HOOSIER HOTSHOTS: One-and-a-half Albums

 Just realized a couple days ago that my emails have been getting deleted. If you've written to me in the past couple weeks, sorry. I am...

ATTACK OF THE KILLER FILLER

  WILD! RAW! UNINHIBITED! These savage young rock'n'roll instrumentals live for 'kicks'! And beware the 'square' who...

A Little Tiny Smelly Bit of The Stinky Puffs

As we've learned from Stinky Picnic , child musicians like the word "stinky." But The Stinky Puffs weren't just any kiddie...

THE CORILLIONS DOUBLE ALBUM

 The liner notes on the back of this true outsider music classic detail Marlin Wallace's years of pain at the hands of communists (or ...

TALES OF MANHATTAN: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales

In this 1959 album of rhymed poems set over a cool jazz beat, Babs Gonzalez posits himself as the hippest of the hip, here to school all you...

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It's amazing what sorts of things actually became hit records in the Sixties. Buddy Starcher was a country singer/guitarist best known f...