New Salt Lick Album Gathers Momentum

     Steaming ahead on the new Salt Lick album--working title: The Salt Lick Wide Awake Library--reuniting a quorum of the original string-band ensemble with a core of fresh and politically attuned compositions by Kilgore's Buddy Hale. Continuing progress at Harris Kirby's studio, with selective vocal and instrumental overdubbing from D Lee Thomas (banjo), Greg Jackson, and Yrs. Trly. A good sign, too, that 2012's Buddy Hale CD (Buddy Hale: The Salt Lick Sessions) is attracting the enthusiasts at its eStore location. (And thanx to all for the sustained show of interest.) Gotcher link, right here: https://www.createspace.com/2067281
      There will be additional Salt Lick reissues during the next few months, and a handful of hitherto unreleased titles.

Cremo Studios -- a Miocrobrewery Record Label for Blues, Folk, and You-Name-It

Cremo Studios and its Cremo Records microbrewery label represent some of Texas' more adventurous music, in a variety of idioms. Cremo Records launched in 2012 with Mortal Coils, a suite of Dust Bowl ballads from Greg Jackson & Michael H. Price. (The eStore link appears below.)

     The name derives from a legendary indulgence of the last century, the long-extinguished Cremo Cigar, which advertised itself as "the Cream o' the Tobacco." Hence Cremo Records and "the cream o' the blues," or whatever other musical idiom one might insert. The catalogue includes the East Texas string band known as Salt Lick; the earliest recordings (1969-1970) by Texas blues singer Robert Ealey; Sumter Bruton & Michael H. Price's Bruton & Price Swingmasters Revue; historic Boogie-Woogie piano duets by midcentury artists Tom Harris & Charlie Castner; obscure movie-soundtrack cues; and collections of Price's uproarious appearances with such radio outlets as The Dr. Demento Show and TM Century Comedy Network.

    A representative sampling follows, with matching eStore links. And stay tuned for a comprehensive catalogue, to follow in short order if not sooner.

 

Bruton & Price Swingmasters Revue: Last Stand at Caravan of Dreams:
     https://www.createspace.com/2115605

Buddy Hale: The Salt Lick Sessions: https://www.createspace.com/2067281

Greg Jackson: Faraway Friends of Mine: https://www.createspace.com/1889446

Jackson & Price: Mortal Coils: https://www.createspace.com/1842255

Lost Boogie: Harris & Castner: https://www.createspace.com/2108892

Robert Ealey: Blues That Time Forgot: https://www.createspace.com/1886208

Michael H. Price & His Bluesicians: From Hell to Texas: https://www.createspace.com/2070341
Michael Aitch Price & His Musical Miscreants:
     Voodoo Killed the Rodeo Star!: https://www.createspace.com/2032132
Michael H. Price & His Bluesicians: Boy Howdy: https://www.createspace.com/2077899