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Brother JT 3 returns with a batch of home fried slop that will stick to your ribs like Sunday-Go-To-Meetin' puddin' and a side of blood sausage to go (if you know what I mean, because I have no idea). It helps if you have a few drinks, but what doesn't? Then take off your shoes and throw them at the TV--now youre cookin with gas!CD-R version of the vinyl-only Drag City release. Contains extra track, "Babyfat".
$6.00
A compendium of video shorts, including the infomercial "Blendrometry", trailer for big screen blockbuster "The Couch", the comedy antics of America's favortite Shriners "Tommy & Reg", and JT's latest Sci-Fi epic, "Captain Comet", as well as some promotional music videos. So stop squinting at Youtube and enjoy the full-screen majesty that is "Brother JT's Platinum Video Collection". Or not. (56 min. DVD-R)
In January 1988, the Original Sins recorded some two dozen songs at a marathon demo session, in preparation for their second album, The Hardest Way. While some of the songs made it onto the album, about a dozen did not. Skeletons collects those rough gems, as well as more familiar Sins songs, all commited to tape with a barn-burning rawness often missing from 'official' recordings. (70+ min. CD-R)
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A general best-of of the garage pop outfit, covering the years 1987-1997, and including all the group's hits (that they had in the alternate dimension Trimacladate II, where everyone is very nice and it rains lemonade all the time). 73 min. [this limited pressing is a silver/silver CDR with embossed label, full-color booklet, etc.--hence, the price is a little more than for hand-burned, and a little less than for a full-on CD]
When recently asked to put together an Original Sins reunion for a friend's birthday party in Brooklyn, me thought it a keen idea to also do a recording, whilst we were all practiced up, at the studios of the legendary WFMU (see BRJT3 Smokin at WFMU below) for Brian Turner's show. Because they get such a nice, live, crunchy sound there, qualities that might have been somehwat lacking in the official versions of many earlier Sins songs (hey, it was the '80's, we were in a hurry, blah, etc., blah). The results of said recording--clocking in at an hour and including revved up versions of Sins faves and a few covers (see home page for tracklist)--we humbly offer you now in the convenient CDR form, if you are would be so inclined...
$8.00
As mentioned elsewhere, Indoor Sunshine is sort of like the flipside of 2004's quietly cathartic Off Blue. But if that recording was necessarily monochromatic in tone, IS widens the palette significantly both in content and sound. Buzzing tambura loops, washes of lap steel guitar, oozing synths, flashes of mandolin and bell set all reflect the more generously colorful outlook of the songs. And the ice cream truck even stops by. 45 min. $8 [this limited pressing is a silver/silver CDR with embossed label, full-color booklet, etc.--hence, the price is a little more than for hand-burned, and a little less than for a full-on CD]
OK, there's not all that much actual music here, but then again this is VIDEO, with the eyes, and the seeing , and hey nice ladyyyy.The disc includes JT's attempt at a cooking show demo, shot for a Food Network contest about 7 months too late. He and his assistant, Lady Jane Bluebird, prepare grilled cheese, mix a drink, and create the Chocolate Peanut Butter Potato Chip (CPBPC for short). There are also commercials for Oooshy Gooshy, Schweppes, and Royal Oatmeal 2000. The main feature is Southern Discomfort, a tour doc focusing on BRJT4's jaunt through the South with Blonde Redhead circa Holy Week in the year 2000. Brother had just got a video camera and went a little crazy with the effects, but we think the resultant hazy images sum up nicely the woozy atmosphere of those long bygone days. There is significant footage of shows in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, and Dallas, and also some local color from the road, including gratuitous drinking and some guy with a cross. 80 or so minutes.
A collection of demos from 1983-2004, mostly done by BRJT solo, probably crouched over on a couch, one hand on his guitar, one hand on a gin and tonic, and one hand on the TV remote. Well, actually, some were done in an unheated practice space next to a chicken coop, among other places. But whatever the environs, Mr. T likely had plenty of time to get it 'just wrong', unlike the more prohibitive confines of expensive recording studios. Includes early versions of "Looking in My Mirror", "Lord You Are the Wine", "Inside Out", "Coca Cola", and "Road to Emmaus", as well as manyotherwise unreleased songs.
A second volume of demos recovered from cassettes found just before they spontaneously combusted from neglect. Includes early versions of "Be With Us", "Wish I Was Here", and "Take Infinity", as well as alot of unreleased nuggets.
The last Original Sins album, recorded in 1999, coupled with Mr. Brother's personal favorite, the previously vinyl-only "Turn You On" LP from 1995. Features the "Original Sins Theme", written for that Saturday morning cartoon that never quite happened.
Brother JT 3 was, of course, honored to play a set of songs for broadcast at the studios of legendary freeform radio station WFMU (www.wfmu.org) one muggy Sunday night back in 2002. The group showed it's happiness by pounding out an hour-plus of overdriven soul racket, as documented here.
A collection of tracks mostly from vinyl-only Brother JT records from the 1990's, including the Ramones-with-wah-wah experiment "Ice Cream Cone", the touching ghost channeling ballad "Baby's Coffin", and the 15 minute "Vibrolux", named for his favorite amplifier and having to do with seeing The Eye.
The second volume of the Sins retrospective covers the garage-pop outfit's later years, after they had given up on the idea of getting signed and JT started trying to sing rather than just yelling. Tracks include "Turn You On", "Shopping Trip to Mercury", "Constellation", and "Get Right Back", as well as "Cold Winds Blow", an outtake fromthe Bethlehem album which features the Bruh's perhaps most shredding guitar solo to date.
Remix of Br JT's first 2 vinyl-only albums from the early '90's, originally releasedon Twisted Village Records. "Descent" was a kind of garbled answer to Coltrane's "Ascension" via 20 minutes of groaning feedback supposedly depicting Christ'sdescent into hell to free the saints. "Meshes of the Afternoon" was, in turn, a hazycollage of both sunny and dark psych-pop best played after four or five wine coolerson some summer, eh, afternoon.
Recorded in the Living Room, located in Mr. JT's, eh, living room, this side project features funked-up drum machines, phased falsetto, and dubbed-out social commentary. Abetted by the lovely Miss Jane Bluebird on bass, vocals,and bartending.
Recorded back in '95 under the influence of Sun Ra and grain alcohol. The fiery subject of "The Comet", the record's 20 minute wack-job centerpiece, actually did come a little later, with dire results for the Heaven's Gate folks.
The Original Sins' second album from 1988, on 12-inch vinyl, still sealed. Includessuch George Bush the Elder-era anthems as "Out of My Mind" and "End of the World". "It sounds like we must have been in quite a hurry for some reason,"reflects JT.
