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We at Cousins Vinyl wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Here some things that we are thankful for:
-Friends and Family
-Records
-Disc Golf
-The Tigers and The Pistons (sorry Lions and Wings)
-Snack In The Box (lunch counter down the hall)
-Tacos
-Generic energy drinks
-Molson Canadian
-George Blaha
-Not working for the man
-Water
-Basements
-Lazy Boy Recliners
-Sunshine
And of course…..
All of you faithful customers who buy records and keep us in business.
Been listenin’ almost exclusively this past week to The Seldom Scene’s LP Old Train on Rebel. Traditional bluegrass with a progressive approach. Favorite song is “Wait A Minute.” Some religious Jesus songs too, which are very cool. I just can’t stop listening to it, even moving on the same tangent to other blugrass/folky/rocky stuff I have, it just isn’t quite as good as this LP.
During my exploration into my collection last night, I did revisit some old local favorites, like Traverse City’s Crocket and his fun song, Roaches In the Ashtray, about Crocket himself still partyin’ the same way as he’s been doing for years, he wants to get himself together - change his evil ways, but the song’s upbeat feel suggests he has too much fun to change anything. Pretty sweet….
Here is the allmusic guide link to The Seldom Scene’s Old Train LP. You can listen to any song you want. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d06htr69kl4x
We just got a huge collection in (around 10,000) and we’ll be listing heavily for the next several weeks so stay tuned. There’s LP and 45s, 50s-70s of soul, funk, r&b, jazz, rock, Beatles, Elvis, pysch, and tons more. We’ll probably do some 45 lots too. I’m planning on doing some more buying soon so there should be some more collections on top of that. Gotta stay busy now that I’m back! My month long sabatical to work at Clear Channel Radio Detroit is over so back to the record grind.
Justin is still looking for a job. It’s hard to make it in this business but we’ll keep trying in the meantime. Through the ERSA Group tangent and my latest, it’s nice to know that Cousins is still going. We’ve had it about 5 years now, and we’re still here. Justin may leave doing this full time but I (Geoff) may stay while I go to grad school. Hats off to Justin for truly grinding it out, going through the backstock and listing away the past month. Our store selection has really improved as a result. In any event, we’ll give it another push here and see where that takes us.
Formerly the guitarist in L-Seven (but not L-7, the later alt-girlcore band), Larissa Strickland joined up with former members of Negative Approach to play bass in the hardcore band Laughing Hyenas.
The music was garage-y and more melodic than most of their contemporaries, but John Brannon’s amazing vocal claws sent the band to places that no other could reach. Really, the Laughing Hyenas make it clear how little the emo/screamo bands of today have to offer.
And more than that, this was THE legendary Ann Arbor band when I was just starting to develop a musical consciousness. Where Big Chief and Getaway Cruiser had more fans locally, and certainly were more commercially successful, Laughing Hyenas were legendary. They were the band that I’d hear about at The Green Room and when I started digging into Bulb records. The Laughing Hyenas were signed to Touch and Go and were from my hometown!
But last night the news came out that Larissa Strickland had died, apparently of a Xanax overdose, which both feels ironic and unfortunate. I haven’t been able to find much on the web about it yet, but I hope that her family is doing well. I never got to see the Laughing Hyenas and always wanted to, though I’ve seen Easy Action (Brannon’s new band) a couple of times, and they’re OK.
I’ve added “Playground,” a pretty representative track from their album Merry Go Round, but I can only imagine what chaos they must have been like live…
I’ll leave the floor to Johnny Cash:
