The Pine Hill Haints - Smoke
Freshly repressed with alternate “Smoke Tour” artwork by Katie Kat available in Black or Blue vinyl
Behind the heat, on the edge of the burning fire, comes the quiet, ghost drifting ash darkly dancing into the night sky...the Haints midnight orchestra united for an evening in Sheffield Alabama and recorded this album of music...spirit of the Buffalo, broken heart, stars above the desert city of El Paso, skateboarding ditches at night, graveyard shovels ringing to prayer driven rhythms...the Haints deliver a fresh batch of stories from the lost southern underground. art work by Katie Kat; cd art by the great Scott Aicher of San Pedro CA....
7” - Available in Opaque Violet or Black vinyl
The Pine Hill Haints - SVENGOOLIA
Horror style Ghost Country, the A side recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound (of Doom) about Svengoolia, the Queen of Darkness...side B is an outtake from the "Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy" sessions at Sundrop Sound; both recorded by Ben Tanner
Serious Sam Barrett / Pine Hill Haints 10” Split
Early release on Sam Barrett's "Ya Dig" records, a 10" 4 song ep, including "Rock n Roll Heart" one of Sams most loved songs, backed with the haints from sessions they did for the third K release, featuring Fang, Katie kat, Bakula, Ben, Joey Barrier on banjo and Jon Lucius on accordion...artwork done by Katie Kat for the haints side, and by Jamie for the Sam Barrett side, screen printed at the Black Owl
The Invisible Teardrops - Shadow Caster
Dust the spider webs off of the Farfisa, let the tubes glow in the dark, light the blue candles, let the invisible teardrops roll down your cheek as you dance along to the Halloween sounds...familiar anthems of empty midnight streets, red lights glowing, dirty glass windows reflecting shadows, skateboarding low in the ditches
WIPPER - MEDDLE WITH METAL
The long player from this thrash metal quartet based in Florence Alabama....blasting out of the dark grey castle in denim glory, nine tracks of terror that hail from a lost time before new metal, when the amps were stacked high, drums were bathed in blood, and vocals shrieked tales from the faraway seas and horsemen galloped through the sands...
Nightmare Boyzzz - Singled Out: 2010-2014
A collection of singles, b-sides, and unreleased material from this brilliant four piece band...power pop meets gritty street trash, with excellent songwriting and fuzzed out classic metal tones
Standard Black Vinyl available
Limited to 100 color variation
James the Fang
Tales of Life, Death, and the Holy Cross, presented through medium of the Tennessee Valley, with its deep river and rolling hills, with centuries of music that resonates from this fertile land...recorded acoustic, folk/country music with a mix of traditional, spirituals, and originals...
Coughin Vicars - Ritual Discipline
From the dismal cold fog of Liverpool come the Coughin Vicars, capturing the cold tones of shattered glass echoing through the brick of stone of this seaport town...Sharp music, rabid; a reflection of the pour-your-own-concrete-and-skate-it attitude of juvenile criminally perfectly rendered to a hard drive and pressed to vinyl....
In a priestly manner this band seems to have prophesied the coming new era in the shadow of Covid and somehow gained power.
Coughin Vicars are a 5-piece band from Liverpool U.K with over 20 years' worth of blood, sweat and tinnitus in the local DIY punk and hardcore scene. Playing homage to the first wave of Northern post punk whilst rattling the chains of the L.A's Dangerhouse and Death rock scene. The bands pedigree can be traced back through noise makers such as SSS, Narcosis, Withdrawn, Cold Ones, Salem Rages, Corrupt Moral Alter, and Twin Galaxy to name few. The band have three now out of production self-released cassettes which are to be released on 12'' vinyl later in the year via the ARKAM records imprint.
WIPPER - “HeadLESS HORSEMAN/SEA HUNTER”
Ripping tales of Headless Horsemen and beasts that lie beneath the sea, thrash made for worn out skate shoes and ripped denim...a faster, leaner Wipper, the third single, recorded by Jay Burgess in Greenhill Alabama
The Pine Hill Haints - The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy
On the Pine Hill Haints' latest long-player, The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy, they go there and to other colorful places on the Americana and Appalachian trail. The fifteen song sequence kicks off with “Fall Asleep” and “Back to Alabama,” a fiery pair of rockabilly-meets-Irish-jig rave-ups, then winds through standout tracks like the Bo Diddley-grooved “Pretty Thing,” a pounding tom-tom and fiddle take on the traditional “John Henry” and the catchy, cajun-flavored squeeze box pop of “Lone Star Kid.” There are excursions into Sun Records-style country (“Midnight Mayor” and “Louise”) and swampy blues (the saw-singing “Wade in the Water” and “Downtown Blues,” which features guest J.D. Wilkes on harmonica).
Throughout, Barrier's strong tenor voice rings familiar and friendly, with deep echoes of everything from John Lee Hooker to Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash. And the band plays with a sense of abandon that comes from thousands of gigs behind them. It all sounds deceptively simple, but anyone who plays music knows better.
The Haints do something very few roots bands can, which is to transcend influences and sculpt age-old sounds into soul music for our time.
WIPPER - WHY NOT LARS
“Why Not Lars” b/w “Simon, Simon, and Saruman”
Denim style Metal is back again with two tracks, the question that many a metal head has waved a gauntlet fist to the sky and screamed “...why not Lars...” thus, a true ode to Cliff Burton...recorded by Jay Burgess in Greenhill Alabama
The Pine Hill Haints - 13
Believed to be the 13th album by the Alabama Ghost Country Music disciples, the Pine Hill Haints....delving into early indigenous music (“Wolves O Howlin”) of the lower Appalachians and also early music of the Caribbean Coast by way of Acadia (“The Pistol Knows the Reason”) and a host of songs self penned (“Way Down in Mobile Town”, “Black Bird Song”, and others) by the haints, written and bathed in the light of moon across the highways and dance halls of the road, delivered here....this a release for the label Snuffy Smiles out of Tokyo, distributed through Arkam in the USA. Beautiful painted cover art by Katie Kat
The Pine Hill Haints - “Satchel Paige Blues”
....Recorded two days before Christmas, 2019, at the Single Lock home studio by Ben Tanner....the A side is about Mobile Alabama’s legendary Satchel Paige, a King among the Negro Leagues baseball teams and Major League as well, featuring the royal blues harmonica played by the Col JD Wilkes...the B side consists of an old traditional Irish tune “Whiskey in the Jar.”
Wipper - self titled 7”
Behold the terror of this metal three piece, who present their vinyl debut (after 3 decades of drinking blood in the underground with a vast array of bootleg cassettes and dynamic live shows) “the Wipper” and “Dragonslayer”...both tracks recorded in 2004 at the Black Owl Trading Co by Spazz (straight off the road with Anthrax)
Slow Motion Cowboys "Sun Burnt Feather" lp
This is the 3rd release from the Slow Motion Cowboys...its a beautiful record, and it stands drastically apart from any other Cowboy release in its intense honesty and dark nature. Exiled from the cold foggy SF bay, marooned in the border country of Las Cruces, our young hero Pete Fields continues to keep the serenade magical, reaching deep into the stars and writing one amazing song after another. It has the lonesomeness of moth flailing away in the headlights, spinning its own pattern and weaving its own tales...it holds the pleasure of worn out boots, scuffed and torn with holes, yet fitting gently on your feet as you dance another waltz with your dream lover.
The Invisible Teardrops “Endless Winter”
Church bells sound on empty streets of a nowhere town....cops prowl and thieves look into dark windows....out of the gloom and wasteland of America come the invisible teardrops with eleven new tunes, music to dance to while ambulance lights flash against the wall...haunted eyes, skating ditches, Mickey Mouse, Waffles and syrup, surfing alone and skeletal cemetery walks, the teardrops bring their second full length, recorded at the Black Owl Trading Company by Grant Walden one cool day in October...
The Col JD Wilkes
"Will I See You One Day in Gods Glory Land?" LP
....This is the first full length record the Col has ever made where it is just a banjo and a harmonica and a mic....just like you might see him at a solo show somewhere out in Alabama or backwoods Kentucky, trying to make another performance on the old killing floor, trying to have a good time and make a dollar, crying under the stars...recorded in Muscle Shoals Alabama (Sheffield) by the great Jimmy Nutt at his fabulous Nutthouse, JD came in early and worked late, flailing and striking his open backed banjo, as well as his homemade fretless animal skin banjo, blowing the harmonica, screaming, pleading, whispering into the microphone until the cake was made. Of all of his solo recordings, none feature his weapon of choice, the banjo alone, as well as the harp alone, and his voice (and a stomping Kentucky boot-heel) until this was cut....its another legendary performance from this National Treasure
Ghost Dance
Arkam 76
First recorded in 2006...done in two sessions. The first was in Olympia Washington at Dub Narcotic by Calvin Johnson, in the old warehouse with the classic 50s graffiti on the back wall, 2 inch tape analog...our van got towed right before the session, causing a huge delay, and our tour mates the Can Kickers from New London Connecticut had a van completely breakdown, thus it led to them being at the session with us. Founding member Bradley Williams was also there, touring as a one man band (Almighty Do Me A Favor, or ADMF) and he played washtub bass on the songs that Matt Bakula played his banjo. The Can Kickers can also be heard all throughout the record, most noticeably on such tunes as “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond”, where Danny Spurr harmonizes and plays his five string banjo. Lastly, Stolen Pony, a young anarchist folk group from Leitrim Ireland, were with us to because they also were touring the west coast...this led to the collaboration on the old traditional “Raggle Taggle Gypsy.”
After the tour, we went to the Black Owl Trading Co with our old doctor Lynn Bridges and in one evening crushed another 20 songs or so. It was a magik night to say the least. Songs from this session comprise half of the Ghost Dance record, half of the Evening Star record, and the Gypsy “Moon Pie” record, as well as a slew of singles and songs in various compilations.
K released the record in 2007. It went through a few pressings, before coming back to Arkam.
The Dismals 7"
Punk trio from the wilderness of Cherokee Alabama, who recorded 2 songs one dark night at the Black Owl Trading Co with the production of Miles Jordan. This band has played below the radar on the edges of society for ten years, on the cheap, in the shadows, before putting their music to wax....
James the Fang and Serious Sam Barrett -
"The Dime Horseshoe"
Small towns. Long stretches of Highway. Sleeping bags on the floor. Skateboards scuffed and cut. Tuning strings and putting pine rosin to the bow. Camping in foggy woods; drinking black coffee in the houses of strangers. Singing tunes about life, about love, about the mystery of death. Bowing the fiddle late at night into the early morning. Flying on planes and playing for pennies. Ten more songs, for cowboys, for cowgirls, for kids, recorded simple at the Dauphin Island Alabama Shell Mound house by Niles Jordan.
Gartrells - 7
New Atlanta Rock and Roll outfit from members of Black Lips, Legendary Shack Shakers, Black Linen and The Gaye Blades. R&R, Soul and Garage.
Jared Swilley - Bass Guitar and Vocals
Rod Hamdallah - Guitar and Vocals
Jonah Swilley - Guitar and Vocals
John Kang - Drums and Vocals
Limited Release
Winstons/The Invisible Teardrops - Split 7"
WINSTONS: Just Another Girl / Sweeter Than The Day Before
THE INVISIBLE TEARDROPS: I Don’t Want to Know / Oh No Way
A Japanese release on legendary punk label Snuffy Smiles, out of Tokyo. The Winstons, from this same city, play a full upbeat style of soul music...featuring Sammy from Teengenerate on bass.
The Invisible Teardrops recorded two songs in the Black Owl Trading Co with Miles Jordan tweaking the knobs, each with the lo-fi Halloween sound.
The Pine Hill Haints - Blue Halloween 7''
Cool weather comes with the fall, as the ghosts and ghouls make their way beneath falling leaves and skeletal trees....introducing the new sad crooner, "Blue Halloween".
The first recording with Fang-Kitty-Justin-Jr-Stevie haints...a calypso tune makes up the b-side, percussion like bones that jump and dance across the graveyard.
Recorded by Miles Jordan (Hartle Road) at the Black Owl Trading Co, one lost Friday the 13th...
Calvin Johnson and the Snow-Tones 7"
Two dance heavy cuts tracked analog in Columbus Mississippi by the ice cool Miles...dirty wires lay through dead spiders and dog hair, while the snow fell muted in the window glass...rock-a-billy music done honest and suffocated, modern sounds, and live on the floor...recorded with Toby, Miles, and Maxx (Hartle Road) as well as Fang, JR, and Justin (the pine hill haints) comprising the Snow-Tones
Hartle Road
"MAXX" LP
These Columbus Mississippi boys have been making music together, since their infancy, and this latest selection of recordings, assisted by Lynn Bridges and also self-produced, show just how far they have come. Dark beats, distorted vocals, machine pulsing bass lines that wash over you like dirty black water..."MAXX" presents a brave, new wave of sound, in a place these kids have yet to wander...a new style that is full of danger and veers on the edges of noise and the unknown.
Sheer Attack - EP
Sheer Attack is a new band from Liverpool. Featuring local Psych monsters Mind Mountain's Bassist Marc Glaysher, Broomo on Guitar, and Dave on Drums),
Along with Russ the "Midnight Mayor of Liverpool" of The Cold Ones and Salem Rages fame on Vox.
Marc has also put on some BLISTERING bands in Liverpool including Lecherous Gaze and Dirty Fences!
““Taking a template that is filthy 80’s Venice Beach hardcore adding a touch of Motorhead a pinch of Thin Lizzy and the raw chops of classic garage like The Stooges and MC5 and your just about there! ”
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The Invisible Teardrops
"Cry,Cry,Cry"
Small town kids with their backs against the wall. The Invisible Teardrops tell the story of killers and murderers who wait in the shadows...
Recorded at the Nutthouse in Sheffield Alabama by Cody Simmons...
Pulsing downstroke style rock n'roll with a haunted drape blowing across the ten cuts...
Slow Motion Cowboys
"In Exile/On the Mesa"
The Cowboys hail from the foggy side of San Francisco, veteran pickers of roof tops and benches and back alley fence crooning...
This is part of the continuing tale of Slow Motion Pete as he tells the story of the American SouthWest, born the in the NorthWest, hummed in tune with the vast railway cars dragging across the desert and into the gleaming cities.
Clarabelle and the Creeps
The Modern Underground Sound of Muscle Shoals Soul
This is the 2nd release from Clarabelle and the Creeps , a SCORCHER recorded in the kitchen of a random Florence Alabama house by Jamie Sego and Albert Rothstein...the A-side consists of straight rock and roll, while the B-side is made up of moon light driving heartbreakers.
Your Pest Band/The Invisible Teardrops Split 7" :
A Snuffy Smiles release, Your Pest Band and The Invisible Teardrops deliver to two song apiece on this garage punk powered 7''.
ARKAM 61
James the Fang "Follow The Spider-Web Trail" - 7"
Recorded at the Black Owl Trading Co by Jamie Sego. Two new songs by James the Fang "Follow The Spider-Web Trail" and "How Lonesome Are You" Plus Two traditional numbers "Wolver O' Howlin"(by way of the Can Kickers) and "I'll Be Sixteen" (learned in a nursing home from the great fiddler J.R.Clemmons)
ARKAM 60
Legendary Shack Shakers - Go Hog Wild 7"
The boys are back! Recorded at the same time as Arkam #54 (Self-titled EP.) This 7" features Go Hog Wild and Let Me Tickle Your Innards.
ARKAM #59
J. D. Wilkes with Charlie Stamper
Cattle in the Cane-CD/LP
The first "solo" recorded in full album format by the one and only Col JD Wilkes of Paducah Kentucky...all traditional fiddle and banjo tunes, featuring the "discovered" in his mid-80s Charlie Stamper...Mr. Stamper comes from a long line of Appalachian/Kentucky mountain fiddle players, his family being field recorded over half a century ago...his brother played with Bill Monroe...Charlie was lost in time after fighting in the Korean War and working a job after he left the army...he began showing up at old time barn dances with his fiddle and was soon found by the Col.J. D. Wilkes..A pure testament to the haunted original pre-radio sound of old time fiddle playing
ARKAM #57
SOLD OUT!
THE PINE HILL HAINTS
Moon-Pie-CD
This contains all 4 tracks from the "can I have your board when you are dead" ep, as well as the haints tracks off of the Japanese split with the Fadeaways, three tunes released in Japan on Snuffy Smiles Records. There a few bonus tunes as well...one written and sang by Matt Bakula, recorded for the Ghost Dance record on K, and then a fiddle balled titled "do you believe in ghosts?" recorded on Dauphin Island in 2013
ARKAM #55
JAMES THE FANG AND SERIOUS SAM BARRETT
NORTH COUNTRY STEED
Recorded in two sessions in Bradford England at Mutiny Studios...a true folk record, by two skateboarding, hard-touring friends. Contains public domain tunes as well as original compositions, done with the 12 string Stella of Sam Barrett and the Gibson fiddle/Gibson guitar of James the Fang. Released in the UK on vinyl only by Ya Dig records from Leeds England, and on cd in the USA by Arkam.
ARKAM #54
THE LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS
SELF-TITLED EP
An early, straight jump blues recording of this hard touring Kentucky group. Harmonica by way of Slim Harpo, Travis style finger picking, this is an early unreleased gem by the dark southern institution known as the Shack Shakers.
ARKAM #53
CLARABELLE AND THE CREEPS
Dumb Boys/Beach Baby- 7" EP
Two excellent cuts of Clara Belle singing her doo-wop finest. A scorcher of a record. The unheard-unknown singer of the Muscle Shoals Soul scene.
ARKAM #52
HASIL ADKINS
SELF-TITLED EP
A group of skateboarding kids from Alabama drove into the backwoods of West Virginia to interview and eat chicken with the great wild hillbilly himself, Hasil Adkins. Sadly, this was to be the last interview Hasil ever made. He died tragically shortly thereafter. The interview was first printed in Razorcake Magazine; it has been re-printed and included with this 7". Hasil also wanted to sing a song, "Leaves in August", and he also talked about all manner of things, including Boris Karloff, vampires, preachers, and con artists...the a-side is the sad lament, the b-side consists of the jokes...a testament to this legendary and amazing piece of American folk music.
ARKAM #51
THE DIVINE 6/7
SELF-TITLED LP
Full length record from these girls/guy....power pop and punk rock meets in a perfect blend. A straight, pure dose of simple, to the heart song writing, raw and slightly violent but forever wrapped in a Valentine intensity. Recorded by Jamie Sego and Ben Tanner.
