Filed under: Digital Dig
Closer followers may have noticed a lapse in new additions to our Digital Dig over the last two years. Today, we rectify this with five new additions. For those unfamiliar with DD, it’s the best place on the internet to purchase single track downloads from our catalog. It also has a fuck ton of unreleased material that was left on the cutting room floor. Our hope is to add five new things a week, time and material permitting.
This week we are adding:
- You Know
- Stone Coal White
- Hell Below
- People’s
- Warm Up
- Move Your Hand
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Free
Father’s Children – Who’s Gonna Save the World
- Everybody’s Got A Problem
- Linda
- Dirt and Grime
- Who’s Gonna Save the World
- Kohoutek
- In Shallah
- Father’s Children
- Universal Train
- Linda Movement
Bonus Tracks:
- Linda Movement (Extended Cut)
- Father’s Children (Extended Cut)
- Everybody’s Got A Problem (Extended Cut)
- Practitioner of Rhymes
- No Title Can Describe
- Dictionary Rap
24-Carat Black – Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
- The Best of Good Love
- I Want to Make Up
- I Don’t Love You
- I’ll Never Let You Go
- Gone Are The Promises of Yesterday
- I Begin To Weep
- It’s Time
- I Cried A Tear
You can now delve deeper into the Pisces catalog by checking out the 25 tracks that didn’t make the cut for A Lovely Sight in our Digital Dig section. There’s loads of great material from the Krein/DiVenti archive like the meandering fuzzed out guitar riffs in “Turnips Blues“ or the gentle cumulus instrumental “Riding On A Cloud.” Check it out below as you drift away into the proverbial skies of your mind.
Filed under: Digital Dig, Home Schooled | Tags: Add new tag, Fantasy Records, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Oscar Brown Jr., Suemertone Records
Merl Saunders who passed on today will be remembered by the masses for his blistering grooves behind Jerry Garcia throughout most of the 70′s – check out his smokin synth action on Keepers from Saunders & Garcia: Live At The Keystone on Fantasy – but here at Camp Numero he’ll be remembered as the producer of the ultra-rare Man Child Singers lone 45.
In 1967, Merl teamed up with Oscar Brown Jr. and mutual friend Ed Lewis to write tunes for a politically charged musical, Big Time Buck White. The show was packed full of psychedelic funk with progressive lyrics that are just as relevant today as we hear sound bites of ignorant racist yahoo’s from Wasilla, Alaska talking about a “white out on Nov. 4th.”
After its brief theatrical run, Merl took the kids into the studio along with some tripped out session musicians and cut two songs for a 45 on Suemertone Records, Mighty Wighty b/w Right On. Having the innocent children singing things like, “you better listen or you’ll be missing” gave the songs some raw emotional weight that we had to share with you on Numero 016, Home Schooled: The ABC’s of Kid Soul.
“Right On, Right On…”
Filed under: Digital Dig, Good God!, Revival | Tags: Add new tag, ecorse, Felton Williams, Gospel Funk, Revival
The magnetic tape residue around our 1/4″ deck’s play head is building up fast this week as we finish listening to the massive Revival Records archive for Numero 026, Local Customs: Downriver Revival. Three years ago we ventured into this unorganized mess of tapes hand wrapped in coffee stained manilla envelopes and a myriad of colorful late 60′s tape boxes that have unearthed some memorable music from the outskirts of Detroit in Ecorse, MI.
We had a vague idea of what we would find in this archive, but 117 tapes later we’re astounded at the recording prowess of Revival Records figurehead, Felton Williams. If Moe Asch & Folkways is the macrocosm of field recordings, than Felton Williams & Revival is the microcosm. It seems like every rehearsal, demo, session, or Sunday sermon in Ecorse was committed to Felton’s tape deck back in the day. He treated tape stock like we treat 0′s and 1′s by making countless copies of the masters, like our backup 500 gig drives of today, always setting his mind at ease that he had these unique sonic moments captured on tape for us to listen to in the future.
If you simply can-not-wait until the new year to hear these raw Ecorse sounds, you can get a taste with the Mighty Walker Brothers hi-hat attack on God Been Good To Me in the Digital Dig section from our 10th release, Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal.
“You know he’s been so good, been-so-good-to-me…”
