Inspired by such great compilation like Country Got Soul, Delta Swamp Rock and Country Funk!
Comin’ right up, a steaming gumbo of down home, honey drippin’ Voodoo-Soul and rough-fried funky Blues with a large side order of countrified brain salad and gritty Southern Rock. These compilations encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty shakin’. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Follow the Love Rustler train through the landscape of blues and country with stops in Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Rock, Arkansas. Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Old Funk, Georgia. The legendary south of country preachers, forgotten jailhouses, rowdy juke joints and jaded dreams of salvation.
The tunes are from the glorious era between 1970 and 1975 with some years plus and few minus. We found the best tunes on albums you thought you knew and searched a lot of relatively unknown bands and releases for exceptional tunage. If sonically imperfect we had the tracks mastered and listened to the bunch endlessly to achieve the perfect flow.
The Love Rustler recommends: “Pour yourself a drink and keep on chooglin’!”
Volume 31/Gypsy Rider comes as CD-R and features 23 tracks and 79 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
Tracklisting:
01. Gene Clark & Carla Olson – Gypsy Rider
02. Barefoot Jerry - Friends
03. Cowboy – Please Be With Me
04. Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen - Willin'
05. Delta Moon – Midnight Rider
06. Stills-Young Band - Fontainebleau
07. O.B. McClinton – If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)
08. Montgomery Slade – Mama Said, Yeah
09. Larry Jinx Alexander – River Song
10. Joe South – Motherless Children
11. Charlie Brown – Home Swamp Home
12. Jerry Reed – Rhythm And Blues
13. Sherman Hayes - Catman
14. Jim Ford – Harlan County
15. Tony Joe White – Lustful Earl And The Married Woman
16. Ron Davies - Flapjack
17. Souther-Hillman-Furay Band – Rise And Fall
18. Coast Road Drive – Hard To Handle
19. Tumbleweeds – Making My Way Back To Louisiana
20. Bonnie Bramlett – Can't Find My Way Home
21. Redbone – Prehistoric Rhythm
22. Raul Malo – Long Cool Woman (With A Black Dress)
23. Travis Wammack – Parchman Farm
