| Disc: 1 |
| 1. around the horn |
| 2. second of all |
| 3. old old house |
| 4. durante's hornpipe |
| 5. rise above it |
| 6. six feet of snow |
| 7. willdawg |
| 8. i keep holding back the tears |
| 9. you |
| 10. luggy di |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. sonny |
| 2. dark as a dungeon |
| 3. please don't let me love you |
| 4. buck dancer's choice |
| 5. if you don't want my love |
| 6. changin' the words |
| 7. little bessie |
| 8. blue eyes cryin' in the rain |
| 9. rock that cradle lucy |
| 10. not over |
Editorial Reviews
Already obscured by unruly curls and dark sunglasses, guitarist Chris Crigoroff began his Sunday night set by asking, "Could we dim the lights? ... Quite a bit." Then, looking like two Howard Sterns quaking gently on a darkened stage, he and bassist Joe Adducci slowly picked out the title song of their 1994 record, Frozen. Ensconced in shadows, Crigoroff purposefully twanged his acoustic and Adducci uncorked wavering boomlets from his bass as a mood of midnight lament settled over the room. "It's hard enough to dry an ocean," Grigoroff bayed sadly, "Why won't you stay?"
When the song was finished, he pointed at the last remaining spotlight and said, "I'm not sure I like that, either."
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Souled American began as an organic country rock quartet in 1987. By 1990, they'd released three records on the now-dissolved Rough Trade label (Fe, Flubber, Around the Horn). Soon, Souled American moved to Chicago and became less popular as their records became lovelier and more eccentric. Their next three albums were released in Europe (available only by mail order in the U.S.) and as the alternative country movement gathered steam in America, they seemed to disappear completely. Eventually, rabid underground fandom intervened; all six records have been re-released since last year, on three independent labels (Checkered Past, Catamount, Tumult). At New York's Knitting Factory on July 11, the band, now a duo, played several songs that will appear on their next record.
Taking an awfully long time to tune between songs, Crigoroff and Adducci performed like two guys picking and strumming for old friends in their living room. Bottles of Budweiser littered the stage, the snare drum from the previous band buzzed during the quiet songs and the monitors never quite worked properly. Audience members shouted out requests -- all of which were honored -- and several indescribable moments of warped beauty unfolded along the way during the slowest show this writer has ever witnessed.
Relying on propulsive strumming, Adducci's songs drove harder than Crigoroff's plucked-string laments, but the bassist was at his best when he laced the bucolic songs with electronic effects -- reverbs and echoes on electric guitar and bass that sounded not futuristic but naturalistic. On a new song called "Libertyville," Adducci's guitar echoed as if through a wooded, moonlit valley while Crigoroff sang, "Hey man, your eyes fixed to the ground / Are you lost? or have you found /Another way?"
By this time, people were up and leaving, deserting Souled American in the midst of a passionate, unique performance. The band seemed not to care. When the folks who stuck around unstacked chairs from the corner and sat down in front of the stage, Crigoroff acknowledged them, saying, "We got a living room thing goin' here. I can dig that." Adducci played "One's Closest," a pretty cowboy waltz slated for the upcoming album, and Crigoroff sang "Souvenir," a song by his hero John Prine that includes the spare poetry, "Broken hearts, dirty windows / Make life difficult to see."
Souled American creates about as broken-hearted music as one can find, not destined for much popularity in the Roaring Nineties. To the contrary, songs like "Six Feet of Snow" (from Around the Horn) would fit better on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music than on VH-1's Pre-Millennial Power Ballads. So what. When Chris Crigoroff reaches down into his George Jones-style lower register to tell about "Six feet of snow / comin' through my radio," he's mining the marrow of country music in a way that Nashville city-slickers never could.
Product Description:
This is volume two (2 cds) of a 'Framed', 4 cd set, reissuing the long out of print Rough Trade lps from these Chicago country/ bluegrass deconstructionists.
"Framed" is 4 cds, separated into two double cd volumes, collecting their first four albums, Fe, Flubber, Around The Horn, and Sonny, and tracing the development/ deconstruction of their sound, from country rock to folk flecked country dronescapes.
Framed (volume 2)
Framed (volume 2),Souled American,Tumult Laboratories,Indie Rock,Pop,Rock
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Framed in Blood: The Very Blessed of the 69 Eyes
The 69 Eyes Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GY72QK Release Date: 2006-08-29 |
Tracks:
- Brandon Lee
- Dance DAmour
- Gothic Girl
- Wasting The Dawn
- Crashing High.
- The Chair
- Velvet Touch (original version)
- Call Me
- Stolen Season
- Betty Blue
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
- Framed In Blood
- Tang
- Too Much To Lose
- Still Waters Run Deep
- Ghettoway Car
- Lay Down YourArms, Girl
- Babysitter
Product Description
1. Brandon Lee
2. Dance D’Amour
3. Gothic Girl
4. Wasting The Dawn
5. Crashing High.
6. The Chair
7. Velvet Touch (original version)
8. Call Me
9. Stolen Season
10. Betty Blue
11. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
12. Framed In Blood
13. Tang
14. Too Much To Lose
15. Still Waters Run Deep
16. Ghettoway C’ar
17. Lay Down YourArms, Girl
18. Babysitter
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Does it get any better than this?...... No........2007-07-14
Brilliant!.......2006-10-02
Excellent, But Where is Grey.......2006-09-15
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Framed/Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000063KFV Release Date: 2002-04-22 |
Tracks:
- Framed
- Hammer Song
- Midnight Moses
- Isobel Goudie: My Lady of the Night/Coitur Interruptus/Virgin and ...
- Buff's Bar Blues
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- Hole in Her Stocking
- There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning ...
- St. Anthony
Tracks:
- Swampsnake
- Gang Bang
- Faith Healer
- Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong
- Next
- Vambo Marble Eye
- Last of the Teenage Idols
Album Description
UK remastered reissue combines the glam-rock band's Vertigo albums, 'Framed' (1972) & 'Next' (1974). 2-CD set housed in a slipcase. 2002.Album Details
Two Classic Albums on Two Discs Digitally Remastered with Enhanced Packaging.Customer Reviews:
Highly underrated rock band.......2006-11-11
Let them be your swampsnake.......2006-02-03
So far I think the first disk is fair. The liner notes say they only spent 6 days recording this album. It sounds competent but it's entirely stripped down with no overdubs. It sounds like they plugged in and started recording. Despite that, there are 3 songs on here I like and I'll probably like the others the more I listen to it.
The second disk is great. They used the same producer that produced Sweet's song Ballroom Blitz to produce the album. He adds just enough gloss to give it a glam sound compared to the first disk without taking anything away.
Looking back, I wish I would have ordered it used or maybe from the UK Amazon to save some money. Also, it took a couple weeks for it to arrive but it was worth the wait. I'm looking forward to getting the band's next two cd's.
Mott Framed.......2004-09-24
In 1972 Alex Harvey had reached the grand old age of 38, way too old in those hedonistic days of music to consider becoming a Pop Star. But tragically, Alex's younger brother by some ten years, Leslie, had been killed in an electrical accident during a sound check with his group "Stone the Crows" at the Top Rank in Swansea. The cause was an unearthed microphone. This tragic event spurred Alex on to have one more go at cracking the big time. At the time Alex was earning a crust in the orchestra of James Rado's iconoclastic musical 'Hair', but was persuaded by his manager, friend, and mentor Bill Fehilly, to go up to his native Glasgow, Scotland, to check out a gritty Progressive outfit called Tear Gas. The band was in the throws of giving up all dreams of stardom and going back to 'normal jobs'. They were so broke that in true Scottish tradition they had resorted to haggis hunting up the side of mountains to find sufficient nutrition to survive.
However, Alex, recognizing talent when he saw it, coerced the band to stick together and plant him in as lead singer and inspirational genius. Putting "Sensational" into the title of the band, they went into the studio and in six days had recorded their first album, released in early 1973, before starting to play live anywhere that would have them. Not surprisingly, they quickly built up a reputation of one of the hottest acts on the live circuit.
Out front was Alex himself, skin tight jeans, dirty red handkerchief hanging from his back pocket, black and white looped T-shirt, with Alex's huge head sticking out the neck (with all the creativity going on in this head, it needed to be a big one), topped off by an unruly mop of unruly jet black hair, the perfect leader.
Next to him was Zal Cleminson in a green rubber jumpsuit with cake white clown's make-up, which exaggerated his gurning face as he cut loose during the solos, and becoming a complete maniac, the perfect foil.
On the other side of the stage on bass was a man who could of made a living as an Elvis impersonator, or at least one of Elvis' bouncers Mr. Chris Glen, the perfect man to have on your side if the chips were down.
On Keyboards, as befitting this lot, was Hugh McKenna, who looked more like a university music teacher than a Rock 'n' Roll star, the perfect musical director. And keeping it in the family, on drums you had Hugh's brother, Ted, the perfect rock onto which to hoist your Rock 'n' Roll flag.
The first album was a reasonable commercial success, but for once the record company saw the potential in this group. Later that year they booked a full month for the band to record their follow up album and brought in top Glam Rock producer Phil Wainman. The results were 'Sensational'. Alex sung with such pathos you cannot help but love him. Nobody else at the time could of gotten away with singing the title track, the J. Brel tribute to European Brothels, or `Gang Bang' poking fun, of an unmentionable subject. Zal Cleminson's guitar playing throughout is nothing short of brilliant, and the band supports them note for note. All of the songs here were to stay in the band's stage act in one way or another until the end, especially 'The Faith Healer' with its throbbing Tooltelbug drone opening, which was to become the band's standard bearer and opening song. (The sight of Alex staggering to the front of the stage screaming "can I put my hands on you" used to send the audience into raptures.)
`Vambo Marble Eye' became a saga that Alex was going to take to higher plains on the live stage. Final number 'The Last Of The Teenage Idols' was inspired by an event way back in 1957, when Alex Harvey won a Daily Record organized competition to find the Scottish Tommy Steele (true - I promise!), which brings the album to a fitting rocking climax before we are lulled away by a final burst of do-wop.
In another year, "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" was the biggest touring band in Europe, quite a turn around from Haggis chasing. Unfortunately, the work load was just too much and after suffering declining health, Alex left the band in 1978, after which the band imploded. Later in 1982, Alex would die of a heart attack while on tour in Europe, a day before his 47th Birthday. Although Alex's career did not really catch fire until late, but when it finally did, it sure burned bright. If "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" is a mystery to you, pay attention. Alex Harvey was one of the greatest ring masters to have ever strode across the field of Rock 'n' Roll. The first two "Sensational Alex Harvey Band" albums, "Framed" and "Next", have just been released as a special 2-for-1 box set, a bargain not to be missed.
Pawed by Mott the Dog
Re-Whipped by Ella Crew
Sensational Alex Harvey Band!.......2003-01-03
Alex Harvey straddled the lines between a novelty act and a rock band. Too into fun for the serious glam-rock set, he assembled a hard-rocking outfit of professionals and rocked hard in an era dominated by prog-rock and bubblegum soul, and built a reputation as a fearsomely amusing live act.
His -Isobel Gowdie- song draws from Scots history for some serious weirdness. But -Next- has to be his masterpiece. The title track is actually a Jacques Brel number, sung in English: a raunchy story about a dismal experience in a military brothel. But the song for which he's perhaps best remembered is -Faith Healer-, covered by a number of acts including Recoil and the Cult: it features punning lyrics and some surprisingly intelligent and restrained use of synths, especially for the mid-70's.
In between, you get amusing and traditional rock numbers, like -Swampsnake-, -Gang Bang-, and -Giddy Up a Ding Dong-. Those who like hard and straightforward rock with a sense of humour ought to give this a try.
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The Moment
Framing Hanley Manufacturer: Silent Majority ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RDXCQY Release Date: 2007-08-07 |
Tracks:
- Home
- Built for Sin
- Hear Me Now
- Slow Dance
- All in Your Hands
- It's Not What They Said
- 23 Days
- Count Me In
- Alone in This Bed (Capeside)
- Wave Goodbye
- Fold
Product Description
11-track CD on SMG, 2007.
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Who Framed the A-Team?
The A-Team Manufacturer: Meanstreet ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004SD2E Release Date: 2000-03-20 |
Tracks:
- Who Framed The A-Team?
- Doin' The Most For The Coast
- Like That Like This
- Slower Traffic To The Right
- Acey The Faceman
- Deep And Wyde
- Me And My Main
- O.G. Crew (Heavyweights Round 3)
- Rally 'Round The Home Team
- A.B. Baracus
Album Description
Featuring: Abstract Rude and Mikah 9. Contains the single "Rally 'Round the Home Team"All 9 tracks are dope. This is an excellent release.
Album Details
New Tracks Feat. Rally Round the Home Team.guests Abstract Rude and Aceylone.Customer Reviews:
It's alright........2005-10-17
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together........2001-12-25
Nobody framed the A-Team, they are that damn good..........2000-08-05
ace comes through again.......2000-06-28
A-Team deserves an A..........2000-06-20
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Manufacturer: Amblin Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000E924RY |
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Framed in Blood: The Very Blessed of the 69 Eyes
The 69 Eyes Manufacturer: Poko ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FBH0UC Release Date: 2006-06-26 |
Tracks:
- Brandon Lee
- Dance D'Amour
- Gothic Girl
- Wasting the Dawn
- Crashing High
- Chair
- Velvet Touch [Original Version]
- Call Me
- Stolen Season
- Betty Blue
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
- Framed in Blood
- Tang
- Too Much to Lose
- Still Waters Run Deep
- Ghettoway Car
- Lay Down Your Arms, Girl
- Babysitter
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Framed (volume 2)
Souled American Manufacturer: Tumult Laboratories ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00003GPOI Release Date: 1999-05-01 |
Tracks:
- around the horn
- second of all
- old old house
- durante's hornpipe
- rise above it
- six feet of snow
- willdawg
- i keep holding back the tears
- you
- luggy di
- in the mud
Tracks:
- sonny
- dark as a dungeon
- please don't let me love you
- buck dancer's choice
- if you don't want my love
- changin' the words
- little bessie
- blue eyes cryin' in the rain
- rock that cradle lucy
- not over
Album Description
This is volume two (2 cds) of a 'Framed', 4 cd set, reissuing the long out of print Rough Trade lps from these Chicago country/ bluegrass deconstructionists."Framed" is 4 cds, separated into two double cd volumes, collecting their first four albums, Fe, Flubber, Around The Horn, and Sonny, and tracing the development/ deconstruction of their sound, from country rock to folk flecked country dronescapes.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Alan Silvestri Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00006580M Release Date: 2002-04-16 |
Customer Reviews:
Fun in a cartoonish sort of way.......2003-03-23
I have the original CD..........2002-06-05
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Gutter Pastoral
Kevin House Manufacturer: Bongo Beat Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00022XE90 Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
Tracks:
- Stories Without Words
- Twilight In Wilderness
- Black Smoke Rising
- I Don't Believe In You
- Rise Up
- Duskpoem
- Waltzing With The Hellhound
- Down To The Wire
- Let Me Out
- Disappearing Girl
- The Fun Side Of Death
Customer Reviews:
Spooky & Cool.......2004-07-12
Leonard Cohen meets Chet baker.......2004-07-12
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Framed/Next
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PHW2MM Release Date: 2007-05-14 |
Tracks:
- Framed
- Hammer Song
- Midnight Moses
- Isobel Goudie: My Lady of the Night/Coitur Interruptus/Virgin and ...
- Buff's Bar Blues
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- Hole in Her Stocking
- There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning ...
- St. Anthony
Tracks:
- Swampsnake
- Gang Bang
- Faith Healer
- Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong
- Next
- Vambo Marble Eye
- Last of the Teenage Idols
Album Description
UK remastered reissue combines the glam-rock band's Vertigo albums, 'Framed' (1972) & 'Next' (1974). 2-CD set housed in a slipcase. 2002.Album Details
2007 Digitally Remastered Reissue of Two Sahb Classics in a Double CD Set!Music Album:
