1531 Karen Dalton - In My Own Time
“In My Own Time,” was recorded at Bearsville studio, near Woodstock in upstate New York, which was set up by Bob Dylans’s manager, Albert Grossman. In order to make herself feel more at ease with recording, Dalton returned to Oklahoma to fetch her two teenage children, her dog and, reputedly, her horse, before going to the studio. Producer Harvey Brooks, who had played bass on Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” recalls the sessions as fraught. “The fact that she wasn’t a writer meant that we really had to create something for her,” he says. “It was a lot of work, because her emotional personality had to be dealt with every step of the way. And respected.”
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“I only knew her as an addicted personality,” says Brooks. “She had drug problems the whole time I knew her. She had a painful personality and I think she did drugs to soothe the pain.” Lacy recalls that Dalton and her boyfriend “were probably dealing drugs. They did dangerous things, heavy things like heroin.” Dalton once overdosed at her house. “She called me up after that and she said ‘I guess it’s been three weeks. It’s taken me this long to call and say I guess I oughtta thank you for something.’ She was furious at me for bringing her back.”
— Guardian
1524 ERIC’S TRIP - PURPLE BLUE (Sub Pop, 1996)
One of the better albums I’ve ever heard straight through, all of the charms of Eric’s Trip come together into one almost perfectly damaged outing. I can always come back to it, like once a year or so…“Beach” being one of the most intense waves ever — demands headphones and full volume…distortion, love, summer, burns.
1518 ONNA — (HOLY MOUNTAIN 7”)
Great Japanese “psych/punk” 7” from 1983 reissued by Holy Mountain
1514 SMITH WESTERNS — S/T (HOZAC)
Kids who just graduated high school throwing down a record that’s primitive and impressing — on Hozac Records.
Here is also something I just read about them in the Reader.
1509 audacity
you know when your super nice friend tells you that he has like a brother or friend in a band and that they are “really good” – it’s just instinct to take that with a really huge grain of salt. well i stand corrected this time. my friend raul’s brother plays drums in this band called audacity. shit these guys are like 18/19 and just killing it! “slop pop” orange county boredom.
the white vinyl is real pretty!