Sundazed Releases for August, 2008
Submitted by
Brian
on July 25, 2008.
Head on over to
Sundazed Music and check out new releases for August 2008 including:
- Gary Usher - Barefoot Adventure: The 4 Star Sessions
- Link Wray - White Lightning: Lost Cadence Sessions '58
- Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - Surf Age
- Davie Allan & The Arrows - Cycle Breed
Read more for all the details...
Artist: Gary Usher
Title: Barefoot Adventure: The 4 Star Sessions - 2-CD & DOUBLE LP SETS
Compact Disc SC 11167 - UPC 090771116727
Street Date : August 19, 2008
High-Definition Vinyl 2-LP Set LP 5244 - UPC 090771524416
Street Date : August 19, 2008
One of the most stubborn myths of revisionist musical history is this: the early ’60s were the Dark Ages of American pop, a sad and embarrassing era of prefab teen idols and silly dance crazes that was put out of its misery by the British Invasion.In reality, strange and wonderful things were happening with American music in the months before The Beatles met Ed Sullivan, creative big bangs that continued to evolve for decades to come.
In Detroit, Berry Gordy was defining the Motown Sound, while Stax and James Brown were inventing soul music. At 1650 Broadway, the Aldon table of songwriters was bringing sophistication to teen pop, while The Four Seasons reinvented group harmony. And in California, where America’s youth culture was being born, a trio of songwriters—Brian Wilson, Roger Christian and Gary Usher—were drawing up the blueprints for the West Coast sound.
This collection explores Gary Usher’s tenure as co-architect of the happiest pop music ever written, a guileless celebration of sun, surf and cars that’s become an enduring symbol of the American dream.
Barefoot Adventure does more than simply collect a bunch of songs that sound great on the car radio and mean exactly what they say (take that, psychedelic music!). It’s also a remarkable glimpse of the process, of a struggling songwriter angling for a break, sometimes tapdancing in tangents, oblivious to the bullseye he was hitting on the way
to forging an important new sound.
So here’s the whole story, 36 terrific tracks, including exclusive Sundazed interviews with Usher himself, with an illuminating essay and track commentary by author and Usher-biographer Stephen McParland. It’s musical scholarship that’s perfect for parties! We’re not sure if this is history masquerading as fun, or vice-versa, but we’re definitely sure that it’s fun. Which, in the end, is all that matters.
Track Listing: R.P.M. (The Four Speeds) / My Little Surfin' Woodie (The Sunsets)* / Barefoot Adventure (The Four Speeds)* / Four On the Floor (The Four Speeds) / Cheater Slicks (The Four Speeds) / C.C. Cinder (The Sunsets) / The Chug-A-Lug (The Sunsets) / Gary Usher Interview Part 1* / My Little Beach Bunny (The Sunsets) / Playmate of the Year (The Sunsets) / Lonely Surfer Boy (The Sunsets)
/ Soul Stompin’* / Nifty ‘50* / Power Shift / Mag Wheels / Gary Usher Interview Part 2* / My Sting Ray (The Four Speeds) / 426 Super Stock (The Competitors) / Wax, Board, and Woodie* / Draggin' Deuce* / '54 Corvette* / My Little Surfin' Woodie (The Sunsets) / Gary Usher Interview Part 3* / R.P.M.* / Barefoot Adventure (The Four Speeds) / Cactus Juice* / Coney Island Wild Child* / Sugar & Spice* / Twins* / Milky Way / Quicksand* / Gary Usher Interview Part 4* / You Made A Believer Out Of Me (with The Honeys)* / Waiting For The Day (with The Honeys)* / Tied Down* / Harder & Harder *
* previously unissued
Artist: Link Wray
Title: White Lightning: Lost Cadence Sessions ’58 - Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
High-Definition Vinyl LP 5254 - UPC 090771525413
Street Date : August 19, 2008
The kids of 1958 loved ’em, and their first single for Cadence Records shot up the charts like a label owner’s dream. This is the fantastic and fiery album that was supposed to have been released as a follow-up to one of the all-time great instrumental classics, the ultra-menacing “Rumble.” But faster than you can say “Drag Race,” everyone—Cadence label-owner Archie Bleyer included—was talking about this new threat to the morals of American youth.
That’s why Link and his boys were off the imprint, and this album of prime distorto-guitar-crunch cool remained unreleased for nearly 50 years. Well here it is, and it’s every bit as dirty and dangerous as you would expect! Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
Track Listing: White Lightning / Creep / Drag Race / Pancho Villa / Walking with Link / Raw-Hide / Dance Contest / Missing Link / Heartbreak Hotel / Comanche
/ Rebel Rouser / Patricia / The Freeze / School Girl
Artist: Jerry Cole & His Spacemen
Title: Surf Age - Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
High-Definition Vinyl LP 5261 - UPC 090771526113
Street Date : August 19, 2008
Could anything be better than surf music played by crazed spacemen? Not likely! And here’s the proof: guitar-wrangler Jerry Cole and His Spacemen’s stupidly rare 1964 LP, Surf Age!
While most of Cole’s albums were cranked out at the astounding pace, Surf Age, his second LP for Capitol Records, was by comparison a production of epic proportions. For the sessions, Cole and his hand-picked all-star crew of LA studio cats labored to create an album unlike any other, an endlessly inventive amalgam of surf and ‘60s pop.
The original liner notes say it most eloquently: “One listen to the music of Jerry Cole and His Spacemen will tell you that theirs is the sound of the SURF AGE! Their beat is as dynamic as tomorrow’s crashing waves; their instrumental blend is as fresh and modern as tomorrow night’s surfing dance party; their tunes are definitely for swingin’ moderns." Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
Track Listing: Surf Age / Martian Surf / Night Rumble / Rosarita Surf / Movin’ Surf / Power Surf / Bronze Surfer / Deep Surf / Ride-Um! / Jerry’s Jump / One Color Blues
/ Racing Waves
Artist: Davie Allan & the Arrows
Title: Cycle Breed - Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
High-Definition Vinyl LP 5204 - 090771520418
Street Date : August 19, 2008
Sixties biker flicks were second only to beach party films as the highest grossing youth movies, and Davie Allan & the Arrows provided the fullthrottled music for many of them!
Cycle Breed gathers 16 of the Arrows’ best and rarest, hitting the pavement with a collection of scorching guitar instros from the two-wheeled triumphs The Wild Angels, Devil’s Angels and The Glory Stompers; the teen-exploitation classics MaryJane and Wild in the Streets; the surfing documentary The Golden Breed; and the cycle/LSD saga The Angry Breed. Allan & the Arrows’ tough workouts will give intrepid instrumental fans more mayhem than they bargained for!
Numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies on high-definition vinyl.
Track Listing: Make Love Not War / Hell Rider / Wild Racers Theme / Devil’s Carnival / Cycle Party / Loser’s Lament / Surfer’s Paradise* / High Rise / The Angry Mob / The Stomper’s Party / The Loser’s Burial / The Angry Breed* / The Cycle Breed* / Rape* / Pursuit / Wild in the Streets
For More Information:
Phone: 518-731-6262
Fax: 518-731-9492
E-mail: tim@sundazed.com
For a full color one sheet of these releases click here:
http://www.sundazed.com/solicit/sundazed_aug_08.pdf
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