ARCHIVE MIX: I SHALL BE MOVED (2008)

Postcard Mixer started way back in 2001 and has produced a lot of quality mixes - and we're going to use this forum from time to time to share some of that music once again. In addition to several volumes of music, Postcard Mixer led to the formation of a splinter group (known as the PCFHRemix Group) where the most opinionated of the Postcard lot would weigh in on a track-by-track basis on their peers' mixes. This first mix in the archive series comes from that splinter group and is brought to you by the Judge. Included is the abridged version of the Judge's legendary liner notes which accompany his mixes.

Rock in a Weary Land - The Southern Sons
The Southern Sons have been together, in one form or another, since the 1930s. This version is from 1953's 'Deep South Gospel' and was released on the fantastic Alligator Records. I don't know much about them or pretend to sit around and listen to them all of the time, but I can't deny them. It does not get any more southern or any more gospel than these fellas.

What's Left behind - The Sadies
This was one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of 2007 and I cannot wait for another Sadies album...whether it is the absurd spaghetti surf of their second-to-last release (an original soundtrack for the documentary Tales of the Rat Fink) or a more laid back affair such as New Seasons.

I Walk on Guilded Splinters - Cher
I really can't stand Cher, but this song has been crying out for inclusion on a mixer since I first heard it a few years ago...this slice comes from the 1969's very rare '3614 Jackson Highway.' Basically, Jerry Wexler & Co. sent Cher to Muscle Shoals with all The Swampers and Shoals crew and urged her to come out with a new sound and a new image. She did...Cher's version does not have the brooding that Dr. John's version has, but what it lacks in creepiness, it makes up for with funk...That's Patterson Hood's dad on bass.

Shake For Me - Howlin Wolf
At one time, this mixer was going to be a soundtrack for a stripper and this song was going to be on it (with songs by he Coasters, the Sonics, and others) and as the mixer changed, this song just kept getting left on...because it is so freaking great. I am always trying to throw Mississippi artists on my mixers because coming from a place that is associated with so much that is wrong, I have a chip on my shoulder and want to highlight the good...

Ever Lovin Man - The Dirtbombs
There is no other band that is the epitome of rock and roll that is as consistent as the Dirtbombs...I want to sit forever and look at Mick Collins's record collection. I had heard this album all of ONE TIME when I decided to put Ever Lovin Man on the mix. It was the first song to jump through the speakers and grab me by the throat. I credit (blame) the backing vocals for that.

Heart Attack - The Moaners
The pivotal track #6. I figure by this point, you have all jumped ship and started looking ahead to the random disc that came in your package. Anyhow...another Mississippian rears her head on the mixer...Melissa Swindle (formerly of Trailer Bride) and The Moaners put out a brilliant sex-soaked slice of greasy rock and roll a few years ago that gets better with every listen.

Katrina - Black Lips
To be fair, I am not all that familiar with them outside of their most recent album and their live show....which is incredible and not for the faint of heart. Katrina is the most fun song about the hurricane I think I have ever heard. I was going to contrast this with the Legendary K.O.'s 'George Bush Doesn't Like Black People' but it didn't flow well.

Crack Whore Blues - The Neckbones
It is hilarious now to imagine the likes of John Stirratt sharing the stage with these fellas, but it used to happen on a regular basis. (He also helped mix their second album.) This really is the seminal Oxford, MS band. They toured with RL Burnside, opened for Fugazi, lived with Blue Mountain, and put the place on the musical map...and I bet most of them still live and work in and out of music in and around Oxford. ND credit: One of the Neckbones punched Matt from Fat Possum out on the night that they released this record...their relationship with Fat Possum became strained thereafter.

Expressway to Your Heart - The A-Sides
Terrible transition from sweaty, meaty, big and bouncy rock to pussified indie rock-strained Philly soul....I'd never listened to Philly's A-Sides until I heard this cover of the Soul Survivors classic...I usually hate it when a soul song is stripped and re-created for another audience, but I hold no ill will against these kids...they took the song and made it their own and didn't embarrass themselves.

Welfare Bread - King Khan & His Shrines
Along with acts like the Neckbones, the Dirtbombs, the Black Lips, and others found on this mix, the music is new but shares so much with the sounds that preceded it that I don't hate it...what I guess I am saying is that the more new music I hear, the more I like old music...or new music that sounds like it could have been created 30 or 40 years ago. Welfare Bread comes from the 2007 album 'What Is!' which was actually put out by King Khan & His Shrines (I guess BBQ was busy)...

Ghost - Apollo Sunshine
I have probably listened to this album more than any album in the past year...I'm pretty certain that AS is not for everyone (K-Fly seems smitten) but the self-titled 2005 album has paid off more than almost any album I think of that I have heard in the past couple years.

Jealous Guy - Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway is pretty much known for two things: The Ghetto and Roberta Flack (I guess he is also known for getting a shout out in Winehouse's Rehab as well...but I digress). Not taking anything away from those two things, I absolutely love his take on the Lennon classic...It is especially cool to remember that when Hathaway recorded this song, it had only been out for about a year. I have no idea what Lennon thought about it, but choose to believe that he loved it as much as I do.

Let Me Roll It - Brendan Benson and the Well Fed Boys
Stoner Pop? I've used this song on a mixer before, but after a billion mixers, it is getting hard to be completely original each time...it is one of my favorite Macca songs ever...so gritty and non-Paul...and Benson does not do a bad job of bring the fuzzy with a straight-up copy of the song. This is one of those songs that I love listening too very loud, very late at night on very old speakers...

Cherry Chapstick - Li'l Cap'n Travis
Cap'n Travis isn't for everyone...the vocals are what they are...to these ears, they are endearing...and live, these guys cannot be touched. I don't know why I love this song so much...I wanted to throw a Cap'n Travis song somewhere on the mixer, and figured closing with this song would be good as anything...but only because I couldn't find a place for Sugar Buzz....Cherry Chapstick and Boone's Farm wine...making out in the summertime....I love it!

Hope you enjoy.

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Sean