Five records at Trust, spot Records and tees.
Welcome to this week's edition of Five Records at Trust Spot Records and Tees. Here we are in the Shop Trust Spot Records and Tees Chesterton, Indiana. Open six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday till 6:00 PM also online twenty47@trustspot.com. Here comes the cat. The cat and the dog are being bad. I do expect frequent interruptions from both of them. Hopefully they relent and lemme finish this, but they probably will be jerks and bark or meow or just walk in front of the camera. I don't know. Let's just go ahead and get going. Oh, but I do have to say this is now a podcast too available on all of the major podcast platforms. Follow us also on social media. It's just at Trusty Spot Records on everything. This week on our Facebook page, there was a big love connection. Read all about it. It was very exciting. I think that's, oh, everything we talk about today, there'll be a link down below if you want to check it out on our website and potentially pick it up from us. See what I mean? There's the dog here. Have a treat. Eat this. Shut up. Alright, yeah, we ship all over. So if you see it on the website, you want to grab it, we can ship it to you for sure. Let's get into it. Record number one, cactus is the band. Restrictions is the album. The record is made in 1971. This is probably one of the earliest. I mean, it's got to be one of the earliest Rock and roll super groups. This is from the Ashes of Vanilla Fudge and the Amboy Dukes. It's got Carmine a Peace, it's got Tim Bogart, it's got Rusty Day is on there. Jim McCarty. Rusty Day is a maniac on vocals, by the way. So that lineup made three records together. Restrictions is the last one of those three. There was a fourth record with a different lineup, but it's kind of meth. It's whatever. This to me is the pinnacle and this thing is criminally underrated. If you like Led Zeppelin, you're going to like this record. So these guys are not derivative of Led Zeppelin. They're developing at the same time. So it's like that dirty blues rock. In fact, people were referring to these guys as the American led Zeppelin back then. So this record's Baller Man. The rhythm section with Carmine and Tim is amazing. You've got Jim and Guitar and again, rusty on vocals is just so good. Man. That guy, he was gone too soon. There's a cover of How and Wolf's Evil on here that is like it's exactly a masterclass and taking a blue standard and applying some rock and roll principles to it and making a heavy rock monster. So not to be missed. Great record. That's record number one. Record number two, dog. Why are you looking at me like that Here, eat a treat. Okay, this is Jimmy Rogers, my rough and rowdy Ways. Jimmy Rogers. Oh, this is released in probably 60. This is a 75 reissue. It's compilation record. Jimmy's from a long time ago, he died in the thirties. He wasn't even 40 years old, died of tuberculosis. So it's a long time ago. Jimmy is considered by many to be the father of country music. I'm going to lean down here and pet the dog so she doesn't bark. And when I say the father of country music, he's that by not like radio country people today, he's considered that by dudes like Gene Autry and Johnny Cash and Willie and Merle. He's legit. He's even got a fan in Robert Johnson. The blues legend loved him and would try to yodel like him. Yes, I said, yodel, this record is filled with yodeling and you're going to love it because that's what he's known for. Here comes the cat. He was known for the way he picked his guitar and the way he yoed. Hi Boingo, are you going to eat a dog treat? Super cool. So I challenge you to throw this on and not be in a good mood. I also think that if you turn it on, you'll find yourself yoing and you will love it. So let's go ahead and that's record number two. Excuse me. That's where that goes. If you want a dog treat here, just go get it. It's out there. Wow. Record number three. Oh, another super group West, Bruce and Lang. Okay, so this is, why don't you from 72. So these guys are from the ashes of Mountain and Cream. You've got Leslie West, you've got Corky Lang from Mountain, and you've got Jack Bruce from Cream, one of the coolest power trios. They didn't last very long. They made a couple of records. What took this whole machine down after a couple of years was partying and drugs and touring. But the records they gave us are awesome people who witnessed these guys live so that they put on an incredible live show. If I had a time machine, I would go back and check these guys out for sure. This record is like all seventies rock. It sounds like I'm going to be working in the garage and it sounds like a beer and it sounds like a joint, like it's party. This is a fun record and it's that dirty blues rock. Kind of similar to cactus, but just a little bit different because well, it just is. I don't know. Listen to it. You'll see what I mean. I like this one. That's number three. Number four, Tim Buckley, happy, sad.
Okay, so I could talk for an hour on Tim Buckley. I love Tim Buckley. Some of you that know Tim Buckley and are watching this probably know Tim Buckley is the dad of Jeff Buckley. We'll get to that in a minute, but let's talk about happy, sad. This is Tim's third record and arguably his best. His first two records, very vanilla, just kind of like a dude with an acoustic guitar. He used a songwriting partner that helped him write lyrics. In his third record, he comes out of a shell. He's authentically Tim, he's creative, he has jazz influence, he has psych rock influence. He lets the songs be longer and weirdly arranged. He uses his voice like an instrument, and you'll see what I mean when you listen to it. If you listen to Jeff Buckley and don't know Tim, it's kind of that same idea. So Tim passed away at 28 years old Jeff, his son didn't get past 30, I don't think. I never got the sense that Jeff was trying to be like his dad either. They both have this weird thing that they can do with their voices and the way that they sing, and it's amazing. I always felt like it was more of just a genetic weird DNA gift, and they were both aliens and they both got it and that's why they were so different and cool. I think right now in this video will be the point where I'll put up a still of Jeff, Jeff Buckley's album, grace Along Next to Happy, sad. So you can see how identical twin ish these two guys are. It's really, really uncanny. But yeah, I think that this is a record that needs to be in every record collection. I'll go as far as to say that this is an excellent record and you should own it. Alright, that's four. Number five. Oh, the story of the Nils. Okay, the Nils Self-titled record of the Nils. Their debut came out 86, 87, 87 probably they are Canadian post punk. They got together in the late seventies. Alex and Carlos Soria are two brothers that started a band up there in good old Canada and they were finding some success. They had an EP that was performing well. They started climbing that ladder, right? Getting out there playing gigs. They started opening for bands like the Ramones and X, so they're really making waves. Then they signed a record deal and this record deal they signed was lengthy. They were in it for so many records or whatever. They went on tour to support this record, and halfway through their tour, they find out that the tour is over and they have to come home. The record label is bankrupt. Everything is over. Okay, that stinks, right? And you think they can go home and just continue on. But the problem is, is the contract they signed states that they can't really work with anybody else or do anything for at least four years. So they really, really got the shaft. So they end up moving on to other projects. They disband and they go do other things. And this record, I mean, these guys are contemporaries of Huskerdoo and the Replacements. In fact, there's a story on the internet of Bob Mold's mom bringing them cookies. How cool is that? Right? So these guys were massive on the college charts. Everything was happening. It was going to happen, and then that's when the bottom fell out with that record company and the label. That's what stinks. So at some point in the early two thousands they reform, but Brother Alex, who's the main songwriter, singer and guitar player tragically passes away.
Carlos keeps the band going, and they're still putting out music today. In fact, I highly encourage you to check out the band camp. They have some super cool stuff out there for sure. This is just such a weird story of how this record label really wrecked the career of this amazing young band from Canada that we're well on their way to being a big name, and this record's awesome. So I think that's it. That's five records here at Trusty Spot Records and Tees. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode. I hope you listen to the podcast thing if you're a podcast person. If not, you can see my ugly mug right here on YouTube. You can watch the cat show her butt right on the camera. She probably did today. The dog's not barking. That's not good. So I think I'm going to quit while I'm ahead and sign off. Oh, she goes, remember twenty47@trustyspot.com. Follow us on social media, like, subscribe, all that crazy stuff. Maybe buy something from the shop and when I ship it, maybe I'll put on lipstick and I'll kiss a piece of paper and then you'll have my lips forever in your heart and on your wall. I don't know, you could frame it. You could frame my kiss on a piece of paper. I don't know what I'm talking anymore, so I'm going to wrap it up. Buy these records. Bye.
