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Any Yep Roc Records Fans ?

I have always been a fan of quite a few of the artists that record for Yep Roc records. This year I decided to try their completist offering. If you aren’t familiar with it you select one format cd or vinyl and during the course of the year they send you all their new releases. This month I got 3 recordings and last month it was 5. I had looked at doing this more than once but because I am not a fan of all their artists I put it off. I wish I hadn’t procrastinated. Yea some of the music I get doesn’t wow me but one thing they all the releases have in common is they are very well recorded. My favorite release so far is “The Third Mind “which is a Dave Alvin project. If you are into jamming this is an album for you. They do 3 different extended versions of East West by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The musicianship is phenomenal and each rendition is toe tapping , head bopping music.
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New on Yep Rock is a recording by Los Straitjackets produced by Nick Lowe, a reworking of "Venus" by Shocking Blue. LS bassist Pete Curry and I were playing together in The Hillbilly Soul Surfers in the mid-90’s when he got the call to join them. He's been with them ever since. Curry and I grew up together in San Jose (meeting the first day of 7th grade homeroom in September of ’62), and both moved to L.A. in ’78.

Also on Yep Rock are the great Bay Area Power Pop band The Rubinoos.

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My current second favorite label, the first being New West (Lucinda Williams, Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Richard Thompson, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle).
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