A Change Of Scene

9. A Perfect Day

10. Elegy For Eve

11. No Difference At All

12. I’m Growing Old

13. Checkerboard Life [Bonus Track]

14. Drink This Cup [Bonus Track]

15. How The Lonely Spend Their Time [Bonus Track] 

16. I Never Saw The Shadows [Bonus Track]

17. Tear For Tear [Bonus Track]

18. When She Was In Love With Me [Bonus Track]

19. Get Off Looking Good [Bonus Track]

20. At The Darkest Hour [Bonus Track]

21. A Toast [Bonus Track]

22. The Midnight Flower [Bonus Track]

23. Never Ask The Hour [Bonus Track]

24. A Change Of Scene (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track] 

25. Life Rolls On [Bonus Track]

April March's limited-run In Cinerama LP gets CD release with bonus tracks

April March's RSD 2021 release In Cinerama is being issued in an expanded digital version with two previously unissued songs.

Here's the scoop...

April March has quite the resume: an animator on Pee Wee’s Playhouse and for Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl” video, and collaborating with Brian Wilson, LL Cool J, Ronnie Spector and Bertrand Burgalat. But she also has an acclaimed recording career, heavily influenced by French pop music.

She named her English version of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Laisse tomber les filles” “Chick Habit,” and Quentin Tarantino featured it in his 2007 film, Death Proof.

Following a quarter century of recording, March unveiled In Cinerama as a vinyl-only release for Record Store Day in 2021. It was an unprecedented success, selling out of its small run before most could hear the magic. In Cinerama has a wide sonic span from Nigeria to California, with Fela Kuti’s drummer Tony Allen at the helm and The Beach Boys’ Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford by his side, as well as talented friends ranging from the French underground to Nashville; The 11 tracks, co-written and co-produced by Mehdi Zannad, recall the 5th Dimension, Belle And Sebastian and even your favorite Gainsbourg or Curt Boettcher productions but stand on their own just as fresh and contemporary as the waves of Malibu or a Parisian Uber.

Omnivore Recordings will issue a revamped In Cinerama on CD and Digital on March 18, 2022, with updated artwork, new liner notes (both in English and en Français), printed lyrics, plus two previously unissued bonus tracks (“Goodbye” and “Friends Peculiar”).

As Christophe Conte writes in the notes: “In Cinerama is an active medley of images and sounds inherited from pop’s golden age, made not into a nostalgic mirror of times gone by but a vital, vibrant material. In the movies as in music, time stands still. Actors and actresses, singers, musicians, and moments fixed in wax and celluloid exist forever. They are the stuff of our mythologies, both personal and communal; they live in greater, more beautiful, and more exhilarating countries than any real ones we will ever visit… April March, Mehdi Zannad, and their magnificent entourage give us one such stationary voyage, an ideal map to admire down to the tiniest detail, a world we dream of inhabiting.”

The updated In Cinerama is the perfect way to get acquainted with this influential and important artist. But, mostly, it’s a way to experience one of 2021’s most acclaimed releases. Pre-order April March's In Cinerama right here. Watch the release trailer below. 

April March – In Cinerama (Omnivore)

Lift Off

Rolla Rolla

Open Your Window Romeo

Californian Fall

Stand in the Sun

Ride or Divide

Elinor Blue

Runaway

Baby

Down The Line

Born

BONUS TRACKS:

Goodbye

Friends Peculiar

Billy Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman Live Down Under

Without any fanfare, Omnivore just issued a 21-track live set of Billy Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman in Sydney back in 2002.

Here's the scoop from Omnivore...

Before Billy Joe Shaver’s death in 2020, Willie Nelson called Shaver the greatest living songwriter. That isn’t out of line, as Billy Joe is a member of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and winner of the Academy of Country Music’s Poet’s Award. Aside from his own recordings, his songs have been covered by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Patty Loveless, and more, and even featured in Academy Award winning films like Crazy Heart.

Kinky Friedman is another singer, songwriter, novelist, and satirist. He holds the distinction of being the only artist who was recorded for Austin City Limits, but the show was never aired due to fears of the content being too controversial. He even ran for the office of Governor of Texas in 2006. His spiritual advisor for that campaign? Billy Joe Shaver. But, that wasn’t the first time they worked together.

“Ladies and gentlemen, two Texas legends, Billy Joe Shaver and Kinky Friedman!” announced Jeff “Little Jewford” Shelby before the nightly coin toss to decide who in this dynamic double-bill, quadruple heart bypass contender Billy Joe or singing crime novelist Kinky would go first. The spotlight then passed back and forth between the duo, supported in Vaudevillian fashion by guitarist Jesse Taylor, Washington Ratso and of course Little Jewford.

Depending on how you look at it or who’s talking, the Live Down Under tour probably shouldn’t have happened or it was the best thing that could’ve happened. Either way, it was a minor miracle most would say and now a thing of myth and legend.

It started when Shaver, still recovering from the loss of his mother, wife and son was lured out of mourning in 2001 by the Kinkster to do their “Two For Texas” tour that ended with Billy Joe unexpectedly suffering a heart attack at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas that August. Angioplasty was performed but Shaver, fearing the risks, was resisting medical advice to have quadruple heart by-pass surgery taking karmic instruction from Willie (Nelson) to get out and stay active. Soon commitments to bring the tour to Australia were made.

Kinky Friedman: “The doctors wanted him to have the surgery but he said no. And they didn’t want him going to Australia with Kinky. That it was the wrong thing to do. But Billy Joe was in a dark place; the recent family tragedies, the health concerns. Staying home with the curtains drawn and all its temptations seemed as risky as going. Willie and I both agreed, the best therapy he could have was to get out and have a good time.”

And it was.

Billy Joe performed every night like his life depended on it. And it did. And it pushed everyone to the same level of intensity. Featuring hits like ”Honky Tonk Heroes,” “You Asked Me To,” ”Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed,” “Sold American” and more, showcasing some of the best material from both writers’ storied careers, and delivered in a way that only these best friends and odd couple could. So put on Live Down Under, sit back, listen and perhaps come to appreciate these two unique artists in a way you hadn’t before. A one-of-a-kind experience.

Get a copy of Billy Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman's Live Down Under from Omnivore right here. Check out their live version of Kinky's classic "Sold American" after the track listing. 

 

Billy Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman - Live Down Under

INTRO COIN TOSS

GEORGIA ON A FAST TRAIN

WESTERN UNION WIRE

STAR IN MY HEART

RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

OLD CHUNK OF COAL

SOLD AMERICAN

RIDE ME DOWN EASY

WILD MAN FROM BORNEO

WHEN THE FALLEN ANGELS FLY

MARILYN AND JOE

YOU ASKED ME TO

BEFORE ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE

HONKY TONK HEROES

GET YOUR BISCUITS IN THE OVEN AND YOUR BUNS IN THE BED

LIVE FOREVER

YOU WOULDN’T KNOW LOVE (IF YOU FELL IN IT)

RIDE ‘EM JEWBOY

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME

KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE

TRY AND TRY AGAIN

OUTRO THANKS AND GOOBYE!

Wesley Stace turns up the smooth for Late Style

You could say Wesley Stace is wearing the inspiration for the new Late Style album on his sleeve. Great work Tony Stella! 

Here's the scoop from Omnivore Recordings...

With Late Style, Wesley Stace, the artist formerly known as John Wesley Harding, has done things differently. Having begun to put some new lyrics to music, in his usual way, singing to an acoustic guitar, he realized he was coming up with old solutions, reinventing a wheel he had already made, with chord progressions and melodies that worked as folk and pop songs but were not satisfying his desire for something fresh, something he’d be excited to listen to in 2021. So, he turned to David Nagler, the musical director of his portable variety show, the Cabinet of Wonders, to be the Rodgers to his Hart, the Elton to his Bernie, the Bachrach to his David.

Late Style is influenced by artists like Mose Allison, Carla Bley, Nina Simone, Bob Dorough, Steely Dan, Harry Nilsson, Gil Scott-Heron, The Bee Gees, Tom Lehrer, The Carpenters, and even The Partridge Family, without imitating them, so the songs feel modern and “modern” all at once. You can call them uneasy easy listening—smooth, but oddly shaped, with surprising harmonic changes and rhythmic angles. They have the paradoxical flavor of having been written to be hits without any thought of having hits at all.

Though Wesley had originally imagined a record that “a phenomenally well-rehearsed combo might record in a club, perhaps even in front of an audience,” COVID had other plans. But through the mysterious magic of modern technology, the recording came together out of Philadelphia, where Wesley lives; New York, where David built tracks from keyboards, acoustic guitars and virtual instruments; San Francisco, where Wes’s longtime friend and collaborator Chris von Sneidern (a solo artist and sometime member of the Flamin’ Groovies) added electric guitar, vocals, horns and the drums of Prairie Prince (The Tubes, Todd Rundgren, Jefferson Starship); and Chicago, where Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor of the Flat Five added harmonies. 

Here's Ilya Mirman's portrait photo of Wesley which Tony Stella turned into the Late Style cover.  

Graphic artist Tony Stella – who recently did the book jacket for Quentin Tarantino's novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – provided the stylish sleeve art for Late Style. Wesley explains how it all came together... 

"Many of you have expressed your enthusiasm for, and asked about, the cover painting for LATE STYLE. Here goes! It's by the genius Tony Stella, whose work can be found here: https://www.tony-stella.com. You should definitely take a look around.

"As we were making the album, I realised I needed something effortlessly authentic for the cover, perhaps a painting like those old records we all love. I'd been following Mr Stella on Twitter for some time, and one morning I was lying in bed, checking out my "feed" (as one does before one fully commits to getting out of bed) and I suddenly realised: "Oh My God! This is fully perfect! It can't even go wrong!" And so I tweeted him, and made an inquiry, and guess what: he said yes. Then I had to work out what the image should be, beyond being a portrait of yours truly.

"So, I got in touch with Ilya Mirman, a brilliant photographer who also happens to be the brother of Eugene Mirman, to a) take some nice promo pics but also b) to get the image that we could send to Tony and he'd paint. I therefore went up to the Boston City Winery (who, due to the kind offices of Michael Bishop and Caitlyn Cooke, let us have the run of the place for a morning), met Ilya there, not to mention David Nagler, and took some pics, quite a few of which you'll see on the inside sleeve of the CD and LP.

"I sent Tony four images, and he apparently chose the one I attach here, perhaps combining it with one of the others (and making sure my collar wasn't askew) to get the actual image for the cover as you see it now. I was blown away. It was actually what I'd imagined, without having quite imagined anything at all, except that I loved all of his work without exception. And thanks to Ilya, of course. 

"Do yourself a favour and check out his stellar Stella work. And then why not head over here and buy one of the astonishing bundles: https://world-wide-wes.myshopify.com/collections/the-late-style-collection"  

You can pre-order Wesley Stace's Late Style right here. Check the track list following the clip of "All The Yous" below. 

 

Wesley Stace – Late Style 

Where The Bands Are

Everything All The Time

Your Bright Future

Hey! Director

Come Back Yesterday

All The Yous

The California Fix

Well Done Everyone

The Impossible She

Do Nothing If You Can

Just Sayin’

How You All Work Me

Stand-alone Richard Hell & Voidoids' Destiny Street Demos album due for RSD

The album of Richard Hell's demos – originally issued as part of the Destiny Street Complete – gets it's own release June 12.

Here's the scoop from Omnivore:

Richard Hell & the Voidoids: Destiny Street Demos

The 40th anniversary 2-CD deluxe edition of Destiny Street (titled Destiny Street Complete) was released earlier this year and contained three versions of the album, Richard Hell’s detailed liner notes, plus a fourth LP’s worth of demos and prior studio versions of the album’s material called Destiny Street Demos. Destiny Street Demos essentially compiles all of Richard’s songwriting output recorded between the release of Blank Generation in 1977 and the recording of Destiny Street in 1981. It includes demos, the original Radar Records single (produced by Nick Lowe), Hell’s 1980 single on Shake Records, and a performance of “Time” recorded at the Robert Quine memorial. For Record Store Day 2021, Omnivore is proud to offer Destiny Street Demos as a stand-alone clear vinyl LP on June 12th. 

Destiny Street was the follow-up album to one of the greatest punk albums of all time, 1977’s Blank Generation, which was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Hell’s satisfaction. As he says in his new liner notes to the recently released vinyl Destiny Street Remixed, “The final mix was a morass of trebly multi-guitar sludge.” Now, for the 40th anniversary of its creation, the album is at last presented the way Richard Hell originally intended: “The sound of a little combo playing real gone rock and roll.” 

Richard Hell co-founded his first band, the Neon Boys, with Tom Verlaine in 1973. That band became Television. When Hell left Television in 1975, he formed, with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan, both formerly of the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers. After another year, Richard departed the Heartbreakers and created Richard Hell and the Voidoids, which, along with other CBGB bands of the era, such as the Ramones and Patti Smith, formed the template for punk, the effects of which are still being felt.  Apart from Hell on vocals and bass, the original Voidoids comprised Robert Quine (guitar), Ivan Julian (guitar), and Marc Bell (eventually “Marky Ramone”). The Destiny Street-era band retained Quine, but otherwise the backing lineup became Naux (Juan Maciel) on guitar and Fred Maher on drums. 

Richard had wished forever that he could remix the original Destiny Street but was told by the record company that the original 24-track masters had been lost. In the early 2000s, Hell discovered a cassette from 1981 that contained just the album’s rhythm tracks (drums, bass and two rhythm guitars) and he realized he could add new guitar solos and vocals to that to obtain a cleaner, improved version of the songs. He enlisted Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell to overdub the solos (Quine had died in 2004 and Naux in 2009) and he re-sang everything. This was released as Destiny Street Repaired in 2009. Hell was pleased. Then, in 2019, three of the four original 24-track masters were discovered. Now, at long last, Destiny Street could be fully remixed, and Hell signed on Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) to help him with that. The result became the uncanny centrepiece of the 2-CD Destiny Street Complete extravaganza released in January of 2021 which you can still get right here; the stand-alone vinyl LP Destiny Street Remixed is also available.  

Check out Richard Hell's demos for "Ignore That Door," "The Kid with the Replaceable Head" and "I'm Your Man" followed by the album's track listing below. 

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Demos

SIDE 1:

THE KID WITH THE REPLACEABLE HEAD

I’M YOUR MAN

CRACK OF DAWN

GOING GOING GONE

FUNHUNT

I LIVED MY LIFE

SIDE 2:

IGNORE THAT DOOR

SMITTEN

STARRING IN HER EYES

TIME

DON’T DIE

TIME (Live) [Bonus Track]

Omnivore issues ultimate version of Richard Hell's Destiny Street

At last, all the different versions of Richard Hell & The Voidoids' 1982 album Destiny Street are available in a sweet 2-CD package. 

Here's the scoop from Omnivore...

Richard Hell & The Voidoids' Destiny Street was the follow-up album to one of the greatest punk albums of all time, 1977’s Blank Generation. The album was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Richard Hell’s satisfaction. As he says in his new liner notes to Destiny Street Remixed, “The final mix was a morass of trebly multi-guitar blare.”

Now, for the 40th anniversary of its creation, the album is at last presented improved the way Richard Hell has long hoped and intended: “The sound of a little combo playing real gone rock and roll.”

Richard Hell co-founded his first band, the Neon Boys, with Tom Verlaine in 1973. That band became Television. When Hell left Television in 1975, he formed, with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan, both formerly of the New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers. After another year, Richard departed The Heartbreakers and created Richard Hell And The Voidoids, which, along with other CBGB bands of the era, such as the Ramones and Patti Smith, formed the template for punk, the effects of which are still being felt.

Apart from Hell on vocals and bass, the original Voidoids comprised Robert Quine (guitar), Ivan Julian (guitar), and Marc Bell (drums). The Destiny Street-era band retained Quine, but otherwise the backing lineup became Naux (Juan Maciel) on guitar and Fred Maher on drums.

Richard had wished forever that he could remix the original Destiny Street, but was told by the record company that the original 24-track masters had been lost. In the early 2000s, Hell discovered a cassette from 1981 that contained just the album’s rhythm tracks (drums, bass and two rhythm guitars) and he realized he could add new guitar solos and vocals to that to obtain a cleaner, improved version of the songs. He enlisted Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, and Ivan Julian to overdub the solos (Quine had died in 2004 and Naux in 2009) and he re-sang everything. This was released as Destiny Street Repaired in 2009. Hell was pleased.

Then, in 2019, three of the four original 24-track masters were discovered. Now, at long last, Destiny Street could be fully remixed, and Hell signed on Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) to help him with that. The result became the uncanny centerpiece of the 2-CD Destiny Street Complete extravaganza to be released in January of 2021. Destiny Street Remixed will also be available as a stand-alone vinyl LP.

Besides containing the three faithful versions of the album, the 40th anniversary 2-CD deluxe edition of Destiny Street includes not only Hell’s detailed liner notes, but a fourth LP’s worth of demos and prior studio versions of the album’s material—essentially all of Richard’s songwriting output recorded between the release of Blank Generation in 1977 and the recording of Destiny Street in 1981—including some of the best playing and singing in the four-part Complete—called Destiny Street Demos.

And for Record Store Day 2021, Omnivore Recordings will proudly offer this special material on its own stand-alone vinyl LP.

Significantly, all the material in this entire collection has been freshly remastered (or in the case of the Remixed, mastered) for these releases by Michael Graves at Osiris Studios.

According to Hell: “I’ve been working on this release for 40 years. Long road! Three different versions of the same ten songs, from the same basic tracks by the same four musicians. I couldn’t help myself, and I’m glad, god damn it. But really, each of the four parts (including the collection of demos) has its points of interest and then the whole is greater than the parts, for my money. It was a good trip, with lots of roadside attractions, but I’m happy to have reached the destination.”

Get a 2CD copy of Destiny Street Complete directly from Omnivore right here. Check the trailer and a couple of song clips below. 

 

 

DESTINY STREET COMPLETE track list

DISC 1 (DESTINY STREET – 2021 REMASTER):

THE KID WITH THE REPLACEABLE HEAD

I GOTTA MOVE

GOING GOING GONE

LOWEST COMMON DOMINATOR

DOWNTOWN AT DAWN

TIME

I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING

IGNORE THAT DOOR

STARING IN HER EYES

DESTINY STREET

(DESTINY STREET REPAIRED – 2021 REMASTER):

THE KID WITH THE REPLACEABLE HEAD

I GOTTA MOVE

GOING GOING GONE

LOWEST COMMON DOMINATOR

DOWNTOWN AT DAWN

TIME

I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING

IGNORE THAT DOOR

STARING IN HER EYES

DESTINY STREET

DISC 2 (DESTINY STREET REMIXED):

THE KID WITH THE REPLACEABLE HEAD

I GOTTA MOVE

GOING GOING GONE

LOWEST COMMON DOMINATOR

DOWNTOWN AT DAWN

TIME

I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING

IGNORE THAT DOOR

STARING IN HER EYES

DESTINY STREET

DON’T DIE [Bonus Track]

(DESTINY STREET DEMOS – 2021 REMASTER):

THE KID WITH THE REPLACEABLE HEAD (Single Version)

I’M YOUR MAN (Single Version)

CRACK OF DAWN (Demo Version)

GOING GOING GONE (Demo Version)

FUNHUNT (Demo Version)

I LIVED MY LIFE (Demo Version)

IGNORE THAT DOOR (Demo Version)

SMITTEN (Demo Version)

STARING IN HER EYES (Demo Version)

TIME (Single Version)

DON’T DIE (Single Version)

TIME (Live) [Bonus Track]

 

Matthew Sweet releases new Catspaw album

Matthew Sweet recorded Catspaw with longtime collaborator Ric Menck. Check out the trailer and an interview below. 

The Muffs' final album No Holiday spotlights the late great Kim Shattuck

The Muffs' No Holiday album – out October 18th – was completed just before Kim Shattuck passed away.

Just having completed work on The Muffs' No Holiday (Omnivore) album – their first in five years – the group's founding singer/songwriter Kim Shattuck sadly passed away on October 2 from complications related to her battle with ALS.

About the album, Kim explained in a press release for Omnivore Recordings, “I wrote the songs between 1991 and 2017. We decided to have a long album and use songs that had been in my arsenal but were weeded out for super concise albums. They were all great songs and we didn’t want them to go to waste. No way!”

No Holiday really is a celebration of everything The Muffs was about. Says bassist Ronnie Barnett: “I think this new album represents the depth of our band like none of our others. It could have easily been aptly called The Many Moods Of The Muffs. All of our strengths: melody, big rock, sweetness, nastiness… All on display and readily apparent. The three of us, after all these years, are a family. The love between us is well represented here. We laid it all out there on this one.”

No Holiday contains 18 tracks on CD, Digital, and a 2-LP set (with laser-etched fourth side). Drummer Roy McDonald: “I think No Holiday is the most unique album we’ve ever made. 18 songs that run the spectrum from full blown productions to intimate home recordings. This was a labor of love for us and I think that comes out in the record. We wanted to create something lasting and special. I, for one, couldn’t be happier with the results.”

Listen to "A Lovely Day Boo Hoo" below. You can pre-order a copy of The Muffs' No Holiday album directly from Omnivore right here.



The Muffs - No Holiday 
That's For Me
Down Down Down
No Holiday
Earth Below Me
A Lovely Day Boo Hoo
Late and Sorry
The Best
Pollyanna
Sick Of This World
To That Funny Place
You Talk and You Talk
Happier Just Being With You
Lucky Charm
On My Own
Too Awake
Insane
The Kids Have All Gone Away
Sky

Buck Owens' Complete Capitol Singles 1957-1966 due December 9

Omnivore's 2CD collection of Buck Owens' primo honky tonk swingers will be a revelation for Hee Haw fans. 

"To say that Buck Owens was a singularly unique figure in country music would be light years beyond cliché. There have been four, maybe five, other artists in the history of the entire genre who have left as indelible a sonic imprint on so many millions of listeners’ ears. This collection of music should introduce new listeners and reacquaint old fans with just how cool country music can be."
—Dwight Yoakam


"The reason my Capitol records sounded the way they did—real heavy on the treble—was because I knew most people were going to be listening to ’em on their AM car radios. At the time, nobody else was doing anything like that, but it just seemed like common sense to me. And it was one more reason that you knew it was a Buck Owens record as soon as it came on the radio—because it just didn’t sound like those other records . . ."
—Buck Owens


The cream of the crop from the ’60s biggest country star!

For the first time, Omnivore Recordings, in conjunction with the Buck Owens Estate, is releasing  Buck Owens and The Buckaroos’ The Complete Capitol Singles: 1957-1966, collecting all 56 singles from Buck's pre-Hee Haw creative peak, in their original form, taken from the original mono master tapes. Along with 13 #1 country chart hits are four duets with the great Rose Maddox and the yuletide classic "Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy" just in time for Christmas.

Newly remastered, and featuring liner notes from Buck’s autobiography (written with Randy Poe), plus an introduction by Dwight Yoakam, The Complete Capitol Singles: 1957-1966 presents the golden age of Buck Owens in an entirely new way.

These are the records that made Buck Owens a legend and defined the Bakersfield Sound.

The Complete Capitol Singles: 1957-1966 track list:

   Disc 1:
1. COME BACK
2. I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS
3. SWEET THING
4. I ONLY KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU
5. I’LL TAKE A CHANCE ON LOVING YOU
6. WALK THE FLOOR
7. SECOND FIDDLE
8. EVERLASTING LOVE
9. TIRED OF LIVIN’
10. UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAIN
11. ABOVE AND BEYOND
12. ‘TIL THESE DREAMS COME TRUE
13. EXCUSE ME (I THINK I’VE GOT A HEARTACHE)
14. I’VE GOT A RIGHT TO KNOW
15. FOOLIN’ AROUND
16. HIGH AS THE MOUNTAINS
17. MENTAL CRUELTY with Rose Maddox
18. LOOSE TALK with Rose Maddox
19. UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LOVE
20. BAD BAD DREAM
21. NOBODY’S FOOL BUT YOURS
22. MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
23. SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME
24. KING OF FOOLS
25. KICKIN’ OUR HEARTS AROUND
26. I CAN’T STOP (MY LOVIN’ YOU)
27. YOU’RE FOR ME
28. THE HOUSE DOWN THE BLOCK

   Disc 2:
1. ACT NATURALLY
2. OVER AND OVER AGAIN
3. WE’RE THE TALK OF THE TOWN with Rose Maddox
4. SWEETHEARTS IN HEAVEN with Rose Maddox
5. LOVE’S GONNA LIVE HERE
6. GETTING USED TO LOSING YOU
7. MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT
8. TOGETHER AGAIN
9. I DON’T CARE (JUST AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME
10. DON’T LET HER KNOW
11. I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL
12. CRYIN’ TIME
13. BEFORE YOU GO
14. (I WANT) NO ONE BUT YOU
15. ONLY YOU (CAN BREAK MY HEART)
16. GONNA HAVE LOVE
17. BUCKAROO
18. IF YOU WANT A LOVE
19. SANTA LOOKED A LOT LIKE DADDY
20. ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS DEAR IS YOU
21. WAITIN’ IN YOUR WELFARE LINE
22. IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
23. THINK OF ME
24. HEART OF GLASS
25. OPEN UP YOUR HEART
26. NO MORE ME AND YOU
27. WHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GO
28. THE WAY THAT I LOVE YOU

Peter Case's solo debut gets deluxe reissue treatment from Omnivore

The 30th anniversary re-release of Peter Case's stellar debut comes seven bonus tracks – five previously unissued.

Here's Omnivore's press release...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — “If this record doesn’t sell a million copies, I'll quit the business,” said producer T Bone Burnett while listening to a playback of Peter Case, the classic self-titled solo debut by The Nerves co-founder and leader of The Plimsouls, now in expanded 30th anniversary reissue edition with bonus tracks and available from Omnivore Recordings on September 16, 2016.

Helmed by J. Henry (T Bone) Burnett and Mitchell Froom, Peter Case includes 11 originals and a cover of The Pogues’ “Pair Of Brown Eyes”—recorded before their version was released, thanks to a tip from Elvis Costello—and features an all-star cast of guests from Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) and Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney), to backing vocals by John Hiatt and Victoria Williams, string arrangement by the incomparable Van Dyke Parks and contributions by session giants Jim Keltner (drums), Jerry Marotta (drums), and Jerry Scheff (Elvis Presley’s bassist).

The disc earned Case his first Grammy nomination for the song “Old Blue Car” and topped The New York Times’ list of best albums of the year, with NYT contributor Robert Palmer stating, “Peter Case is the sort of album that is going to be remembered and treasured for years to come.” An auspicious start and essential chapter in Case’s 13-album-catalog, Peter Case is not only revered by everyone who’s ever heard it, its sound and feel spearheaded the songwriter movement now known as Americana.

The 30th-anniversary edition of Peter Case includes the re-mastered original 12-track album, and seven bonus tracks: two from a 1986 promotional EP and five previously unissued recordings. The package includes a new essay from Case about the album and unseen photos from the time period. Whether you were introduced to Case on last year’s Omnivore recording, HWY 62, joined him along the road from here to there, or have been with him all along, the expanded edition of Peter Case will take you back to the where it all began.

“I still sing these songs whenever I perform on the road. People are always telling me about the impact the record had on them, and thirty years later I’m still proud of every cut,” says Case. Watch Peter perform a few tracks off the album his mother named after the track listing below.

    CD Track List:
1. Echo Wars
2. Steel Strings
3. Three Days Straight More Than Curious
4. I Shook His Hand
5. Small Town Spree
6. Old Blue Car
7. Walk In The Woods
8. Horse & Crow
9. Icewater
10. Satellite Beach
11. Pair Of Brown Eyes

      Bonus Tracks:
12. Steel Strings (Acoustic Version)
13. I Shook His Hand (Acoustic Version)
14. Trusted Friend*
15. North Coast Blues*
16. Toughest Gang In Town*
17. Horse & Crow (Alternate Mix)*
18. More Than Curious (Early Version)*
 * Previously unissued