Daniel Higgs - Plays The Mirror of the Apocalypse

Daniel Higgs - Plays The Mirror of the Apocalypse

MV & EE - Live Heroine Boots (2009 to 2010)

Here's a huge cheers to MV & EE. Who have released a decent catalog of live recordings on their Heroine Celestial Agriculture label. Starting off, these bootlegs were adorned with spaceship-take-off style visuals that were printed onto different colored papers that switched from release to release. Starting in 2009, the cover's to these cdr's changed over to high contrast black & white images that one could only assume are associated with the live event captured onto the disc included. This is when I myself tried to start keeping up with these - emailing MV every now and then, grabbing up each one he would type out on a list in the reply email. Digging into those singular unique elements of each live show was what I got into the most.

The lineup on these shows varies from the Golden Road family members, to the trio excursions with Willie Lane, and to just MV & EE, those great duo shows - which tend to be my favorite of the game. I know 'Black Ark/White Egg' (the first in this Black & White style series) was put up on Nitty Gritty, and 'Ready For Another House' too elsewhere on the blogs - but for completionists sake, and the idea of whole-someness, I'll include these two in the post.

Where I see a differentiating point, in this live Heroine series, is when Mick Flower started to be included in the jams - taking the sound to a great 'nother level. And along with the fact that MV's still got these Flower'd-lineup jams up for sale, I'm going to save them for someone else/another time way on down the road; but will include one release (or maybe two) of these great sounds.

Anyway, here we go, the only release I couldn't get high res scans of is Ready For Another House - as I sold it off already. But alls well. I'll save my inputs and opinions on these shows for you to conjour up yourselfs; but there's a damn good gem to dig on in every live version of their tunes.

All .zips of these mp3's are at 320. Please let me know if any one of these links or .zip files don't work - I'll fix or re-up for sure.

Thanks for the music MV & EE, we dig it.
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MV & EE - Black Ark/White Egg.
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MV & EE - Barn Joint
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MV & EE - Bill Lee Versus Powerman Or King Tubby's Homestead, Expo 1
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MV & EE - Pride Of Yards: Thick With Definition
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1		Intro	0:42
2		Hungry Stones	6:46
3		I Got Caves In There	7:26
4		Cold Rain	9:12
5		Weatherhead Hollow > Drone Trailer	24:44

MV & EE - Ready For Another House
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MV & EE - Forever Upward
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MV & EE - Free Folk Paintball
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MV & EE - Greenspace
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MV & EE - Mutron Lovers
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MV & EE - Wiz Wid
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MV & EE - Tropic Of C.O.M
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MV & EE - Red Head Transistor
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MV & EE - Electric Wharf (Coventrian)
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MV & EE - I Left My Wallet In The Trossachs
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John & Beverley Martyn - Stormbringer!

John & Beverley Martyn: Stormbringer!

It took me three hours once to find this record online - maybe I wasnt looking hard enough - but anyways...here it is.  It's so goddamned beautiful.

Fredericksburg

http://fredericksburghistory.wordpress.com/

Christina Carter & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Meditations On The Ascension Of Blind Joe Death Vol. One

This is really sweet. 

Christina Carter & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Meditations On The Ascension Of Blind Joe Death Vol. One

-Also Worth Checking Out -

D. Ray White from the "Talking Feet" documentary Part 1 

D. Ray White from the "Talking Feet" documentary Part 2

Great little snip of D Ray White - Father of the infamous Jesco White from the PBS documentary The Dancing Outlaw.  D Ray plays it cool and never huffed as much gasoline as his son.  RIP D RAY.  Bring it home.

Here's to growing up on Toy Machine videos:




The Overton Berry Ensemble
'Superstar'
TOBE

Welcome To Hell was the greatest - and this song was& still is killer.
Misled Youth could take on WTH though, probably - Greco for life.

Willie Lane - Known Quantity

I was in philly last february - right after that shit storm of snow hit the east coast.  Went out and hit up the tequila sunrise store and this baby was sitting on the shelf.  Its been one of my favorite records of this year and a great release all around.  Good for fall time changes and an excellent companion for community college homework you dont care about.
Enjoy!
Willie Lane - Known Quantity

Transcendental Rodeo: Vol. 1

Transcendental Rodeo - Vol. 1
Bennifer Editions (2009)
CDR edition of 100

'Otter Creek Blues' starts the album off on a nice meandering chugging rhythm aided by stringed twang, mouth harps, and tambourines; only to drop it all out further and further as each song transitions into the next. Venturing through the deep (& long!) zones of 'The Last Of The Bengal Tigers' leads us back onto some echoed & electrified stringed melodies in 'So Long, Jack Elan'.

Features a whole host of characters including Matthew "Doc" Dunn (who's got two great solo tapes on Bennifer as well) from MV & EE's The Golden Road. For fans of Tower Recordings and the Holy Modal Rounders. As well as MV & EE's various sounds, and the ramshackle nature of The Cherry Blossoms.

Sold out at the label, but there's a copy still available at Tomentosa if anyone out there wants the album for keeps. (http://www.tomentosarecords.com/bennifer.html)

Enjoy 'er

Virginia Roots: The 1929 Richmond Sessions Disc 1

Virginia Roots: The 1929 Richmond Sessions Disc 1Very cool -  Good luck finding disc 2 though - lemme know if you do...

Almeda Riddle - How Firm A Foundation

Almeda Riddle - How Firm A Foundation

I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings

I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings

Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners

Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners

Featuring Crap Eye.

Deep River of Song - Alabama. From Lullabies to Blues

Deep River of Song - Alabama. From Lullabies to Blues

Nice and Nasty - Selections from Dr Ragtime's Private Stash

"This is basically a mixtape put together by Jack Rose.Lots of things that are quite obviously his influences in glorious lo-fidelity.Lots of rare blues,jazz,gospel,country.Artists include Sam McGee,Peg Leg Howell & His Guys,Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals,Dixieland Jug Blowers,Blind Blake,Tommy Johnson & Frenchy's String band.There are 15 cuts with titles like Texas & the Pacific Blues,Blind Arthur's Breakdown,Buckdancer's Choice,Stockyard Strut & Soft Steel Piston.Good stuff & this is hard to find"


Also the William Moore cut on this baby mentions the river that flows through Fredericksburg several times - too cool.  Soft steel piston is a killer track as well!
Nice and Nasty: Selections from Dr Ragtime's Private Stash

American Primitive - Volume 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897-1939

American Primitive - Volume 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897-1939

Mississippi Girls (1928 - 1931)

Warner Collection, Vol. 2 - Nothing Seems Better to Me

Warner Collection, Vol. 2 - Nothing Seems Better to Me

The Warner Collection, Vol. 1: Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still

The Warner Collection, Vol. 1: Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still

Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham

Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham

Virginia Traditions:Non-Blues secular black music

Virginia Traditions:Non-Blues secular black music

Barbecue Bob - Chocolate to the Bone

Barbecue Bob - Chocolate to the Bone

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 6: Early American Rural Music

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 6: Early American Rural Music