All Pearls, No Swine - Same As It Ever Was...

 

All Pearls, No Swine is back, and for the first time with live compiling, or almost! I compiled this a couple of weeks ago and, uh, that's it. No particular organizing principle, no nothing – which means, it's the same as it ever was. Only one principle, same as it ever was: quality control. Good stuff from mostly unknown, or little-known properties, same as it ever was. A mix of some rock, some folk, some country-leaning stuff, same as it ever was.

Thirty nine volumes in we still have time and opportunity to discover some folks here, but by this stage the number of alumni starts to rise. Veterans Podito, Doug Firebaugh and big brother Alex Taylor have already shown up several times, all coming up with quality contributions once more. We've met Toad once before, and they're back with a real corker: Almost twelve minutes of "Life Goes On" - which, with a title and song length like that, is obviously the compilation closer. Loose Boots are back with another little country rock gem, "Only Lonely Roads", while German folk outsider Sibylle Baier comes up with another narcoleptic folk beauty, “Colour Green”.

We also say hello to a couple of newcomers like Sum Pear, Amigo, Blaze Foley, Mac Davis, Gold and the intreaguingly titled Don Speer And The Hudson Profit Expedition. We also get some prog with the likes of Chetarca and then-Yugoslavian combo Smak,while Tom Eslick and Victoria bring different types of folk, the latter by covering Warren Zevon's little-known early pearl “Tule's Blues”. And finally, as possibly the best-known name in the bunch, there's Tommy Bolin, upping the rock factor with an punchy demo of “Wild Dogs”.

So, twenty fine tracks of music worthy of being (re)discovered music of the 1970s. Same as it ever was! So, have a good start into the weekend with this, a lovely soundtrack to your saturday morning or afternoon...