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Sid Griffin
The Trick Is To Breathe
SID026 – Ode To Bobbie Gentry / Blue Yodel No. 12 & 35 / Circle Bar / Between The General And The Grave / Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After The Ed Sullivan Show / Everywhere / Get Together / Front Porch Fandango / Punk Rock Club / Who’s Got A Broken Heart / We’ve Run Out Of Road / I’ll Forget You Very Well
“It’s a great record, it really is, my best songs ever. Yes, I am an American who lives in Europe but my heart resides south of the Mason-Dixon and it shows on this album.”
Sid played mandolin on two tracks, guitar on about six more, but the core of the band was Mark Fain from Ricky Skagg’s Kentucky Thunder outfit on bass, the great virtuoso Sierra Hull on mandolin, Paul Griffiths on drums, Thomm Jutz on guitar, Justin Moses on banjo, fiddle and dobro, and gospel legend James T. Brown on backing vocals.
As Certain As Sunrise
SID018 – The Last Kentucky Waltz/You Tore Me Down/Lost In This World Without You/Alibi Bye/Evidence/Where Bluebirds Fly/Just Let Her Go/Wearing Out My Welcome With The Blues/Faithless Disciple/I Come And Stand At Every Door/Tell Me You Still Sing/Written Upon The Birth Of My Daughter
Sid Griffin’s second solo album is melodic acoustic alt-country at its finest. Recorded in Sid’s living room and in Louisville, Kentucky no other Sid music explains him better. Just Let Her Go is an an unreleased song from the late Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornadoes) and a Western Electric reunion, also featuring both ex-Small Face Ian MacLagan and Dave “the Cockney Cowboy” Morgan.
Little Victories
SID007 – When I’m Out Walking With You/Jimmy Reed/Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today/The Rate Of Exchange/I Wish I Was A Mountain/Distant Trains/Sailors And Soldiers/The Man Who Invented The Blues/Monk’s Mood/Flak Jacket/Alma Mater/Jerusalem Road
Released in 1997 the UK and in 1998 in the USA by Country-Town Music this album is Sid Griffin “unplugged” with a collection of new material including an acoustic reworking of a Long Ryders classic and an unreleased track from the late, great Phil Ochs entitled Sailors And Soldiers. Recorded with a core band of Sid and UK C&W star Wes McGhee, it includes duets with Billy Bragg and Steve Wynn.
The Long Ryders
Bear in the Woods
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SIDHIT007 – Bear in the Woods
Penned by bassist/vocalist Tom Stevens and produced by Adrian Olsen and The Long Ryders Bear in the Woods is the first new Long Ryders song in 30 years! Tom Stevens offers the following about his new tune “The message is complex. I wrote this song about a bear, a friendly one, approaching it like a children’s song. But what emerged under its surface was different. I likely had the state of politics on my mind. The bear in this song may not be the friendly, all-knowing guru that he appears. But in real life, it’s up to us to seek our best hopes and not our worst fears in our gurus. Lately I feel that too many have done the latter.”
Native Sons (Deluxe Reissue)
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SID024 – Final Wild Son/ Still Get By/ Ivory Tower/ Run Dusty Run/ (Sweet) Mental Revenge/ Fair Game/ Tell It To The Judge On Sunday/ Wreck Of The 809/ Too Close To The Light/ Never Got To Meet Her/ I Had A Dream/ Join My Gang (first of sixfrom tracks 10-5-60 EP)/ You Don’t Know What’s Right, You Don’t Know What’s Wrong/ 10-5-60/ Born To Believe In You/ The Trip/ And She Rides/ Time Keeps Travelling (first of three tracks from abandoned “5 by 5″ sessions) / I Can’t Hide/ Masters Of War/ Still Get By ( first of three tracks Radio Tokyo sessions, 1983) / 10-5-60/ And She Rides/ Too Close To The Light (b-side mix, UK only)
Arguably the most influential and long-lasting release of Sid Griffin’s career Native Sons is now re-released with the entire 10-5-6- EP added as well as three tracks fromt the abandoned 5 By 5 sessions at A&M Studios, the Long Ryders’ first three demos and the B-side Close To The Light, a completely different mix to the LP version. This is the LP which kickstarted Americana and put the “alt” into Alt-Country!
State Of Our Reunion – LIVE 2004
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SID021 – So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star?/Lights Of Downtown/You Don’t Know What’s Right, You Don’t Know What’s Wrong/A Stitch In Time/Prairie Fire/Wreck Of The 809/Gunslinger Man/Years Long Ago/I Can’t Hide/Ivory Tower/Capturing The Flag/Band Introduction (Glasgow)/I Had A Dream/Final Wild Son/(Sweet) Mental Revenge/State Of Our Union/Looking For Lewis & Clark/Louisville/10-5-60
For their first live gigs in seventeen years (!) the Long Ryders knew the pressure was on. But they kicked ass and took names and you can hear the results on this stellar recording from their London gig. Cut on a hot summer night the sold out venue turned punters away and the result was a classic live album which can be filed next to Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out, Live At The Apollo or Kick Out The Jams. Featuring the classic lineup of ex-Jayhawk Stephen McCarthy, Indiana state senator Tom Stevens, publishing mogul Greg Sowders and Dylan author Sid Griffin.
Three Minute Warnings
SID015 – Prairie Fire/Lights Of Downtown/Man Of Misery/A Stitch In Time/State Of My Union/Harriet Tubman’s Going To Carry Me Home/Capturing The Flag/Long Story Short/Baby’s In Toyland/I Want You Bad/Spectacular Fall/I Had A Dream/You Just Can’t Ride The Boxcars Anymore/Gunslinger Man/Looking For Lewis & Clark/Prisoners Of Rock/10-5-60
A great recording of the Long Ryders show at the Bottom Line in New York City on 7th May 1987 which was broadcast live on FM radio. A showcase for a rocking fine band, Sid’s hair looks perfect on the front cover and the CD booklet has notes by the band’s long time manager John Guarnieri. This album is hotter than a pepperoni and jalapeno sandwich with horse radish.
SIDVID022 – The Long Ryders – State Of Our Reunion Live 2004 DVD
Lights Of Downtown / You Don’t Know What’s Right, You Don’t Know What’s Wrong / A Stitch In Time/Prairie Fire / Wreck Of The 809 / Gunslinger Man / Years Long Ago / I Can’t Hide / Ivory Tower / Capturing The Flag / Band Introduction (Glasgow) / I Had A Dream / Final Wild Son / (Sweet) Mental Revenge / State Of Our Union / Looking For Lewis & Clark / Louisville / 10-5-60
£9 including P&P (UK customers) £11 including P&P (Rest of world)For their first live gigs in seventeen years the Long Ryders kicked ass and took names and you can see the results on this stellar recording from their London gig. Cut on a hot summer night the sold out venue turned punters away and the result was a classic live album which can be filed next to Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out, Live At The Apollo or Kick Out The Jams. Featuring the classic lineup of ex-Jayhawk Stephen McCarthy, Indiana state senator Tom Stevens, publishing mogul Greg Sowders and Dylan author Sid Griffin.
Included as extras is some footage of the band live in the UK in March 1985 as well as larkin’ about in the A&M Studios with Ed Stasium in autumn 1986!
Rockin’ At The Roxy DVD
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SIDVID022 – Long Ryders live in 1986: Lights Of Downtown / Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today / Run Dusty Run / You Just Can’t Ride The Boxcars Anymore / Time Keeps Travelling / Ivory Tower / Capturing The Flag / Too Close To The Light / I Had A Dream / Final Wild Son / Wreck Of The 809 / State Of My Union / Still Get By / Looking For Lewis And Clark / Tell It To The Judge On Sunday / 10-5-60 / Sid Griffin solo session, 2001: Jimmy Reed / Flak Jacket / Capturing The Flag / Faithless Disciple / Emily In Ginger
In 1986 a Long Ryders show at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood was taped for TV broadcast in Europe. This has just been released on DVD by Classic Pictures. Bonus materal on the disk includes an exclusive and quite wonderful five song solo session by Sid Griffin recorded in late 2001 in Shepperton, England.
The Coal Porters
No. 6 
SID027 – The Day the Last Ramone Died / Save Me from the Storm / The Blind Bartender / Chopping the Garlic / Salad Days / Unhappy Anywhere / Train No. 10-0-5 / Play a Tune / The Old Style Prison Break / Another Girl, Another Planet
No. 6, produced by John Wood, the legendary British folk-rock mastermind who recorded the classic albums of Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Beth Orton and Squeeze features four new Sid songs, three new Neil Bob Herd originals, and Kerenza Peacock contributed her first recorded lead vocal on a very personal song with Play A Tune. The album goes out on a high note with the band’s warm-hearted cover of the Only Ones’ classic hit Another Girl, Another Planet.
Find The One
SID025 – Barefoot On The Courthouse Lawn / Never Right His Wrong / Hush U Babe; Burnham Thorpe / The Betsey Trotwood / Heroes / Red-Eyed & Blue / Ask Me Again / Brand New Home / Gospel Shore / You Only Miss Her When She’s Gone / Farmers’ Hands / Paint It, Black
Produced by British folk-rock legend John Wood, the man behind the early classic LPs by Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, and later on recording both Squeeze and Beth Orton, Find The One features five fine Sid Griffin songs and a trio from Scottish guitarist Neil Robert Herd. Sid’s harrowing tale of a slave family’s escape on the Underground Railroad, Hush U Babe, features the astonishing guitar of ex-Fairport Convention guitar guru Richard Thompson (!) and listeners will also hear a formal DJ introduction of Sid’s love ballad Ask Me Again by the BBC’s legendary Brian Matthew.
Durango
SID023 – Let’s Say Goodbye (Like We Said Hello)/No More Chains/Moonlight Midnight (feat. Peter Rowan)/I’m Not Going Away/One Is Way Too Many/The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil/Pretty Polly/Like a Hurricane/Permanent Twilight/Roadkill Breakdown (feat. Tim O’Brien)/Lookin’ for a Soft Place to Fall/Closing Time Genius/Sail Away, Ladies!
Recorded during two fruitful weeks in the mountains right outside the Colorado town which gave the album its name this is the fourth and best “alt-bluegrass” album by ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin’s outfit, The Coal Porters. Featuring the amazing fiddle of Carly Frey, the songs and mandolin of writer/author/broadcaster Sid Griffin and the production of the legendary Ed Stasium (Ramones, Smithereens, Belinda Carlisle, the Long Ryders, Jeff Healey Band).
Turn The Water On, Boy!
SID020 – Final Wild Son/Mr. Guthrie/The Sound Of Life/Adam & Evil/Behind My Eyes/Silver Raven/Tea & Tobacco/Butterfly Hearts/These Four Walls/Here In The Dock/Fox Ate My Shoe/A Light From The Mountains
The birth of Alt-bluegrass! Featuring new songs from the Coal Porters and a startling cover of Gene Clark’s Silver Raven. Turn The Water On, Boy! arrived to rave reviews in Uncut, Mojo, Word, Maverick and Q magazines featuring ex-Byrd Chris Hillman on mandolin and mixed to a sonic sheen by Ed Stasium (Ramones, Smithereens, Belinda Carlisle, Jeff Healey Band). This is bluegrass for both traditionalists and the Clash fan on your block.
How Dark This Earth Will Shine
SID017 – Fair Play, Virginia/Yonder Over Canaan/Morning Song/June Apple Breakdown/No Tongue Can Tell/Leaves On The Trees/Maybe I’ll Cry Tomorrow/Idiot Wind/Teenage Kicks-Old Joe Clark/Polly/New Cut Road
How Dark This Earth Will Shine is the Coal Porters first studio acoustic bluegrass effort. Know why the band got invited as one of only thirteen acts to showcase at the recent International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass festival in Kentucky and hear how they could bring audiences to their feet every time.
The Chris Hillman Tribute Concerts
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SID013 – My Uncle/When The Ship Comes In/Summer Wind/Draft Morning/Older Guys/Time Between/Wheels/The Lost Highway/Sin City/Cody, Cody/Brand New Heartache/The Girl With No Name/I Am A Pilgrim/The Fallen Eagle/So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?/You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
A classic tribute album to one of the key people in the development of folk-rock, psychedelia, long curly hairstyles on men, and country-rock. 16 great songs from various stages of Chris Hillman’s career recorded live and in acoustic bluegrass style.
Los London
SID004 – Me, Here At Your Door/Crackin’ At The Seams/Chasing Rainbows/A Woman To Love/ Apple Tree/It Happened To Me/Santa Mira/After It’s Broken/A Jacobite At Heart/Someone’s Gonna Love You Too/Help Me/Ain’t No Way I’ll Be Your Cowboy
The second fab and groovy full length release from the Coal Porters, including ten Sid Griffin originals and a cover of a very rare Gram Parsons song, Apple Tree, previously recorded only by Johnny Rivers. Guest artists include Billy Bremner of Rockpile, John Bennett of the High Llamas and ex-Freddy Fender drummer Billy Block.
Land of Hope and Crosby
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SID002 – Imperial Beach/Death Like A Valentine/She Loved Me/What Am I Doin'(In This Thing Called Love)/How Did We Get This Far?/You Can See Them There/Windy City/Playing Dumb #1/ Everybody’s Fault But Mine/What About Tomorrow?/All The Colors Of The World
The first full length release from the Coal Porters featuring ex-Long Ryders Sid Griffin and Greg Sowders with lead guitarist Billy Bremner (ex-Rockpile), Chris Cacavas on keyboards (ex-Green On Red), drumming by Gringo Starr and a special appearance on woodwinds by Kate St. John of Dream Academy & Van Morrison fame. It was awarded 4 stars in Q and chosen by Brum Beat as one of the best albums of 1994.
The Coal Porters T-Shirt
From Kentucky to Kent!
We have a couple of Large size shirts remaining. Coleman Lantern design on a blue Fruit of the Loom heavy cotton shirt.
£11 inc. P&P (UK & Europe customers) £16 inc. P&P (USA & Rest of World)ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PRIMA RECORDS
Western Electric – Western Electric
MRCD199 – Theme From Western Electric/Emily In Ginger/10-4/When I’m Out Walking With You/The Power Of Glory/Faithless Disciple/Whirlwind/Love You Down/Carousel Days/Straight From The Heart
The eponymous debut album by Western Electric, in its European configuration. A very elegant combination of trip hop grooves and country soul and twang. Sid Griffin says this is his most accomplished, most fully realised music ever. Billboard magazine agreed in a glowing review.
Books
Million Dollar Bash – By Sid Griffin
The new, updated and revised version of Sid’s Million Dollar Bash book. The perfect companion to Bob Dylan’s six CD box set of the legendary Basement Tapes on SONY which Sid proudly annotated.
£13 inc. UK P&P £16 inc. Worldwide P&PWith 13,000 new words detailing every single Basement Tapes song and explaining who played what as well as where the song was recorded this Updated & Revised version has it all. Also discussed are all forty songs from T-Bone Burnett’s Lost On The River series of newly recorded Basement Tapes tracks plus there is a complete discography of Basement Tapes cover versions down through the years.
After interviewing Robbie Robertson, Roger McGuinn, Manfred Mann, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Chris Hillman, Tom McGuinness, Arlo Guthrie and so many other Dylan insiders it is clear Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band & the Basement Tapes is THE definitive guide to the Basement Tapes…and always will be. Read it and be amazed!
Shelter From The Storm – By Sid Griffin
Sid Griffin’s fourth book, second in his acclaimed Dylan series, Shelter From The Storm, is also available from this website for only £7 inc P&P (UK).
£7 inc. UK P&P £10 inc. Worldwide P&PThis is Sid’s study of Dylan’s ‘gypsy circus’ years encompassing Blood On The Tracks, Rolling Thunder, Desire, Hard Rain and his mid-1970s’ TV appearances. Featuring fresh interviews with Roger McGuinn, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman, Academy Award winner T-Bone Burnett, Dylan’s childhood chum Louis Kemp and a host of other Dylan cronies Shelter From The Storm proves an engaging and dynamic read and well illuminates the Rolling Thunder era of Dylan’s career, shedding light in some previously dark, dark corners.
DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
All Prima released product by Sid Griffin and The Coal Porters, plus some Long Ryders material, is available for digital download from a number of sources worldwide including Amazon and iTunes.
Bandcamp: Prima Records
Amazon downloads: Long Ryders – Sid Griffin – Coal Porters
Apple downloads: Long Ryders – Sid Griffin – Coal Porters
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