Pokey LaFarge and The South City Three are a prime example of a talented, hardworking band that put in their time and are finally starting to receive their due. After touring non-stop throughout the US and UK, being declared “best new act” of last year’s Newport Folk Festival by SPIN Magazine and recording a single […]
Adam Pokorski
Missing Link Records 5+5
Psycho African Beat — The Psychedelic Aliens — Academy The complete works (just eight songs) by late-’60s band from Ghana. A perfect crossover of garage, psych rock and Afrofunk with raw fuzz-wah-wah guitar, Vox organ and vocals with loads of reverb and huge drum breaks. Heavy Days — Jeff the Brotherhood — Infinity Cat Records […]
Top 10 Missing Link Records
S/T — Frank Fairfield (Tompkins Square) First release from our favorite 24-year-old purveyor of old time feelings. Startling arrangements of classic songs, sometimes haunting, sometimes jolly. River Boat Soul — Pokey Lafarge and The South City Three (Big Muddy Records) Ragtime meets Appalachia meets Delta cotton country blues, but entirely new and all its own. […]
