Soul soul feeling !

HARRY BATCHELOR and the Mighty crowns
Soul soul feeling
(B side of Just a few more minutes, Roulette 45VR 195053 disques Vogue)

I had time for thoughts this week-end.
And after my last note, I told myself that I could share my collection in a better and easier way than absolutely complete albums each time in doing here what I have already done on le Podcast d'hector. Put some good (and rare) singles on Action time.
More, Mephisto's rock gems gave me the energy, so... beginning with my favorite soul/funk/rn'blues 45's....

No info on this very good funky piece, with fuzz and loud organ, just that Harry Batchelor apparently have played with one of the first Jimi Hendrix/ Billy Cox band "King casuals" in 1962, and that it's pretty much collectable. Have a look on Les groupes de Jimi site
where I found this photo. (Harry Batchelor is the singer).


One time again, the B side is the better.

Soul soul feeling :


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Time to make a point

Well, it's amazing how great this community is.
I remember it's been about one year now that I have discovered it, thanks to a chronicle in the french Liberation newspaper.
I was at that time searching for an album of the Things (paisley band), and I felt onto Twilightzone. What a shok !

Since then I have joined this and I do as much as I can, because I'm also into comics and multimedia things at my job., But it never stops to surprise me each day. My goal is not, like someones do, to put all my discotheque on the blog, it has no sense for me, but sometimes, I think of one thing that can be interesting to share. Sometime I have a little more time and I ask myself, is that lp could interest somebody ?
In fact I have thousands of vinyls (in big part) that sleeps in cases, and that could be uploaded here. But that's no way. I let time to time and it will happen what it will happen ... someday.

Just to say : the big part of the collection is made of 60's international garage, on lps, many comps, some soul, many international garage or rn'blues revival many french 80's lps or 45s too, some 70's international one 45s ... so .. what to choose first ? I look for the other blogs to see if I can help...

I am a Soul lover, and even If I buy, like the larger part of the users of this community ,a lot of records (or may I say ; I had buyed a lot since 25 years), I cannot afford myself put again and again more records on the living room or in the celling.
So do I download regularly some stuff here and there, but always with reason, and always leaving a comment.

The people who are under each blog are often (if always) great and it's a pleasure for me each time to read the notes and to enjoy the music. Some are bigger and nicer than others, but everytime I discover something, and that's the real gaz !!

Thank you everybody !

You can't stand alone, (Pickett), by the Out Four.

Being black and being proud !

The struggle of Juke Boy Bonner.

It's been quite three years I discovered this good folk blues album, and his creator, thanks to my friend Claude. It's kinda a mix between the first J. L. hooker's lps from 1945, Lightning Hopkins... and something with soul.. You'l tell me.
Anyway, it was time to ripp it from the vinyl (deutch edition), and to share it. In the meantime, it has been edited again in France on CD, but that's the way God planned it, hu ?

"Weldon "Jukeboy" Bonner sings of his fhis struggle to live a meaningfullife in mid-century America. While many might not see this struggle as worthy material for song, Bonner's life has indeed provided ample resources for fine lyric writing .
He has had to fight his way through one of the most competitive markets in the world, the Black Ghettos of the Urban South. The only way to survive in the Ghetto is to have a good "hustle". A "Hustle" can be anything from a legitimate job at the Post Office or P.O. as it is called in the Ghetto; to running a Policy game bank in sorne off the beaten track beer joint. A "Hustle" is how you make it, how you put beans on the table shoes on the kids' feet and clothes on your back., it is a living.
Weldon Bonner's hustle is the blues.

The Blues are still popular with a portion of the black audience in Houston.
Fifth ward, Acres Homes and Sunnyside are still eager to support the Blues. But this doesn't automatically mean that the bar owners hire Bluesmen.
The Jukebox is cheaper and attracts revenue of its' own. The Bluesman has to hustle to get work. And he is not alone in thishustle, there are many small rock and "Soul" bands eager to play for peanuts just for the exposure, hundreds of neighborhood singers who will sing along with the Jukebox for a few free beers, lots of local clowns, dancers and monologists who will entertain at the drop of a hat. So Weldon has to do a selling job of the first water just to get an audition.

The going rate in Houston for live entertainment is from $15.00 to $30.00 per night in the small blues clubs. If a performer can average $25.00 a night he is lucky. To do this it is necessary to'play for afternoon dances and on early evening gigs. Weldon has made as many as four gigs in one day in order to earn his living.
It is a constant battle, findinf the club owner or house man as he is called; an audition generally before a live audience, no pay naturally; the hassle to determine the rate of pay and then the nightly worry about Payment .This is Weldon 's hustle.
This is a Bluesman's life in Houston today.
"Jukeboy" has faced this battle for the last ten years, It is part of his struggle.

This is a strange existence for a poet, yet no stranger than the pubs or Ireland which sheltered Yates, Devlin and Kinsella; no different from the saloons of Seattles' first avenue which gave solice to Theodore Roethke; not too much different from the many smokey bars inhabited by Dylan Thomas.

I am sure that there are those who will not accept the idea that a Blues singer and writer can also be a great poet. There is actually little else you can justly cali the Bluesman of today. He works with form, imagery, rhythm, meter and rhyme. He abstracts experience verbally and adds the element of beauty to finished product. He is a poet by almost every accepted definition. This album captures Weldon Bonners' struggle in his own poetic expression. It is almost a total capsulization of his last ten years and his life as a professional Blues singer. Listen to songs like "Over Ten Years Ago" in which Weldon tells of being down and out in Los Angeles. A happy accidental meeting with Mercy Dee, a fellow Texas Bluesman, takes him to a meal and a place on his show. "Struggle Here in Houston" and ''l'm in the Big City" each tell us more about Ghetto life today than hundreds of dusty books written by college professors who are more interested in counting noses than helping or understanding people. "The Struggle" is one man's story but it has applications for ail men. Weldon uses James Brown's ''l'm Black and l'm Proud" theme as a starting point for his own song, "Being Black and l'm Proud". Weldon's view is a bit more analytic and incisive than Brown's. Jukeboy asks for respect from his fellow Blackmen. He states that the Blackman must begin at home with sorne corrective thinking about blackness and Black pride before he can demand respect from the white community. This is definitely not a patronizing kind of self criticism, it cornes from pride and from understanding and from a painful kind of honesty that so often characterizes Weldon Bonner. To illustrate the timelessness of the Blues form and at the same time the flexibility and irnmediacy of the Blues experience, Weldon has included a song in this album that was actually scheduled for a later effort. "1 Got My Passport" is a graphic description of a problem that the average white can't even conceive of, the grating of a passport without a birth certificate. They simply did not worry about Birth Certificates for Black Children in Beeville during the early 30's. But try to get this across to officialdom, a Blues in the making. Weldon did secure his passport and will be visiting Europe during the fall of 1969 with the American Blues Festival. This album is the document of a struggle, a stroggle that is going on right now for Weldon "Jukeboy" Bonner and about 20 million other b1ack men and women ID America.. It is a document that is both valid as art and entertaining as music here is a document of black experience and blues ideas. The struggle is weldone with Juke Boy Bonner.
(from the original Notes of Larry Skoog)

All songs by Weldon Bonner @ by Tradition Music Co. (BMI)

Juke Boy Bonner vocals, guitar, and harmonica; Alvin 1. Simon-drums.
Recorded at ACA studios in Houston, Tex. on November 30 and December 2,1968 except for I GOT MY PASSPORT and OVER TEN YEARS AGO which were recorded on May 5, 1969. Bill Holfordengineer.
Produced by Chris Strachwitz Caver: Wayne Pope
Cover photo Chris Strackwitt

The complete disco of Juke Boy Bonner on :
http://www.wirz.de/music/bonnefrm.htm

Struggle here in Houston
Railroad tracks
Watch your buddies/I got my passport (on the same track sorry)
When the deal goes down
Being black and I'm proud
I'm in the big city
Houston, the action town
Over ten years ago
Running shoes
Just a blues
It don't take too much

The file : (pw is wtai as usual)
http://rapidshare.com/files/23691979/00036jubo07.rar.html

Total destruction (to your mind, again!)

Well, it took me some times to ripp again and repost this one, caus I had lost the files.
So here it goes, in crackorama.

SWAMP DOGG
Total destruction to your mind

See the previous post for infos.

the link :
http://rapidshare.com/files/22555498/0035swdtot07.rar.html

Surf and tiels : the ri(e)-post !

À la demande générale :
another time this rare ep by these two french garage bands :
The Out Four and Pickpockets.

This time the complete 6 tracks ep.
See the previous note for details.

the file : (pw is wtai as usual)
http://rapidshare.com/files/20375100/0034ofpi07.rar.html

Paint a rainbow ...they said !

Yes, for all of you who have waited so long, and with patience... here is the second 12" of My Bloody Valentine.

I must now admit that I was a little too much negative in my last note about the band. Caus as I was listening to this piece of vinyle while ripping it, I surprised myself thinking :"whoo!, in fact, what a good record it is!".
So I must apologize, I was wrong and it's obiously in retrospect a good example of what the noisy 80's have given us. (I was drunk, wasn't I ?)
So I will post in some days another similar sounds, like Talulah gosh, or some C86 comps, to quote few of us.

Sunny Sundae Smile 12" (February 1987)
UK Lazy LAZY04T

A1. Sunny Sundae Smile
B1. Sylvie's Head
B2. Paint A Rainbow
B3. Kiss The Eclipse

Only 2000 copies of the 12" were made.

The file : http://rapidshare.com/files/19558640/0032myblo207.rar.html