192kbps of Pure Vibes : A Guest Mix by Bobby Lee

If you haven’t dug into Bobby Lee’s specific brand of time-traveling, astral plane exploration soundtracks, it’s time. Bobby Lee’s desert edge is like an east-of-the-Atlantic, ayahuasca-tasting J.J. Cale through a prism, the sound of your mind expanding featuring plenty of chromatic bottleneck guitar and resplendent reverberation.

Last year, Bobby Lee released Shakedown in Slabtown, a dusty study in western-worn meditation. Only a few months later, in March of 2021, he released Origin Myths, which Tompkins Square picked up and is releasing on vinyl on May 14th in the US (available at record stores in the UK as of yesterday, officially.) Whereas Shakedown is a way cooler new-age-y spin on Morricone, Origin gets more reverent, more intensely sweat lodge and psilocybin than weed and whiskey.

I love running into Bobby Lee in various corners of the internet, arguing with boomers about who wrote “Wild Horses” or whatever. I knew he’d make a mix I’d love, and I was right – some places where our tastes overlap and quite a few that are brand new to me. Thanks so much to Bobby for taking the time to share this mix that reflects so much of what we love about his music – lots of warmth and familiarity, and then a heavy infusion of freaky fascinations.

No particular vibe or high concept. I just found an old hard drive full of music, from the golden age of the mp3 blog C.2006-2009, when I was really beginning to dig deep into a lot of the music that still resonates with me now. The mix veers from Folk Soul to private press psych, swampy singer songwriters, autoharp Aerosmith, pastoral krautrock and various shades of Cosmic Americana. Some well known stuff, some deep cuts, 192kbps of pure vibes. 
Shout out to Gram’s super pretentious, “Bachian” intro to November Nights.  

Bobby Lee

TRACKLIST:
1. Grady Tate – After The Long Drive Home
2. Barbara & Ernie – Play With Fire
3. Bermuda Triangle – Dream On
4. Gram Parsons – November Nights
5. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Lee Shore (Alt Vocal)
6. Jackie McAuley – Boy On The Bayou
7. Leonda – Mist In The Sky
8. Mary Anne – Black Girl
9. Ramases – Life Child
10. Yatha Sidra – Part 4
11. Exuma – Dambala
12. New Riders of The Purple Sage – All I Ever Wanted
13. Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood – Lady Friend
14. Michaelangelo – West
15. Gil Trythall – Witchita Lineman

Get Origin Myths on Bandcamp.