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BEAUTIFUL HAPPINESS
Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Dr Ragtime & His Pals / S/T
Format: 2xCD Catalog
Number:		 HAPP010CD
Price: $16.00 Label: Beautiful Happiness
Release
Date:		 4/14/08
***This double-disc features a brand new album from Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose along with his highly acclaimed and out-of-print self-titled record (originally a limited release on the Archive Recordings label). On Dr. Ragtime & Pals, Rose duets with Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Mike Gangloff, Harmonica Dan, and Sean Bowles. This is a major work from a big player in the modern American Primitive world, often compared to the likes of John Fahey.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Miss May's Place
Revolt
Song For The Owl
Bells
Knoxville Blues
Fishtown Flower
Dusty Grass
Soft Steel Piston
Linden Ave Stomp
Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord
Walkin' Blues
Buck Dancer's Choice
Levee
Revolt
St. Louis Blues
Miss Mary's Place
Gage Blues
Spirits in the House
Dark Was the Night

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VHF
Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Kensignton Blues
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF92
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 8/22/05
***Kensington Blues, the fourth full-length release from Jack Rose, is an inspired mix of styles and sounds that brings his in-person steel string guitar mastery down to CD scale. This is Rose's most diverse outing by far, with straight ragtime, heavy 12-string, and that sweet, sweet Weissenborn lap guitar all checking in. Honed during endless touring in 2004, the repertoire here is delivered with maximum authority in a series of first-take performances recorded in early 2005.

"Cathedral et Chartres" and "Calais to Dover" are dense, brooding 12-string numbers, recalling the key tracks on 2004's Raag Manifestos. "Calais" features a sequence of right hand picking furious enough to evoke a dream state-- la Charlemagne Palestine's "Stumming Music." "Rappahanock River Rag" and "Flirtin' With the Undertaker" are pure syncopated ragtime, while "Kensington Blues" offers an almost regal take on the intersection of Anglo and American folk traditions. The epic "Now That I'm A Man Full Grown" was the signature piece of many of 2004's live shows, a display of mindboggling slide invention that straddles the line of East and West a la "Yaman Blues" from the Opium Musick LP. In something of a surprise inclusion, Jack's take on John Fahey's "Sunflower River Blues" (long a staple of Pelt and solo gigs but never included on a record) is subtle and expressive, with a wonderful rise and fall that perfectly accentuates Fahey's beautiful melody.

Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Kensington Blues
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 VHF92LP
Price: $13.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 4/14/08
***Available now for the first time on vinyl, Kensington Blues is the fourth full-length release from Jack Rose and his most diverse outing by far. The album is an inspired mix of styles and sounds, with straight ragtime, heavy 12-string, and that sweet, sweet Weissenborn lap guitar all checking in. Honed during endless touring in 2004, the repertoire here is delivered with maximum authority in a series of first-take performances recorded in early 2005.

"While the new century's novel folk has already seen significant definition, Rose is largely alone in talking new century ideas with the old language.... Kensington Blues is derivative and at the same time nearly brilliant. 8.0." --Pitchfork
Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Raag Manifestos
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF85
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 5/15/06
***Reissued!! Originally this limited edition CD was released in conjunction with Jack Rose's first major European and West Coast U.S. tours. Compiled from a variety of sources, Raag Manifestos cuts across various acoustic styles much like Rose's Opium Musick LP, but with a more aggressive attack. "Black Pearls from the River" and "Hart Crane's Old Boyfriends" are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski's roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, "Crossing The Great Waters," is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt's "Road To Catawba" and Rose's own "Red Horse." The traditional "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" finishes off the CD on a calming note.

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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Two Originals Of
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF081
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 3/8/04
***The debut solo CD by Jack Rose combines his much-lauded Eclipse LPs Red Horse, White Mule and Opium Musick. While the former is generally recognized as inspired by the Takoma tradition, Rose adds his own exotic influences and recognizable touch-- whether abstracting on the modal epic "Red Horse" or the rough slide stylings of "The Colonel's Blues." The latter is an eclectic collection with pieces for 12-string (the percussive and dark "Black Pearls"), 6-string, and lap guitar. The two tracks featuring the lap guitar are duets. The lovely raga-ish "Yaman Blues" features Pelt's Mike Gangloff on tanpura, and the near-ragtime of "Linden Ave Stomp" features Glenn Jones of Cul de Sac on his vintage Gibson. The 12-page booklet reproduces the liner notes from both LPs and adds a few snaps.

Blues scholar Kisan Nagai said about Red Horse, White Mule: Rose's personalized and disparate criteria awaken feelings of both rapture and tragedy on the scale of that which must have been felt by the newly-wed anthropologist who drove Kiowa Indian guests out of his Oklahoma residence with Victrola discs of Amelita Galli-Curci in order to go to bed with his bride, or the child who, on hearing Bugs Bunny sing Queen Liluokalani's dirge "Aloha Oe," quarantined himself in the clothes hamper until such time that the United States withdraws from Hawai'i.

Blues scholar Joe R. Sack said about Opium Musick: In the year and half between Red Horse, White Mule and Opium Musick, Mr. Rose spent the majority of his time honing his ragtime and jass skills. He met Dr. Chattanooga Red soon after recording his first LP, who revealed the secrets of ragtime and jass to Jack in ancient ceremony.... On his deathbed he told Jack not to let the ragtime die and to bring it into the 21st century. And now we have Opium Musick ... a lovely tribute to Jack's beloved teacher.

  • Member of drone collective Pelt ventures out solo in full-on Fahey / Basho mode
  • Collects two sought-after vinyl-only releases

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