Browse by Label: SUTRO PARK

Artist:	BULL, SANDY
Title:	Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1000LP

"The debut release from the man who defined the folk guitar '60s explosion. Blending eastern and western styles, living on the jazz/blues line, Bull's guitar playing has influenced anyone and everyone even loosely associated with the new weird America. Featuring the legendary jazz drummer Billy Higgins on the side-long song 'Blend' -- a song that started a genre. Original artwork." On 180 gram vinyl; originally issued by Vanguard in 1963.

Artist:	BULL, SANDY
Title:	Inventions
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1001LP

"Considered to be one of his finest moments, Bull's second record goes beyond his first, wearing an electric halo while he continues to explore the boundaries of the guitar. 'Blend 2,' his answer to his first record's opus 'Blend,' is a must have for all of those who love John Fahey and Six Organs Of Admittance. A ghostly, warm record as a whole: Bull is on top of his game and once again reinventing the way the ear hears the hand as it plays the guitar. Original artwork." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	BULL, SANDY
Title:	E Pluribus Unum
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1002LP

"Bull at his most righteously drugged, this third release is a mere two songs spread over a looped path of colored time. Bull as guru. Bull as shaman. E Pluribus Unum takes his past triumphs and brings them higher, to an acid-singed multi-colored height. At the end of the day, Bull's prowess on the guitar wins over everything and the result is an answer to the psychedelic wonder-bands that sprang into the scene since his last record. The instrumental answer to 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.' Original artwork." 180 gram vinyl; originally released by Vanguard in 1968.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Wolf's At The Door
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1003LP

Subtitled: Lost Recordings From The Spirits Of The South. "While the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton helped the world rediscover Muddy Waters and Sun House, blues obsessives like Bengt Olsson traveled to America in search of the fringe players who helped define the genre in the 30s and 40s. These masters, many barely recorded, quickly faded into obscurity when their medium left them poor, wolves at the door. What Olsson captured was a robust slice of haunting blues and gospel that would have otherwise been completely forgotten. Ashley Thompson, as a teenager, sang 'Mingelwood Blues' with Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. But his story ended there until Bengt found him and recorded a set of songs that showcase a Thompson whose voice is now one with the gentle angels. Bishop Perry Tillis left the blues circuit, believing it to be tied with the devil, and went back home to preach. The recordings Bengt made of him preserved a legacy that is ever growing today. Jugsmen Dewey Corley and Walter Miller might have been the most well known of Bengt's subjects, yet their recordings for him carry with them a deep purity that has rarely been heard before. Wolf's At The Door is eerie, celebratory, dark and redemptive, fragile, lonely and scandalous. It is about drunken revelers at a bootleggers house telling dirty jokes while teaching each other a four-part harmony to a gospel standard. It is the underbelly of the underbelly and all these tracks are presented here for the first time ever. Featuring: Lum Guffin, Walter Miller, Bishop Perry Tillis, Cleo Williams & Howard Williams, Ashley Thompson, Joe Thownsend & Bill Barth, Dewey Corley & Walter Miller, Bootlegger's Quartet, Lattie Murrell, David Johnson & Guitar Sam, Lonnie Fuqua and David Johnson." 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	SUN RA
Title:	Space Is The Place
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	2LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	SP 1004LP

"The soundtrack to the legendary Space Is The Place movie featuring some of Sun Ra's most adventurous and uncompromising compositions ever: vocal chants, harsh synthesizer and organ blasts along with film dialogue, heavy percussion and just all around weirdness. Featuring front cover design by Curtis Schreier (a founding member of the Ant Farm art collective). An amazing, and important piece from the extensive Sun Ra catalog and a must have for Sun Ra and avant-garde cinema collectors alike." 180 gram vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	LOS LOBOS
Title:	Tin Can Trust
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1005LP

"Tin Can Trust is Los Lobos' first collection of new original material in four years. The Grammy-winning East L.A. band's lineup has remained uninterrupted since 1984, when saxophonist/keyboardist Steve Berlin joined original members Louie Pérez (guitar, drums, vocals), David Hidalgo (guitar, violin, accordion, percussion, vocals), Cesar Rosas (guitar, vocals) and Conrad Lozano (bass, vocals). Seven songs on the album are distinguished and genius Hidalgo-Pérez collaborations, including the opening track 'I'll Burn It Down,' (featuring Susan Tedeschi). Three others were written in whole or in part by Rosas -- including the album's two Spanish-language numbers: the cumbia 'Yo Canto' and the norteño 'Mujer Ingrata' -- and display Los Lobos' signature seamless infusion of Mexican folk songs into rock music. Also included in Tin Can Trust -- a cover of the Grateful Dead's 'West L.A. Fadeaway' -- offering a nod to the bands' shared history that extends back into the 1980s when the Angelenos befriended and opened shows for their northern peers." Gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	MUDHONEY
Title:	Head On The Curb
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1006LP

"This vinyl-only release is mid-period Mudhoney at its rawest. Original bass player Matt Lukin is in top form, as is the rest of the classic lineup, blasting out songs and ideas, some of which went on to be studio-fied for their Warner Bros. debut Piece Of Cake, while others got lost to the dark crevices of time...until now. Besides the cover of SCTV classic 'I Hate The Bloody Queen', these recordings have never been released, and represent a sonic assault that is pure Mudhoney. Raw, unabashed, and sometimes downright no-fi. Head On The Curb writes a new chapter into Mudhoney's legendary past." 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRUNES, THE
Title:	Stockholm 67
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1010LP

"In the winter of 1967, a psychedelic-garage-punk band from Woodland Hills, California arrived in Europe for what would be their first and last tour of the continent. On the strength of their hit single 'I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night,' the band was welcomed with open arms by European rock fans as well as British rock royalty -- they smoked out with Hendrix, partied with Brian Jones and Keith Moon, and hung out in the studio with the Beatles -- but were also subjected to harassment and ridicule over the fact that their homeland was at war in Vietnam. On the last stop of the tour someone pushed the record button and this artifact is the result. Stockholm '67 finds the Electric Prunes at the height of the powers. Over-amplified and fuzzed to the max, the 'Prunes here are explosive, noisy, and wild. This recording proves that the Electric Prunes deserve to be ranked alongside the very best bands of their era." 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	WHITE, BUKKA
Title:	Big Daddy
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1012LP

"This 1973 release features some of the last Bukka White recordings featuring songs that span his career. At the time, White played on Beale Street in Mississippi regularly, and his chops are dead on and his feel simply grooves. His improvisational vocal style along with his driving playing make this record a final Memphis party and show why he was one of the Kings of the Blues. Originally on Biograph, available for the first time since its original release." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	HEMPHILL, JESSE MAE
Title:	Feelin' Good
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1013LP

"Jessie Mae Hemphill was at the peak of her recording and touring career when these tracks were recorded in 1987. Those who were lucky enough to catch one of her live performances saw something utterly unique in the world of blues. Jessie Mae-The She Wolf--was the Queen of Hill County blues and Feelin' Good was the quintessential recording, finding her in the studio with legendary musicologist David Evans and Otha Turner band member RL Boyce. The result was one of the great Hill Country records, full of loose, infectious grooves and great, gritty song writing. Jessie Mae Hemphill came from a long line of blues greats, including her grandfather Sid Hemphill, who Alan Lomax recorded. Feelin' Good never felt so good." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	JUNIOR KIMBROUGH WITH THE SOUL BLUES BOYS
Title:	Do The Rump!
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1014LP

"In 1979, historian David Evans, a professor of music at the University of Memphis, chanced upon Junior Kimbrough playing at Ethel's Juke Joint in Holly Springs. The University had recently created its own small record label called High Water and he brought Kimbrough in to cut some sides, including his next single titled, 'Keep Your Hands Off Her.' The sides would be compiled for Junior's first full-length album, Do The Rump!. The result has become hill country legend, and his band, featuring Calvin Jackson on drums (father to Cedric Burnside and one of the most rock steady drummers of all time), created a sound that launched a whole new generation of blues fans. This is the first time this record appears on vinyl." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	MCDOWELL, FRED
Title:	Amazing Grace
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1015LP

"One of the truly legendary releases in the cannon of the man who defined modern Hill Country Blues, Amazing Grace finds Fred McDowell playing with the Hunter's Chapel Singers in Hunter's Chapel of Como Mississippi. This 1966 release originally on Testament was one of the few records producer Jim Dickinson took with him to every recording session to make sure there was always some REAL SHIT present. The recordings also features Fred's wife Annie Mae. McDowell and company perform what the record subtitle calls 'Mississippi Delta spirituals' on this stark and moving set, which includes a version of one of his signature tunes, 'You Got to Move.'" On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	MCDOWELL/FURRY LEWIS, FRED
Title:	When I Lay My Burden Down
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1016LP

"This amazing artifact showcases two intimate recordings with two of the legends of the blues. Furry Lewis and Fred McDowell were recorded in their homes in the late '60s and Biograph lovingly originally released the recordings as a split record. Both artists rise to the occasion, creating laid-back stylings of some of their most famous songs ('John Henry', 'Casey Jones', 'When I Lay My Burdens Down') as well as material not as readily available anywhere else. This is the first opportunity to buy this release since it was first put out over thirty years ago." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	BURNSIDE, R.L.
Title:	Sound Machine Groove
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1017LP

"Recorded by folklorist David Evans in 1979 and 1980, these are Burnside's first recordings with electric guitar and also his first with a band. That band was the Sound Machine, a band he literally created himself out of members of his own family, blending raw Mississippi blues with soul, funk, R&B, contemporary beats and other urban flavors to make a marvelous amalgam of his own. Especially notable is a version of 'Sitting on Top of the World' with Burnside on slide guitar that, with Jackson's help, neatly evokes the sound and feel of a fife and drum band. Although Burnside became the darling of the blues crowd and hailed as something of an overnight success, one listen to this disc tells you he was already forging a new chapter in the Mississippi blues tradition with these recordings. Well, well, well." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	JAMES, SKIP
Title:	Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1019LP

"After Skip James was rediscoverd in the early '60s he went on to record an amazing body of material. These 1964 recordings recorded by Dick Spottswood are some of the best. They initially came out on Melodian which was later sold to Biograph who reissued them. Some of these recordings have been featured on other Skip James records, but Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers is one of the rarest of Skip James releases, featuring a beautiful cover drawing of the blues legend. This reissue includes two bonus tracks that were rarely recorded by James, 'Motherless and Fatherless' and 'Skip's Worried Blues.'" On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Traveling Through The Jungle
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1020LP

Subtitled: Negro Fife and Drum Band Music From The Deep South."This ultra-rare Testament release is one of the first and finest presentations of the hill country fife and drum sound -- one of the oldest musical practices of the Union. On this record, legendary musicologist David Evans presents the greatest musicians of North Mississippi, recorded in the 40s, 50s and 60s, by the likes of Alan Lomax. Artists include: Otha Turner, Napoleon Strickland, R L Boyce, and Sid Hemphill among others." On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	DICKINSON, LUTHER
Title:	Hambone's Meditations
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1021LP

"Luther Dickinson is most well known as the head of the North Mississippi All-Stars and the lead guitarist for the Black Crowes. He has become known as one of the best guitar players around, whose slide guitar style has been likened to the great Mississippi Fred McDowell. As a young person in Northern Mississippi, Luther was schooled his father, Jim Dickinson, and by the legendary Otha Turner and R.L. Boyce as to the finer aspects of blues guitar playing. Hambone's Meditations is his debut solo outing. The record is a soft, fragile and beautiful offering that provides a stage for Dickinson's soulful, masterful melodic blues stylings."

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Artist:	MCTELL, BLIND WILLIE
Title:	Trying To Get Home
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1011LP

Artist:	DAVIS, REVEREND GARY
Title:	New Blues And Gospel
Label:	SUTRO PARK
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SP 1018LP