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 34/Ghetto Hotel comes as CD-R and features 21 tracks and about 79 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
Vol. 34/Ghetto Hotel
1. Hanks Company Band - Kissing The Feet Of The High Princess
2. Steve Cropper, Albert King, Pops Staples - Tupelo
3. Dr. John - Walk On Gilded Splinters Pt. 1
4. Mylon LeFevre - Sixteen Tons
5. Danny James - Boogie In The Mud
6. Danny O Keefe - Covered Wagon
7. Delta Moon - Low Country Boil
8. David Clayton-Thomas - Down Bound Train
9. Alex Harvey - Louisiana River Rat
10. Nick Gravenites - Common Ground
11. Juicy Lucy - Hello L.A., Bye-Bye Birmingham
12. Shiloh - Swamp River
13. Swamp Cabbage - Jesus Tone
14. John Fogerty - Swamp River Days
15. Redwing - Underground Railway
16. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Swamp Music
17. Norton Buffalo - Ghetto Hotel
18. Eric Quincy Tate - Comin Down
19. Potliquor - Louisiana Rock n Roll
20. Crazy Horse - Gone Dead Train
21. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
