TOMMY JAY Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma 2xLP/1986 US/Lo-Fi American S-SW Rock

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TOMMY JAY 'Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma' Double LP (US, Assophon, Catalogue #ASSO-010) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2016 Assophon label expanded Double LP edition of what was first a cassette only release way back in 1986 of Lo-Fi American Singer-Songwriter Rock by Tommy Jay entitled Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

Assophon present an expanded reissue of Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma, originally released on cassette in 1986. "Tucked away between I-71 & US-62 lies nestled the quaint, speed trap hamlet of Harrisburg, Ohio. With its humble ambience, affable familiarity, weekend fish fries and Christian B&B ('mind the sherry, brother, for it is the Lords nectar'), blink twice and you might think you've been transported into a 21st century Winesburg, Ohio. Only now the emphasis is on a new chapter, 'The songsmith-concerning Tommy Jay'. In a converted barn just off Main St, Jay and friends have been forging a massive catalog of music, both original and cover variations, for a solid four decades. Fellow towns-person and erstwhile participant, one Mike 'Rep' Hummel (Serpent Mound expert, croquet enthusiast) was the first to make these recordings available when he issued a cassette of the proceedings under the title, Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma via his homespun DIY label, Old Age/No Age, in 1986. For anyone prescient enough to lock in back then, they were staggered by talent, far removed from the stars of High Street (Great Plains, Gibson Bros, Willie Phoenix). A singer/songwriter par excellence, Tommy Jay ably forged a hybrid of pre-speedball Stephen Stills with post Iron Cross-headed Lou Reed, the results of which come across as both effortless and visionary. Some 20 years later, Tall Tales would finally receive it's long deserved elevation to the vinyl format (this time through Columbus Discount Records), and was now being heard by a new generation of ears, garnered immediate success, quickly sold out and inexplicably was never repressed. In the intervening limbo, copies were more sought than found, lucky bumpkins forking upwards to three figures for pride of ownership. Recently, Assophon, a US label with Jim Rockford-like determination, swooped in to un-fuck this glaring wart. Plus, time and patience being the powerful warriors they are, the new, expanded edition is brimming with a whole second platter of hoot; 13 unreleased tracks what's rarely been discerned this side of Tony's Coney's. Which all goes to say that the new and improved, 30th anniversary edition of Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma is, to paraphrase the words of the late, great Randy Poffo, 'The record the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for'." --Tom Lax Lynx.

- Assophon present a 30th anniversary expanded reissue of Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma, originally released on cassette in 1986.
- From Harrisburg, Ohio, Tommy Jay has been forging a massive catalog of music for four decades.
- Expanded edition contains 13 unreleased tracks.
- "A singer/songwriter par excellence, Tommy Jay ably forged a hybrid of pre-speedball Stephen Stills with post Iron Cross-headed Lou Reed, the results of which come across as both effortless and visionary." --Tom Lax Lynx.

Tracks on this Double LP are as follows:

• A1 Last Hurrah (1:49)
• A2 Tough Luck Roy (3:52)
• A3 I Was There (5:37)
• A4 Memories (3:23)
• A5 Dreamland (2:42)
• A6 Fear Of Shadows (4:30)
• B1 Ocean (3:49)
• B2 Moving To Harrisburg (2:59)
• B3 Old Hemingway (2:52)
• B4 Village Idiot (2:43)
• B5 Lust Honor And Love (4:22)
• B6 Winter Nomad (4:17)
• C1 The Bugmen (4:08)
• C2 Down By The Sea (3:49)
• C3 Scott And Zelda (3:26)
• C4 Kristine - Oh! (4:43)
• C5 Harmonic Convergence (3:32)
• C6 Interlude With Chin (1:52)
• D1 Gotta Get Up And Go (2:39)
• D2 What Life (4:05)
• D3 I've Been Waiting For You (2:22)
• D4 Indiscriminate Angel Lips (2:36)
• D5 Pyramids On Mars (3:20)
• D6 Mountains On The Moon (3:34)
• D7 Standing On A Rock (3:28)

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