Lost Souls Volume 3

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This compilation digs deeper than ever before into the vault of obscure Arkansas rock 'n' roll from the 1960s and early 70s. Lost Souls Volume 3 includes uncomped and unknown gems from small regional studios in the form of acetates, 45s, and recently discovered reel to reel tapes. The sounds heard here include garage and psychedelic rock combined with rockabilly, soul, and even country thrown into the mix that is distinctly Arkansas. This compilation comes as the result of years of research and findings from the original bands and label owners. Many of these tracks were recorded live by the groups at shows and rehearsals or live in the studio at places like at Rimrock in Concord, AR, Joe Keene's in Kennett, MO, Joe Lee's Variety Studio in Jonesboro, and Earl Fox's E&M studio in Little Rock to name a few. This CD offers a glimpse into the past. If you were going to a local American Legion building to hear the latest sounds from local bands in the 1960s in Arkansas then this is what you would have heard. The songs were done by real people, not a major recording studios, professional studio musicians, or major label executives directing the groups. The artifacts that remain are dusty photos, records, and reel to reel tapes that have survived for over 40 years in personal collections. Through the research of compiler, Harold Ott, the stories of the bands are told and friends from decades past are reunited to celebrate their contributions to the world of garage rock and psychedelia.

Check out 45 RPM the Movie by Juli Jackson - Lost Souls Vol 3 REVIEW

Read a REVIEW of Lost Souls Vol 3 here in the new Ugly Things #32 Magazine

Read a REVIEW of Lost Souls Volume 3 in Terrascope Online

Read a REVIEW of Lost Souls Volume 3 in the Arkansas Times

Podcast featuring Lost Souls Volume 3 on Real Cool Time - CIUT - Toronto

Check out a Podcast of the Arkansongs Radio show with Stephen Koch featuring Fouke Monster

Here's a website dedicated to the Fouke Monster - featuring Billy Cole & the Fouke Monsters

1. Richard Vanover & Bob Ralph - I Can See Your Ways
2. Les Soules - Village of Love
3. Robin & the Hoods - Slow Down
4. The Villigers - Empty Heart
5. The Culls - Susie Q
6. Jamie Holmes - Gloria
7. The Bar Boys - That’s the Sound of My Heart
8. JFC Blues - Raise Your Hand
9. The Red Light Funnies - My Little Red Book
10. The Barons - Come With Me
11. The Paragons - Black and Blue
12. Jimmy Ford & the Luzers - Mr. Flying Saucer Man
13. Harold Morgan - White Lightning
14. Little Herbie Mayes - Bony Moronie
15. Danny Johnson & the Rhythm Makers - Tired of Working for the Other Man
16. Jimmy Payne & the Jokers - I Wouldn’t Be Seen Alive With Her
17. The Ramrods - Take My Word
18. The Five Rogues - Wait and See
19. The Spyders - Hush Puppy
20. The Sabers - I’ll Fly High
21. Don Norviel & the Visions - Little Latin Lupe Lu
22. The Music Shoppe - Are You Really My Girl
23. Newcastle Blues - Cotton’s Mama
24. The Tuesday Blues - Till the End of the Day
25. The Wet Dream - Fire
26. Lemon Meat - Signed D.C.
27. Billy Cole & the Fouke Monsters - Fouke Monster
28. Seventh House - Tell Me Man
29. Scorpio - Hey Joe

LABEL: Psych of the South (POTS 4504)

Lost Souls Volume 3 CD

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Lost Souls Volume 2 CD
LOST SOULS Volume 2 Garage Psychedelic Rock from Arkansas and Beyond 1965-1971- VA (60s Garage/Psych) - Comp CD -
This compilation gathers unheard, unknown, and legendary garage and psychedelic rock from Arkansas and SE Missouri in the 1960s. PLUS for the first time the garage punk classic The Modds - Leave My House is sourced directly from a recently discovered reel to reel tape revealing more than ever heard before. Featuring finds from Variety Recording Studio (home of Alley Records) in Jonesboro, Arkansas and MORE. ALL tracks sourced from reel to reel tapes recovered from private collections of the original musicians and studio owners. Fifteen bands are featured in an extensive 20 page full color booklet including liner notes with details on EVERY band. The sounds contained within reveal a hidden history of garage and psychedelic music previously unknown to exist. Hear new sounds from the past ranging from primitive garage to heavy psych and beyond. As a result of researcher Harold Ott's findings, old bandmates and friends have reunited to discuss and celebrate the music of their past.

Lost Souls Vol 2 REVIEW - Terrascope Online

Check out the NEW page on the Modds!!!

Oxford American Magazine interviews Harold Ott on Psych of the South

1. The Modds - Leave My House
2. Electric Sunshine - Stop!!
3. The Esquires - Sadie's Ways
4. The Tuesday Blues - Have You Ever Loved Somebody
5. Dust - Through a Silk Keyhole
6. Dust - Sky Flight
7. The Right Track - You Destroyed My Soul
8. Saturday's Children - Your Loving Ways
9. The Coachmen - Two New Girls
10. The Coachmen - Lovelight
11. The Modds - All the Time in the World
12. Scorpio - Ninety Nine and a Half
13. Stonehenge - Try to Help Each Other
14. The Saint James Group - Riverland Blues
15. The Purple Canteen - If You Like it That Way (band track)
16. Electric Sunshine - Thunder Forest
17. Woo Too Country Band - Green Was Green
18. Woo Too Country Band - What a Friend We Have In Jesus
19. Woo Too Country Band - Only Going Up the Road
20. The Tuesday Blues - Together We Stand
21. LD Mitchell & the Amalgamated Taxi Cab Service - Roses, Roses
22. Scorpio - It's Your Thing
23. The Tuesday Blues - Livin' Ain't Easy
24. Jimmy Roberts - It Could Make You Know the Truth

LABEL: Psych of the South (POTS 4503)

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Lost Souls Volume 2

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RAYBURN

Rayburn was an amazing hard rock band from Little Rock, Arkansas that formed in 1970 and played in a moody and technical style with inventive songwriting. Their unreleased recordings are must for fans of underground psych and prog sounds. They recorded for Mega Records, an RCA records subsidiary, and got signed to the label. However their success was cut short when Steve Stephen's father, who was co-owner of one of the biggest investment banks in the country, went to the label and bought Rayburn's recording contract out from under them in order to derail his son's music career. Over the next two years, the band recorded at Jaggars Studio in Little Rock and for Steve Cropper's TMI studio in Memphis, but the band's second chance at fame continued to elude them. In 1974, guitarist Jimmy Roberts' life was cut short when he developed cancer at the age of 21. Three years later in 1977, the band reunited to record more songs from their early 70s era that they never got a chance to record with Roberts. For the first time in over 30 years, Rayburn reunited for a live concert in their hometown of Little Rock, AR in July of 2009. With the help of the band member's musical children, the 2009 version of Rayburn was a tribute and reboot of the original group with the meeting of two generations to celebrate the music of the past. At the concert, their reel to reel demos from 1972-1977 were released on CD, featuring a full color 12 page book compiled and researched by Harold Ott. This was a supremely talented group that was gone too fast and held back from the world. With this release, Psych of the South attempts to correct that injustice with a CD of 14 of Rayburn's original compositions heard here for the first time.

Rayburn Reviews

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LABEL - Psych of the South (POTS 4502)

Rayburn
1. Your Mind (Doubt)
2. Got to Get Ready to Die
3. Steam Shuffle
4. Said, I Love Only You
5. Righteous Man
6. Songbird
7. See My Eyes
8. The Trail is Gone
9. Your Mind (Doubt) version 2
10. America
11. Saltless Tears
12. Hey Friend
13. Working My Way Upstream
14. Your Mind (Doubt) version 3

Raybun on iTunes

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Rayburn on Arkansongs - Podcast

Rayburn CD

Lost Souls Volume 1

1960s Garage and Psychedelic Music from the Un-Natural State: Arkansas. A CD full of cryptic killers and psychedelic cycles from custom labels and obscurities of Arkansas, many of which never landed outside of the town where they originated. They all share a unique sound that comes from being isolated in rural communites yet brimming with teen abandon. Liners with detailed exclusive info on the bands will aim to please the curious listener. This CD is simply some of the best garage out there, with most of it appearing here for the first time.

See the FULL documentary film on the Lost Souls HERE

1. The Blue and the Gray - Don't Send Me No Flowers
2. The Yardleys - The Light Won't Shine
3. The Problems of Tyme - Back of My Mind
4. Barefacts - Tell Me
5. Xciters - Upsetter
6. The Marion Deaton Group - Apple of My Eye
7. Gene Barnett - Hey Come On Now
8. Barefacts - Leaf on a Tree
9. The Shades featuring Bob Fly - Hit It
10. The Roustabouts - Just You and Me
11. Michael-Troy and the Pharoahs - Even Though It's Wrong
12. The Vycounts - Can't You Tell
13. The Blue and the Gray - Wine, Wine, Wine
14. The Coachmen - You're My Girl
15. The Lost Souls - My Girl
16. The Lost Souls - Lost Love
17. Blues Foundation - It's Called Love
18. Dead on Arrival - Mr. Crying
19. Trouble Bros. - Your Love is Gone
20. The Marc IV - Hi Ho Silver
21. The Marc IV - Now I'm Free
22. Sunset Society - Land of Make Believe
23. The Purple Canteen - Brains in My Feet
24. Suspension of Belief - LSD
25. LD Mitchell & the Amalgamated Taxi Cab Service - Planet of Union
26. Dead on Arrival - Run Hide Get Away
27. The Sole Society - Psychedelic Cycle
28. Mystic Illusion - Colour of My Daye
29. Blackfoot - Bummed Out

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Lost Souls Vol 1 on Arkansongs - Podcast

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Lost Souls Volume 1
 

 

The Lost Souls - Documentary

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The Lost Souls was recently reviewed in the Tucson Citizen (Arizona)

The Lost Souls - Reviewed in the Tucson Citizen by Billups Allen

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This film focuses on the 60s garage band, The Lost Souls of Jacksonville, Arkansas. Through interviews and research into local newspapers and personal collections, newly found photographs and memorabilia are recovered from 40 years of obscurity.

The Lost Souls were a four-piece combo: Fil Griggs on guitar and vocals, Mike Petray on lead guitar and vocals, Danny Goldman on drums, and Mike Corbin on bass. The group formed in May of 1966. The band developed a large following in the Jacksonville area and were booked into Wayne Raney’s Recording Studio in Concord, Arkansas on November of 1966 to cut their sole 45 rpm record Lost Love/My Girl on Raney’s Leopard Records.

The record received airplay on local mega watt AM station KAAY and sold well in the area. The Lost Souls also did an opening song for James Brown at Barton Colosseum in the summer of 1967, but soon after the group was no more. With their discovery and documentation in this film, both sides of the record were rereleased by Harold Ott’s record label, Psych of the South on a compilation CD titled Lost Souls: Garage and Psychedelic Rock from Arkansas 1965-1971, earning a whole new audience of fans for a record made over 40 years ago.

Also read my article on the Lost Souls by clicking the link below:

THE LOST SOULS: FOUND

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The Lost Souls DVD

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