Available November 26, 2013
Various Artists "There's A Dream I've Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966 - 1971"
Direct from LightInTheAttic.net (Deluxe & Standard Editions): http://bit.ly/1e1UbIK

Lee Hazlewood - Nothin's Gonna Blow My Mind

Our pilot episode focuses on our 2015 Record Store Day releases, with previews of the 'Shogun Assassin' soundtrack, an interview with Willie Nelson & Daniel Lanois about 'Teatro,' and a segment on the LITA zine.

Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 1: Record Store Day 2015

"Ode to Billy Joe" from the album Don't Just Sing: An Anthology 1963-1999 available at http://bit.ly/1HR7sUC.

Don't Just Sing: A Karin Krog

Karin Krog - "Ode to Billy Joe" feat. Dexter Gordon

This episode tells the story behind our reissue of the 1984 Los Angeles loner folk album Songs From Suicide Bridge by David Kauffman and Eric Caboor. Album producer Patrick McCarthy describes how the reissue came about, author Sam Sweet reads his liner notes, and we play several tracks from the album.

Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 2: Greetings From Suicide Bridge

Episode 3 is finally here and it's all about our recent jazz soundtrack release, Low Down. Listen in on a conversation between Flea (co-producer & co-star of the Low Down film) and author Amy-Jo Albany (whose memoir about growing up with her dad, legendary jazz pianist Joe Albany, sparked the film). They talk about their shared experiences growing up with drug-addicted jazz musician fathers in the Los Angeles of the 60s & 70s. They also talk about hitchhiking, that one time Flea chased Amy-Jo around a supermarket, and the strange relationship between pain and beauty. We've included many musical interludes of Joe Albany's enchanting ivory-tickling, and Amy-Jo reads us a few passages from her brilliant book: Low Down: Junk, Jazz & Other Fairy Tales From Childhood. Have a listen to episode 3 right here on iTunes!

LITA Podcast 3 | Low Down With Flea & Amy-Jo

Goldberg - "Hollywood"

When The Rainbow Disappears: A

The Kitchen Cinq - "You'll Be Sorry Someday"

Cubist Blues

Cubist Blues - "Fly Away"

Family Album

Lee Robinson Machine - "Summer Love"

Native North America: Aborigin

Willie Thrasher - "We Got to Take You Higher"

Kurt Stenzel - "Parallel World"

Shin Joong Hyun's masterful Psych-Rock tribute to Korea, "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains". This is the song that got him thrown in prison and his music banned. Taken from from new anthology "Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974" (LITA 065 | CD | 2x LP | Digital) - OUT NOW!

Shin Joong Hyun’s tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. For the first time outside of Korea, Shin’s music will be readily available to music lovers the world over. Light In The Attic are thrilled to release "Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun", a career spanning CD, 2xLP, and Digital Download compilation of the diminutive guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and talent developer.

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/616-beautiful-rivers-and-mountains-the-psychedelic-rock-sound-of-south-korea-s-shin-joong-hyun-1958-74

Shin Joong Hyun "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains"

Previously unreleased, "Key Chain" shows the greasy Southern R&B and Soul of The Martinis, lead by the late great Charles "Packy" Axton. This and more on the first ever anthology of Packy's work: "Late Late Party 1965-1967" (LITA 067 | CD | LP | Digital) OUT NOW!

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, tenor saxophone player and bandleader Charles ‘Packy’ Axton is yet another of the uncelebrated, despite a deep pedigree and funky catalogue of notable grooves. Part of the mighty Stax family through birth—Packy’s mother Estelle Axton and uncle Jim Stewart founded the southern R&B dynasty in the early 1960’s—Packy picked up the sax at a young age, and after linking with future Booker T. & the M.G.’s Steve Cropper and Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, formed the The Mar-Keys. Almost reaching the top of the R&B and pop charts in 1961 with the classic “Last Night,” friction caused by Packy’s party going ways caused a split. It wasn’t until 1965 that the wild child had another national instrumental hit on his hands, “Hole In The Wall” by the Packers.

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/615-late-late-party-1965-67

The Martinis (Charles "Packy" Axton) - "Key Chain"

Featuring a pre-Bowie Mick Ronson, Michael Chapman's "Soulful Lady" from his second album "Fully Qualified Survivor" (LITA 060 | CD | LP) is a heavy workout that you could classify as "folk-rock". Only problem is, Chapman is pretty much unclassifiable. So just listen and feel your ears burn! 

Although not as well known as his peers (Roy Harper, John Marytn, and Bert Jansch), the name Michael Chapman is an important one in the linage of English folk rock guitarists and singer/songwriters of the late 60’s/early 70’s. Signed to EMI’s seminal stoner record label Harvest (also home to Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett), 1970’s "Fully Qualified Survivor" is a classic and the album where David Bowie first heard Mick Ronson's guitar playing.

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/524-fully-qualified-survivor

Michael Chapman - "Soulful Lady"

Michael Chapman - You Say

Wendy Rene - "After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965" (LITA 080 | CD | 2xLP | Digital) - Coming February 2012

Wendy Rene - Bar B Q

Wendy Rene BarBQ Sample

Amiri Baraka  - “Who Will Survive” (from the Black Forum album "It's Nation Time") as heard on "Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power (1967-1974)" (LITA 081 | CD | 2xLP | Digital) - Coming February 2012

Amiri Baraka - Who Will Survive America

Wendy Rene - The Same Guy

As featured on the "The Cool Aid Benefit Album: Deluxe Edition" (Lion Productions / Light In The Attic | 2xLP). Available late March 2012 at http://lightintheattic.net/releases/578-the-cool-aid-benefit-album-deluxe-edition

Mock Duck - Do Re Mi

Hydro Electric Streetcar - High Memory

Blacksnake Blues Band - The Reason

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/707-los-creadors-del-sonido-de-la-carretera-central

LOS JHARIS DE ÑAÑA was formed in the early ‘80s by the king of the Carterra Central, guitarist Teo Laura. Their raw and unadulterated sounds would proliferate throughout the different working class districts of Lima and would eventually set a new standard amongst musicians and fans alike. This is what many people in Perú refer to when they use the word “chicha” in a musical sense; it can perhaps be best explained if you approach it with outer space in mind. We guarantee this will be quite the musical experience for the uninitiated!

Parranditas - Los Jharis D Ñaña

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/705-dreamin-wild

“‘Baby’ has been a staple on just about every playlist/mixtape I’ve assembled in the past 3 years. It is nothing short of sublime.” – Ariel Pink

Originally released in 1979, "Dreamin’ Wild" is the sonic vision of the talented Emerson boys, recorded in a family built home studio in rural Washington State. Situated in the unlikely blink-and-you-missed-it town of Fruitland and far removed from the late 1970s punk movement and the larger disco boom, Donnie and Joe tilled their own musical soil, channeling bedroom pop jams, raw funk, and yacht rock.



* First ever CD & LP reissue
* CD and LP include detailed liner notes by Dave Segal, interviewing the Emersons plus unseen photos
* 180-gram LP housed in gatefold "tip-on" jacket and includes download card for full album
* 25 random copies of LP include an original copy of Donnie & Joe's 1977 debut 45 single 

Donnie & Joe Emerson "Baby" ("Dreamin' Wild")

PURCHASE @ http://lightintheattic.net/releases/767-light-in-the-attic-10-year-anniversary-betty-davis-if-i-m-in-luck-i-might-get-picked-up

Celebrating Light In The Attic's 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7”s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side. 

To launch the series, we asked Los Angeles-based scuzzy punks Zig Zags, whose debut 7" came out on Mexican Summer earlier this year, to team up with legendary punk rock icon Iggy Pop (yes, THAT Iggy Pop!). With this, we give you Iggy Pop and Zig Zags' take on Betty Davis' "If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up" from her self-titled debut album (LITA 026).  

Digging deep into the grooves of the original, Zig Zags discovered a secret heavy Sabbath vibe lurking just below the funk surface. Mixing that with their usual sludge-punk leanings, the god-like Iggy Pop was brought in to sing. A natural choice. 

A side was recorded by Dan Horne (Beachwood Sparks), mixed by Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Pernice Bros, Devendra Banhart), and mastered by Dave Cooley (Elysian Masters). B side features the original 1973 Betty Davis recording as remastered by Dave Cooley in 2007.

Other artists in the series include:
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band covering Rodriguez 
Sweet Tea (feat. Alex Maas of the Black Angels & Erika Wennerstrom of the Heartless Bastards) covering Wendy Rene
More releases in the series to be announced.

Iggy Pop & Zig Zags "If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up" (Betty Davis)

Celebrating Light In The Attic’s 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7”s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side.

Charles Bradley – known as “The Screaming Eagle of Soul”, and for good reason – tackles ‘I’ll Slip Away’ by one of Light In The Attic’s big success stories, Rodriguez. Dating back three years before his defining Cold Fact album, ‘I’ll Slip Away’ was the Sugarman’s 1967 debut single for Impact Records. In Rodriguez’s hands, it’s shuffling, tropicalia-tinged folk. In Bradley’s hands and backed by the inimitable Menahan Street Band, it’s a vintage soul stomper.

A side is produced by Thomas Brenneck and recorded at Dunham Sound Studio, Brooklyn, NY, July 2012. B side features the original Rodriguez version as remastered by Dave Cooley.

Buy 7" or MP3!

Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band cover Rodriguez's I"ll Slip Away

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/775-light-in-the-attic-10-year-anniversary-wendy-rene-after-laughter-comes-tears

Celebrating Light In The Attic's 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7"s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side.

Second in the series we have Alex Maas of the Black Angels, Erika Wennerstrom / Jesse Ebaugh of Heartless Bastards, and Robb Kidd (under the band name Sweet Tea) covering Wendy Rene's 'After Laughter Comes Tears'. Preserving the original song's creepy organ and tortured soul, Sweet Tea adds deep dub bass and raw power. Wendy Rene's original -- beloved of Wu Tang Clan, who sampled it on 'Tearz' -- was one of a handful of timeless soul songs she recorded with The Drapels and solo for Stax before retiring prematurely to raise a family.

A side is produced by Alex Maas / Brett Orrison and recorded at Out The Woodwork Studios, Austin, TX, July 2012. B side features the original Wendy Rene version as remastered by John Baldwin for our anthology of her work, "After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965".

A side is produced by Alex Maas / Brett Orrison and recorded at Out The Woodwork Studios, Austin, TX, July 2012. B side features the original Wendy Rene version as remastered by John Baldwin for our anthology.

+ Limited edition 7" series on colored vinyl with custom LITA juke-box style sleeve.

+ Other artists in the series include Iggy Pop & Zig Zags covering Betty Davis, Mark Lanegan covering Karen Dalton, and Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band covering Rodriguez. More releases in the series to be announced.

Sweet Tea (The Black Angels & Heartless Bastards) - "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" (by Wendy Rene)

Mark Lanegan / Karen Dalton

Ray Stinnett - A Fire Somewhere
Light In The Attic Records
LITA 088
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/755-a-fire-somewhere

A hippie-fied, soul-rock, folk-rock, psych-rock gem lost in the vaults for four decades, A Fire Somewhere by Ray Stinnett (best known as a member of '60s outfit Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs) sounds as fresh as the day it was cut, and comes with extensive liner-notes detailing the fascinating life of a little-documented '60s rock voyager.

Born in Memphis in 1944, Ray Stinnett got his first guitar, aged 12, from Nathan Novak's pawn shop, where Elvis got his first guitar. Heading back down Beale Street afterwards, the family stopped at a light and a huge pink Cadillac pulled up beside them. "And oh my god -- it was Elvis!" recalls Ray, "So I held up my guitar and shouted, 'Hey Elvis!' and he looks over and says, "Hey cat." Ray told his father he was going to work hard and make a gold record... just like Elvis.

Before long, he was putting the plan into action, first in teen group Johnny and the Electros, then as a duo with drummer Jerry Patterson, playing nightly at honkytonks, roadhouses, beer joints, nightclubs and the many Memphis recording studios. He achieved his promise with Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs -- Wooly Bully was the number one selling record of 1965. At 21, Stinnett was living a life of world tours and screaming fans -- the whole mania. The wheels fell off a year later, amid managerial disputes. The four Pharaohs (including Ray) parted ways with Sam, wrote two stinging rebukes ("The Hanging" and "You Sure Have Changed") and released them as The Violations. Ray became more and more of a prolific writer.

By 1967, the summer of love, Ray left for Haight Ashbury in San Francisco with his wife and young son, taking up residence at the legendary Morning Star Ranch, where Ray focused on finding his true voice. Returning to Memphis a year later, Ray formed a working friendship with Booker T Jones, who produced Ray's unreleased Sun Tree at Pepper West album. Eventually, when Jones moved to Malibu and took a contract with A&M, he lined up a deal for his old friend.

Still working in Memphis with (old) friends Jerry Paterson and Mike Plunk on bass, along with Booker T. and co-mixer/engineer Richard Rosebrough (Chris Bell, Big Star), Ray channelled his experiences in the pop machine, at Morningstar and beyond into the songs that would become A Fire Somewhere. It funnelled the vast experiences of this pop star, cosmic traveller and grounded, loving father.

The songs contained the fried country twang and boogie-woogie grooves of his hometown and of his youth, but were also threaded through with the new psychedelia -- shreds of distorted guitar, looping experimental jams and acoustic renditions. "Art is a reflection of life," says Ray of the making of A Fire Somewhere, "and my life was full of reflection at this time." And it's perhaps exactly that fact which kept this incredible record unreleased for all these years.

By summer, the album was ready for release. By winter, it remained on the shelf. A&M reassured Ray that they were going to make him a superstar. Ray had already done that; he just wanted the songs released. Soon, they hit an impasse. Ray took his tapes and songs and went on with his life. In the end, A&M's loss -- is our gain. Listen, and enjoy, this message from another time, and from an old head on young shoulders. "It's a torch that's been carried forty years through the desert, waiting for this moment to arrive," says Ray.

+ Original album Executive Producer: Booker T. Jones
+ Original art intended for 1971 album release, seen for the first time
+ All songs previously unreleased
+ CD with 40-pg book with liner notes interviewing Ray with unseen photos
+ Double LP with download card for full album, plus liner notes and rare photos
+ Limited edition (200 copies on psychedelic orange swirl vinyl) pressing available to LITA Subscribers and the first 200 pre-orders at + LightInTheAttic.net. Limit 1 per customer.
+ LP includes 18×24′’ fold-out poster

Ray Stinnett - Honey Suckle Song

Ray Stinnett - A Fire Somewhere
Light In The Attic Records
LITA 088
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/755-a-fire-somewhere

A hippie-fied, soul-rock, folk-rock, psych-rock gem lost in the vaults for four decades, A Fire Somewhere by Ray Stinnett (best known as a member of '60s outfit Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs) sounds as fresh as the day it was cut, and comes with extensive liner-notes detailing the fascinating life of a little-documented '60s rock voyager.

Born in Memphis in 1944, Ray Stinnett got his first guitar, aged 12, from Nathan Novak's pawn shop, where Elvis got his first guitar. Heading back down Beale Street afterwards, the family stopped at a light and a huge pink Cadillac pulled up beside them. "And oh my god -- it was Elvis!" recalls Ray, "So I held up my guitar and shouted, 'Hey Elvis!' and he looks over and says, "Hey cat." Ray told his father he was going to work hard and make a gold record... just like Elvis.

Before long, he was putting the plan into action, first in teen group Johnny and the Electros, then as a duo with drummer Jerry Patterson, playing nightly at honkytonks, roadhouses, beer joints, nightclubs and the many Memphis recording studios. He achieved his promise with Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs -- Wooly Bully was the number one selling record of 1965. At 21, Stinnett was living a life of world tours and screaming fans -- the whole mania. The wheels fell off a year later, amid managerial disputes. The four Pharaohs (including Ray) parted ways with Sam, wrote two stinging rebukes ("The Hanging" and "You Sure Have Changed") and released them as The Violations. Ray became more and more of a prolific writer.

By 1967, the summer of love, Ray left for Haight Ashbury in San Francisco with his wife and young son, taking up residence at the legendary Morning Star Ranch, where Ray focused on finding his true voice. Returning to Memphis a year later, Ray formed a working friendship with Booker T Jones, who produced Ray's unreleased Sun Tree at Pepper West album. Eventually, when Jones moved to Malibu and took a contract with A&M, he lined up a deal for his old friend.

Still working in Memphis with (old) friends Jerry Paterson and Mike Plunk on bass, along with Booker T. and co-mixer/engineer Richard Rosebrough (Chris Bell, Big Star), Ray channelled his experiences in the pop machine, at Morningstar and beyond into the songs that would become A Fire Somewhere. It funnelled the vast experiences of this pop star, cosmic traveller and grounded, loving father.

The songs contained the fried country twang and boogie-woogie grooves of his hometown and of his youth, but were also threaded through with the new psychedelia -- shreds of distorted guitar, looping experimental jams and acoustic renditions. "Art is a reflection of life," says Ray of the making of A Fire Somewhere, "and my life was full of reflection at this time." And it's perhaps exactly that fact which kept this incredible record unreleased for all these years.

By summer, the album was ready for release. By winter, it remained on the shelf. A&M reassured Ray that they were going to make him a superstar. Ray had already done that; he just wanted the songs released. Soon, they hit an impasse. Ray took his tapes and songs and went on with his life. In the end, A&M's loss -- is our gain. Listen, and enjoy, this message from another time, and from an old head on young shoulders. "It's a torch that's been carried forty years through the desert, waiting for this moment to arrive," says Ray.

+ Original album Executive Producer: Booker T. Jones
+ Original art intended for 1971 album release, seen for the first time
+ All songs previously unreleased
+ CD with 40-pg book with liner notes interviewing Ray with unseen photos
+ Double LP with download card for full album, plus liner notes and rare photos
+ Limited edition (200 copies on psychedelic orange swirl vinyl) pressing available to LITA Subscribers and the first 200 pre-orders at + LightInTheAttic.net. Limit 1 per customer.
+ LP includes 18×24′' fold-out poster


Ray Stinnett - Loves In The Answer

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