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From OYB: "Back Tracks", a CD of great, sleeper hits by Austin Godfather, Richard Dobson -- w/ classic gulf oil rig song!
May 13, 2010 - [Bumped from 6/05.] Courtesy of the OYB label, welcome to the Best of Richard Dobson!
"Back Tracks" gets you 21 great songs for $12 postpaid.
Richard Dobson is one of the gang who sparked up the Austin Texas music scene back in the 70's along with Townes van Zandt and Guy Clark. He's a singersongwriter who's been at it a long ...
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Gulf Coast Boys: a memoir of playing bars and working oil rigs
May 12, 2010 - [$12] "GCB" by Richard Dobson is a hard-to-find memoir of wild days in the 1970's in Texas, touring in bands with greats like Townes van Zandt, working oil rigs and shrimp boats, and songwriting in Nashville.
Dobson was one of the guys who helped create what's known as the Austin Sound and the Austin music scene. I think he was h...
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The Blue Sun Songbook
May 18, 2008 - Mack just published a reprint of his classic underground 1970's folk songbook, "The Blue Sun." It's 8.5x11 and about 112 pages. All hand-illustrated. It features lyrics to all the songs on his "Blue Sun" CD plus tons more. The book includes a key to the tunes of these songs. I'm not a musician but Mack said anyone who can play will k...
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Daisy May: Sweet, Strong Twang
November 12, 2007 - I've been telling you here for awhile now that Daisy May is a contribution to the national music scene---even though she's a small-venue local singer at this point. She has a sweet, strong voice, hard-scrabble insights, brave generosity, and a smooth twang sound. Well, I just found this YouTube video of the name-song of this CD,...
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Dread Clampitt
November 13, 2006 - [$15. NOTE: I'm *Out of Stock* on this first album. I have 'Geaux Juice" in stock, so that's what I'd ship! If you want their first album, I can see about getting more.] Bluegrass funky fusion. Famous along the Gulf Coast. Oh yeah!
The CD comes with a folk writing chapbook called "Root Doctor" explaining where the band...
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From OYB: "The Blue Sun" -- blues with Guthrie/Kerouac twist
January 07, 2006 - Welcome to "The Blue Sun"!
Here's new music, courtesy of the amazing OYB label! 18 songs of original American music the likes of which you haven't heard before but which will add to your life. Rich, twangy swamp blues with worldclass lyrics. The better stereo the better these songs sound.
Mac Mc...
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Rug Burn: shards set to hip-hop
January 18, 2004 - [$14] Shard rap with musical backup from the group Log Hog. Eighteen steamy, hard-hitting cuts. Quantum leap material...
Bennett is one of the last living Beats. He's published tons of great stuff with his Vagabond Press; and he's been published a bunch in turn, in the underground. He's never relented from his talent or cand...
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From OYB: "U.K.E.: Comrade Cool" -- funky sosh pop
January 05, 2004 - Welcome to U.K.E.! ...And to the land of Bart Casad! Courtesy of the OYB label!
U.K.E. = "ultra kitsch ensemble" ... (with an umlaut over the "u").
A socially relevant country ukele clever-fest, ensemble-style. --11 songs for $10.
It's the work of a wild, wacky, astute singersongwriter who plays the uke. But it's more t...
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