NOISE FROM THE UNDERGROUND VOL. 5
SUPLECS - HYMSS UNDER A BLOOD MOON SKY (2026) CD - JIMMIE RODGERS - A CAREER ANTHOLOGY: RCA & BLUEBIRD RELEASES 1927-1933 5-CD Set- THE BLASTERS - THE BLASTERS (1981) CD - THE BLASTERS - HARD LINE (1985) CD
SUPLECS - HYMNS UNDER A BLOOD MOON SKY CD (2026)
Label: Ripple Music
Duration: 46:27
NOLA stoner-metal legends Suplecs have returned with a new studio album after fifteen years, and they have not mellowed with age, Hymns Under a Blood Moon Sky offers a dozen tracks of sludge, doom and bluesy riff monsters that will chew you up and spit you out. Album opener "Got Nothing" is slabby riffage with plenty of crunch, bombastic drums and some earworm soloing, and then into more of the same with "Pentacle Star". The third track "No Apologies" settles into more of a vibe with acidic guitar work and a pleasant headbanging chug. "Forest of Fire" has some psychedelia/prog element thrown in that were tasty. "Old Spanish Trail" offers a desert rock interlude, then into the heavy riff-o-rama of "Damn These Pills", this one has a heavy fuzzed-out throb to it. Listening to this in my car on my way into work and then again on the commute home just revealed one banger after another, and it saves the best for last, the album closer "La Ti Da" ended up being my favorite, playing it on repeat three times in a row just to experience it again and again, and again, the track featuring a brassy low-end apocalypse horn section courtesy of The Horn of Egg Yolk Jubilee, which adds an additional and unexpected heavy element to a song that is already heavy as fuck. This single-disc CD released by taste-makers Ripple Music arrives in a four-panel digipack with a clear plastic tray, no booklet in this one.
Track Listing
1. Got Nothing
2. Pentacle Star
3. I See You
4. Forest Of Fire
5. Black Water Rising
6. Old Spanish Trail
7. Damn These Pills
8. Mountain
9. $6 Man
10. Heartless Bodies
11. No Apologies
12. La Ti Da
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JIMMIE RODGERS - A CAREER ANTHOLOGY: RCA & BLUEBIRD RELEASES 1927-1933 5-CD set
Label: Acrobat Music
Duration: 360 Minutes
Jimmie Rodgers was a pioneer of country music, dubbed "The Father Of Country Music" as well as "The Singing Brakeman", as he worked on the railroads before leaving the railroad after being diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of 27 in 1924, then going onto become a professional musician. This 110-song 5-disc CD set from the UK-based Acrobat Music label spans his entire career, spanning the records he made for the RCA Victor and Bluebird labels from 1927-1933, among them his best-known songs like "In The Jailhouse Now", "Brakeman's Blues", "Waiting For A Train", "Blue Yodel No. 1", and of course "Mule Skinner Blues", as well as his team-up with the legendary Carter Family in 1931, and songs from his final sessions that were released posthumously. I first discovered Jimmie Rodgers for myself while I was first heavily getting into hank Williams Sr., who was hugely influenced by Rodgers music, he himself having covered "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" was covered by a number of Rodgers songs, including "Mule Skinner Blues",
"In the Jailhouse Now" and "My Old Pal". If your a fan of William Sr. i imagine that Rodgers oeuvre will go down like a fine dandelion wine. His music is an intoxicating blend of plaintive blues and country strumming, Appalachian hillbilly folk, and country western, combined with Rodgers distinctive yodeling style, that goes down smooth, there's an inherent honesty to it, and the storytelling, which only got better towards the end of his life, is simply wonderful. The 110-song set is not complete and does not pretend to be, there are alternate takes and other songs that have proven to include, but its damn near definitive, and you can puck this up pn amazon for $32 right now, which is a steal of deal, this set is fantastic. The 5-disc CD set arrives in a five-disc clear jewel case, inside there's a 24-page booklet with in-depth liner notes by American roots music historian Paul watts, detailing the release chronology as well as information about Rodgers life and death, his influence, and of course the recording sessions of the songs featured on this set.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
1. Sleep Baby Sleep
2. Soldiers Sweetheart
3. Away Out On The Mountain
4. Blue Yodel - T For Texas
5. In The Jailhouse Now
6. Ben Dewberry's Final Run
7. Brakeman's Blues
8. My Lovin' Gal Lucille (Blue Yodel No. 2)
9. Mother Was A Lady
10. Treasures Untold
11. Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun)
12. Never No Mo' Blues
13. Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea
14. My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
15. Memphis Yodel
16. Lullaby Yodel
17. Waiting For A Train
18. Blue Yodel No. 4 - California Blues
19. I'm Lonely And Blue
20. The Sailor's Plea
21. My Little Lady
22. You And My Old Guitar
Disc 2:
23. My Carolina Sunshine Girl
24. Desert Blues
25. My Old Pal
26. Daddy And Home
27. Blue Yodel No. 5
28. I'm Sorry We Met
29. Frankie And Johnnie
30. Everybody Does It In Hawaii
31. Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
32. My Rough And Rowdy Ways
33. Blue Yodel No. 6
34. Yodeling Cowboy
35. A Drunkard's Child
36. Whisper Your Mother's Name
37. Jimmie's Texas Blues
38. Train Whistle Blues
39. Hobo Bill's Last Ride
40. That's Why I'm Blue
41. Anniversary Blue Yodel (No. 7)
43. Any Old Time
43. He's In The Jailhouse Now No. 2
44. High Powered Mama
Disc 3:
45 Pistol Packin' Papa
46. Those Gambler's Blues
47. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
48. Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues
49. Mystery Of Number Five
50. Nobody Knows But Me
51. T.B. Blues
52. Mississippi River Blues
53. Jimmie The Kid
54. My Blue Eyed Jane
55. I'm Lonesome Too
56. Travellin' Blues
57. Moonlight And Skies
58. Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family
59. Standing On A Corner - Blue Yodel No. 9
60. Looking For A New Mama
61. What's It
62. Why Should I Be Lonely
63. Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
64. Gambling Polka Dot Blues
65. When The Cactus Is In Bloom
66. Roll Along Kentucky Moon
Disc 4:
67. For The Sake Of Days Gone By
68. My Time Ain't Long
69. Ninety Nine Year Blues
70. Home Call
71. She Was Happy Till She Met You
72. Mississippi Moon
73. Blue Yodel No.10 (Ground Hog Rootin' In My Back Yard)
74. Down The Old Road To Home
75. The Hobo's Meditation
76. Rock All Our Babies To Sleep
77. Mother, The Queen Of My Heart
78. Miss The Mississippi & You
79. In The Hills Of Tennessee
80. Whippin' That Old T.B.
81. No Hard Times - Blue Yodel
82. Gambling Bar Room Blues
83. Long Tall Mama Blues
84. Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia
85. Prairie Lullaby
86. Sweet Mama, Hurry Home
87. Blue Yodel No. 11 (Eight)
88. Southern Cannon Ball
Disc 5:
89. Land Of My Boyhood Dreams
90. Mississippi Delta Blues
91. Old Pal Of My Heart
92. Yodeling Ranger
93. I'm Free (From The Chain Gang Now)
94. Old Love Letters
95. Somewhere Down Below The Dixon Line
96. Barefoot Blues - Blue Yodel No.12
97. Cowhand's Last Ride
98. Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel
99. Fifteen Years Ago Today
100. I've Ranged, I've Roamed And I've Traveled
101. Why Did You Give Me Your Love
102. My Good Gal's Gone Blues
103. Why There's A Tear In My Eye
104. Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers In Texas
105. I've Only Loved Three Women
106. That Wonderful City
107. The One Rose
108. Yodeling My Way Back Home
109. Take Me Back Again
110. Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
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THE BLASTERS - THE BLASTERS (1981) CD
Label: Liberation Hall
Duration: 30:51
The Blasters second self-titles album was released in 1982, a dozen tracks of roots rockin' "American Music", a vibrant and upbeat array of blues, rockabilly, country, jazz, swing, and early rock & roll, the album alternating between originals and covers, like a saxed-up cover of Rudy Toombs "I'm Shakin'", and honky-tonk original like "Border Radio". Phil Alvin vocals are exuberant and distinct, along side his brother Dave Alvin finger lickin' lead guitar, with rhythm section of John Bazz and
Bill Bateman, piano from Gene Taylor and the tenor/baritone sax combo of Lee Allen and Steve Berlin. It would be a challenge indeed to slap this disc on and not start shakin' your booty! The single-disc reissues from Liberation Hall arrive in a four-panel digisleeve, with a 8-page booklet featuring writing by Chris Morris.
Track Listing:
- Marie Marie
- No Other Girl
- I'm Shakin'
- Border Radio
- American Music
- So Long Baby Goodbye
- Hollywood Bed
- Never No Mo' Blues
- This Is It
- Highway 61
- I Love You So
- Stop the Clock
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THE BLASTERS - HARD LINE (1985) CD
Label: Liberation Hall
Duration: 36:03
The Blasters fourth album, 1985's Hard Line, went for a slightly more contemporary sound, but it still rocks the roots with standouts like "Trouble Bound" and "Help You Dream", Dave Alvin's guitar tone is thick and wonderous, while his bother's Phil's vocals and lyrics are sharper than ever, including the ominous "Dark Night," which was featured years later as the opening song for the Tarantino/Rodriguez flick From Dusk Till Dawn soundtrack. The album is solid, but probably my least favorite of the original four album, but there's no denying the more poppier sensibilities are intriguing, we get two songs co-penned by John Doe of X ("Little Honey", "Just Another Sunday"), and John Mellencamp wrote the song "Colored Lights", and the Jordanaires who do back-up vocals on "Trouble Bound" and the traditional song "Samson and Delilah". There's not a clunker in the bunch but the energy level is a bit subdued to previous albums, but it's flavorful, we get some Cajun zydeco influence with :Little Honey", and the tune "Common Man: has a real countryfied Credence Clearwater Revival vibe about it, closing the album with the rockabilly raver "Rock and Roll Will stand". The single-disc reissues from Liberation Hall arrive in a four-panel digisleeve, with a 8-page booklet featuring writing by Chris Morris that details the recording of the album, trouble behind-the-scenes and the series of events that lead to Dave Alvin departing the band.
Track Listing:
- Trouble Bound
- Just Another Sunday
- Hey Girl
- Dark Night
- Little Honey
- Samson and Delilah
- Colored Lights
- Help You Dream
- Common Man
- Rock and Roll Will Stand
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