Anderson,Gladstone / Taitt,Lynn / Jets - Glad Sounds: Gladdy - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. New West Records is humbled and proud to recordings from Athens, GA luminaries The Glands. In the year 2000 the band released their critically acclaimed eponymous middle record, The Glands. This recording has been remastered and features the band's definitive sequence including five rare songs. Take a listen and hear why NPR says, InchThe Glands' self-titled effort from 2000 is a record whose seeming accessibility makes less sense the more you pull it apart. Take, for instance, InchWork It Out,Inch where '60s Merseybeat butts up against Rolling Stones licks but stretches in and out like taffy slapped on a snare. Or InchI Can See My House From Here,Inch which should roll on end credits for every cool movie ever made; it's layers of backwards guitar and Shapiro's double-tracked close harmonies transform into a boogie-rock jam The Flaming Lips probably wished it had recorded first.Inch

Gladys Knight & the Pips - InchNitty GrittyInch [LP] Released in 1969, Nitty Gritty was the sixth album by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Thanks to the influence of producer Norman Whitfield, it places emphasis on the raw funk and soul sounds of the band resulting in an unforgettable set. Three of the singles included became hits InchDidn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime)Inch (#63 Pop, #11 R&B), InchNitty GrittyInch (#19 Pop, #2 R&B), and InchFriendship TrainInch (#17 Pop, #2 R&B). Available on 140g virgin vinyl. Album Tracks 1. Cloud Nine 2. Runnin' Out 3. Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime) 4. (I Know) I'm Losing You 5. The Nitty Gritty 6. Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone 1. All I Could Do Was Cry 2. Keep An Eye 3. Got Myself a Good Man 4. It's Summer 5. The Stranger 6. I Want Him to Say It Again

Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing. New West Records is humbled and proud to recordings from Athens, GA luminaries The Glands. The critically acclaimed eponymous middle record, The Glands has also been remastered and features the band's definitive sequence including five rare songs. There is an enormous and curiously shaped hole in the story of the Glands, the on-again/mostly off-again duo or quartet or sometimes quintet but let's just say band from Athens, Georgia, who released only two albums of weird, irascible, irresistible indie rock before band leader Ross Shapiro died in 2016. He wrote the songs, he sang the songs, he played guitar, and he gathered around him a bunch of close friends to play them. He inspired many people around town, frustrated many others, and generally proved to be a painstaking artist with an ear for catchy melodies, a very grim sense of humor, a taste for reheated Dunkin' Donuts coffee, a supernaturally exhaustive knowledge of Grateful Dead bootlegs, and a creativity that extended beyond music to the strange portraits he painted and the odd shapes he sculpted. Ross's passing left a hole in Athens, in the community where he had become a fixture and arguably even a celebrity of sorts. And there really is something heroic about his career as an artist, something noble to a life devoted to creativity and creation, even if that mostly means jamming with friends. The Glands first two albums established Ross as an unlikely and maybe even unwilling cult artist; you could argue that not enough people bought Double Thriller and The Glands, but everyone who did became avid fans for life. And even though we only have access to an infinitesimal portion of the music he made, these two albums-and now this third!-add invaluable detail and nuance to our portrait of Ross Shapiro. We can see him reflected back to us in his songs a guy whose grumpiness