David Lee will be in Chapel Hill this Saturday, April 2nd, to accept the 2011 Brown-Hudson Award at the North Carolina Folklore Society’s Annual Meeting. Please consider joining us at this exciting event, at which David will perform two songs with his son-in-law (a total of sixteen members of the Lee family are making the journey to support David!)
Paradise in the papers! Friends, when you have a few moments of ease, please peruse the following full-length article and two new reviews of Said I Had a Vision and Tobacco a-Go-Go. In their eleventh issue, Charlotte-based concern Shuffle, a fine magazine dedicated to the music of the Carolinas, has published a thoughtful piece about David Lee, Paradise of Bachelors, and Said I Had a Vision, featuring some choice quotes from the man himself.
On February 14th, 2011 (that’s right–Valentine’s Day), the Bachelors joined DJ and music writer Rick Cornell on his “Dirty Laundry” program on WCOM in Carrboro, NC. This is the third radio interview we’ve done about David Lee and Said I Had a Vision–previously we appeared on WXYC and WNCW–but the first that has been recorded and turned into a podcast.
David Lee has won the North Carolina Folklore Society’s 2011 Brown-Hudson Award, awarded to “persons who have in special ways contributed to the appreciation, continuation, or study of North Carolina folk traditions.” With this prestigious honor, David joins the ranks of legendary North Carolina vernacular and traditional musicians such as Doc and Merle Watson, Etta Baker and Cora Phillips, Joe and Odell Thompson, George Higgs, Bishop Dreddy Manning, and Alice Gerrard.
The Bachelors are in intensive training for our Tobacco A-Go-Go Dance Party this Saturday (described both below and herein by the Independent Weekly), and we trust that our fans, friends, and fellows are limbering up as well. But please take a breather from your exertions to check out these excellent new reviews of Said I Had a Vision. See you this weekend!
TOBACCO-A-GO-GO DANCE PARTY, with the mighty PARADISE OF BACHELORS SOUNDSYSTEM (DJs Jason Perlmutter and Baldhead Growler, featuring special guest DJ Ken Friedman.)
One of our daily pleasures is shipping international orders of Said I Had a Vision, to Sao Paolo, Paris, Tokyo, Manchester, London, Dublin, Copenhagen, and other locales far from our home in North Carolina. Here’s a nice review on the Rotterdam-based gospel blog Just Moving On. Thanks, Cies!
This month we received the repressing of Said I Had a Vision, which is now available for sale directly from us, as well as from select record shops internationally who carry items distributed by Mississippi Records. The repressing features a new green LP label, but otherwise, it contains all the same materials as the original.
Thanks to your interest and support, the initial pressing of 500 copies of the Said I Had a Vision LP sold out before the official November 26th release date. (At least, our cache of copies is all gone, though the album is still available at discerning stores worldwide.) As David Lee puts it, the records are flying off the shelves!
Whoa. Thanks to DJ Mental Feelings of Philadelphia, DJ Nate Smith of Durham, and the owners and staff of Carrboro, North Carolina’s All-Day Records and Bowbarr for launching this flagship Vision release party into the ecstatic strata.
