With foreigners and asylum-seekers now becoming the objects of some folks' daily two-minute hate, it's worth noting the value of immigrants in the Memphis music scene. Guitarist Mario Monterosso has been in Memphis more than two years, but he's not the first Italian to seek a fortune in the Bluff City.
Jack Oblivian has a new record out called “Lost Weekend”. Everyone’s been pretty excited about the Oblivians playing out lately, and this album just adds to the excitement. As far back as 2009/10, he had been thinking about taking all these home recordings he had been doing and putting together a cassette-only “mixtape” sort of thing.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Around three years ago, Frank Bruno, a collector of rare Memphis records, purchased a Memphis Recording Services acetate record online. An acetate is basically the mold or first sample copy of record that is made before it is pressed and prepared for retail.
Printed on the acetate was the band name, Heathens, the song title, Steady Girl, and the date, Dec. 8, 1956.
Bruno says luckily someone that owned the record prior to his purchase had typed out all of the band members names. It wasn't much to go on but Bruno being the rare Memphis record collector that he is wanted to figure out who these people were. READ MORE
