No money for the music! What else can you do except scan the thrift and antique store record piles. The internet is cool for finding great free music but I need a physical manifestation in my hand. It could be dust ridden and unloved for years. I think the deeper I had to dig the better I like my jumping hissy finds from the past.
Last week on a trip to Oak Hill W.V. (the last place Hank Williams was seen alive), I found Miss Dolores M. Brown's 45 collection in an antique shop. Her collection was kept for over fifty years in three cute boxes each disc had a little address label stuck upon them. Late 50's and early 60's country, rock n' rollabilly, doowop and R n' B grooviness, all mixed up together, shining like they were new. Glistening teasingly at me were Chess, King, Specialty and some independent releases. I felt like I was abusing her collection grabbing a huge pile of rockers and mysterious teasers unknown to me, on labels like Cool, Groove and Event, leaving most of the country for someone else.
Here is a idea of some of the more obscure 45's she left for me.
Linda Brannon - Just Another Lie on Chess - Amazing sultry hillbilly.
Jimmy Bowen & the Rythmn Orchids - Ever Loving Fingers on Roulette - great downer rockabilly.
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Nothing But Good / Keep On Dancing on King.
I did take a second trip back the next week, in case I missed anything, and came out with better known artists (Chuck and Little Richard mostly) but all worth the dollar a disc price in the great condition she had left them.
Thanks Dolores, I guess you are dead now but I will keep care of these superb 45's you loved so much, keep rockin' sista.
Hogwash x
