:::1st Annual Groover's Paradise/HGM Tour:::

:::One and all:::

Thursday, July 31st will mark the 1st Annual Groover's Paradise at Eaglewing Farm. This happening will feature The Curtains of Night, Hem of His Garment, Horseback (aka Jenks Miller), and Hiss Golden Messenger, plus folks playing records, grilling, and reveling in the mid-summer heat. Groover's Paradise will be going down on our land (which we rent from the venerable Sparrow Family), and we encourage everyone to bring their own beer/booze, grillables (and possibly stoves, if you have portable ones), instruments, and tents. Anyone is welcome to camp in our yard or the surrounding area; there will be no tipsy driving. We ask for respectful behavior.

Paradise will open its gates at about 5:00 PM or so; music will start at 6 PM. Although this is a free show, donations are encouraged. We'll pass around a collection plate.

The address is 1533 Clearwater Lake Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517.

To get here:

Take the 15/501 South towards Pittsboro.
Go left on Mt. Carmel Church Road immediately after crossing the James Taylor Bridge.
Go roughly two miles, and make a right on Clearwater Lake Road.
Make your first right down the gravel driveway; Eaglewing Farm is the first house on the left.

Please feel free to send this invite to folks that might be interested. All are welcome!

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Incidentally, Groover's Paradise will be the first whistle stop on a short tour that Hiss Golden Messenger is undertaking. The rest of the dates are as follows::

Friday, August 1st @ The Golden West Cafe, Baltimore, MD w/ Television Hill, Old Tender Heart

Sunday, August 3rd @ Brickbat Books, Philadelphia, PA

Tuesday, August 5th @ The Cake Shop, New York City, NY w/ Electric Tickle Machine, Dinowalrus, Teenage Souls & Ed Schrader

Thursday, August 7th @ Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY w/ Michael Talbott, Backwords, Pure Horsehair

Saturday, August 9th @ Julian and Juliette's Farm w/ Meg Baird, P.G. Six, Michael Talbott, Endless Boogie, Disciples of Agriculture, and Tandy

We will also be taping a performance with our old friend Irene Trudel for later broadcast on WFMU.

Check those links for times and costs.

If you would like us to play somewhere for you in between Baltimore and Philadelphia on the 2nd of August, please reach out to hissgoldenmessenger (at) yahoo dot com.

We will have shirts (based on Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac t-shirts, except of lower quality) and a second pressing of our live performance in Big Sur from 2007 at fire-sale prices.

Our first full-length record, "Country Hai East Cotton" will be released quite soon. More information on that, as well as how to acquire a live disc or shirt (should you not be present at a live performance) very soon.

-Jai Lil Diamond

MOTE

These are stills from the transcendental film Morning of the Earth. This is where I'm at right now. Once a couple years ago we were travelling through New York City. We stayed in our friend's Chinatown apartment (where was she at? I don't feel like she was there) and watched this movie until dawn. Hazy visions. Nice boogie soundtrack.

Stand Back

Stevie killing it in '83. Waddy Wachtel in full gear.

Purple Rain

Carlos Gomez and Ruben Olmos have taught me about all kinds of things, including lowriding. They're two wise men. They run the Lowyalty Car Club, which reps Burlington, Durham, and some other southeastern spots. Carlos' Lincoln Town Car, which he calls Purple Rain, won a top award at the Tampa stop of the Lowrider Magazine Tour in April. He was pretty stoked about that. I watched him put this car together from the ground up in about 3.5 weeks. Insanity.

This is a new section called ON THE BOX. It'll be about what's on or around the box. I'm a fool for lists. Let's start here::

Kris Kristofferson :: "Jesus Was A Capricorn"
Dollar Brand :: "Cape Town Fringe"
Tompall Glaser :: "Tompall and His Outlaw Band"
Merle Haggard :: "Back to the Barrooms"
Sister Nancy :: "One, Two..."
Jeremy Spencer and The Children :: Self-titled, I guess
Mordicai Jones :: Also self-titled? Some of Link Wray's greatest tonez
Zapp :: Also also self-titled? Worth so much more than the $3 I paid for it.
Anthony & The Imperials :: "Reflections"
David Wiffen :: "Coast To Coast Fever" (Simple and lovely)
Pete Townshend :: "Who Came First"
The Pointer Sisters :: S/T (On Blue Thumb; pure class)
Freddie McCoy :: "Gimme Some!"
Erykah Badu :: "Mama's Gun" and lots of "New Amerykah Part One (Fourth World War)"
Thomas Jefferson Kaye :: S/T (Grandiose waster grooves; Fagen and Becker contribute)
Man :: "Rhinos, Winos, and Lunatics"
Dennis Coulson :: S/T
Nas :: "Illmatic"
EPMD :: "Strictly Business"
King Tubby & Soul Syndicate :: "Freedom Sounds in Dub"
Don Cherry :: "Brown Rice"
Jim Pepper :: "Pepper's Pow-wow"

This list could be a mile long, but that Tompall record is especially blowing my balls off. And that Jim Pepper record kills too.

::Three Studies on the Merican South::

Three kings.

From an Old Fort

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