Monday, July 17, 2023

I Wanna Holler: Playlist for 7.14.23


New music from the Rellies and Friends of Cesar Romero and lots more good music you should dig into right now!

Listen to the July 14 Zero Hour

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

Little "Butchie" Saunders "I Wanna Holler" on Herald

The Swingin' Neckbreakers "You" on Telstar

Reigning Sound "Uptight Tonight" on In the Red

Robby John & The Seven Teens "Teenage Bill of Rights: Part 1 - the Revolution" on Del-Fi



The Control Freaks "Won't Pretend" on Dirty Water Records

The Dirtbombs "I Hear the Sirens" on In The Red

The Seeds "Pushin' Too Hard" on Trip

The Scientists "You Only Live Twice" on Big Time

Raul & The Revelations "A Sweet Sickness" on Modern Harmonic

Ken and the Fourth Demension "See if I Care" on Starburst

The Nomads "I'm Branded" on Sympathy for the Record Industry

Link Wray & The Raymen "Deuces Wild" on Norton



The Rellies "Monkey" on Damaged Goods Records

The Electric Mess "Speed of Light" on The Electric Mess

The Mockers "C'mon Over to My Side" on One Eye Open

The Kingsmen "Little Sally Tease" on Wand

Chuck Berry "Dear Dad" on Chess

Little June & His Januarys "Burgers, Fries & Shakes" on Salem



Smart Shoppers "Super Savers" on BULGE

The Hullmen "Brew City's Burning" on The Hullmen

Chinese Telephones "Keep Smiling" on It's Alive Records

Elusive Parallelograms "Rev"

The Blow Pops "Bleary Eyes" on Get Hip



The Main Ingredient "Everybody Plays the Fool" on RCA

David Ruffin "It Takes All Kinds of People to Make a World" on Motown

Small Faces "Come On Children" on UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Dex Romweber "Twine Time" on Propeller Sound Recordings

Don & Bob "Good Morning Little School Girl" on Argo

Guitar Crusher "Cuddle Up" on T&G

The Heros "I Can Only Give You Everything" on Grapefruit

The Rogues "Cherry" on Gear Fab



Peter Jarrett and the Fifth Circle "Let's Dance Close" on MGM

Johnny Boy "You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve" on EMI

FoxyContin "Little Willie" on Sister Raygun Records

The Screaming Blue Messiahs "Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge" on Elektra

Dino, Desi & Billy "Shelia" on Reprise

The Corvells "Take My Love"

Gary US Bonds "Quarter To Three" on Legrand



TV Sound "Was That Me Back Then" on Killing Horse

The New Colony Six "Just Feel Worse" on Mercury

Bruce Powers "Two Lonely People" on Severin

Miriam & Nobody's Babies "Get the Message" on Norton

AVENGERS "Shipwrecked" on Ace Records

Blue Stars "I Can Take It" on Crypt

The Ventures "2000 Pound Bee Pt. 1" on Dolton



Barry White with Love Unlimited "Somebody's Gonna Off the Man" on 20th Century Records

Kool & The Gang "More Funky Stuff" on De-Lite

Booker T. & The M.G.'s "Aw Mercy" on Stax

Elmore James "Elmore Jumps One" on Relic Record Productions, Inc.

Rosco Gordon "Bop With Me Baby" on Official

Norb Kabin "Nite Rider" on Valmor



Friends of Cesar Romero "Cold East Coast Shoulder" on Doomed Babe

Thee Fine Lines "Lost its Charm" on Chickpea

The Chandeliers "Diamondo" on Voodoo Rhythm

Walter Daniels "Almost Got Hit By a Truck" on Spacecase

Ron Haydock & The Boppers "Cat Man" on Norton Records Inc.


Monday, July 10, 2023

Seven Day Weekend: Playlist for 7.7.23



New music from TV Sound and Xposed 4heads and a live performance from Denton, Texas' Pearl Earl! 


DOWNLOAD THE JULY 7 ZERO HOUR

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

The Three Friends "Blanche" on Relic

New York Dolls "Seven Day Weekend" on Norton Records

Brother Zee and the Decades "Sha Boom Bang"



The Dirtbombs "Hey! Cookie" on In The Red

Quitty and the Don'ts "All of You" on Don't Record Records

The Mess Around "Shake It on Down" on Drug Front Records

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs "Black Sheep" on MGM

Eduardo Araújo "Vem Quente Que Eu Estou Fervendo" on University of Vice

Sir Douglas Quintet "You're Gonna Miss Me" on Tacoma

Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels "Shakedown" on New Voice




Southern Culture On The Skids "The Bank Walker" on Kudzu Records

Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders "I'm a Cool Teenager" on Beluga Records

Turnstyles "Vivian" on Black and Wyatt Records

The Mullens "Heard It from Kandi" on Get Hip Recordings

Subsonics "Why Don't You Give Up On Flowers" on Slovenly Recordings

The Cramps "Queen of Pain" on Big Beat

Helen Love "Beat Him Up" on Damaged Goods Records




Xposed 4heads "Flash Cube" on Internal Combustion

The Sugar Stems "We Only Come out at Night" on Dirtnap

Trolley "I'll Stand in Line" on Easter

Delicious Monsters "Rubber Bug" on Tetryon Tapes



Bo & the Weevils "My Time" on Ernie Douglas Records

TV Sound "How Do We Know How to Feel?" on Killing Horse

Junior Parker "I Feel Alright Again" on Duke

The Cadets "Do You Wanna Rock" on Relic

Holly & The Italians "I Wanna Go Home" on Big Beat

The Fleshtones "Ride Your Pony" on I.R.S. Records

Archie Bell & The Drells "I Just Can't Stop Dancing" on Atlantic

Otis Redding "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" on Stax




The Velvet Underground "Some Kinda Love" on Mercury

Les Grys-Grys "To Fall Down" on Norton Records

Freakwater "War Pigs" on York




PEARL EARL IN THE STUDIO "PEARL EARL IN THE STUDIO"

Pearl Earl "Slime Green" on Green Witch




Bare Facts "Instant Happiness" on Teenage Shutdown

The Royal Pendletons "Tell Me" on Norton

The Rolling Stones "2,000 Light Years from Home" on London

Arthur Lee and the American Four "You'll I'll Be Following" on Norton

The Kinks "Come on Now"


Thursday, July 6, 2023

Kid Twist Cometh!

 


Beyond thrilled for the return of Tyler Keith to Milwaukee at Circle A on Thursday, July 20! He will be backed by the Revelations, which will include the great Jeremy Scott (Reigning Sound, Toy Trucks) who will also play with his band the Drip Edges. Milwaukee's fast-rising Spidora, self-described as a "Tropicalia psych face-melting band" is also on the very stacked bill. Did I mention it will be my birthday? Did I mention I'm giddy as hell?!!! 

Here's an interview I did with Tyler back in 2020 over at the now defunct Quixotronic led by the aforementioned Tim Demeter. I will be posting my other articles from that website as time allows. The interview took place as Tyler was releasing The Last Drag on Black & Wyatt; he just released his 14th album, Hell to Pay, in March.

I should also mention that Tyler has published an excellent and well-received book, The Mark of Cain, since the interview that I certainly highly recommend picking up!




Is Number 13 Lucky for Kid Twist?

On his 13th album, after a decade-plus of excellent but often underappreciated self-released efforts, Tyler Keith once again finds himself with a new release on a record label.

The upstart Memphis label Black & Wyatt Records recently has put out the longtime Oxford, Mississippi, rock-n-roller’s The Last Drag, an outstanding solo work that came about after a recording session with the band he’s best known for – the Neckbones – fell through at the last minute. Check out my review of The Last Drag for The Big Takeover.

I have frequently played Keith solo and his bands – the Neckbones, the Preacher’s Kids, the Apostles and Teardrop City – on my radio show, Zero Hour, and I’m most definitely a big fan. It was a great pleasure to see him perform in July 2017 at Circle A in Milwaukee (see photo below) and meet Tyler in person.

He graciously agreed to chat with Quixotronic for the Q&A below in which he talks candidly about his music career, love of photography, and how he’s never met a “Stagger Lee” song he didn’t like:

After putting out several music projects on your own, what brought you to Black & Wyatt to release The Last Drag? What are the advantages to working with a label? I’ve tried to get my records out on other labels. It’s kind of a grueling and humiliating experience. I’ve sent all of my other records to other labels, but I’ve usually gotten no response, or a response something like “we don’t have any money right now.” Then the same labels would put out records by bands I know or something. I guess I wasn’t what they were looking for. I could never understand it. The only thing I could come up with is that they didn’t like the albums enough to want to put them out, or they didn’t think I was cool or hip enough to sell any records. Eventually, I just stopped sending them to any labels and just put them out myself. I looked at as creating an artifact that would remain.
When I saw the records that Black & Wyatt Records were putting out (Jack O, Toy Trucks, and others) I was very excited about the music. I felt that the music I had recorded (that would become The Last Drag) fit perfectly with their output. I sent them the record fully expecting to get the usual response, but it turned out that they loved the album and were eager to put it out. We had some beer and pizza and talked about it and listened to the record and everything felt great! The owners of the label, Dennis Black and Robert Jethro Wyatt are serious music fans. Hopefully, they’ll want to do more in the future! I love having a label that is straight up about what they’re doing and you can work together to sell a few records and make your money back then put out more. Most of the time, in the past with labels, it kind of felt like they just wanted to collect your album and save it. I don’t like doing everything myself but I’m not afraid to if I must. I don’t like sitting around on something that much. The process takes so long from recording to manufacturing to getting up the money to put it out you have to just try and get it out there and move on. At this point, I’m banking on my anthology anyway!
I love the videos you have done for The Last Drag (especially your great demise in “Shame, Lies & Cruelty”!). What inspired you to do a series of videos for this release? I’m currently finishing my MFA in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi, and I’m making a film about Hill Country Gospel and Blues. During the pandemic, I was given a subscription to Premier Pro video editing software. After the first few weeks of the lockdown, I wanted to search North Mississippi for abandoned drag strips. Then I decided to bring my old Rebel T4i and shoot some footage for a video at this abandoned drag strip in Blue Mountain MS. It was kind of a last-minute thing. It was so fun! And we didn’t really need a crew. And, in fact, it fit the record to just do it with just me in the videos since I didn’t really have a band. So I took the footage and quickly edited with the Premier Pro stuff and it was done in a day! I’ve always been so poor that I’ve never been able to get a video made! Even my friends who made them charged something! I would never ask them to do it free! The first one was so fun and got such a great response that we decided to make more. I’ve been doing documentary work and films for quite a while, and there was nothing else to do! I like to be creating something. I’ve also traveled around taking a lot of photos during the lockdown. I haven’t found it musically inspiring that much, but I haven’t tried to make it so either.

I understand recording for The Last Drag at Dial Back Studios in Water Valley, Mississippi, kind of came out the blue when another band cancelled at the last minute. Did you have all the songs written already at that point? Did you plan for this to be a solo album? Who else was involved in the recording? The studio time was actually for the Neckbones, but the dates got confused or something. I’m not sure what happened, but the date was booked and I just went in there by myself. For the past 25 years, I’ve made a lot of home recordings on 4 track or whatever so I’ve always had a lot of songs. Before I finish one project, I always start thinking about the next thing so by the time the other project is put together with the artwork and pressing or whatever I have some songs for another. It’s some kind of neurosis or something. Haha. Also, boredom.
The difference in this solo project is that when making an album with a band I always let people play what they want and we trust each other to play stuff. But with this album I could play the exact thing that I heard on guitar or organ or bass and I just chose the songs I liked that I had and it didn’t think about how they fit with a particular band or whatever. I really love the process of creating in the home 4 track studio situation. The immediacy of it. I wanted the same kind of thing with this recording. I love to build a song up from nothing. I’ve never been one for doing all the basic tracks for a song and coming back in four months or whenever you can get the money and recording vocals and maracas. I like to build a song from nothing in one night with a few takes and a few beers. I like surprises and I like to create something out of nothing. You gotta go with your first mind on things. So we had Bronson kind of running the session but playing drums and then someone running the board who could push play. It was done during studio downtime and I didn’t tell anybody I was doing it or invite friends to hang out. It was wild and fun.

You have a new podcast, Rip it Up, through the Southwest Review based in Dallas. How did that come about and what are your plans for the podcast? The podcast came about because in the MFA program for my assistantship I was working on a few podcasts involving different departments of campus, and I got the hang of it really quickly and just thought that I should do my own since I had access to the stuff and knew how to do it! I’m friends with the great novelist William Boyle and he had a new book coming out, City of Margins, (which is amazing! Check it out) and I just got him in the booth and campus and cut it! I’m also friends with the folks at the Southwest Review, specifically Bobby Rae. So I approached them about putting it out and it turned out that they were interested in it. And then the pandemic hit! I hope to do more in the future.
Your photography is featured in the latest volume of byNWR.com with the aforementioned William Boyle’s short story, “Cruising the El Nora.” What was that experience like? Did you read his story before taking the photographs? What do you like about photography? What are you looking for when you take a photo? The project with William Boyle came about just being friends and hanging out. He liked a lot of my photography and told me about this project byNWR, an amazing project involving the amazing film director Nicolas Winding Refn involving restoring old forgotten films. Instead of using the standard film criticism format with boring article about the cultural significance or whatever, Refn gets different people to curate a response with whatever happens to be in their head (podcast, short pieces, interviews, whatever). Refn got Bill to curate the noir version. I helped him record some interviews and recorded him reading some stories that he wrote specifically for the project. I played some music for some of it and he interviewed me as well. For the web content, he needed some photography. I have a lot stuff from my travels with work and other things, and I happened to have a lot stuff from Tulsa and that area of the country that fit perfectly with this project. I was lucky to be a part of it.
I love photography because, at this stage, it’s an immediate art form. You can decide to go out on the street with your camera at any moment and take some pictures. You can ramble around. And when I’m traveling it makes me stop and look at things. You get out of your car or you turn down a random street and you find something. That something can lead to something else, something unexpected. It’s an adventurous art form. It’s not something made in your bedroom, although the final part can be done in your bedroom. What I look for in a photograph is the beginning of a story. Something that sparks my imagination. If you ever do any thrift store hunting, sometimes you can find a throw away photograph of a girl standing next to a house and something about it will create the illusion of a story. I like things on the outskirts of town, too. The things everybody’s left behind. I like the unexpected in the mundane.
Do you plan to do any touring for The Last Drag once circumstances allow you to again? I want to do some shows for The Last Drag, but I didn’t have any real plans and I don’t now. I was trying to figure what band or who would travel with me. I was planning some to tour around with just me and my electric guitar and do some stuff but nothing solid. Teardrop City was working on stuff for a new record when the pandemic broke out. We’ve taken a break since but hope to make a record later this year. Meanwhile, we’ve completely sold out of the It’s Later Than You Think album and will be releasing that later this year as well, with some extras, I hope. We’ve gotten some stuff going in Europe. I hope to make it to Milwaukee sometime this year! Probably alone but who knows.
Finally, two questions based on songs from The Last Drag:
Have you ever gone insane? (“Have You Ever Gone Insane”): I’ve had a few breakdowns in my day. Yes. Nothing that’s gotten me locked up or anything, but I’ve had moments of complete breakdown. It’s an odd feeling. A very bad feeling of time standing still and personality disappearance. Oddly similar to playing live sometimes. Losing yourself. Ha. I think at a certain time in my life I sought out these moments possibly subconsciously.

Do you have a favorite Stagger Lee song? (“Down By The …”): My favorite versions of “Stagger Lee” are by Wilson Pickett, Mississippi John Hurt, Dave Van Rock “Stakerlee”, Nick Cave, and many others. I like all of them!






Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Welcome to Paperback Zero!


Thank you for visiting the new home of Zero Hour, Paperback Zero! I decided a name change was in order to aid with my desire to expand the offerings of the blog, which I started back in 2009 as a place to archive my playlists for my radio show, Zero Hour on WMSE in Milwaukee (every Friday, noon to 3 p.m.). With Paperback Zero, I want to include more than just playlists and also feature articles, reviews, interviews, events, etc. about music, movies, books and more. I hope you will visit frequently! 

Thanks to Tim Demeter for the beautiful logo, inspired by this hardboiled John D. MacDonald book cover. See more of his outstanding artwork at quixotim.com. 

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Tear it Up: Playlists for 6.2, 6.9, 6.23 and 6.30.23



A little remodeling going on around the blog -- and a new name! -- so I've been absent from posting playlists. Here's the whole June shebang (I was working and didn't DJ on June 16). New music in June from Powersolo, the Goldstars, Dex Romweber, Mudhoney, Helen Love, Morgan and the Organ Donors, the Lloyds, Bruce Humphries and the Rockabilly Rebels, Steve Leon & The Accusations, the Mullens, No Alternative and lots more!

June 30

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

The Fleshtones "Feel the heat" on A&M

Sideburns "You're No Good" on Norton

The Fells "Don't You Just Know It" on Gearhead

The Cramps "Tear it Up" on EMI Record

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs "The Memphis Beat" on MGM


Flamin' Groovies "Shakin' All Over" on Buddah

Thee Headcoats "The Kids Are All Square" on Damaged Goods Records

Bantam Rooster "Lawdy Lawdy" on Crypt Records

Beautiful Delilahs "Demons" on End of the West

The Raunch Hands "Good, Good Lovin'" on Crypt Records

Ruben Guevara "American the Beautiful" on Rhino



Dex Romweber "Shape of Things to Come" on Propeller Sound Recordings

Paul Revere & The Raiders "Money (That's What I Want)" on Columbia

The Others "I'm in Need" on BeatRocket

Fab "I Only Gave You Everything" on Crypt

Otis Redding "Day Tripper (Live)" on Volt

Gail Harris with the Wailers "I Idolize You" on Ace

The Strangers "Rockin' Rebel" on Ostritch


The Danglers "Aphrodites Thighs" on Heavywooden Records

Fight Dice "The Magic Pact" on self-released

Body Futures "Oh Yeah My Blood Is Coming Out" on Latest Flame Records

The Quilz "Where Evil Grows [Poppy Family cover] - single" on Prickly Records



Johnny Cash "Lay Back With My Woman" on Columbia

The Minus 5 "Pink Bag for Rip Torn" on Yep Roc Records

The Beach Boys "Cool, Cool Water" on Reprise

David Bowie "Dancing in the Street" on Parlophone UK

Sur Royal Da Count The Parliaments "Scream Mother Scream" on Mr. Manicotti Records

Ronnie Kae "Swingin' Drums" on Twistin' Rumble


Miss Georgia Peach "Jackson (feat. Blaine Cartwright)" on RumBar Records

Guitar Slim "A Letter to My Girlfriend" on Ace

King Coleman "Show Me What You Got" on Norton Records

'68 Comeback "In My Dreams" on Sympathy for the Record Industry

The Chrome Cranks "Hit the Sand" on PCP

Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early "Let It All Go" on Fat Possum

The Pyramids "Here Comes Marsha" on Sundazed Music / Modern Harmonic



Paul Collins' Beat "It's Just a Matter of Time" on Legacy Recordings

Sugar Stems "I Don't Get it" on Dusty Medical Records

Dion "Now" on Norton

Wreckless Eric "Reconnez Cherie" on Salvo

Reigning Sound "You Ain't Me" on Merge Records


Gene Gray & The Stingerays "Surf Bunny" on Satan

Mono Men "Lie Detector" on Estrus

The Astronauts "Bo Diddley" on RCA

The Underdogs "Don't Pretend" on Norton Records

The Rolling Stones "Carol" on London

The Dictators "America the Beautiful" on Norton



Dan Montgomery "In for a Penny" on Fantastic Yes Records

Garland Jeffreys "Wild In the Streets" on A&M

Dave Edmunds "Bad is Bad" on Swan Song

Carl Perkins "You Can Do No Wrong" on Rhino

Big Joe Turner "TV Mama" on Atco

John Lee Hooker "21 Boogie" on Modern

Otis Redding "Stand By Me" on Stax




June 23

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

Tav Falco & Panther Burns "Sent Up" on Triple X

The Candy Snatchers "All the Way to Denver" on Drug Front Records

The Dogmatics "Gimme The Shakes" on Rum Bar Records

The Preachers "Quit Talking ‘Bout Him" on BeatRocket


Powersolo "If I Could Fly (feat. The Courettes)" on Crunchy Frog

Boss Hog "White Sand" on DGC

Mudhoney "Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell" on Sub Pop Records

The Upper Crust "Rock and Roll Butler" on Upper Crust Ltd.

Suzi Quatro "Ain't Got No Home (2022 Remaster)" on Chrysalis Records

Morgan and the Organ Donors "Haunted" on Perennial / K Records



Lloyds "Rouge & Lipstick" on Liberation Hall

Dead Moon "Area 51" on Tombstone Records

Buzzcocks "Bad Dreams" on Cherry Red Records

Dead Moon "Somewhere Far Away" on Tombstone Records

South Filthy "Grounded" on Sympathy For The Record Industry

Ernie K-Doe "Please Don't Stop" on Play Back


Bruce Humphries and the Rockabilly Rebels "How Do You Do?" on Self-Released

Cozy Danger "Invincible Girl" on Cozy Danger

Rat Bath "Eat Me Alive (alternate version)" on self-released

Dogs in Ecstasy "I Died Shazaming" on 2432109 Records DK



Spanking Charlene "Whiplash" on Rum Bar Records

Smile "American Top Forty" on Staple Gun

The Minus 5 "Cigarettes Coffee and Booze" on Yep Roc Records

TV Sound "When You Get There (It's Gone)" on Killing Horse Records

Mercury Rev "Boys Peel Out" on Columbia

Carroll "The Boy Called Billy Joe" on Efficient Space

Annette "Beach Party" on Rhino


Sparks "It's Sunny Today" on Universal-Island Records Ltd.

The Small Faces "All or Nothing" on See for Miles

The Chocolate Watchband "Sweet Young Thing" on Rhino

Hoodoo Gurus "Got To Get You Out Of My Life" on Universal Music Australia (Distribution)

The Fleshtones "I Am What I Am" on Yep Roc Records

Churchwood "Ring Around the Moon Tonight" on Saustex Records & Entertainment, LLC

Steve Leon & The Accusations "Too Little Too Late" on Off label records

Paul Collins Beat "Witches Fall" on Alive Naturalsound

Disguise "Hey Baby" on Big Beat

LeRoi Brothers "Walk With Me Darlin'" on AVRA

No Alternative "Be Bop a Lula" on Liberation Hall





The Cherry Valence "It's Over, Baby" on Estrus

The Swingin' Machine "Do You Have to Ask?" on Arcania International

Rufus Thomas "The World Is Round" on Stax

The Spirits of Memphis "Atomic Telephone" on RWA

Roky Erickson & The Explosives "Don't Shake Me Lucifer" on Sunset Blvd Records / SteadyBoy Records

Mickey & Sylvia "Se De Boom Run Dun" on Mr. Maestro


The Neptunas "Billy the Squid's Water Pistol" on Altered State of Reverb

The Daywains "Heartbeat" on Righteous Palms

Southern Culture On the Skids "The Sweet Spot" on Yep Roc

The Piltdown Men "Goodnight Mrs. Flintstone" on Bear Family

The Chancellors "Yo! Yo!"

The Kravin' "A"s "Payday" on Get Hip

Sir Douglas Quintet "Sugar Bee" on Beat Rocket

Jimmy Soul "You Can't Have Your  Cake" on Ace


June 9

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

The Staple Singers "Don't Knock" on Vee-Jay

The Vampires "Fire" on Norton

The Buddahs "Lost Innocence" on Big Beat


South Bay Surfers "Rock and Roll Girls" on Hot Rash

The Stoneage Hearts "Rock'n'Roll Gurls" on Off The Hip

The Exbats "Everybody Loves My Mom" on Budget Tapes & Records

Cosmic Psychos "The Man Who Drank Too Much" on Amphetamine Reptile Records

Gore Gore Girls "Mama in the Movies" on Charles

The Don Kings "The Claw" on Voodoo Rhythm

The Great Dismal Swamis "Loch Ness Lightning" on Fandango



Lloyds "Boys" on Liberation Hall

The Sellwoods "Volcano Girl" on Chaputa

Dee Dee Sharp "Mashed Potato Time" on King

Chris Kenner "That's My Girl" on Instant

Devo "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize" on Warner Records


Sparks "Veronica Lake" on Universal-Island Records Ltd.

Sly & The Family Stone "Everybody Is a Star" on Epic

Jack Lee "Hanging on the Telephone" on Alive Naturalsound

Jack Lee "Paper Dolls" on Alive Natural Sound


Louie & The Flashbombs "Shiny New Skin" on Louie & The Flashbombs

Terry Alan Hackbarth "Never Really Found You" on Easter Records

Psycho Bunnies "Searchin'" on Rage

Indonesian Junk "In This City" on Indonesian Junk


Barbara Manning "Someone Wants You Dead" on Pehr

The Godfathers "I Hate the 21st Century" on The Godfathers Recordings 2

Davie Allan & The Arrows "Born Losers Theme" on Get Hip

Paul Revere & The Raiders "Shake It Up" on Columbia

The Fleshtones "Do Something For Me" on Yep Roc Records



The Fox Sisters "Tie It Up" on FOLC Records

The Krayolas "Times Together (40th Anniversary Remix)" on Box Records

Robert Parker "Tip Toe" on NOLA Records

Bobby Marchan "Hooked" on Cameo Parkway

Hannibal "I Think We've Met Before" on King

Booker T & The MG's "Be My Lady" on Stax


Clarence Carter "Doin' Our Thing" on Atlantic

Sir Douglas Quintet "Bacon Fat" on Tribe

Slim Harpo "Baby Scratch My Back" on Excelllo

Bobby Austin "Knoxville Station" on Atlantic


No Alternative "Damned to Hell" on Liberation Hall

Charlie Pickett and Peter Buck "What I Like About Miami" on Y&T

Thee Wylde Oscars "Outta My Mind" on Off The Hip

Vicky and the Vengents "Sha Na" on Groovers

The Butterflys "The Swim" on Red Bird

The Roller Coasters "Spanish Twist" on Holiday Inn

The Bugs "Twist & Shout" on Hit

King Salami and the Cumberland Three "Howlin’ for My Woman" on Off the Hip



The Zodiacs "Jungle Beat" on Norton Records

Angry Johnny & The Killbillies "Devil's Run" on Tar Hut

Bob Summers "Gemini" on Challenge

The Tornadoes "Life on Venus" on London

Hoodoo Gurus "I Come From Your Future" on Universal Music Australia (Distribution)

The Rolling Stones "Dandelion" on London

Big Star "O My Soul (Live)" on Norton Records


June 2

Ramma Lamma "Zero Hour theme" on Self

Henchmen "Walk With Me Baby" on Norton Records

Mono Men "Mystery Girl" on Estrus

The Girls "My Baby" on Ace



Dex Romweber "Going Down" on Propeller Sound

The Goldstars "My Money"

Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders "No Good Lover" on Beluga Records

Beautiful Delilahs "Demons" on End of the West

The Mullens "Lonely Wolf" on Get Hip

Conway Twitty "Bad Girl" on MCA Coral

The Genteels "Take It Off" on Ostrich


Tony March & the Rockets "Showdown" on Ostrich

The Astronauts "What'd I Say" on RCA Victor

The Raunch Hands "I Live for the Sun" on Crypt Records

La Peste "Die In My Sleep"


Xposed 4heads "New Wave Apocalypse" on Internal Combustion

Peder Hedman "Crazy Eights Theme" on Rockhaus

Lack of Reason "Homecoming Queen" on Lack of Reason

Trolley "Good Feeling" on self-releassed



Reigning Sound "Make It Up" on Merge Records

Otis Redding "I Can't Turn You Loose (Live)" on Volt

Helen Love "Debbie Loves Joey" on Damaged Goods

The Damned "Stretcher Case Baby (Peel Session, 5/5/77)" on Fuel

Cursed Idols "Feelin' Good, Readin' a Book" on Dive Records

The Underdogs "Surprise Surprise" on Norton Records

The Rolling Stones "Little By Little" on London


P.J. Harvey "Working for the Man" on Island Records

Thee Headcoats "Oh Leader We Do Dig Thee" on Damaged Goods Records

The Chrome Cranks "Down for the Hit" on PCP

Bantam Rooster "She'll Be My Death" on Crypt Records

'68 Comeback "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" on Sympathy for the Record Industry

Big Star "O My Soul" on Ardent

Tommy Keene "Warren in the 60's" on Schoolkids Records


Wreckless Eric "Grown Ups" on Stiff

The Dictators "Weekend" on Norton

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 "Museum of Sex" on Yep Roc

Garland Jeffreys "I May Not Be Your Kind" on A&M

Dan Montgomery "Baby Your Luck's Running Bad" on Fantastic Yes

Bobby Russell "Sure Gonna Miss Her" on Elf

Miss Georgia Peach "Stop Kicking Our Hearts Around" on RumBar Records


Melvin Davis "It's No News" on Vampisoul

Terry & the Topics "Where's My Pussycat?" on Twistin' Rumble

The Temptations "Friendship Train" on Gordy

Jr. Walker & The All Stars "Hot Cha" on Soul

Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps "In Love Again" on Capitol





Nashville Pussy: They Scare You Some (1998)

Note: I reached back to the 20th century for this old article. This review was published April 26, 1998 in The East Carolinian , the studen...