8/16/13

Mid-August Update-- New Norton Releases!



Post-Sandy progress, 300 days in- loads of new repressings and reprintings await you at nortonrecords.com - plus we're totally gassed to show off these new releases.


NORTON'S EL PASO ROCK SERIES ROLLS ON

El Paso may be in Texas, but it borders New Mexico, home state of our hallowed Yucca Records, a star in Norton's ever growing constellation of able labels. Yucca’s output in the 1950’s and 1960’s is equaled by the number of world class recordings that sat in the can for fifty years. Available now for the first time ever comes the absolute motherlode, selectively scattered throughout the ever-growing Norton Southwest series called EL PASO ROCK. Norton’s EL PASO ROCK series is available on LP and CD, with some 45's to thrill the seven inch set. Collect them all!

EL PASO ROCK VOL. 8: EL VAMPIRO (375) Here’s the latest in our popular EL PASO ROCK series! This special volume features seventeen roaring 1963-64 surf instrumentals – eight of them previously unissued! Ride the wild sand with the Monarcs, Torquetts, Los Vampiranos and more! No letting up here with EL PASO ROCK! MONARCS Sour Grapes*/ TORQUETTS (Who’s Got The) Tortillas/ TORQUETTS Side-Swiped/ TORQUETTS Bacardi/ LOS VAMPIRANOS El Vampiro/ CHUCK SLEDGE White Heat* / CHUCK SLEDGE La Bamba*/ CHUCK SLEDGE Caterpillar Crawl*/ FORTUNES Chi-Wa-Wa/  MONARCS Talisman*/ MONARCS Forever Lost/ KEY MEN Sun-Burstin’/ KEY MEN Up To News/ COUNTS Surfers Paradise /COUNTS Chug-A-Lug /EMBERS Canutillo Stomp* /MONARCS Sour Grapes (alternate take)*/ MONARCS Talisman (alternate take)* Norton ED-375 LP and CD-375 CD)


BLOODSHOT BILL • NEW ALBUM • WILDNESS


BLOODSHOT BILL - THE LONESOME ROAD (Norton 386) LP only  Here it is at long last is the world’s greatest living one man band’s second album featuring sixteen high geared winners! Catch him on tour at your local fracas palace! Dig all the Bloodshot Bill releases on Norton! Baby Don’t Go / It’s The Way You Are / Baby Don’t Like It / Lonely / Don’t Bug Me Baby/ Come Back To Me / Sittin’ With You / In Love Again/ Moon Is Hiding / Oh! Baby / You Know Why /Two-Timer / Tell My Mama / I Love Her Just The Same / Blue Days, Black Nights / It’ll Be You





COLLINS AND KROHA SET FOWLEY TO MUSIC

MICK COLLINS & DANNY KROHA: WINTER BLUES & GREENS: EPITAPHS & ELEGIES BY KIM VINCENT FOWLEY (Norton EP-1701) 2-EP set  Gories members deliver an amazing double EP of seven Kim Fowley poems from his second KICKS Books tome PLANET PAIN set to music. Poignant interpretations reminiscent of Arthur Lee. Summer Storms / Welcome to the Cemetery Club/ Red /Winter Blues and Greens /Whispers and Pretty Horses / Blue / Infinite Sadness
Keep up with Kim Fowley in print at Kim's Kicks Page and on record at Kim's Norton Page




LA LA BROOKS TACKLES STONES FOR NORTON

LA LA BROOKS - PLAY WITH FIRE / THE PIGGIES - PARACHUTE WOMAN Norton 45-9665  The fabulous lead singer of the Crystals returns with a fiery take on an early Stones ballad produced by Mick Collins! The Piggies (featuring Andy from the Little Killers) work it out on Parachute Woman – get all 26 of Norton’s Rolling Stones split singles! Play With Fire / Parachute Woman








SONNY GEE  45 • TIDAL WAVE • GREEN WAX

SONNY GEE AND THE STANDELS - TIDAL WAVE/INGRID Norton 45-176 Demented 1963 surf vocal issued here in reprint of mega-rare sleeve and on green wax like the original!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


VARIOUS - DADDY ROCKIN'  STRONG  (CASSETTE)


V/A - DADDY ROCKIN' STRONG (Cassette!) Our friends at Burger Records did a limited cassette edition of our vinyl long player Nolan Strong trib album, as a Norton/Sandy fundraiser! God bless these guys. Only a few last few copies.







NEW FROM KICKS BOOKS - ROYSTON ELLIS!

GONE MAN SQUARED by Royston Ellis KB7 First appearance of the British beat king's early works in over 50 years! Royston, who vanished from Britain in 1963, was THE Paperback Writer- as referenced by those Beatles guys. In fact, the Silver Beetles (with Stu Sutcliffe) backed Ellis and his "rocketry" in Liverpool, as did Jimmy Page, who wrote the foreword. These writings 1958-1962 fill in an unwritten chapter in British beat history. Dig it now- watch for Kicks Books news with a full-on update on our hip pocket paperbacks!