I confess, I fall in love with every record that I issue. So imagine how it feels to be loved back by that record. I mean the actual sleeve and insert and electric yellow marbled vinyl, and the labels on side one and two. Hell, the LP labels themselves do more for me than that eighteen hour of TM that I did last week, and that was a real doozy. I go out in the front yard and I don’t care who is there, coyotes, hawks, venomous passer by, not today. I just flip the vinyl over, A to B for hours at a time. I don’t then just walk through that front door, I tap dance. I tap right into the kitchen with a lit up cheshire grin and I build a shrine on a ten foot platter, an eighteen course meal for my family to eat, and don’t even know that I am doing it.
A record built only on love and joy and perseverance by Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward reaching out through the darkness with rechargeable batteries is landing, issued by Shrimper and Stationary (Heart) on March 7th. I ain’t writing ad copy. Play this video put together by Jad, hear them Locke Ward musical dynamics coupled w/ Jad’s lyrics and voice and you might find yourself doing the same. Aloo Gobi sandwiches, french fried ice cream, tres leche spaghetti, empty them cupboards and make way for pure candy.