Paradise of Bachelors is proud to release the first-ever anthology of the eclectic, excellent, and highly collectable music of David Lee. Over the course of three decades beginning in the late 1950s, this unheralded songwriter, musician, producer, and entrepreneur released fourteen 45s and two LPs on his Impel, Washington Sound, and SCOP labels, run out of his Washington Sound record shop in Shelby, North Carolina.
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Hiss Golden Messenger: Lord I Love the Rain (PoBDistro-06)
Originally released as a digital-only EP, the collection has been reconstituted as a fully realized long playing album that juxtaposes grainy kitchen table gospel and dusted imaginary sci-fi soundtrack pieces. Lord I Love the Rain is the sound of Hiss Golden Messenger after hours.
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Elephant Micah: Louder Than Thou (PoBDistro-02)
Louder Than Thou is the 2012 album from underground folk mainstays Elephant Micah, a rotating-member band headed up by one Joseph O’Connell. Bridging the minimalist rock and sonic experimentation of early work, this is their clearest statement yet, nodding to ‘70s songwriter-ism while simultaneously recasting the genre through textural play and ensemble improvisation.
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Various Artists: Tobacco A-Go-Go: North Carolina Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Sixties, Vol. 1 (PoBDistro-01)
We are delighted to announce our exclusive distribution of Tobacco A-Go-Go: North Carolina Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Sixties, the groundbreaking and speaker-shaking compilation LP of rare 1960s garage, psych, and soul 45s with an Old North State lineage, originally issued in 1984 on the local Blue Mold label.
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Veterans Day, Over There … and Over Here: Stream “Body Bag” by the Red Rippers.
In honor of Veterans Day–officially today, but observed tomorrow–we’re sharing a stream of the Red Rippers album track “Body Bag,” a devastating song about the disjunction between a “jungle-bound grunt’s” aspirations to aviation and the brutal occasion for him finally getting “his ride” on high.
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Announcing Over There … and Over Here by the Red Rippers.
Paradise of Bachelors is proud to present the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers, entitled Over There … and Over Here.
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In Search of Chance.
The Bachelors have just returned from a fruitful fieldwork visit to Nashville, Music City, USA, where we had the honor and privilege of spending several days with our friend Chance Martin (aka Alamo Jones, General Chance, the Stoned Ranger, and the Voice in Black), the mastermind, impresario, and visionary songwriter, bandleader, and singer behind the brilliant, unheralded countrydelic 1981 LP In Search, credited simply to Chance and released on his own Macho imprint.
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