Rock me....

Another one from the amazing, Johnny Love and The Amethyst Garnets.

In this chapter of our story, the band discovers the built-in beatbox settings on 10 year old Gary Love's Hammond Fun-Machine. Eureka!

The results really are impressive given the band's limitations. I totally made-up the part about 10 year old Gary Love. Ya see, my newest theory is that two thirds of the Amethyst Garnets were children.

DIY gospel based soul at it's most amateurish. But don't let that description put you off. The cut's all the more beautiful for lack of polish.

A genuine amethyst-garnet [???] in the rough.

Hope ya'll enjoy...

I can't eat, I can't sleep....

This record also showed up under the tree...with my name on it. I'm afraid I don't know anything about it, or Johnny Love, or the Amethyst Garnets [???]. But it's very cool, and ultra intriguing. I'm thinking this might be a gospel band taking a day off from church.

Is that a steel guitar I hear? It doesn't quite sound like bottleneck work to me, but who could tell with musicians this skilled.

[Update: I'm perhaps being too misleading with this post. This record is without a doubt one of the stranger 45's I've heard recently. It's not often you'll hear an R&B band as indulgent of their own amateurism as this. And yet the song works in spite of it all, which in my book makes it totally brilliant. If this had been released in the 50's that would be one thing, but it wasn't. Check the date on the record label.]

Hope ya'll enjoy my new record as much as I do.....