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ISSUE 9. NOVEMBER 2006
Special Antonia Tribute, with FREE CD of 11 Antonia Songs recorded by Peter Stampfel (includes 'the Holy Grail of Rounderdom' Fucking Sailors in Chinatown). PLUS: Doc Snock & The Sensitivos in Varmint 2006; Colorblind James on the music of Michael Hurley; and more besides.
Price:
Euro 9/$12/Sterling 8 includes postage worldwide
1. Fucking Sailors in Chinatown
2. New Happy Time
3. Nightwalking
4. New Limehouse Blues
5. Places where you never see the snow
6. Laura The Horse
7. Freddy's Blues
8. Sentimental Song
9. Cajun Polka
10. Float me down your pipeline
11. Going to see the king
Compilation produced by Blue Navigator. Mastered by Al Cowan at The Soundworks, Dublin October 2006
What Writers have Written about '"Antonia's 11" CD
John Swenson: They’re calling what the young folks with roots in old timey music are playing “freak folk,” a genre invented 40 years ago by once and future Holy Modal Rounders maestro Peter Stampfel. When Stampfel sings “Spring of ’65” on 'Good Taste Is Timeless', it’s likely that his newer listeners won’t recognize that it’s about the 19th Century. Stampfel recently recorded a CD’s worth of songs by his longtime creative partner Antonia, whose joyous embrace of the underworld experience on songs such as “Fucking Sailors in Chinatown” and “Nightwalking” is trumped only by the innocence of her rich imagination on “Places Where You Never See the Snow” and the magnificent elegy, “Going to See the King.” Stampfel sings and plays this music like a love song to the era he and Antonia illuminated with the electricity of their audacious souls. Available as part of Blue Navigator issue No. 9 at BlueNavigator.net.
http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/article_2134.shtml
Tom Hull: Peter Stampfel: Antonia's 11 (1975-2006 [2006], Blue Navigator): "Robert Christgau took me to see Stampfel twice, and both times made a scene ordering up "Fucking Sailors in Chinatown." So I first heard the song around 1978, but it's never been on an album before - a streak that continues, given that this 11-song tribute is technically no more than a free bonus packaged with issue #9 of Michael Hurley's Blue Navigator magazine. Stampfel led the Holy Modal Rounders out of the '60s folk scene and into the farthest reaches of "Hoodoo Bash" - the climax of Hurley's Have Moicy!, another song by their mysterious muse, Antonia. Half the 'zine is devoted to her: discography, interview, a memoir by Stampfel, excerpts from Antonia's Digest, photos. The disc is limited to previously unrecorded songs, which tend to be sweet ("Chinatown" included) rather than raunchy, but "Cajun Polka" kicks up its heels. A full-scale all-star tribute album might be a good idea, but having heard Stampfel it's hard to imagine anyone else. A—
http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/cg/cg07-05.php