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Title-	Label	Price
Anne Briggs lp lp 2008/1971 new Bert Jansch's pure-voiced roommate had already spent several years hanging around the UK folk scene, but she was notoriously unreliable about turning up for shows, & was known for...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Avengers lp lp 2012/1977-78 new Joan Jett is awesome and everything, no argument, but fuck her. When Penelope Houston opens up her mouth you can still hear the jumble of disdain, disgust, sarcasm, and...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Big Star Third lp lp 2011/1978/1974 new The mood is disconsolate and ragged melancholy, but those pop strings are gleaming & sculpted. Alex Chilton & drummer Jody Stephens (now the only surviving member of the band)...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Bridget St. John Ask Me No Questions lp lp 2011/1969 new St. John's glassy, back-of-the-throat voice always reminds of Nico, but her songwriting on this 1st & best album highlights a delicate sensibility. Close to Nick Drake's, even, and...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Captain Beefheart Doc at the Radar Station lp lp 2011/1980 new Eminently loveable Beefheart with the potential to rejuvenate you at your most beaten, even if it was recorded quite late. Tougher, rougher, & more spiky shards of electric guitar...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
DMZ lp lp 2011/1978 new Boston garage starts/ends with the irrepressible & inimitable Monoman. Lovers of Seeds, 13th Floor Elvs., Sonics & much deeper punk blazers are always justifiably thrilled with the...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking lp lp 2008/1969 new 3rd album, & the one on which they unveiled Sandy Denny as the frontperson as well as the complete electric sound for which they're best known today. Dylan covers that were...	4 Men With Beards	$16.50 Add:
Faust So Far lp lp 2006/1972 new Ditzy but wonderful krautrock kings. Their 2nd, and there's a bit less out-guitar nonsense, but possibly even weirder than the debut. Sugarplum visions of throbbing tom toms & lsd...	4 Men With Beards	$21.00 Add:
Flipper Generic lp lp 2009/1982 new Classic scuzzy, trashed & droney sneer from the unhippiest San Fran residents of all time. Will Shatter, Bruce Loose & co. trade off instruments & make lurching guitar h-bombs (& sex...	4 Men With Beards	$16.50 Add:
Flipper Sex Bomb Baby lp lp 2009/1987/1980-82 new Singles & b sides originally released upon the death of Will Shatter. While every other band wanted to be faster & more violent, Flipper bypassed every semblance of...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Gal Costa lp lp 2009/1969 new With arrangements by Rogerio Duprat (aka the Brazilian Esquivel) & made when Tropicalia was at it's most fevered pitch. Songs by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben- some of whom...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Holy Modal Rounders 2 lp lp 2009/1965 new Cracked, wobbly, warped & mold-covered- just like the 78s they poached for melodies now & again- the Rounders really could play the bejeezus out of their tunes. And they weren't...	4 Men With Beards	$16.50 Add:
Holy Modal Rounders lp lp 2009/1964 new Beautiful, winged and full of springs, going without the 1st Rounders album will leave a hole in your life. Most Greenwich Village folkies took themselves way, way too seriously,...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Incredible String Band The Big Huge lp lp 2011/1968 new The band is just beginning to break into camps, with arrangements tending to favor one leader. The inclusion of girlfriends Licorice and Rose on percussion & whatnot was still a...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Incredible String Band Wee Tam lp lp 2011/1969 new Delicate as flower petals & curled like the veins in a leaf, yet just as much fun as rolling in the mud, the ISB was by this time selling out huge venues. They managed to continue to...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
John Fahey America 2lp 2lp 2009/1971 new Blind Joe Death's short, knotted & reference-filled tunes transmigrate into long, billowing mindblowers on this album, and that alone makes it one of the most fascinating in Fahey's...	4 Men With Beards	$27.00 Add:
John Fahey The Transcendental Waterfall 6lp 6lp 2012/1962-67 new So many box sets try so hard to be weighty, but really the best trick is to just issue the records people want. Tuh-dah! Even if you never bought another Fahey record in your...	4 Men With Beards	$120.00 Add:
John Fahey The Voice of the Turtle lp lp 2012/1968 new Paranoid your folk guitar devotee friends aren't as selfless as you? Are they just going through a callow phase before moving on to dubstep? Just ask them to use the word 'hodograph'...	4 Men With Beards	$23.00 Add:
Kevin Coyne Case History lp lp 2012/1972 new Coyne was a member of a pretty awful UK band Siren, that did Chicago style blues. But when he turned out to be able to sing like Van Morrison & whip up wobbly acoustic songs with...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Kinks Kinda Kinks lp lp 2010/1965 new Trio of hard-driving, speaker-slitting punks who were busy beating each other up on stage, led by the most English man who ever lived. UK version, which has a different tracklisting...	4 Men With Beards	$21.00 Add:
Modern Lovers lp lp 2005/1976/1971 new Ever since the Remains hit with 'Why Do I Cry', Boston's been a town that's interested in combining pop-songwriting with avant-garde rocking (bit of an anti-Joe Carducci...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Nico Chelsea Girl lp lp 2007/1967 new Nico supposedly hated the flute & strings that producer Tom Wilson added to this album, so much that they made her cry. Everybody else has always liked 'em fine though. Timeless,...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Nico Desertshore lp lp 2002/1970 new Third album that pairs Nico's thick & drooping German accent with a goopy harmonium (and very little else) to sumptuous & elegaic effect. Her toddler son sings on one cut, and John...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Robbie Basho The Seal of the Blue Lotus lp lp 2012/1965 new Basho sets forth the twin poles of his musical personality right away on this 1st indelible record. He insists on talking as windily as possible, mentioning in the notes that 'The...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Robert Pete Williams Louisiana Blues lp lp 2011/1966 new Williams is one of the most idiosyncratic blues performers of any era. He improvises and picks/slides both notes and their many chopped-short cousins & distant relatives, out of of a...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Scott Walker 1 lp lp 2008/1967 new So, you know why Scott Walker became obsessed with Jacques Brel & Tim Hardin, right? Say you're a member of a band that's ripping off the Righteous Brothers (& it was of course, the...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Scott Walker 2 lp lp 2008/1968 new Rich & heavy as 400 year old velvet drapes, Walker wraps his thick, succulent baritone around plunging and soaring string arrangements by Wally Stott, Reg Guest & Peter Knight. This...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Serge Gainsbourg Initials BB lp lp 2010/1968 new Smokin' sleaze from the greasiest, dirtiest Frenchman of them all. After France Gall realizes that he's making her sing about blow jobs & runs away pouting, Serge simply hooks up...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Sonny Sharrock Black Woman lp lp 2005/1969 new And the woman in question is none other than Linda. With a neck inspired by Pharoah Sanders' long golden horn, Linda steals the show from such luminaries as Dave Burrell & Milford...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
The Story of Moondog lp lp 2009/1957 new Miniatures that evoke jazz coming through the door of a club, while a bunch of trucks & taxis are passing inches from your face, Native American drumming played on kitchen sink...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Tim Buckley Lorca lp lp 2006/1970 new Haunting & transcendent dirge songs that are so far beyond folk they just don't have a genre anymore. Soaring wild & stormy vocals over moody electric undertow have made this one an...	4 Men With Beards	$16.50 Add:
Tim Buckley Starsailor lp lp 2007/1970 new Long unavailable & a pain in the ass to find as an original, this is famed as Buckley's most avant lp & a good companion to 'Lorca'. It is an unusual record- it doesn't come off as...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Van Der Graaf Generator H to He Who Am the Only One lp lp 2012/1970 new Major prog spelunk, with treated sax & vocals that must by all rights be called gothy. 3rd album, lyrics about the periodic table & Robert Fripp guests on one cut. Tracklisting:...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Van Der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave lp lp 2012/1970 new There are a few moments of bombast here, as horns & 6-part songs about epic floods do show up at the end of side 2. On the whole though, Peter Hammill & pals are still a whole lot...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Various Contemporary Guitar lp lp 2012/1967 new Takoma label acoustic sampler that eventually inspired the one-man-reunion of Harry Taussig, as well as the 'Imaginational Anthem' compilation of a couple years back. Has a long...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Velvet Underground White Light White Heat lp lp 2008/1967 new With assaultive odes to meth, menacing poetry, avant drone, heavy guitar throb & battling stereo fields, the 2nd Velvets is the bloody altar to which nearly all the experimental...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add: