second-hand / one-off items

April 2025:

* 50 Miles of Elbow Room: issue #2 book, 112 pages. Featured artists: Hamid Drake, Rev. Charlie Jackson, Louis Moholo, Otha Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band (RL Boyce, Jessie "Chip" Daniels, Andre Evans, Abron Jackson, Bernice Turner Pratcher), June Tyson, & Robert Pete Williams. Contributors: Lynn Abbott, Yancey Allison, Daniel Carter, Fitz Gitler, Steven Joerg, Adam Lore, Clare O'Dea, William Parker, Phil Schaap, Dave Shuford, Thierry Trombert. Published in 2002. Light storage wear. $10
* Rev. Pearly Brown: You're Gonna Need that Pure Religion CD (Arhoolie); one small scuff on CD, played fine for me. $5
* Robert L. Campbell & Christopher Trent: The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra book (Cadence Jazz Books). 2nd edition c.2000, 848 pages. Has some shelf & reading wear; front cover shows mild indentation as a result of being snugly shelved next to another smaller book. Includes addendum insert regarding page 44. I believe this is out of print but would be glad to be corrected. $75
* Gerald Cleaver: 22 / 23 CD-R (Positive Elevation / 577); unplayed; some indentation to the digipak interior due to the snug fit of the resealable plastic sleeve: $8 (bandcamp)
* Cleveland Crochet: Country Women / Listen to My Heart 45rpm 7" (Swallow). Very clean, looks unplayed. $4
* Willie Dixon: The Chess Box 3LP box set (Chess/MCA). All 3 records very clean, box shows light stains/discoloration & bows inward slightly. 36 songs, so many classics by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Koko Taylor, Dixon himself, etc. $25
* The Door and the Window: Detailed Twang CD (Overground Records [UK]): Very minor disc wear, booklet has clearly been read, but with respect. Wurst band! $8 SOLD
* Bob Douglas: Sequatchie Valley: Seven Decades of Country Fiddling LP (Tennessee Folklore Society). Record shows mild paper scuffs & other evidence of play. Cover has a bend & rounding to a few corners. 3 copies of the 12-page insert are included, with one being clean & the others a bit more worn. $5
* The Hammons Family: The Traditions of a West Virginia Family & Their Friends 2CD (Rounder); both CDs show light marks & played fine for me. Includes 120-page booklet insert. Slipcase shows some shelf wear & tears, particularly along the bottom: $20
* Charles Hersch: Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans hardcover book (The University of Chicago Press). Dust jacket a bit ragged, ~1.5" tear at top corner, price sticker on back (when it was $35 at Borders). $8
* Jandek: Lost Cause LP (Corwood Industries). Cover shows ringwear (more prominent on the back) & a few bends, vinyl has a fair bit of smudges. $20
* Jandek: Twelfth Apostle LP (Corwood Industries). Cover shows ringwear, a few bends, & residue stain from a price sticker. Vinyl has modest smudges. $20
* Cast King: Saw Mill Man LP (Locust). This cover variation has the front & back slicks each pasted to a cardboard LP filler pad. Record is clean, just a few smudges. $20
* Hayes McMullan: Everyday Seem Like Murder Here 2LP (Light in the Attic). Records & cover both very clean, insert shows mild signs of use. This is the black vinyl edition. $25
* The Phill Musra Group: The Creator is So Far Out LP (Sagitarrius A-Star). Cover (the text-based version) shows a bit of rubbing/discoloration, perhaps from being in a snug shelf. Vinyl is clean. The music is said to have been recorded in 2010 & the record was issued that year as well, allegedly a pressing of 200 copies. $40
* The Phill Musra Group: Love Life & Games LP (Sagitarrius A-Star). Cover (the text-based version) shows light rubbing/discoloration/smudges, perhaps from being in a snug shelf. The vinyl is clean. Includes music recorded in 1986 & 2011. Issued in 2011, allegedly a pressing of 200 copies. $25
* Henry Townsend: Hard Luck Stories LP (Swingmaster). Vinyl & cover are clean. Center label on side B is bubbling up. Netherlands issue. $5
* Various Artists: Blues Come to Chapel Hill LP (Flyright). Comp with Eddie Kirkland, Tarheel Slim, Frank Edwards, Roy Dunn, & Tommy Lee Russell, all recorded live in Chapel Hill, NC, in March 1973. Not reissued, as far as I know. Tarheel Slim's contributions include a version of his classic "Number Nine Train." Liner notes by Bruce Bastin. Modest surface noise, occasional pop, nothing big. Some wear to the cover typical to these lightweight UK sleeves of the era (mid-'70s), including the often-seen vertical line down the back where the lamination ends. $25
* Various Artists: Blues Oggi LP (I Dischi Del Sol). Early 1970s recordings of Bukka White, Dewey Corley & Mose Vinson, Laura Dukes, Hammie Nixon & Sleepy John Estes, & John "Piano Red" Williams. Record is in fine shape, cover a bit of wear but in shrink. Insert/booklet is unfortunately absent. Italian issue, not commonly seen in the US. $10
* Various Artists: Country Blues Collectors Items, Vol. 2 LP (RST). Spark Plug Smith, Sophisticated Jimmy La Rue, Andrew Hogg, Jimmie Rodgers & Clifford Gibson, "Papa" Charlie McCoy, & Blind Squire Turner (Teddy Darby). Vinyl is clean, very slight wear to the cover. $10
* Various Artists: Swampland Jewels LP (Goldband). Collection of cajun, zydeco, & rocking country sides released on Goldband, includes classics such as Boozoo Chavis' "Paper in My Shoe" & Al Ferrier’s "Yard Dog." In shrink, bought sealed & played a few times, very modest storage warp & loss of gloss on the vinyl (if indeed it ever had any…). $20