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Welcome!! Welcome!! Little Freddie King has spent decades in New Orleans but still retains the Leave No Bridge Unburned is the newest from Whitehorse, the Canadian McComb, Mississippi blues he grew up on. Unlike many of today’s blues wedded duo of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, their third under musicians who have heard about juke joints, LFK grew up in them that moniker after numerous solo albums by each. Luke’s guitar slinging learning from folks like Slim Harpo, Snooks Eaglin, Buddy Guy and capabilities have been sublimated on their previous release but shine eventually (Big) Freddie King. He’s outlived most and still works hard through on this effort in combination with their expected high standard with his mix of rural and city blues travelling around the world spreading songwriting with the power of an album far removed from the folk stylings the gospel of gutbucket. of their first release. BP Fallon is an Irish born writer whose career has seen him interviewing The promise put forth in DRRT, the first CD by Portland’s Lost Lander has John and Yoko at their Amsterdam bed-in which led to a job at Apple manifested itself on Medallion-- -the highly anticipated new release on Records, to coining the phrase “T-Rextacy” for Mark Bolan as his publicist Glad I Did Recordings. The band whose lyrics prompted Rolling Stone to to working with a gamut of artists from Led Zeppelin to Ian Dury. He was describe as “deeply personal and emotionally charged” has been the DJ on U2s Zoo tour as well as for The Kills and My Bloody Valentine. enthusiastically captured by producer Brent He has recorded with Jack White, Ian McLagan and members of Knopf of Menomena with an album that explores the duality of Blondie. His new album is Live In Texas where he now lives and features experiences of love and loss, impermanence and longevity, death and Joe King Carrasco. rebirth. Please take a look at the top of Page 7 and join us in remembering A quick note to mention that all burnside titles are available through our burnside sales rep, George Romansic. friends at Amped. See the listing of their sales reps on the following page. And so much more……………...your friends at bdc
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King, Little Freddie, Messin' Around Tha Living Room CD Introduced onstage as: “The world renowned, hard to kill, pistol-packin’, chicken-pickin’, string- pullin’, show CAT: MWR70 stoppin’, freight train hoppin’, gamecock walkin’, master of electricity, king of gutbucket blues, connoisseur of women, His Royal Highness”, Little Freddie King is a key figure in the New Orleans’s music scene and LABEL: MadeWright Records brings unrivaled enthusiasm, passion and style to his performances. As the blues evolve, artists with Mr. UPC: 888295214513 King’s life experience and exposure to earlier generations of this music are slowly disappearing. Freddie has PRICE: $15.99 become one of New Orleans’s great cultural ambassadors as he has extended his music and travel beyond the City to a National and Global audience. His style is rooted in a unique combination of Mississippi country and New Orleans urban flavor to make a gumbo of Blues that unleashes his pride in both regions.
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Brosseau. Tom, Perfect Abandon CD Perfect Abandon is the new album by Tom Brosseau. It was produced, engineered and recorded in Bristol, CAT: CBR 030 England by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Sparklehorse, Peggy Sue) and Ali Chant, features a 2-piece drum kit, double bass and Stratocaster guitar. Themes of the songwriting include man struggles to understand divinity, LABEL: Crossbill Records betrayal of a kinsman, discovery, individualism, love. UPC: 614511828925 PRICE: $11.99 NOTE: THIS TITLE HAS A STREET DATE OF MARCH 3RD FOR BOTH CONFIGURATIONS
Brosseau, Tom, Perfect Abandon LP Cat: CBR 030 Label: Crossbill Records UPC: 614511829120 Price: $17.99
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And And And, The Failure CD Winners of Willamette Week's 2011 Best New Band poll (past finalists have included Menomena, CAT: PDX-009 Starfucker, and Typhoon), And And And finally are releasing what can only be called the follow-up to that year's blur of output, culminating with the early 2012 Lost EP. They're known for truly epic live shows with no LABEL: Party Damage Records clear delineation between stage and offstage or audience member and musician. Recorded over ten days in UPC: 889211280711 San Diego with Rafter Roberts between skateboarding and drinking sessions, the record is fiery and urgent. PRICE: $15.99 It evokes classic grunge-era sounds from the Northwest (think Mudhoney and early Nirvana), but bleeds melody and passion all its own.
Divers, Hello Hello CD “Divers is a band from Portland, Oregon. We are Harrison Rapp (guitar and vocals), Seth Rapp (guitar), CAT: PDX-010 James Deegan (bass), and Colby Hulsey (drums). We play dynamic, sweaty music. The indie rockers say we are a punk band. The punk rockers are suspicious that we might be an indie band. The bands that have LABEL: Party Damage Records inspired us fall on both sides of the fence, but they all share the same kind of energy. If we have any clear UPC: 888174952260 idea about what we are doing, it has something to do with that energy. Our forthcoming album is about a PRICE: $13.99 couple of bank robbers driving across North America, doing what they do. We will be driving across North America doing what we do in March and April. We are probably coming to your town. Come say hello. We don't bite, but we'll try and shake you up the best we can.” Divers
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Fallon, BP, 'Live In Texas' CD Saustex is pleased to present Live In Texas, the latest release from BP Fallon. Fallon has spent a lifetime in CAT: SEX1502 music as a storied DJ (U2's Zoo TV Tour), writer, photographer, publicist (Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, T Rex) and manager but has come to the table as a performer only relatively recently. Described in Hammer Of The LABEL: Saustex Media Gods as “a visionary imp”, by Vogue magazine as “a gentle wispy sorcerer”, and by Bono as ” a rock’n’roll UPC: 614511828727 creature. The only white black man I know apart from Bob Dylan”, Fallon has always possessed a nose for PRICE: $15.99 what is new and crucial. This live album finds BP in fine form and was recorded October 2014 in Austin, Texas. Accompanied by Aaron Lee Tasjan on acoustic guitar and joined mid-set by Danny B. Harvey and Joe “King” Carrasco, BP spins a grand and artfully connected tale that is equal parts poetry, song and history lesson, climaxing with the rave-up “Van & Gloria”. This 700 copy limited edition CD is a must for any true connoisseur of the art of rock’n’roll.
Gendron, Myriam, Not So Deep as a Well CD Myriam Gendron makes her living as a copy-editor and book dealer, leading to her discovery of Not So CAT: MB007 Deep as a Well, an anthology of Dorothy Parker poetry. Parker's poems hit just the right note and Myriam began putting them to music. "Before even understanding the meaning of the words, I heard a song," she LABEL: Mama Bird Recording Co. says. "I flipped through the pages and it just kept happening." A full album came out of it. Recorded and UPC: 616892267744 mixed in her bedroom, Myriam Gendron's debut album started as a simple project but became more serious PRICE: $12.99 as she began to absorb Parker's work. The album, also titled Not So Deep as a Well, is one of love and hate, all at once brutal, mischievous, humorous and blue. Not So Deep as a Well was initially released on March 4th, 2014 on limited edition vinyl. Now the album will finally be released by Mama Bird on CD with two previously unreleased tracks.
Grannies, The, Ballsier LP Vinyl Saustex is pleased to unleash Ballsier, the latest full length album from Bay Area cross- dressing, geriatric CAT: SEX1501 superstars, The Grannies. The new set picks up where 2011’s For Those About To Forget To Rock left off with an arthritic and defiant middle finger raised high above a squalid rawk’n’roll soundtrack. Lead singer LABEL: Saustex Media Bjorn Toulouse wails hard won lessons about dodgy friends, gentrification and love to the chaos while UPC: 614511828024 producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, The Gits, Valiant Thor) aptly synthesizes the band’s well-fermented bile and PRICE: $16.99 grungy, virulent twin-guitar attack on tunes like “Soviet”, “Wade in Bloody Water” and “Modern Medicine”. The CD edition of the album features remixes of “The Corner of F*ck and You” by Ben Addison (of UK acid jazz legends Corduroy) and “Glittersh*tter” by German producer, DJ and sound designer Matt Flores.
Jonny Polonsky, The Other Side of Midnight LP Vinyl In 1996 Johnny Polonsky signed a record deal with Rick Rubin. He has worked with Johnny Cash, Neil CAT: SSI001 Diamond, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Cedric Bixler (The Mars Volta) and many more. Polonsky's new record, The Other Side of Midnight, is 35 minutes of strange and beautiful, melodic, sci-fi bliss written and LABEL: Sound Science Industries performed entirely by Jonny. The album was mixed by David Lynch's right hand man Dean Hurley at Lynch's UPC: 888174909141 private recording facility, Asymmetrical Studios. Jonny Polonsky is today's best kept secret. Open your ears PRICE: $16.99 and find out why. "The guy was born to be a rock star and he makes the music to back it up." -Black Francis of the Pixies. “He's brought it into his own thing. He does it with soul." -Jeff Buckley
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Last Giant, Heavy Habitat CD You can catch a view of big game while on safari. You can tune into an episode of Wild Kingdom. Go ahead. CAT: LOBO002 Crack the spine of your best bestiary book and flip through for a picture of that splendid creature in its natural environment. With our fangs, claws and talons, we are not so different from untamed animals. Especially LABEL: Little One Ate the Big One when tuned in, turned on. Last Giant is that rare rough beast whose true identity reveals not in a glossy UPC: 825576304426 snapshot but through sound: heavy sound. There is only a single species of rock record like Heavy Habitat, PRICE: $10.99 one that cannot be contained by any zoo. Long believed endangered, perhaps even extinct, it's come free of its cage and can now be found roaming the land, hungry for dominion. Something big has broken its chains. So park the car. Turn up the stereo as high as it will go and open the windows. It's coming your way. Finally. NOTE: THIS TITLE HAS A STREET DATE OF FEBRUARY 24TH FOR BOTH CONFIGURATIONS
Last Giant, Heavy Habitat LP Cat: LOBO002 Label: Little One Ate the Big One UPC: 825576297520 Price: $15.99
Lost Lander, Medallion CD Before she died, Matt Sheehy's mother used to tell him about a dream she had about Lost Land Lake—a CAT: GID555 place she spent part of her mid-western childhood. That dream inspired the name of the Juneau-born, Portland based songwriter's band, and her memory is imbued in Lost Lander’s Medallion. If DRRT, the LABEL: Glad I Did Recordings group’s first independently released album, was about the confluence of nature and technology, Medallion, UPC: 614511829526 its latest, concerns dualities - experiences of love and loss, impermanence and longevity, death and rebirth. PRICE: $11.99 Lost Lander's Medallion was recorded with producer Brent Knopf (Ramona Falls, Menomena), but also owes its current form to Sheehy's bandmates; keyboardist Fennell, drummer Patrick Hughes and ex-bassist Dave Lowensohn. Medallion also features Beirut trumpet player Kelly Pratt, Akron/Family’s Dana Jenssen, and new bass and guitar player, William Seiji Marsh. NOTE: THIS TITLE HAS A STREET DATE OF FEBRUARY 24TH FOR BOTH CONFIGURATIONS
Lost Lander, Medallion LP Cat: GID555 Label: Glad I Did Recordings UPC: 789577738102 Price: $17.99
Sandrider + Kinski, Sandrider + Kinski Vinyl Brand new split LP featuring 5 unreleased tracks from Seattle heavyweight's Sandrider and veteran psych CAT: GTD014 rockers Kinski. The Sandrider side was engineered by Matt Bayles (Russian Circles, KEN Mode, Mastodon) at Red Room Studio in Seattle and features 2 originals and a crushing cover of Jane's Addiction's LABEL: Good to Die Records "Mountain Song". The Kinski side was engineered by Phil Manley (Les Savy Fav, Rye Coalition, Oneida) at UPC: 819162017920 El Studio in San Francisco and features two new tracks with a runtime nearing 15 minutes. Grunge is long PRICE: $19.99 dead but loud rock music is very much alive in the Pacific NW, and Good to Die Records continues to prove it with another stellar release. A digital download card is enclosed.
Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned CD Leave No Bridge Unburned sees Whitehorse shaping a bigger, bolder rock sound. Any lingering CAT: SIX091 assumptions that the husband and wife duo is working within the boundaries of a folk duo should be put to rest. Leave No Bridge Unburned is a fiery, forceful and finely tuned album that showcases an abundance of LABEL: Six Shooter Records guitar slinging, exceptional songwriting and white-hot desire. Whitehorse formed in 2010 by Luke Doucet UPC: 836766009144 and Melissa McClelland. The band was nominated for the Polaris Short List (2013) for The Fate of the PRICE: $16.99 World Depends on This Kiss, their debut full-length album.
Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned LP Cat: SIX091 Label: Six Shooter Records UPC: 836766009168 Price: $20.99
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ARTISTTITLECATTYPELISTUPCLABELGENREORDER King, Little Freddie Messin' Around Tha Living Room MWR70 CD $15.99 888295214513 MadeWright Records BLUES
Brosseau. Tom Perfect Abandon CBR 030 CD $11.99 614511828925 Crossbill Records FOLK
Brosseau, Tom Perfect Abandon CBR 030 Vinyl $17.99 614511829120 Crossbill Records FOLK
And And And The Failure PDX-009 CD $15.99 889211280711 Party Damage Records ROCK/POP
Divers Hello Hello PDX-010 CD $13.99 888174952260 Party Damage Records ROCK/POP
Fallon, BP 'Live In Texas' SEX1502 CD $15.99 614511828727 Saustex Media ROCK/POP
Gendron, Myriam Not So Deep as a Well MB007 CD $12.99 616892267744 Mama Bird Recording Co. ROCK/POP
Grannies, The Ballsier LP SEX1501 Vinyl $16.99 614511828024 Saustex Media ROCK/POP
Jonny Polonsky The Other Side of Midnight LP SSI001 Vinyl $16.99 888174909141 Sound Science Industries ROCK/POP
Last Giant Heavy Habitat LOBO002 CD $10.99 825576304426 Little One Ate the Big One ROCK/POP
Last Giant Heavy Habitat LP LOBO002 Vinyl $15.99 825576297520 Little One Ate the Big One ROCK/POP
Lost Lander Medallion GID555 CD $11.99 614511829526 Glad I Did Recordings ROCK/POP
Lost Lander Medallion LP GID555 Vinyl $17.99 789577738102 Glad I Did Recordings ROCK/POP
Sandrider + Kinski Sandrider + Kinski GTD014 Vinyl $19.99 819162017920 Good to Die Records ROCK/POP
Whitehorse Leave No Bridge Unburned SIX091 CD $16.99 836766009144 Six Shooter Records ROCK/POP
Whitehorse Leave No Bridge Unburned LP SIX091 Vinyl $20.99 836766009168 Six Shooter Records ROCK/POP
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CHANGES ARTISTTITLE LABEL CAT # LIST UPC # TYPE CHANGE Girls and God/Tres Gone Experimental Split 7" Voodoo Doughnut VDR 010 $6.65 616892232643 Vinyl Catalogue # Recordings
Nelson, Monica & the Nelson, Monica & the Highgates 7" Vinyl Voodoo Doughnut VDR 012 $6.65 616892241447 Vinyl Catalogue # Highgates Recordings
Vegetable Revival Garage Rock Split 7" VINYL Voodoo Doughnut VDR 011 $6.65 616892242543 Vinyl Catalogue # Project/The Pynnacles Recordings
Various Artists The Singles Collection (The Voodoo Doughnuts Box Voodoo Doughnut VDR 013 $64.00 616892242840 Vinyl Catalogue # Set) 13 disc 7" Vinyl Set Recordings
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TOP TEN ORDER FORM • 10 PIECE MINIMUM ORDER • FAX: 503.231.0420 QTY Tagaq, Tanya, Animism LABEL: Six Shooter Records CAT: SIX086 UPC: 836766008642 PRICE: $16.99 Tanya Tagaq's music is a genre unto itself. Her music and performances transcend language. Tagaq's 2014 Polaris 1 Prize winning album, Animism, rocketed her to the forefront of the international music scene making waves for its originality, artistic importance and stunning uniqueness.
Robinson, Rich, Woodstock Sessions Vol. 3 LABEL: Woodstock Sessions CAT: WS003 UPC: 614511828420 PRICE: $16.99 From the Woodstock Sessions series, this time spotlights ex- Black Crowes guitarist/songwriter Rich Robinson in a 2 live performance with his band featurin extended versions of some of Robinson's greatest hits, selections from 2014's Ceaseless Sight LP and some eclectic covers.
Local H, Local H's Awesome Mix Tape #2 LABEL: G&P Records CAT: G&P007 UPC: 678277243323 PRICE: $10.99 Two-man, Chicago band Local H releases their second collection of covers, Local H's Awesome Mix Tape #2, on G&P 3 Records. The album contains songs by Daft Punk, Lorde, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, George Harrison, Reo Speedwagon and others.
Delines, The, Colfax LABEL: El Cortez/Delines CAT: elc901 UPC: 616892205340 PRICE: $12.99 The Delines, Colfax, has songs written by acclaimed novelist and Richmond Fontaine's Willy Vlautin. The Delines 4 feature vocalist Amy Boone of The Damnations and members of The Decemberists, Richmond Fontaine and The Minus 5.
Rymer, Brady and the Little Band That Could, Just Say Hi! LABEL: Bumblin' Bee Records CAT: BBR-1127 UPC: 888295069526 PRICE: $13.99 Grammy nominee Brady Rymer's 7th album, Just Say Hi! is a collection of songs full of kindness, friendship and love of 5 family. Inspired by his own childhood and his family. It's his most personal and joyful work to date. His band, the Little Band That Could, has never sounded better.
Willey, Kira, How to be a Cloud: Yoga Songs for Kids Vol. 3 LABEL: Fireflies Records CAT: FR 003 UPC: 700261412207 PRICE: $13.99 How To Be a Cloud, is the 3rd album from Kira Willey, kindie artist and children's yoga teacher, and the creator of 6 Fireflies Musical Yoga for Kids. Past efforts include the hits Colors (worldwide Dell campaign) and Roller Coaster, which won the Independent Music Award for Best Children's Song.
Blake, Norman, Wood, Wire & Words LABEL: Western Jubilee Recording Company/Plectr CAT: 48 UPC: 824761144762 PRICE: $16.99 With a career that started in the mid-50s, Norman Blake continues to astound with his Country-Folk-Bluegrass guitar 7 technique that transcends genre, technological changes and the whims of pop culture. Wood, Wire & Words is the first recording of all original Blake material in over 30 years.
Marsalis, Delfeayo, The Last Southern Gentlemen LABEL: Troubador Jass CAT: TJR081814 UPC: 700686987717 PRICE: $15.99 The Last Southern Gentlemen is a landmark recording for Delfeayo Marsalis, pairing father Ellis Marsalis, Jr. with son 8 on a collaborative album for the first time. Superb recording quality and meticulous production showcase his brilliant, classically trained tone as it swings effortlessly.
Ocean Blue, The, Davy Jones Locker LABEL: Korda Records CAT: Korda 010 UPC: 744626004423 PRICE: $12.99 Davy Jones Locker sits uniquely among the albums of The Ocean Blue as a bridge from their major label years in the 9 1990s to their present status as an indie band. First released in 2001, the 13 track album contains songs that were lost at sea from the band's recording sessions in the late 90s.
Twenty Two Hundred, Carnaval De Vénus LABEL: Tonequake Records CAT: TQ1302 UPC: 696859094361 PRICE: $13.99 Formed in Australia in 2010, Twenty Two Hundred quickly established themselves as one of the most exciting rock 10 bands to emerge in years. Personally invited on tour by Slash in 2011 and again in 2014, these guys are a behemoth of riff driven, classic grooves, with songwriting and musicianship to match.
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