Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - TranscriptionsTen sides from Bob Wills' legendary Tiffany Transcriptions, which were recordings made available only to radio stations in the late '40s. The Tiffany Transcriptions are generally considered to be the best recordings that the King of Western Swing ever made, as the lack of commercial restrictions allowed his incredible band and vocalist Tommy Duncan to stretch out. Wills made over 300 transcription sides for Tiffany; only about half of them have been

No slavish Fela Kuti copycats these

so timeless it still simmers beautifully

Darnielle armed his band with new songs and reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang who engineered last year’s In League with Dragons

with gatefold sleeve and a 16 page expanded lyrics and photo booklet

says Johnson

By the mid-1970s

including the popular and critically acclaimed 69 Love Songs

Not just bearing witness but living and moving towards our innate desire for rapture in an urgent and raw testimony of the here and now

Offering moments of clarity and hope in their signature bratty maladjusted manner

William Basinski moved to Los Angeles

1969 would have been at least a little worse off if the band hadn’t self released this single

Released just six months after the uplifting blues-rock boogie and deep electro explorations of Fishing For Fishes and drawing on the mid/late 1980s golden period of thrash metal - Metallica and Slayer