This shit right here like that there.
This shit is the shit.
It took me four, maybe five years to find this .zip file on another blog. It's albums such as "The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop" is part and parcel of why I took it upon myself to create my own music blog to bring you the hairiest stuff ever recorded.
Thank you ever so much, Mr. Weird and Wacky! (Apologies, but you have to click a thing to enter his site to let the bloggy overlords know that you are a grown-ass adult... he shows a lot of vintage porny record covers of these girls and their jugs... of beer.)
The Stark Reality, a band so named for their vibesman Monty Stark, were a Boston quartet of jazz heads, groomed at The Berklee College of Music. All four men were exceptional, but most notable among them was their guitarist John Abercrombie, who would begin his brilliant solo career in 1974 on Mannfred Eicher's label, ECM Records. That album was titled appropriately enough as "Timeless", and the roster included Jack DeJohnette on drums and organist, Jan Hammer.
All that's fine, but we're talking about The Stark Reality, and their 1970 album, which was their improvised reading of a 1958 children's album by the songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, who would showcase the music on his 1969 PBS show, "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop."
All that necessary history aside, "The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop" insinuates what the Peanuts cartoons would be like if Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band joined forces with Tim Buckley and his group from 1968 to 1971, along with Vince Guaraldi... which would have been really fucking awesome.
However, it was The Stark Reality who cobbled this record together and gave it to us... and really, no one else apart from Hoagy Carmichael could have done any of this better.
Thank you, dudes.
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