Jake Xerxes Fussell

Out of Sight

LP/CD/Digital

PoB-042

June 7, 2019

On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass), Nathan Golub (pedal steel), Libby Rodenbough (violin, vocals), and James Anthony Wallace (piano, organ). An utterly transporting selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles and delights of love, work, and wine (i.e., the things that matter), collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed, Out of Sight contains, among other moving curiosities, a fishmonger’s cry that sounds like an astral lament (“The River St. Johns”); a cotton mill tune that humorously explores the unknown terrain of death and memory (“Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”); and a fishermen’s shanty/gospel song equally concerned with terrestrial boozing and heavenly transcendence (“Drinking of the Wine”).

“In our house we’ve listened to more Jake Fussell than any other individual artist over the past year. Jake lives in music as a true time-artist, using the qualities of time itself as irreplaceable elements of content. As long as Jake Fussell is making records and playing shows, there is ample cause for optimism in this world.” – Bonnie “Prince” Billy

"Jake Xerxes Fussell is a national treasure.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“His burly, winking voice is made for storytelling.” – NPR

“Achingly beautiful. He has an uncanny ability to illuminate the present by propping up a window against the past.” – Uncut

“Jake understands that old songs weren’t always old. On his third album, he’s subtly shading his music with more instruments. It’s still uncluttered. Still melancholy. Still threaded through with that elegant, deceptively simple guitar—its tone like no other. This is a journey you need to share.” – Colin Escott, author of Hank Williams: The Biography

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Out of Sight

LP/CD/Digital

PoB-042

June 7, 2019

On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass), Nathan Golub (pedal steel), Libby Rodenbough (violin, vocals), and James Anthony Wallace (piano, organ). An utterly transporting selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles and delights of love, work, and wine (i.e., the things that matter), collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed, Out of Sight contains, among other moving curiosities, a fishmonger’s cry that sounds like an astral lament (“The River St. Johns”); a cotton mill tune that humorously explores the unknown terrain of death and memory (“Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”); and a fishermen’s shanty/gospel song equally concerned with terrestrial boozing and heavenly transcendence (“Drinking of the Wine”).

“In our house we’ve listened to more Jake Fussell than any other individual artist over the past year. Jake lives in music as a true time-artist, using the qualities of time itself as irreplaceable elements of content. As long as Jake Fussell is making records and playing shows, there is ample cause for optimism in this world.” – Bonnie “Prince” Billy

"Jake Xerxes Fussell is a national treasure.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“His burly, winking voice is made for storytelling.” – NPR

“Achingly beautiful. He has an uncanny ability to illuminate the present by propping up a window against the past.” – Uncut

“Jake understands that old songs weren’t always old. On his third album, he’s subtly shading his music with more instruments. It’s still uncluttered. Still melancholy. Still threaded through with that elegant, deceptively simple guitar—its tone like no other. This is a journey you need to share.” – Colin Escott, author of Hank Williams: The Biography

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/

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Jake Xerxes Fussell

Out of Sight

LP/CD/Digital

PoB-042

June 7, 2019

On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass), Nathan Golub (pedal steel), Libby Rodenbough (violin, vocals), and James Anthony Wallace (piano, organ). An utterly transporting selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles and delights of love, work, and wine (i.e., the things that matter), collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed, Out of Sight contains, among other moving curiosities, a fishmonger’s cry that sounds like an astral lament (“The River St. Johns”); a cotton mill tune that humorously explores the unknown terrain of death and memory (“Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues”); and a fishermen’s shanty/gospel song equally concerned with terrestrial boozing and heavenly transcendence (“Drinking of the Wine”).

“In our house we’ve listened to more Jake Fussell than any other individual artist over the past year. Jake lives in music as a true time-artist, using the qualities of time itself as irreplaceable elements of content. As long as Jake Fussell is making records and playing shows, there is ample cause for optimism in this world.” – Bonnie “Prince” Billy

"Jake Xerxes Fussell is a national treasure.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“His burly, winking voice is made for storytelling.” – NPR

“Achingly beautiful. He has an uncanny ability to illuminate the present by propping up a window against the past.” – Uncut

“Jake understands that old songs weren’t always old. On his third album, he’s subtly shading his music with more instruments. It’s still uncluttered. Still melancholy. Still threaded through with that elegant, deceptively simple guitar—its tone like no other. This is a journey you need to share.” – Colin Escott, author of Hank Williams: The Biography

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

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Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

Buy from label/artist: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-045

Buy/listen elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB45

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

Buy from label/artist: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-045

Buy/listen elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB45

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

Buy from label/artist: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-045

Buy/listen elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB45

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

Buy from label/artist: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-045

Buy/listen elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB45

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Terry Allen

Pedal Steal + Four Corners

LP + 3xCD w/book / digital

PoB-045

March 22, 2018

Buy from label/artist: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-045

Buy/listen elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB45

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

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Jo Harvey and Terry Allen's "Rawhide and Roses" radio show aired on Sundays from 1967 to 1971 on the underground station KPPC-FM and AM 106.7, broadcast from the basement of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church (PPC). Terry produced and programmed, while Jo Harvey served as the host, writer, storyteller, and on-air personality; she was the first female country music DJ.

The program was documented, but only erratically; these five themed shows and fragments have been edited together from all known surviving tapes, which reside in The Allen Collection of the Texas Tech University archives.