Best new OLD stuff from 2006 !

Here's the best OLD stuff new to me in 2006...

7"
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evie sands - run home to your mama - blue cat -- 1965/6 - white soul singer from brooklyn sings this amazing garage rock meets country soul song!

The ID - Boil the Kettle Mother - RCA Victor -- 1967? - bought this days before i left charleston for new york. it's heavy from start to finish. amazing garage psych!

Uptowners - You're a Habit (Bside) - Le Cam -- 1963? - this might be a cover, but there is something to this midtempo rhythm'n'blues song with its piano and great drum fills plus the lyrics - "i just stopped drinking root beer/i had to stop smoking too/but i got a real bad feeling/cuz i can't stop loving you"

wynona carr - jump jack, jump! - specialty -- 1959? - on the classic label that launched little richard's career, terrific rockabilly from a black gospel singer. what?!

eugene church - good news - rendezvous records -- 1963 - totally overlooked rockin' rhythm'n'blues with classic lyrics-- "good news! rock'n'roll is number 1!"

vivian reed - the shape of things to come - epic -- 1968? - soul version of this all out garage classic. unbeatable!

LP
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Beresford Creek - 'Light My Fire' - from s/t album, Live Oak -- 1977(?) - a charleston oddity -- bluegrass band steeped in the hippie tradition. This late 70's cover version turns Ray Manzarek's keyboard solos into "Dueling Banjos" style fun !

Isley Brothers - Givin' It Back - Tneck -- 1971(?) - unbelievably good PSYCHEDELIC ROCK lp. yes, it's rock! the A-side opens with a long cover of neil young's ohio which becomes jimi hendrix's shotgun ! these guys can do ANYTHING!

kenny price - big daddy - the sheriff of boone county - rca victor -- great country beat from the early 70's kind of like waylon jennings. half the tracks are HORRIBLE ballads and half are funny good times... all this from a guy on hee-haw!

waylon jennings - honky tonk heroes - rca -- 1973/4 - very solid LP with "rebel country" leanings.

kraftwerk - ralf and florian - vertigo -- 1973/5 - finally got this out of print pre-autobahn album full of analogue synthesizers. kind of ambient, very trippy, some piano (!) in it, absolutely essential !!!

CD/digital
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the velvet swells - binoctus EP - suburban fuzz -- 2003 - I saw this band a week before I moved to Portugal in 2004 in Charleston. When I returned from Europe last year, the frontman/singer/guitarist/songwriter gave me everything they ever released (2000-2006 !) -- this one is easily the best and is kind of like pavement (circa slanted/enchanted) with pop sensibility, little technical talent and a singer who sounds like mark e. smith of the fall if he was from the valley ! standout track "we have anthrax" is going to get djed. a lot.

dead moon - echoes from the past - sub pop -- compilation of stuff from the 80's 'til a year or two ago... i knew they were a great garage-punk band but this is ridiculous. "walking on my grave", "kicked out kicked in"... so many good ones, and the cd doesn't even have their amazing covers on it!

erkin koray - tutfusu 2 // mustafa ozkent orchestra - genclik... // baris manco ... (1973-77) - several discs of turkish psych-rock! koray's '77 album features a cover of "i walk the line" in his own language but the rest is amazingly trippy psych-rock with plenty of fuzz and sitar plus weird rhythms and the odd english track. mustafa ozkent's more like surf instros plus wah-wah and a funky drummer, also great. manco's the moody one making soundtracks for movies that never existed. i need more of this!!!

mynah birds - go on and cry - motown -- 1966 - just heard this yesterday for the first time, but finally the legendary neil young/rick james track has been released... on a very expensive motown singles compilation... c'mon guys, release this as a 7". I've only been waiting TEN YEARS for this!

the asteroid no. 4 - various... -- heard them on the great three chord monte show on wfmu.org, trippy psych!
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susan christie - paint a lady - finders keepers - 1969? - i'm not usually one for the so-called "psych/folk" scene as a lot of it is self-absorbed crap but this record actually gets FUNKY and trippy at times. reissued on this amazing new british label that only puts out the rarest and weirdest records!
http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com

the fall - heads roll - narnack - 2005 - i first heard it after new years, and it's great. not quite as good as 2003/4's "the real new fall lp" but almost. and live these songs took on grit!

brian jonestown massacre - tepid peppermint wonderland (2005?) - also heard this a bit after it came out, good compilation of psych/pop/60's sound indie rockers, maybe it should be 1 disc and not 2, but that's a small complaint. beatles/VELVETS/stones, etc.