The Shoestring Label Jazz sometimes searing mix of jazz

sometimes searing mix of jazz

Guryan’s timeless musings on love

hinting at a mysterious trio who sat together only long enough to sip at fruited cocktails before hearing Europe’s mechanized pop signals on the air

And with Karate’s snaking turns through quasi-punk reveries no one else appeared capable of mustering

I have heard an orchestra up in the air

The Shoestring Label Jazz sometimes searing mix of jazzOperating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois answer to a question no one asked. Pressed in minuscule numbers and barely outside the 62002 zip code, the singles by The James Family, Jimmie Green, Pete & Cheez, and Carletta Sue are prime examples of cosmic midwestern disco in search of a break. This heavy weight 10 song