The Jammies #147

Black Heat - Chip's Funk
John Butler Trio - Ragged Mile
Albert King - Watermelon Man
Muddy Waters - I Feel So Good (Live @ Newport Jazz Festival 1960)
Son House - Grinnin’ In Your Face
Son House - Death Letter Blues
Freddie King - Living On the Highway
Earl King - Part of Me
B.B. King - King of Guitar
Shuggie Otis - Shuggie Boogie  
Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying
Robert Johnson - Me & the Devil Blues
Charlie Musselwhite - Tennessee Woman
The Full Tilt Boogie Band - Ball & Chain (Live)
Memphis Minnie - Walking & Crying Blues
Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong)
Aretha Franklin - Baby, I Love You
Nina Simone - Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Take 2)
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
Patti Smith - Because the Night
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

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The Jammies #147

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It's the long-awaited anti-austerity blast-a-thon with the teeth, venom, and one-of-a-kind music of Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine!

Full-length #2 picks up where the Shock-u-py! EP left off! Covered in gruesome detail this time are corruption ("The Brown Lipstick Parade", "Werewolves of Wall Street," "Road Rage,") and corporate McMedia making pop stars out of small-time crooks to shield the big ones ("John Dillinger") or tabloid pop stars to lobotomize everyone else ("Hollywood Goof Disease"). The title track shines a light on our never-ending foreign-policy disasters in ways even Jello's spoken word albums never did. "Crapture" is the perfect song to play for those lovely "End Times" believers, pointing out how much better the world will be when they leave and we're "Left Behind"- with melodies on the scale Biafra hasn't really touched since "Moon Over Marin."

Above all, this rocks! No pop-punk here. Just Jello and crew taking punk fire in a wide variety of directions few ever try, with wall-of-sound, in-your-face production from Marshall Lawless and Matt Kelley (lots of Jello projects, Hieroglyphics, The Coup, Digital Underground, Zen Guerrilla, Victims Family). Lineup retains the double-barreled guitar attack of Ralph Spight (Victims Family, Freak Accident) and Kimo Ball (Freak Accident, Griddle, Mol Triffid). They are joined this time by bassist Andrew Weiss (Rollins Band, Ween, Butthole Surfers, more) and drummer Paul Della Pelle (Helios Creed, Nik Turner's Space Ritual, and Philly HC legends Ruin).

Winston Smith's cover image is hard to forget and hard to ignore- one of his best in years!

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine will be touring through most of 2013 on at least 3 continents to promote this beast. The live shows are the real deal. If you like OFF! or Dead Ending, for crying out loud don't miss this!

After 30 plus years, Jello Biafra's music and lyrics remain in a class of their own. This is his 1st concept album since "Frankenchrist." Ask anyone buying a Dead Kennedys album to check this out before they leave the store and they won't be disappointed.

Sick of the Tea Party? This is for you.

Sick of formula retro-punk too chicken to take chances? This is for you.

This is not just an Age of Austerity album. It is THE Age of Austerity album!

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine - Werewolves of Wall Street

From Abraham Burton & Lucian Ban's "Blacksalt" (4/9/21) on Sunnyside Records.

Meaningful musical partnerships can emerge from musicians of any persuasion and background. The language of jazz has tended to be the most pliable, as composers and improvisers have been able to bend to meet the demands of differing situations, making moving music that resonates in the moment. 

Saxophonist Abraham Burton and pianist Lucian Ban come from two distinct backgrounds but founded a long-lasting relationship based on friendship, trust, and their collective passions, most notably their focus on melodicism and jazz feel. Their new recording, Blacksalt, encapsulates the sympathetic nature of their pairing in a freely played collection of pieces, composed and improvised, and pristinely recorded live on tour in Ban’s native Transylvania in 2018.

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